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#Hallelujah Day 7 Easter Advent Kit for Holy Week

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All photos by Amy Little

Today’s mini devotional is about Jesus standing trial before Caiaphas & Pilate.  There are scriptures, videos and the discussion as the entire week follows this structure.  The family activity if you choose to do it is a clay salt dough tomb with instructions listed below.  In the kit notes it refers to a recipe card, which isn’t included.  Sorry this was a typo.  But below lists the recipe I used with a few pictures to illustrate the steps.

Salt Dough Recipe:

2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
3/4 cup warm water
a few drops of black food coloring (gives stone color)

Mix all ingredients until smooth.

Instructions:

  1. Place a glass oven-proof bowl (Pyrex) upside down on a cookie sheet.
  2. Spray it with non-stick spray.
  3. Roll out the dough to about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thickness.
  4. Carefully place the rolled dough over the bowl to make a tomb.
  5. Cut away a door.
  6. Reshape the door as more of a rounded rock.
  7. Lay the rock door on the pan like a cookie.
  8. Bake in a warm oven at lowest setting. I did 100 degrees and baked it for 5-7 hours. Be sure to watch it, every oven is different.
  9. When it’s dry and cool, remove the tomb from the bowl.

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You could also consider creating a mini empty tomb garden in a small pot or vessel using small plants, a bonsai tree, small rocks, tiny flowers, moss, grass, soil and a small piece of natural gauze inside the tomb to represent the cloth they wrapped the Savior’s body left in the tomb.  To create the open tomb part, I used a small plastic pot from the nursery and laid it on it’s side, then added the moss over it to create the hill of the tomb.   Day 7 Empty tomb garden-01 Day 7 Empty Tomb Garden square-01 Day 7 Empty Tomb Garden palm-01

Hugs,

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This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand-lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at www.aimeeferre.com.

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#Hallelujah Day 6 of Easter Advent Kit for Holy Week

Day 6 I Believe in Christ-01If you are following along we are on Day 6 of the Easter Advent celebrating Holy Week. I hope you are posting on our Facebook page HERE your experiences, we really would love to see them!  Tag your photos on your personal Instagram and Facebook pages using the two hashtags #SDEaster #Hallelujah.

Today’s devotional focuses on the atonement of Jesus Christ and His suffering for us because of His love for us.  Display the “I Believe in Christ” 8X10 print where you are displaying the other visuals (or you can download a larger 11X14″ file HERE).   I chose the Crimson Red Greek Eggs family activity for today to serve as a reminder of Gethsemane. There is a darling recipe printable for the Crimson Red Greek Easter Eggs showing palm leaves, red eggs and Easter lilies within the design.

The entire kit is available HERE for download if you are just learning of this week of devotionals we have available.

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This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand-lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at aimeeferre.com.

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#Hallelujah Day 5 of Easter Advent Kit for Holy Week

Hallelujah 5 LoveOneAnotherposter-01 Day 5 shares the scripture story of the Savior washing the apostles feet.  As part of that story, the activities today focus on love and service within your family and neighbors.  You have the option of using the download of the scripture found in John 15:12, “This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you”.  You can mount the printable on a posterboard so family members can share the acts of service rendered among your family all week.  And then you get to “egg” your neighbors home or someone else in need.   Share scriptures or happy messages of hope with them inside the eggs, along with homemade treats or small little springtime novelty gifts.  Maybe even consider giving service coupons that you roll up and put inside a few eggs, like “This coupon is good for one free snow shovel of your walks, a free afternoon of babysitting,  we will make you a yummy pot of hot soup and warm bread, we will bring in the garbage cans on garbage day.”  There are so many ways to love your family members and neighbors. Today be creative and serve the way your family does best, and as the Savior would. Day 5 Egged Door2blog-01Day 5 Baskethiding-01 Day 5 Grass egg-01

Remember, it’s never too late to share these devotionals with your family.  Or consider using elements of the kit in your Young Women, Primary or Relief Society lessons.  Find it available for download HERE.  Have a beautiful Holy Week!

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This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand-lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at aimeeferre.com.

#Hallelujah Day 4 of Easter Advent for Holy Week

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All Photos by Amy Little

Day 4 of the Easter Advent for Holy Week is a little more involved if you are interested in studying the Jewish Passover and it’s relation to The Last Supper.  It’s quite interesting and I loved learning about the symbols and meaning behind the foods of the Seder plate.  Consider sampling different foods of the Passover.  There are many recipes online or you can just prepare them simple.  Many butchers offer a shank bone during the Passover period on the calendar, but you can always call your local butcher and pre-order it if you are interested in this portion of the outline.   Make sure you have your 8X10 print of the Matthew 28:5-6 scripture printable.  If you would like it in a larger size, it is also available in an 11X14″ separately HERE .

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Hugs,

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This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand-lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at aimeeferre.com.

#Hallelujah Day 3 of the Easter Advent Kit for Holy Week

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All Photos by Amy Little

I’m going to share two posts today, since tomorrow is Sunday.  On Day #3  your family will discuss the Parables that Christ taught in the Bible.  And if you choose to play the Parables Charades or form a clay oil lamp like what the Parable of the Ten Virgins used, have fun with it.  I did it with my daughter’s junior high age friends one night as I was prepping for the photo shoot.  Two of them really got into the project and spent an hour forming the most perfect lamp.  You can imagine their huge disappointment when we realized it wasn’t a oven bake clay.  So let that be a lesson to you.  The other three  just did what they could to get through the exercise.  So again, tailor these experiences to your family.

If you are just joining us, the kit is available HERE! And no, it’s not too late to start!

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This guest post was submitted by Aimee Ferre. She grew up in the desert of East Mesa in Arizona, but married a mountain loving Utah boy. She currently lives in Sandy, Utah and is a mom to 3 daughters. She owns a small crafting business where she creates holiday decor and specializes in hand-lettering. You can always find her creating new projects or planning gatherings for friends and family. Follow her on Instagram to see what is currently on her desk or find her at aimeeferre.com.