Easter candy, decorations, and special events are beginning to fill the stores and our calendars! *cheer!* *smile!* Here are several things for you to consider as you approach this very special event with your family...
- Our Easter basket dilemma and solution
- Teaching the true meaning of Easter
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Bob and I so enjoy, and don't see any harm in celebrating Easter with baskets and egg hunts, as long as we do not lose the true meaning of Easter - the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ from the grave. So we play a little bit that there is an Easter Bunny and put the baskets outside the front door that morning for the kids to go find...but there's much more to our plans than this.
Easter baskets can be expensive for large families. But we have found a solution that works great for us, and which the whole family is excited about and looks forward to. We have also maintained a tradition with which to teach the Easter story to our children.
First, about Easter baskets! We used to do individual baskets for each of the children in our family, and my mom also made baskets for all 16 grand-kids. *whew!* The above photo is an example of the pretty baskets my mother put together for us one year when there were only 7 older grand kids to make baskets for.
But as our family continued to grow in number, I found that Easter baskets were not only very expensive for a whole bunch of kids but extremely time consuming to make and clean up for so many people. I was also storing more and more of the arch-handeled wicker Easter baskets, which don’t nest together, and they were taking up a lot of valuable space in our small home but we only used them for about 1 hour out of the entire year. I tried some other options for easier storage, such as baskets without handles, and one year we had cute aluminum buckets with wooden handles, but storing 9 of them was just still too space-consuming for me.
And filling all of those baskets, even while trying to be frugal, if I spent just $10 for each basket’s contents this quickly added up to $90 for 9 children, and the contents weren’t that great: a whole ton of sugar and some trinkety little toys that cluttered up our home (again, especially due to the sheer number of buying them for so many kids). Hmm. This type of tradition wasn’t making sense to me anymore... Time to ask the Lord for a more creative idea for our family. *smile*
And filling all of those baskets, even while trying to be frugal, if I spent just $10 for each basket’s contents this quickly added up to $90 for 9 children, and the contents weren’t that great: a whole ton of sugar and some trinkety little toys that cluttered up our home (again, especially due to the sheer number of buying them for so many kids). Hmm. This type of tradition wasn’t making sense to me anymore... Time to ask the Lord for a more creative idea for our family. *smile*
So along with teaching our children about Christ’s resurrection, Bob and I desired to maintain the fun of having the baskets and playing that an Easter Bunny comes to the door. Our new plan started in 2009 when I created our Family Easter Basket.
I got out my darling wicker picnic basket and proceeded to fill that one single basket for our whole family. This way I could spend far less money each year, have some sweet treats in moderation for the children, and "pool" the money to purchase a more valuable family gift for all of us to enjoy! I could provide a nice, single-serving amount of candy or something else sweet like a cookie for each person, but not an overwhelming amount that would last for days. The large quantity of sugar also usually end in people getting sick from having nearly killed-off their immune system! We had actually accepted the fact that coming down with sickness after Easter was just part of the holiday experience *laugh!* – but no more – especially when that sickness would travel through all 11 of us, keeping us home from church for more than just one week.
So here are four examples of what our family baskets have contained in the first 4 years of having family baskets:
So here are four examples of what our family baskets have contained in the first 4 years of having family baskets:
Family Easter Basket #1 (2009)
A large, solid chocolate bunny for everyone to share, but which looks thrilling in the basket; a Cadbury chocolate egg for each child and a couple tiny packages of Smarties candies; and some containers of Thinking Putty. Thinking Putty is like silly putty but in about a 1 cup quantity, and in very cool heat-sensitive, metallic, or color-shifting colors! (Click here for a more in-depth description of Thinking Putty, how we use it, why, and when, and what Thinking Putty is made of.)
The Thinking Putty was and has been an invaluable table activity for our kids. It also serves to develop the small motor skills in children’s hands which makes learning to write and having nice handwriting easier for them. It’s quick to get out, and quick to clean up (I’ve actually gotten rid of all of our Playdo – which is way more of a mess – and the kids like this even better). It’s not inexpensive at $10 a tin, but it's been very worth it for us, and I'd highly recommend it. Thinking Putty was a good gift idea for the children so we began our collection that year with the goal of eventually having a tin of putty for every child to use simultaneously. We now have 6 different kinds of Thinking Putty for the oldest 6 children.
