Tree of Life Mothering

Easter is less than three weeks away! I’m excited to share about this darling book today, shown above. I highly recommend it! This book is amazing because it gives you a TON of resources to celebrate every single day of Holy Week, the week before Easter. These resources will help your family learn and remember what happened on that day with Jesus during his last week of life. This is perfect for using for your family devotional that week or your Morning Basket time. (Go here if you don’t know what Morning Basket time is.) I found this book at the thrift store last year for 75 cents! What a treasure! I have been waiting for months to finally use it and now I can! I don’t have to return it to the library like I had to with the copy I had last year.

The author Wendee Wilcox Rosborough is the daughter of one of my favorite speakers and authors, Brad Wilcox. (You can listen to two of Brad’s speeches by clicking on the top two results over here.)

Here is the way she labels the days of the Holy Week in the book:

Palm Sunday

Cleansing Monday

Parable Tuesday

Betrayal Wednesday

Last Supper Thursday

Good Friday

Salvation Saturday

Easter Sunday

I love that! Then for each day she has the following resources:

-a piece of art showing Jesus, reprinted right there in the book, to study for art appreciation, with a little bit about the artist

-a scripture to memorize

-at least one video to watch about what Jesus did that day, with the QR code to pull it up fast with your device

-songs from the Children’s Songbook

-activities, including service projects, games, a recipe or craft

Here are some examples of what the author includes in the book: making an Easter story wreath, cleaning your home in a ten-minute blitz, playing a game with small candies to illustrate the parable of the talents, playing Parable Charades with play dough, doing a secret service project for a neighbor, making hot cross buns, making unleavened bread, having a missionary egg hunt, making paper lilies, and an apostles scavenger hunt. I love that she even has a bonus section of activities for when General Conference falls on Easter Sunday.

This book is easily adaptable to families who have members of all ages. Most of these activities are simple enough for toddlers to enjoy and easily changed to be more engaging for teens and adults. She gives so many suggestions, it would be hard to do them all. So don’t feel overwhelmed or compelled to do them all. If you are pressed for time, I suggest you at least you do the art study, recite the scripture, and watch the videos when your most or all of your family is together for dinner, or whatever meal they are most likely to be together.

This is such a wonderful skeleton or backbone guide for your family to use year after year in making memorable Easter family traditions for the whole week leading up to Easter. I love the idea of making Easter as memorable as Christmas time. This book will help you do that with very little prep time, effort or money.

Want to learn the back story of why Wendee Rosborough wrote the book? Go here.

Want more Easter traditions?

Check out my compilation of Emily Belle Freeman’s traditions for Holy Week here.

Check out my website here, under the April section, for activities, read-aloud books, and movies.

Check out my list of Easter stories and music, and do one a day, here.