Updated: Oct 4, 2020
Time for Easter Dinner with my loved ones. It’s almost done cooking and smells delicious.
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I must say our Easter Celebration ring with some flowers fresh from the garden and our@ostheimerwoodentoys animals is my favourite yet we have birds as a sign of song and celebration, an egg as a sign of new life, a lamb as a symbol of Christ and flowers as a sign of hope. Our beeswax candle is a sign of good work and reverence to others.
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Enjoy your afternoon everybody.
Updated: Oct 4, 2020
✨Easter Hare Nest ✨ We have really missed our time @thevalleysteinerparentandchild during isolation. So I was so thrilled when they posted a beautiful idea for an Easter Hare Nest last week.
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The little one loves picking flowers - and smelling them, so it was the perfect afternoon activity. I made a loose basket from some twigs pruned from our pear tree a couple of weeks ago. We lined the basket with some soft moss and decorated it with flowers in the hope that the Easter Hare will come before sunrise and leave a gift for us all. We have a virtual egg hunt over FaceTime planned with friends tomorrow...they will read our clues to us to find eggs and we will read theirs to them.
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I plan some time of quiet reflection too. Easter has always been a time of such profound transformation for me personally and I do like to take ten minutes out of the joyous celebration of the day to think about my own personal growth and the year ahead.
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I hope everybody has a lovely evening in the spring sunshine. Are you planning anything special for tomorrow or to prepare for Easter this evening?
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Updated: Oct 4, 2020
I love our seasonal table in the playroom, it really reflects ways of bringing meaning and understanding to Easter which children will find easy to understand. But being religious (well I would say religious/spiritual) I wouldn’t say any one religion is right or wrong even though I follow Christianity I do like to include a reverent and simple reminder of the celebration of Easter and the mysteries this season holds.
This is simply a basket I lined with a food bin liner (so bio degradable bag) I filled it with soil much like my lantern garden and added some moss and flowers from the garden. I found a couple of sticks outside, broke them to the correct lengths and tied them together to form a cross. The basket remains like this until Easter Sunday when i add a piece of white cloth (I keep a basket of scraps for craft, you could always knit one) over the cross to symbolise the resurrection of Christ.
The basket remains like this until the Ascension and will be sprayed with water daily to keep it alive.
Have a Blessed and Happy Easter
K x