The Thinking Putty was and has been an invaluable table activity for our kids. It also serves to develop the small motor skills in children’s hands which makes learning to write and having nice handwriting easier for them. It’s quick to get out, and quick to clean up (I’ve actually gotten rid of all of our Playdo – which is way more of a mess – and the kids like this even better). It’s not inexpensive at $10 a tin, but it's been very worth it for us, and I'd highly recommend it. Thinking Putty was a good gift idea for the children so we began our collection that year with the goal of eventually having a tin of putty for every child to use simultaneously. We now have 6 different kinds of Thinking Putty for the oldest 6 children.
Family Easter Basket #2 (2010)
Along with some candy, our family gift this year was the first two audio books of an incredible Christian series called The Kingdom Series , which we now (by 2012) own all 12 audio books of. These audio dramas (audio CD, but also available in paper back) are incredibly well done in quality and are full of knights and dragons and adventure, yet they are Christian-based and without sorcery or magic. They are also full of excellent theological teachings about “the King” and “the Prince.” They teach of honor, courage, truth, trust, and glorious victory, self-sacrifice, reasoning, plot and theme. The books also tie in to Bible stories which the children can recognize but which are told in this time period setting. If you go online you can listen to sample audio clips to get a taste of the story quality. They’re also very inexpensive as audio books go! Only $10 each, compared to $26-85 for many audio books that are 3-5 discs long (paperback books are just $10 new, or $2 used from Amazon). Our whole family would highly, highly recommend them.
Family Easter Basket #3 (2011)
Last year’s basket (pictured above) cost us a total of about $6 plus the $26 audio book – for 11 people! The basket looks full and exciting, but it's not too much for them, in my opinion. Easter baskets do not have to be 2-feet tall and contain a dozen presents. *smile* I re-use the wicker picnic basket each year now (and we use it in our home the rest of the year – no more storage of plastic Easter baskets), and I reuse the plastic grass, and the plastic eggs.
The $6 I spent this year also included enough candy for me to fill 50 plastic eggs (only $.99 per dozen eggs, which I had purchased a different year) with 4 Jelly Beans in each egg for our Easter egg hunt at home. It was very wet and cold this year in the Great Northwest (Washington, USA), so we held the hunt inside instead of outside in the yard. The kids had a blast.
Each of the 5 oldest children collected just 10 eggs, and then they focused on making sure their younger siblings had found their 10 eggs as well. It was SO *sweet*. The twin 5-month-old babies, and the 1 and 2-year-old brothers were still napping, so a couple of the older kids shared one egg each little brother when he woke up. *smile*
Family Easter Basket #4 (2012)
For last year's basket we again had individual chocolate bunnies (hollow this time, thus the extra candy in addition), a few plastic eggs filled with about 4 Jelly Bellies, a couple pieces of additional candy, and an audio book that cost $22. The whole family was excited, surprised, and has thoroughly enjoyed another great family story read to us during lunch time, or during someone's play-alone time, or on a longer car ride. *smile*
Teaching the true meaning of Easter
Family Easter Basket #4 (2012)
For last year's basket we again had individual chocolate bunnies (hollow this time, thus the extra candy in addition), a few plastic eggs filled with about 4 Jelly Bellies, a couple pieces of additional candy, and an audio book that cost $22. The whole family was excited, surprised, and has thoroughly enjoyed another great family story read to us during lunch time, or during someone's play-alone time, or on a longer car ride. *smile*
Teaching the true meaning of Easter
We also feel it’s very important for Easter to establish the real meaning of it especially on Resurrection Sunday with our children. Here's how we approach the day.
We begin with the Easter service at church first thing in the morning, then have the baskets and egg hunt at home after lunch and during younger children's naps (until this year when the younger ones are old enough to participate now, so we'll wait until after nap time), and then conclude with the true meaning of Easter. After the excitement of the baskets and hunt are over in the afternoon and the children are able to focus on something else *smile*, they are ready to sit down for a family time of reviewing what Resurrection Sunday is really celebrating. We get out our Resurrection Eggs ($24.95 from Amazon) and tell the whole Easter story using this great, tangible tool, together with the booklet that comes with them.
