RESURRECTION ROLLS
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We do these sometime during the week before Easter (see link above- where I get a lot of ideas). Read the notes. It does work better if you cut the marshmallow and cook in a muffin tin. The kids love it.
Crescent rolls
melted butter
large marshmallows
cinnamon
sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Give each child a triangle of crescent rolls. The crescent roll represents the cloth that Jesus was wrapped in.
Give each child a marshmallow, this represents Jesus. Have them dip the marshmallow in melted butter, which represents the oils of embalming. Then dip the buttered marshmallow in the cinnamon and sugar which represent the spices used to anoint the body.
Then wrap the coated marshmallow tightly in the crescent roll (not like a typical crescent roll up, but bring the sides up and seal the marshmallow inside.) This represents the wrapping of Jesus' body after death.
Place in a 350 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. The oven represents the tomb.
When the rolls have cooled slightly, the children can open their rolls (cloth) and discover that Jesus is no longer there, He is risen. (The marshmallow and the crescent roll is puffed up, but empty.)
NOTE: I had problems the first time I made them. I re-did them last night and they worked. What I did was I cut the large marshmallow in half. Then instead of baking them on a cookie sheet I put them into cupcake papers and baked them in the muffin tin. They worked MUCH better and they were hollow inside. When I did it the first way with the whole marshmallow and on a cookie sheet, they oozed marshmallow everywhere and were not hollow).
Just for reference - this is what the kids love and look forward to doing on Saturday night before Easter:
My mother-in-law came up with this when she was teaching seminary and we've been doing it with the whole family ever since (never mind the fact that we're all adults!).
She buys a ton of candy. The only specific candy you have to buy is 3 Cadbury eggs which will represent the Godhead. The rest of the candy can be whatever your family likes. Other required supplies include a bag and a blindfold for each participant. We've never been fancy with this - we've just used grocery bags and strips of fabric or t-shirts for blind folds.
We always waited until it was dark for this activity because it symbolizes the darkness the Nephites experienced after the Savior's death. The scriptures say absolutely NO light could be seen and so we used the blindfolds to make the darkness absolute.
My mother-in-law would send us all out on the front porch while she prepared the house. While we waited she would turn furniture upside down and move things all around to symbolize the destruction of the land after the Savior's death. Then she would scatter the candy, which symbolized our family members, everywhere. When the house was sufficiently wrecked, she would come on the porch and tell us what had happened using the story from the Book of Mormon. (It might be a good idea to read it and bring out whatever points you think are important for your family.)
She would say things to the effect of "there's been terrible destruction. The whole face of the land has been changed. You have been separated from your family members. You must find them." She would continue to narrate the story and end by telling us that there were 3 special eggs that represented Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. We were to try and find them, our family and then try and get to the highest place (usually a stack of couch pillows) which represented the temple (this is, of course, where the Nephites gathered). Then she would blind fold us and give us our bags. We would go into the house and get down on our hands and knees (it's much safer this way!) and crawl around stuffing candy (family) in our bags. When we had been at it a while and we were pretty sure most of the candy had been collected we would all make our way to the "temple". This has been a GREAT activity that seems to appeal to ALL ages.My mother-in-law came up with this when she was teaching seminary and we've been doing it with the whole family ever since (never mind the fact that we're all adults!).
She buys a ton of candy. The only specific candy you have to buy is 3 Cadbury eggs which will represent the Godhead. The rest of the candy can be whatever your family likes. Other required supplies include a bag and a blindfold for each participant. We've never been fancy with this - we've just used grocery bags and strips of fabric or t-shirts for blind folds.
We always waited until it was dark for this activity because it symbolizes the darkness the Nephites experienced after the Savior's death. The scriptures say absolutely NO light could be seen and so we used the blindfolds to make the darkness absolute.
My mother-in-law would send us all out on the front porch while she prepared the house. While we waited she would turn furniture upside down and move things all around to symbolize the destruction of the land after the Savior's death. Then she would scatter the candy, which symbolized our family members, everywhere. When the house was sufficiently wrecked, she would come on the porch and tell us what had happened using the story from the Book of Mormon. (It might be a good idea to read it and bring out whatever points you think are important for your family.)
She would say things to the effect of "there's been terrible destruction. The whole face of the land has been changed. You have been separated from your family members. You must find them." She would continue to narrate the story and end by telling us that there were 3 special eggs that represented Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. We were to try and find them, our family and then try and get to the highest place (usually a stack of couch pillows) which represented the temple (this is, of course, where the Nephites gathered). Then she would blind fold us and give us our bags. We would go into the house and get down on our hands and knees (it's much safer this way!) and crawl around stuffing candy (family) in our bags. When we had been at it a while and we were pretty sure most of the candy had been collected we would all make our way to the "temple". This has been a GREAT activity that seems to appeal to ALL ages.My mother-in-law came up with this when she was teaching seminary and we've been doing it with the whole family ever since (never mind the fact that we're all adults!).
She buys a ton of candy. The only specific candy you have to buy is 3 Cadbury eggs which will represent the Godhead. The rest of the candy can be whatever your family likes. Other required supplies include a bag and a blindfold for each participant. We've never been fancy with this - we've just used grocery bags and strips of fabric or t-shirts for blind folds.
We always waited until it was dark for this activity because it symbolizes the darkness the Nephites experienced after the Savior's death. The scriptures say absolutely NO light could be seen and so we used the blindfolds to make the darkness absolute.
My mother-in-law would send us all out on the front porch while she prepared the house. While we waited she would turn furniture upside down and move things all around to symbolize the destruction of the land after the Savior's death. Then she would scatter the candy, which symbolized our family members, everywhere. When the house was sufficiently wrecked, she would come on the porch and tell us what had happened using the story from the Book of Mormon. (It might be a good idea to read it and bring out whatever points you think are important for your family.)
She would say things to the effect of "there's been terrible destruction. The whole face of the land has been changed. You have been separated from your family members. You must find them." She would continue to narrate the story and end by telling us that there were 3 special eggs that represented Heavenly Father, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. We were to try and find them, our family and then try and get to the highest place (usually a stack of couch pillows) which represented the temple (this is, of course, where the Nephites gathered). Then she would blind fold us and give us our bags. We would go into the house and get down on our hands and knees (it's much safer this way!) and crawl around stuffing candy (family) in our bags. When we had been at it a while and we were pretty sure most of the candy had been collected we would all make our way to the "temple". This has been a GREAT activity that seems to appeal to ALL ages.
