He is Risen Easter Baking Craft

This is a fun, easy project you can do with your kids as you talk about the meaning of Easter.

You will need:

Ready made bisquit dough or homemade bisquit dough

Marshmallows

Melted butter

Cinnamon and Sugar mixture

Before making this craft, you can read stories from your children's bible about Jesus dying on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins because he loved us.

Give your child dough to make one bisquit, and have them put a marshmallow in the inside of the dough, pressing the bisquit all around the marshmallow. The dough represents the tomb where they lay Jesus' body. The marshmallow will represent Jesus' body. Now, dip the dough into the melted butter, and then the cinnamon & sugar mixture. Lastly, bake according to package or recipe. Once they are baked, the marshmallow is absorbed into the bisquit, revealing a hollow inside.

"For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Romans 6:23

"The wages of sin is death." Do you know what that means? That means that when we sin, we earn death. God is holy, and our sin separates us from God. But, God loves us and doesn't want us to be separated from Him.

So, he made a way for us to be friends with Him. He sent His only Son, Jesus, to be the sacrifice for our sins. He could do that because He is God, and He is holy. We couldn't even pay for our own sins because we sin every day, whether in our thoughts or actions. We are not perfect. But, Jesus is perfect. He never sinned. He was the only one who could take the punishment for our sins, which is death.

Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and they put his body in the tomb, but on the third day, He rose again. Jesus conquered death. Jesus made a way for us to be friends with God. Jesus provided the "gift of God" which is "eternal life" through his sacrifice. This bisquit reminds us that Jesus is alive. Are you friends with Jesus?