They love this time, and the tangibility of the little objects inside each egg, which the children can handle really impresses the story and meaning in to children’s minds. The eggs contain parts of the Easter story such as a stone like the one that had been rolled back from Jesus’ grave by the angel, a piece of cloth like the one that would have bound Christ for burial, etc. (Note: To see many examples of home-made "resurrection eggs", Google images online with this title.)
We begin with the Easter service at church first thing in the morning, then have the baskets and egg hunt at home after lunch and during younger children's naps (until this year when the younger ones are old enough to participate now, so we'll wait until after nap time), and then conclude with the true meaning of Easter. After the excitement of the baskets and hunt are over in the afternoon and the children are able to focus on something else *smile*, they are ready to sit down for a family time of reviewing what Resurrection Sunday is really celebrating. We get out our Resurrection Eggs ($24.95 from Amazon) and tell the whole Easter story using this great, tangible tool, together with the booklet that comes with them.
They love this time, and the tangibility of the little objects inside each egg, which the children can handle really impresses the story and meaning in to children’s minds. The eggs contain parts of the Easter story such as a stone like the one that had been rolled back from Jesus’ grave by the angel, a piece of cloth like the one that would have bound Christ for burial, etc. (Note: To see many examples of home-made "resurrection eggs", Google images online with this title.)
I feel it’s important to mention that we play Easter Bunny with our children, but we never attempt to convince them that the Easter Bunny is real. We feel this is very important. To tell children that the Easter Bunny is real is actually a deceit – no matter how much parents desire to down-play this lie or justify it as limited to just the holidays. When children are grown, they register in their minds and hearts that their parents lied to them all those years when they were trusting little ones. We never demonstrate lying to our children, and we can honestly tell them that we never have and never will lie to them – ever.
Consider this, if we tell our children that Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Jesus Christ are all real – and yet they’ve never seen any of them – when they find out that Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny characters were all made up and we lied to them telling them made-up stories about these fictitious characters, why should they believe us that Jesus and the truthful stories from scripture are actually real? We feel that parents should be very careful about what they choose to tell their children.
We also have chosen not to have our children sit on the Easter Bunny's lap at the mall, or any where else. We used to do go and do this every year, and take cute photos of our children...but then we began to think more about what we were doing. Inside this bunny suit is actually a perfect stranger whom we know nothing about. The little children were always terrified, and yet we required that they still sit with that stranger. And then we had an interesting reality check with this situation involving a Santa Clause several years ago.
Not to side-track too far in to a separate holiday, but I feel it is important to mention here what we've learned about the potential of characters in costume. Most of the people who choose to wear these types of costumes are probably wonderful, child-adoring individuals - but not all are good, wholesome people. My husband has worked in disaster restoration (fire and flood restoration, both residential and commercial) for many years, and as a result he's been in many people's homes. One year in particular, when his team of workers were packing out all the contents of a house that had been contaminated by fire smoke, he came across an attic full of perverted contents. Boxes and boxes of pornographic books, magazines, and videos (which had to be cleaned, just like everything else in the house - although Bob and his team declined to clean the magazines) which would make most parents feel shocked and repulsed. The sad thing was, this home owner worked as a "mall Santa" part of the year, being paid to have children sit on his lap all day... Marinate on that a moment...
Bob and I immediately recalled all of the years that we had encouraged - or even required - our children to sit on the lap of Santa or the Easter Bunny - really, strangers. After this, we never had our children sit on a costumed character's lap again. Instead we thought of other ways to take cute and fun annual photos of our children, excluding strangers in costumes.
Consider this, if we tell our children that Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Jesus Christ are all real – and yet they’ve never seen any of them – when they find out that Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny characters were all made up and we lied to them telling them made-up stories about these fictitious characters, why should they believe us that Jesus and the truthful stories from scripture are actually real? We feel that parents should be very careful about what they choose to tell their children.
We also have chosen not to have our children sit on the Easter Bunny's lap at the mall, or any where else. We used to do go and do this every year, and take cute photos of our children...but then we began to think more about what we were doing. Inside this bunny suit is actually a perfect stranger whom we know nothing about. The little children were always terrified, and yet we required that they still sit with that stranger. And then we had an interesting reality check with this situation involving a Santa Clause several years ago.
