Build a Better Easter Basket for Your Grandchild 

While I’ll never turn down chocolate, there’s so much more to Easter than candy and stuffed rabbits. Here are some suggestions for a better Easter basket for your grandchild:

1. Resurrection eggs: Direct focus away from the bunny and toward Jesus. There are multiple versions of resurrection eggs, but all tell the story of Easter. Plus, kids have the fun of digging into their basket early. Most kits start twelve days out.  

2. A blessing or a letter. 

And he [Jesus] took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them. Mark 10:16 NIV

Check out The Christian Grandparenting Podcast: Episode #9 How to Write a Biblical Blessing for Your Grandchild. Personalize these blessings or correspondence for each grandchild. You’ll find a blessing template in the Show Notes.

2. Christian jewelry or t-shirts. 

Between Etsy and Amazon, you’re covered.

3.  Christian stickers for their notebooks and folders, or art for their homework space to keep God front and center. 

Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your forehead. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:8-9

Ancient Israelites kept visual reminders of God and His word. It still works.

3. An age-appropriate devotional or Bible study. 

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:8

I’ve listed a few options in the Easter bundle, but there are a lot to choose from. If you have a favorite, please share in the comments. 

4. Memory verse cards that you can learn together. 

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:11

Learn verses with them. Reward their effort with something special: gift cards, their favorite snack, movie night—whatever speaks to them. 

5. A prayer journal, coloring book, or prayer chart. 

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

Journaling is a great discipline to begin whether they are recording their prayers or keeping a track record of how God works in their lives.  Amazon stocks them for every age.

6. Colorful pens, pencils, and highlighters. Add sticky notes, index cards, and maybe a planner for teens. 

Then the LORD replied, “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.” Habakkuk 2:2

We retain more when we write things down. Art allows some kids the option to draw and doodle while they pray or think about a Scripture passage. 

7. Stories that point your grandchildren to God. Fiction is a powerful tool, one that Jesus used often. Check the list below.

Then he told them many things in parables, . . . Matthew 13:3

If your grandchild isn’t a big reader, try reading together or simultaneously, if you don’t live nearby. Don’t rule out magazines if a whole book is overwhelming. Consider Christian magazines like Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse, Jr., Clubhouse, and Brio. Cadet Quest focuses on boys. Sports Spectrum is for your sports lovers. I’ll include a list of books in the handout.

Bonus: In May, my co-author and I launch The Mystery of the Missing Falls, the first book in the Kingswell Kid Detectives series, mysteries for ages 7-12. Each book covers a specific topic key to our faith. The first book focuses on prayer and hearing God speak. In preparation for its debut, my co-author and I regularly send out Detective Dispatches each month. Look for the link on the handout. 

Let’s pray: Father God, capture the hearts of our grandchildren with Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection. Holy Spirit, brood over each child and birth new life. Bring them into the Kingdom and help them grow in relationship with you. Impress on them the significance of Easter. In Jesus’s name. Amen. 

Don’t settle for candy and bunnies. Include them, but don’t stop there. Choose your favorite recommendations and hop to it. If you have suggestions we need to hear about, put them in the comments below. All the links are in the Easter handout.

Build your best Easter Basket ever.

Resources:

Easter Handout

Next week: How to Share the Mystery of Life from Death with Your Grandchildren