Easter calendar with family devotions based on The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross Storybook.Perfect for Lent and Easter.
Part of the Tales that Tell the Truth series.
Make sure Easter is met with as much anticipation as Christmas with this innovative resource based on our bestselling children's book.
This 15-door calendar works just like an advent calendar and means kids can count down to Easter Sunday. It comes with two weeks of Easter family devotions based on the passages used in The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross Storybook.
Children aged 5-8 will learn why Jesus died and rose again, and why that's the best news ever.
• Board book for 1-3s
• Storybook for 3-6s
• Coloring and Activity Book for 5-8s
• Full size illustrations to show on screen when reading to a large audience
• A six-session Sunday School resource with age-differentiated lesson plans for 3-5s, 5-8s, and 8-12s
| Age range: | 5 - 11 |
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| Contributors | Carl Laferton, Lizzie Laferton, Catalina Echeverri |
| ISBN | 9781784984632 |
| Format | Calendar |
| First published | January 2020 |
| Dimensions | 8.3" x 11.7" x 0.2" |
| Case quantity | 45 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 4 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
I’m always looking for fresh resources to help my children engage in the story of scripture and this devotional hits all the right notes. With simple language, engaging questions, clear truths, and a realistic timeframe (this is key!), this is a truly wonderful resource for even the busiest parents to help their children understand the power of the resurrection and God’s perfect plan.
This is a fantastic plan for families with young children for making the most of the full fortnight before the highest feast in the Christian calendar. I enjoyed previewing these as a daddy, and can’t wait to make this next Holy Week special for our kids—and the week before! For years, I’ve found walking with Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter to be a spiritually significant annual habit—but it just always seems to go by too quickly. So why not make it two weeks and involve the kids?
It’s hard for me to believe, but one of my favorite children’s books just got better. The Garden, The Curtain, and The Cross is both an outstanding introduction to the Christian faith and a soul-stirring encouragement to those who already believe. This devotional guide anticipates thoughtful questions, equips you to discover the answers, and presents the subject manner in a worship-full tone.
We have the book and love it, so I got the calendar to do with my kids, particularly the 6 year old, who are used to doing family Bible times. They enjoyed it and loved the calendar but it was a struggle - I had to rephrase a lot of things that were unnecessarily complicated - why pray that God will "enable" us to understand, when the word "help" does the job just as well? I had to rephrase a lot of jargon and christianese, and unpick a lot of compound sentences to make it work.
Given the age that the original book is aimed at, this seemed a shame and a missed step.
Our family of four (age 7 down to age 3) enjoyed this Easter countdown calendar. The younger ones opening the doors and engaging with the brilliant art work (taken from the book) and listening in as the older ones answered well thought out questions and prayers from the resource. The refrain (mentioned on another review) is a real strength and has stayed with them.
In places it is a little ‘wordy’ and the pictures behind the doors are on the small side; though we will be using again and even led the eldest to want to read the book to his skeptical Granny!
This is a really excellent resource! We'd previously had the Book, but the devotional was great for the fortnight before Easter, in place of our usual bedtime Bible reading with our 4 year old daughter. But there's also lots of extension ideas and questions for older children. GIve it a go - you won't regret it!
We loved using this over breakfast as a family and it kept our young and lively boys (4 and 3 years old) really engaged. They loved opening the flaps each day and reciting the lines from the book and devotional ("Because of our sin...we can't come in. Because Jesus died, we can come inside."). A great way to help build anticipation and excitement around the Easter story.