Not to side-track too far in to a separate holiday, but I feel it is important to mention here what we've learned about the potential of characters in costume. Most of the people who choose to wear these types of costumes are probably wonderful, child-adoring individuals - but not all are good, wholesome people. My husband has worked in disaster restoration (fire and flood restoration, both residential and commercial) for many years, and as a result he's been in many people's homes. One year in particular, when his team of workers were packing out all the contents of a house that had been contaminated by fire smoke, he came across an attic full of perverted contents. Boxes and boxes of pornographic books, magazines, and videos (which had to be cleaned, just like everything else in the house - although Bob and his team declined to clean the magazines) which would make most parents feel shocked and repulsed. The sad thing was, this home owner worked as a "mall Santa" part of the year, being paid to have children sit on his lap all day... Marinate on that a moment...
Bob and I immediately recalled all of the years that we had encouraged - or even required - our children to sit on the lap of Santa or the Easter Bunny - really, strangers. After this, we never had our children sit on a costumed character's lap again. Instead we thought of other ways to take cute and fun annual photos of our children, excluding strangers in costumes.
So, on a happier note *smile*, simply put, Easter can be meaningful, yet still fun, simple, and inexpensive even for large families. It doesn’t have to be a discouraging time, thinking that Easter requires spending too much money. By giving us both creativity and wisdom, the Lord has always been so faithful to show us how we can do life well even with a large family.
Here's a funny family story for you that I just love. When our oldest daughter was about 3-years-old, Easter morning we explained to her the Easter story and how Jesus had died for her but now he is risen! Well she then walked in to her Sunday school classroom that morning at church and announced to the whole class with such revelation in her voice, and her arms in the air, "Jesus is a raisin!" I guess we hadn't purchased our Resurrection Eggs yet. *laugh*
I would really love to hear of other Easter celebration ideas that you have discovered along your way!
Here's a funny family story for you that I just love. When our oldest daughter was about 3-years-old, Easter morning we explained to her the Easter story and how Jesus had died for her but now he is risen! Well she then walked in to her Sunday school classroom that morning at church and announced to the whole class with such revelation in her voice, and her arms in the air, "Jesus is a raisin!" I guess we hadn't purchased our Resurrection Eggs yet. *laugh*
I would really love to hear of other Easter celebration ideas that you have discovered along your way!
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While I don't have children yet, and I haven't seen many people here in Australia take part in the Easter Bunny game, I have many fond memories of my mother's creativity and thought in our "baskets."
ReplyDeletePrimarily, she refused to give us actual baskets; instead, our "basket" was something that we could use, like a magazine/organizational crate, or a small purse (later.) I vividly remember the year that I received a bike basket, with a coloring book, new markers, a bike horn, and a single chocolate bunny, inside. We only ever received one "sweet" piece, as dental bills were unwanted, and one small, solid bunny was enough to keep each of us happy.
My husband and I have a tradition of adding a new board game to our collection each Easter. Last year, we found Scrabble on sale with an official Scrabble dictionary, and each game brings us back to conversation about the season we purchased it in, the blessings and refining that the Lord has bestowed since, and the magnitude of His sacrifice.
Thank you for sharing your life with your readers!
I like the idea of the family easter basket!
ReplyDeleteWe're trying something new this year. We're moving the eggs/baskets to the first day of Spring to move it away from Easter morning. We're keeping the "fun" but just separating it completely from the celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord! I'll let you know how that goes!
What a fantastic idea! I always struggle with "easter" as bunnies and eggs and pastels - this is a great way to celebrate "easter" and not lose the true meaning or Easter. I love this!
DeleteWe too have used the Resurrection Eggs since our oldest was 2 years old (now 6) and the kids get so excited every year!
ReplyDeleteWhile we don't give the Easter baskets, I like to get them a gift that will strengthen their walk with Jesus. Sometimes it's a book, music, or this year I plan to give a radio drama. I may throw in a few treats, but usually Grandparent's take care of that and most of the time it ends up staying in the cupboard all year. :)
Thanks for sharing about the mall santas/bunny. I hadn't ever given a thought to "who" was actually behind the costume. I personally never liked people in costume growing up and haven't ever forced it on my kids, but my oldest has wanted to sit on Santa's lap a few times and I never gave it a second thought, but I will now. My question to you is, what do you tell your children when they ask to see Santa? Especially, if you've allowed it in the past.
