• 1 dozen plastic Easter eggs
  
  
• 1 egg carton
  
  
• construction paper
  
  

Decorate the top of the carton with construction paper and any other decoration that seems fitting.

Fill each egg with the item listed in parenthesis below, along with a piece of paper containing the listed verse. For example the first egg will have a piece of bread along with verse #1 that you see accompanying the bread below. Be sure to put them in order in the carton so you remember which number is which.

Once you have made the Resurrection Eggs, you can decide the method you want to use to open them. You might open one per day during the twelve days before Easter or if you're having a big family get-together, you may choose to open them then. It is also fun for the kids to do this the day you decorate Easter eggs with them.

1. (Bread) Matthew 26:26
   While they were eating Jesus took a piece of bread,
   gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to His disciples.
   "Take and eat it," He said, "This is My body."
   
   
2. (Coins) Matthew 26: 14-15
   Then one of the twelve disciples, named Judas Iscariot, went to
   the chief priests and asked, "What will you give me if I betray
   Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave
   them to him.
   
   
3. (Purple cloth, representing a purple robe) Mark 15:17
   They put a purple robe on Jesus. . .
   
   
4. (Thorns, like on a rose stem) Matthew 27:29
   Then they made a crown out of thorny branches and placed it on
   His head, and put a stick on His right hand; then they knelt
   before Him and made fun of Him. "Long live the King, of the
   Jews!" they said.
   
   
5. (Scourge-a small piece of rope or thick string) Mark 15:15
   Pilate wanted to please the crowd, so he set Barabbas free for
   them. Then he had Jesus whipped and handed Him over to be
   crucified.
   
   
6. (A small cross) John 19: 17-18a
   He went out, carrying His cross, and came to "The Place of the
   Skull," as it is called. (In Hebrew it is called "Galgotha.") There
   they crucified Him.
   
   
7. (Nails) John 20:25b
   Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the scars of the nails in His
   hands and put my finger on those scars and my hand in His
   side, I will not believe."
   
   
8. (Sign saying "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.") Luke 23:38
   Above Him were written these words: THIS IS THE KING OF
   THE JEWS.
   
   
9. (Small piece of sponge) Matthew 27:48
   One of them ran up at once, took a sponge, soaked it in cheap
   wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make Him drink it.
   
   
10. (Something representing a spear (i.e. a toothpick)) John 19:34
    One of the soldiers plunged his spear into Jesus' side, and at
    once blood and water poured out.
    
    
11. (Rock) Matthew 27:59-60
    Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a new linen sheet, and
    placed it in his own new tomb, which he had just recently dug
    out of solid rock. Then he rolled a large stone across the
    entrance to the tomb and went away.
    
    
12. (Empty) Matthew 28:6
    He is not here He has risen just as He said.