Easter Craft, Poem and Song

Since Easter is only a few days away, I thought I'd share an activity and song I came up with for my preschool choir that I lead at Church.  This poem is one you can find many versions of online.  It's usually called something like "jelly bean poem" or "jelly bean prayer".  Here instead of jelly beans I used music notes, since it's for my little choir.  And I made up a coloring sheet/craft to go with it.  You can get the plain one below, this is just an example of what some of my kids did with it tonight.  (Although, theirs were colored with crayons not the computer...you get the idea though!:)

I like the poem so much that I wanted to set it to some music, and I figured out that it goes really well with "Doe a Deer" from Sound of Music.  (That I conveniently had just taught my choir last week!)  So they caught on to this really fast tonight!  I'll write it out below, so you get a better idea of how it goes.  :)  If you have any questions let me know!

Red is for the blood He gave.

(Do a deer a female deer.)

Green is for the grass made.

(Re a drop of golden sun.)

Yellow is for the sun so bright.

(Mi a name I call myself.)

Orange is for the edge of night.

(Fa a long, long way to run.)

Black is for the sins we made.

(So a needle pulling thread.)

White is for the grace He gave.

(La a note to follow so.)

Purple for His hour of sorrow.

(Ti a drink with jam and bread.)

Pink is for a new tomorrow. (to-mo-ro-o-ow)

(That will bring us back to do-oh-oh-oh)

Pretty catchy huh?  I really like it, and it went over really well with my 4-6 year olds.  So I hope you and yours enjoy it too.  Here's the printable coloring sheet/craft:

Another example of one:

Enjoy!  And Happy Easter!  :)

Happy Easter!

He is Risen!!!  Hallelujah!!!!  He is risen indeed!!  Have a great day celebrating Christ's resurrection with family and friends!!!  :)

My Easter Eggs this year...

I don't usually like hard boiled eggs....in fact, I'm not really sure why, but I think it has something to do with the fact that they taste better when they are colorful on the outside.  :)  So, I basically only eat hard boiled eggs around Easter.  :)  I had lofty plans for mine this year....but with the {at times} very hectic life I now lead {that I wouldn't trade for the world, might I add} I went with these.

Since I wanted to post them on here though, I had to do something fun and flirty with them.  So, here are my Easter Eggs this year...colorful, somewhat unique and definitely going to get eaten in the next week by my hubby and yours truly! :)  Happy Palm Sunday!

Have I mentioned my egg timer before?  It's an "Eggsact" and I love it.  :)

 It goes from red....to this...

 to this....and then when it looks like this, they are done!  :)

 I used some of my cute {rather new} espresso mugs for dyeing my eggs this year. :)

 Red, Yellow, Blue and a surprise color...

 Add 1 tsp. Vinegar and a few ounces hot water to a mug, then when you are ready to dye the egg throw in some sprinkles (nonperials) ...

 and the egg...and wait for some magic.  :)

 Dyeing yellow...

 and blue...

 and red...

 And viola!!  A little starburst of color from my fun mystery dye!  :)  (And it is of course food safe dye because it's just sprinkles!!)

 Here's a glimpse at the blue...

 Pure sunshine...

 Sorta funky pinky red...

 

 All the finished products.  :)

Yum.  I can't wait to eat one tomorrow!  :)