We have a winner for the 31 Days to Clean ebook, and that winner is…
#41 – Diana!
Congrats girl! Email me at erin {at} homewiththeboys {dot} net to claim your fab book!
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I think 99.9% of this world has read a Max Lucado book at some point.
But I have a confession: I actually like his children’s books more than his ones meant for adults!
I recently found a new one to love…
The Oak Inside the Acorn by Max Lucado is a beautiful parable taken from his book Cure for the Common Life and made into a touching picture book for children ages five to ten.
I sat down to read this with Big J while Little J was napping and I wish I would have grabbed a box of Kleenex! The book reminded me of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, but with a Christian perspective and deeper meaning.
The story follows a little acorn as it leaves it’s mother oak tree and find its place and purpose in the world – its God-given purpose. The book encourages children to be the best they can be for God and not try to be anyone else!
We both enjoyed the story and gorgeous illustrations so much, and I was an emotional mama by the end!
Tommy Nelson is giving away one copy of this wonderful book to celebrate Easter!
So here’s what I want to know…
How do you start Easter conversations with your children? Any resources like this book that you use to help illustrate Christ’s work in our lives?
That’s all you have to do to enter!
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This giveaway will close Wednesday, April 27th at 9:00 p.m. CST and a random winner will be announced the next day!
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Wow!! Looks like an awesome book! Since Timmy is still so young, we have just started to really talk about what Easter means. I’ve been on the lookout for some great resources like this! Awesome giveaway!
My son is a toddler so basically we have been making Christian Easter decorations, like a foam cross that says “He Is Risen” and a foam Easter Egg with crosses on it. I will explain also, that eggs and bunnies and duckies and such represent the new life we have through Jesus. I would LOVE this book for my son!
I always love doing the resurrection rolls with my kids because it’s fun and has meaning as well, not to mention they are delicious. Also, my kids have really enjoyed the book “Benjamin’s Box” which is a book that is used in conjunction with the resurection eggs. So these are both ideas that help start conversations with my kids 🙂
– Cheryl
I love Max Lucado’s Children’s books!!!
We use the Resurrection eggs, cookies and rolls to remember what Christ did on the cross. We also read children’s books and Bibles to remember.
Courtney
My son is only two, but we do lots of reading of Easter books and participate in the season as much as we can with him. LOVE this book! Thanks!
I’ve been trying to teach Tristan about Easter, but I know he hasn’t caught on to it yet. I read him the story out of the Bible, I’ve plain told him about Jesus’ death & resurrection, and on Friday we’re going to make resurrection rolls! I’m excited about that because I think he’ll be more interested in food. LOL
I tweeted about your giveaway (and FYI, I too like Max Lucado’s children books better than adult books).
I shared about this on Facebook, too. Thanks for hosting this Erin!
We have been reading the new Easter Arthur Ytreeide book. Lots of discussion starters there. we also talk about hot cross buns and read bits from the Bible that are relevant.
I shared this on my fb page
by celebrating Lent, the conversation is begun naturally- deep truths taught interactively and participatorily – one new insight of Truth per week leading through Christ’s journey. Easter is not a one day celebration. so much is lost by a one weekend worship. i’d encourage exploration and discovery with children, of the depths of faith available, in the pursuit of faith journeys throughout the church year [including following advent, epiphany, lent, pentecost] incorporate art and craft work of the learnings – GOOD stuff 🙂
for easter we always read this book: http://lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/2011/04/cross-in-egg-our-favorite-easter-book.html
another great one we love in the fall its about God is always with us: http://lettersnumbersandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/2010/09/scarecrow-and-spider.html
I do not know much about Easter but this year we’re celebrating for the first time since my daughter was born 2 years ago, so I’m researching about this tradition online.
For Easter we discuss it with my 12 year old and read the bible together. My 1 year old isnt ready yet.
We use lots of books, plus the Bible and Resurrection eggs. This book looks awesome!
http://livelearnlove226.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-read-alouds.html are our favorite Easter books. We also made our own res. eggs!
We use the Resurrection Eggs.
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We don’t celebrate Easter, but we do Passover and this year we began talking with our kids about what it means (they’re still young….3 and 2….and sometimes I don’t even think they understand what we’ve told them so far). I don’t really have any resources that I’ve used yet, but I’m always on the lookout!
Tweeted:
http://twitter.com/#!/love2bmommy/status/62300639463620608
I am a Nanny and I like to have them color pictures and explain to them what they are coloring. I also think picture books are wonderful to use.
I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/LLLSummer/status/62358156239572992
Hi,
We read books or the Bible to the children. Books with pictures really work well. This book looks fantastic.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Wanda
we use the Resurrection Rolls
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We read the Toddler Bible with pictures to explain Easter to my son when he was small. I also like the Easter eggs that have symbols in each of them leading up to Easter that explains the Easter message.
Tweet http://twitter.com/atticgirl76/status/62516119231152128
We’ve enjoyed the various storybook Bibles. Ella Lindvall’s set in particular is an amazing resource to read to preschoolers.
We’ve used the Jesus Storybook Bible and are now working our way through the Heidelberg Catechism.
For the last two years we’ve made an “Easter mountain” from Noel Piper’s Treasuring God in Our Traditions. There’s a cross on the top and the mountain has a tomb. On Friday we roll the stone in front of the tomb, it stays closed Saturday, and Sunday we opened it. All day yesterday Joey kept telling people, “Jesus is not of the tomb. It’s empty!”
We read the Bible and other children’s literature. I’m able to have more involved conversations with my 11 year old about the topic, where my younger children are just learning that Jesus loves them and he died for them. I would like to incorporate a more hands on delivery for my kids. I’ve seen recently using pictures that illustrate the events leading up to and after the crucifixion of Christ, hung on branches of “spring” willow (similar idea to an easter tree). The idea looks lovely.