Contact_FullName: Barbara
Contact_Email:
kcpreschool@juno.com
Area: Good Friday Snacks
Idea:
The week before Easter we make "empty tomb biscuits" at the Christian Preschool
where I direct. Take a jumbo refrigerator biscuit, have the child flatten it
out, then sprinkle cinnamon on the biscuit. The cinnamon represents Jesus'
blood, shed for us. Then put a marshmallow in the center of the biscuit. This
represents Jesus. Then close the biscuit around the marshmallow, sealing it
inside, like Jesus' body being sealed in the tomb. Bake the biscuits at 350
degrees for 5-10 minutes, until the biscuit is golden brown. After the biscuits
have cooled, serve them to the children, and when they open up the biscuit, they
see that it is empty...just like the tomb! It makes a wonderful cinnamon and
sugar roll-type snack...and teaches the story of the resurrection, too!
Contact_FullName: Sarah
Contact_Email:
sgretzmier@yahoo.com
Area: Good Friday Snacks
Idea:
idea 1 Hot Cross Buns
idea 2
Resurrection rolls
"Crescent dough wraps around butter- and sugar-dipped marshmallows. They become
hollow as they bake, representing Jesus' tomb on Easter morning -- when you
break them open they are empty inside! A great Easter recipe to share with the
kids!"
INGREDIENTS:
1 (10 oz) can crescent rolls (the grave clothes) 8 large marshmallows (Jesus)
1/4 cup melted butter (anointing oil) 4 TBS Cinnamon sugar (burial Spices)
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F Lightly grease a baking sheet.
2. Separate crescent rolls into individual triangles.
3. Put cinnamon sugar In a small bowl
4. Dip a marshmallow into melted butter, then roll in cinnamon sugar mixture.
Place marshmallow into the center of a dough triangle. Carefully wrap the dough
around the marshmallow. Pinch the seams together TIGHTLY to seal in marshmallow
as it melts. Place on a baking sheet. Repeat.
5. Bake in a preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes.
When you put them in the oven explain to the kids it's like when Jesus was put
in the tomb I like to do this right before nap and when they wake up remind them
that Jesus was in the tomb for 3 days and then when they eat snack they can see
how the grave clothes are now empty because Jesus had risen!!!
