Our Easter Celebrations
- Pictures from Easter Sunday (2014)
- Our Annual Easter Sunday Egg Hunt (2014)
- Happy Easter from Our Family to Yours! (2014)
- Seven Quick Easter Takes (2013)
- {Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real} Easter Edition (2013)
- Our Annual Easter Sunday Egg Hunt (2013)
- An Eastertide Daybook (2013)
- Our Easter Dinner ~ Easter Sunday 2012
- On Easter Morning {Our 2012 Easter Baskets} (2012)
- {pretty, happy, funny, real} (2012)
- Hunting for Eggs on Easter Sunday (2012)
- On Easter Morning (2011)
- Our Easter Menu and Family Pictures (2011)
- Hunting for Eggs! (2011)
- {pretty, happy, funny, real} (2011)
- On Easter Day (2010)
- A Happy and Joyous Easter (Family Picture, 2010)
- On Easter Day ~ At Home (2009)
- The Easter Triduum (2008 – Plans)
- Our Holy Week and Easter (2008)
Easter Fun with Food
- The Easter Story ~ Resurrection Cookies (2008)
- Making Resurrection Cookies (2010)
- Decorating and Painting Eggs for Easter (2010)
- Resurrection Rolls (2009)
- A Little Lamb for Easter (2010)
- Chocolate Nests for Easter (2010)
- Making Chocolate Nests for Easter (2011)
- Easter Candy + Cookies (2008)
- A Joyous Easter Tea (2009)
- A Lamb Shaped Cake for Easter (link to Catholic Cuisine)
- Our Easter Dinner (2011)
- Our Easter Dinner ~ Easter Sunday 2012 (2012)
- Decorating Our Easter Cakes (2012)
- Italian Easter Bread (2012)
- Seven Quick Easter Takes (2013)
- Easter Baking (2013)
- Pictures from Easter Sunday (2014)
Easter Candy
Easter Books and Baskets
- On Easter Morning {Our 2014 Easter Baskets!}
- Baskets of Books for Easter (2014)
- On Easter Morning {Our 2013 Easter Baskets!}
- Blessed with Baskets of Books for Easter
- Simon and the Easter Miracle {And Other New Books for Easter!} (2012)
- Catholic Easter Basket Ideas (2011 -List of Ideas for Filling Easter Baskets)
- Getting Ready for Easter (2011 – Easter Baskets)
- Picture Books for Easter (Our Favorite Easter Picture Books)
- Creating our Paschal Candle for Easter (craft kit)
- Creating our Paschal Candle :: Easter 2012 (homemade)
We really enjoyed making our Paschal Candle using the lovely kit made by Illuminated Ink. In the past years, I have always just decorated a pillar candle with Candle Decorating Pens or Decorating Wax. Last year we even used a printable candle wrapper from Homeschool Goodies:
Other Easter Crafts
The Fifty Days of Easter ~ The Garden of the Good Shepherd
Last year Charlotte and I came up with weekly Good Shepherd Garden Parties to coordinate with The Garden of the Good Shepherd: A Sticker Calendar to Count the Fifty Days of Easter. I have created a page with all of the links to the menus, our parties, and more, here:
Other Good Shepherd Activities
Divine Mercy Sunday
- Commemorating the Canonization of Two Popes (2014)
- On Divine Mercy Sunday (2013)
- Our Divine Mercy Sunday ~ A Lovely Day! (2008)
- Shower of Photos 2009 :: Day 19 (Divine Mercy Sunday) (2009)
- Little Flowers Girls Club ~ Mercy (2009)
Ascension Thursday
- Our 2013 Annual Ascension Thursday Picnic
- {pretty, happy, funny, real} :: Ascension (2013)
- {pretty, happy, funny, real} :: Ascension Thursday (2011)
- Ascension Pancakes (2010)
- Ascension Thursday Picnic (2010)
- Ascension Thursday Picnic (2009)
Pentecost Sunday
- Celebrating Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church (2013)
- Celebrating Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church :: 2012 Edition
- Celebrating Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church! (2011)
- Celebrating Pentecost the Birthday of the Church! :: 2010 Edition
- A Windsock for Pentecost
- Plans for Pentecost Sunday
- Celebrating Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church! (2009)
- Ideas for Celebrating Pentecost Sunday (2009)
Thank you Jessica for posting all these wonderful ideas. I hope the rest of your Lent is very fruitful.
In Christ,
Grace ~ Deus Vobiscum
Wow! What beautiful ideas. I hope I'll get there someday. Right now I'm serving PB&J on paper plates. lol
My kids and I are looking forward to participating in the Easter parties again! Thanks again to you and Charlotte for the ideas 🙂
God bless you for taking time to share your creative ideas (along with lovely photos) to help all of us celebrate our faith! I pray you receive many graces for your generosity. Your amazing blog blesses me and my family!
Beverly Kloesel
God be praised!
Jessica,
Thank you for your amazing resources! I'd love to get some tips on how you plan! Your ideas are always so wonderful.
God bless you!
Jessica,
Thank you for sharing your time and talent! As one educator to another I know how valuable your time is and I am excited to use some of your wonderful ideas in my Kindergarten classroom at my Catholic school.
Lisha