We've actually never had children ask to sit with Santa. The older ones aren't interested, and the really little ones never want to get close to him. *chuckle* We're never around a Santa, though, either (I never go to the mall). If they did ask then I would explain that that man is actually a stranger and it's not a good idea to sit on someone's lap that we do not know. He is probably good, but he may be a bad person, and we cannot see him to make our best judgement. So no, we will not be doing that. I am totally confident that our children would be very understanding.
DeleteThanks so much for sharing :) We just have four children and I too had begun to get annoyed with the clutter of cheap toys that baskets were bringing. The one basket idea is great! I definitely will be running it by my husband.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! My husband and I both have hated the excess of years past, but I could never come up with another idea! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI love the family basket idea! I'm not big on the whole egg hunts etc. But Easter is my favorite holiday! I agree with everything you said.... this is the first time I've ever seen a post written about play verses real! That is exactly what we believe. Thankyou!
ReplyDeleteI've always done individual baskets, but the candy and junk has always bothered me too. I might try the family basket. One alternative to candy-filled eggs that I may try this year is to buy a new puzzle for the family to enjoy and divide the pieces between the eggs. I like that the kids are working together. Last year I hid the real hardboiled eggs that they had colored. Finally, last year was the first year that we used Resurrection Rolls to explain the story of Jesus. The kids loved making them and they tasted good too. A compromise food for me, to be sure, but a fun treat.
ReplyDeleteIt is traditional w/in our church (we are Eastern Orthodox Christians) to have one larger family basket at Pascha (Easter) that we take to the midnight service with us. That basket is blessed at the end of service and then we stay after to share the goodies with our church family and partake in a meal. The Paschal service is about 2.5 hours long so that meal is important! Many of us fast from meat, dairy and eggs, and some also refrain from using oil or wines during the 40 days prior to Easter. Because of that, our baskets tend to include a small bottle of wine to share, meat or cheese of some kind, boiled eggs dyed red to remind us of Christ's sacrifice, a few sweet treats, a bit of salt (the bitterness of Christ's fate), and perhaps one or two other things that we "gave up" for Lent. Our tradition is a little different, I know, but I thought I'd share something new (well new to a lot of Americans). It is followed all over the world so there are plenty of places to see similar examples.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wanted to throw out there that Santa Clause as he's become in our culture is not real, but there was a man named Nicholas who was real and who was a true Christian. He helped many in his village and it is from his actions that so many of our traditions about "Santa" come, including secretive gift-giving. There were two girls in his village (he was the Bishop of the church in his village) who were too poor to have a dowry for marriage. He learned of this, and their impending fate of having to sell themselves or go into servitude to survive. Late at night, and in secret, he threw bags of gold into their window so they would have the needed dowry. This is one of many stories about his life and in the Orthodox Church he is commemorated (remembered) on December 6th each year instead of on the day we commemorate Christ's birth (December 25th or around January 7th, depending on which calendar your church follows - a whole 'nother story!) A good page to learn about the real man is here: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/who-is-st-nicholas/
Sorry to go on, but I loved some of your ideas for what to put in for kids that is NOT sugar-related and hope you don't mind my sharing a few of our traditions too :)
Thank you all for your wonderful participation with new ideas! Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea and I would really like to know where you got your picnic basket?! It's the family basket of my dreams. lol We are Orthodox too and use a family basket on Pascha and this is exactly what I need. Do you recall where you got it? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was a wedding gift to us from William & Sonoma. Kinda pricy, probably in the $50 range, but we LOVE it.
DeleteWe have resurrection eggs and this is our first year of getting to use them properly! Even though the girls have played with them a lot!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree about not lying to our children. People are really shocked when I say that we don't do father Christmas. We have taught them the history but that is it. My non-believing brother went so far to call me a spoil sport. But anyone seeing my children on Christmas morning will know that is far from the truth! We do have a special tradtion where they get a Christmas eve present of Pyjamas. They love getting them and getting to wear them the night before Christmas day.
The other thing we have changed is the tooth fairy. We wanted the fun without the lies. Soooo when someone has lost a tooth, they put it under their pillow and then one of the other girls sneaks along and swaps it for money! It works really well as I have all girls who love playing tooth fairies!
Thank you for your ideas. It is great to hear what other people are doing. And not to feel alone and weird being the only ones doing things differently!
