tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post2048950097201694431..comments2024-03-22T03:02:50.755-07:00Comments on Almost Unschoolers: A Search for the Lamb - A Christian Alternative to the Easter Egg HuntAn Almost Unschooling Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784076035361200243noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-62989366015876459052016-03-27T17:29:03.239-07:002016-03-27T17:29:03.239-07:00Thank you so much for this great idea! We are not ...Thank you so much for this great idea! We are not opposed to egg hunts and do them with our children. However my husband is not comfortable w egg hunts at our church, for various reasons, which I support. We have a HUGE lawn outside of our church and this year I saw your idea, made 130 lamb cookies and the kids had a blast! I also made one crown for each child (handed those out) and his one, just for fun, to see who could find it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02882874229958632364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-64143428909857551642015-03-30T08:14:39.237-07:002015-03-30T08:14:39.237-07:00Patty - If I remember right, all I did with the la...Patty - If I remember right, all I did with the lamb cookies was hide them for the kids to find. We got a little more elaborate in later years, adding verses and story to candy and stuffed animals. You might check out one of the later posts for ideas.<br />http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2012/04/alternative-easter-egg-hunt-part-ii.html<br />An Almost Unschooling Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784076035361200243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-90239768140058475652015-03-29T21:14:30.029-07:002015-03-29T21:14:30.029-07:00I also im searching for an alternative to the egg...I also im searching for an alternative to the egg hunt. My husband and I just began our ministry at a church where they have done the egg hunt forever and as much as we don't want to change everything the people there have done forever, egg hunt is one thing that we do not agree with in the least bit and therefore my search. Can you please explain how you did the Lamb Hunt. I ordered stuffed lambs so that everyone who joins the hunt can take one home but I'm stuck in the way to execute it. Please help!!! <br />Email address:ms.pattygonzalez1014@yahoo.com<br />God BlessPattynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-73856871130632791542015-03-03T04:09:32.011-08:002015-03-03T04:09:32.011-08:00I was looking for Easter ideas when I read the com...I was looking for Easter ideas when I read the comment about the Christmas tree<br /><br />The tradition comes from Germany where when the Celtic missionaries came to evangelise the pagans, they found them worshiping the oak tree, Thor's oak.Near a place called Fulda, Boniface, the missionary, dared to fell Thor's oak to show Christ was stronger, and tradition has it that a little fir tree grew where the oak had beenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-10953391185219624892014-03-29T18:18:35.703-07:002014-03-29T18:18:35.703-07:00I'm a southern baptist & like you I've...I'm a southern baptist & like you I've searched for the deeper meaning in many traditions. I've grown to hate the bunny as it steals attention from the true Lamb of God. However, if you want more meaning to Easter you should seriously look at Passover. The Lord established 7 Feasts & Jesus observed them all. In fact He fulfilled the first 4 already in His first coming. Chris was crucified on Passover - the sinless lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. He was buried on the feast of unleavened bread - dying a sinless death. And he rose from the grave (Resurrection aka Easter) on the Feast of Firstfruits. God did command us to celebrate the resurrection, it's just that He gave it another name. Christ fulfilled the Feast of Firstfruits by being the first of the resurrection as Paul talks about in Corinthians. <br /><br />(The 4th feast He fulfilled was the Feast of Weeks/Pentacost where He sent the Holy Spirit to believers.)<br /><br />But back to Passover, it has been celebrated in basically the same way for at least 2000 years when the first Seder was recorded. If you study it, you will find meaning to the egg & the hunt. It is beautiful. Especially the hunt. The middle matza is striped & pierced and is broken, buried (hid) & (hunt) resurrected & literally ransomed back. Celebrating Christ in the Passover will add so much meaning to your Easter. I highly encourage you to research it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-8937511744679083472013-03-18T16:43:40.222-07:002013-03-18T16:43:40.222-07:00Anonymous - Of course the Jeremiah passage is spea...Anonymous - Of course the Jeremiah passage is speaking of idol worship, and the irony of taking a part of a tree to use for firewood, and worshiping the rest - but it's something for thought.An Almost Unschooling Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784076035361200243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-14338986434182542592013-03-18T06:33:04.473-07:002013-03-18T06:33:04.473-07:00I love your post. Well said and I agree completely...I love your post. Well said and I agree completely. I wish more people would question the traditions we are instilling in our children and then because it was their tradition it is instilled in our grandchildren. <br /><br />Here is another tradition to question: Christmas Tree<br />It is an idol from pagan religions and has nothing to do with CHRIST. Christians could not change the pagans so they joined them and just changed the name. <br /><br />JEREMIAH 10:2-5<br />Thus saint the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. <br /><br />For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.<br /><br />They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-38211125283866242432012-04-03T09:22:04.017-07:002012-04-03T09:22:04.017-07:00Would love to know how you made them. melhouston@g...Would love to know how you made them. melhouston@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598841562237715955.post-24757615143353883242011-04-25T20:54:42.975-07:002011-04-25T20:54:42.975-07:00Interesting thoughts. I'd always believed tha...Interesting thoughts. I'd always believed that the reason behind using eggs is they are a symbol of new life, just like we have new life in Christ.<br /><br />But, as you said there probably is a lot of pagan symbolism behind the egg. Oddly enough my kids while believing in Santa Claus have no clue about the Easter bunny, they just accept that we hide the eggs, and to their minds they should help stuff them.Ticiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17970101432834731044noreply@blogger.com