Wow! I have to say that is a very awesome picnic basket! That seems a great idea to have your children share one huge basket.
ReplyDeleteYou've made such a good point about Santa Claus- why should our children believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and Jesus? To a child, there may not be a big difference.
My husband and I do try to celebrate the real Saint Nicholas. The above commentator is right- the Santa Claus tradition of nowadays is so different from the real Saint Nicholas, the Bishop in the 300's. (My children get stockings on December 6th for Saint Nicholas Day. However, even with celebrating and learning about the actual man Nicholas, my husband and I 'play' Saint Nicholas, too.)
Do you do any Lenten or Good Friday traditions?
We try to do 'Stations of the Cross' on Fridays in Lent. Stations of the Cross is a Catholic tradition. It's a devotion where we reflect on 14 different 'scenes' (called stations) of Jesus's Passion.
We have different traditions, but from my Catholic point of view, I couldn't imagine experiencing the joy of Easter without first attempting to reflect on Christ's immense suffering first. For me, it makes the joy greater. Without the Passion, there would be no Resurrection.
I also came across this blog here http://catholicicing.com/2010/03/catholic-resurrection-eggs/ The blog author tells how to make your own Resurrection eggs. Maybe this will be a project for us this year.
Thanks again for sharing your family Easter egg and basket traditions with us. Your ideas seem logistically a lot better for big families:)
Growing up my parents gave us our Easter baskets the day before Easter and I've continued that tradition with my kids. I love what one reader said about giving baskets the first day of spring. May need to try that this year! Thanks for the wonderful ideas!! :)
ReplyDeleteWe're taking my daughter to a church's Easter egg hunt this year (and she went last year, too) and that is free (to us). I also got a few little chocolates and jelly beans free at CVS. I have a kit to dye eggs, I'm not sure if we'll do it this year or hold off till next yr but I always liked doing that as a child with my mom and sisters.
ReplyDeleteWe read Amon's adventure by Arnold Ytreeide. It is an excellent book that even my older kids look forward to each year. He also has an Advent series that is amazing.
ReplyDeleteRaisin!!!! That made me crack up!! I love the family basket idea. I know my husband will agree to it for sure, anything to reduce junk! ha! We only have 4 kids but I've been cringing at the cost of having to make up 4 baskets. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI only have 3 children but I agree about basket costs! Last year I made a lot of the treats for the baskets. I made marshmallows, chocolate candy, etc. We do the Resurrection Eggs every year and the kids love that! We also dye eggs with natural things like onion skins, blueberries, and tumeric. My mom has an egg hunt at her house every year as well. We don't do the Easter bunny; we explain the baskets are gifts to celebrate the resurrection (the same way we explain Christmas gifts because we don't do Santa either). I love Easter!
ReplyDeleteI love this one basket idea. I think I will implement this into our tradition. I like to have a Jerusalem dinner. We eat fish, honey, cheese and pita bread on pillows on the floor-on a kiddie table covered in a table cloth. We have vinegar, colored red water and thorns. We talk of Jesus ministry and his crucifixtion. We wash feet and talk of Jesus doing this for his apostles. We have a picture of Jesus at one of our seats. It is a special way to remember why we celebrate this time of year.
ReplyDeleteWe have had the resurrection eggs for about 12 years. We try to make Easter cookies in the evening, the merangue ones that are hollow in the middle--empty like the tomb.
ReplyDeleteWe do Jesse Tree at Christmas. Now that I have several special needs kids, including mentally retarted, I especially like the repitition of the the story the same way every year. We try to do the eggs over several days and review each day, for added repitition.
Are the Kingdom Series a set of 6 and then the other 6 are the Knights of Arrethtrae series? I was looking for them for my children but only found 6 labeled Kingdom Series. They were all by the same author though.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's right. =)
DeleteThank you very much. I ordered the first one and my sons are so excited!
DeleteYou've given me some wonderful Ideas to do with our 5 kiddos and lowered the cost considerably so here is an idea I got from the great folks at Doorposts for making the Easer Egg Hunt Christ Focused and thus more meaningful. http://www.doorposts.com/blog/2012/04/05/treasure-hunts-for-resurrection-sunday/
ReplyDeleteGod Bless You Erika,
Kyle
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