Creating a diy resurrection garden is a meaningful craft for Easter and a great way to talk about the Easter story with kids. This is our first year making a resurrection garden and it is a great Easter activity for the whole family and a fun Easter tradition to continue in years to come!
I have been seeing pictures of resurrection gardens circulating online and I thought it looked like such a fun project for Easter! There are so many different ways to create your own resurrection garden and I will share how I made mine, but it is easily adaptable to what you have available.
These turn out so cool and make a great Easter centerpiece for your dining room table. If you decide to grow grass on top of your garden, you can start this project at the beginning of Holy week (or even a few days before) to give your grass enough time to sprout before Easter Sunday.
It is a great way to prepare your heart for Easter and start having conversations as a family about the true meaning of Easter. If you are looking for more fun ways to teach the Easter story to kids you’ll love this Easter story snack mix or these empty tomb resurrection cookies!
Materials
- Terra Cotta saucer, bowl or pie dish
- Small pot – This will be the empty tomb
- Large Stone – This represents the stone in front of the tomb
- Potting soil or dirt
- Small rocks
- Small twigs – These will be the three crosses
- Twine (or hot glue or glue dots to adhere your sticks together to make a cross)
- Moss or grass seed – This represents new life
- Small plants and flowers (artificial or real) – These represent the garden where Jesus was walking after he was resurrected
- Ribbon – The burial cloth left behind in the tomb
How to Make an Easter Resurrection Garden
Step One: Place the small pot on your saucer- this will be the opening of the tomb. Pour potting soil on top of the small pot and all around to create a mound which will keep your small pot in place. Put the large rock next to the opening of the tomb.
Step Two: Either sprinkle grass seed on top of your potting soil or cover the top with moss if you don’t want to grow grass. If you do decide to grow grass choose fast growing wheat grass and you will want to start this project about 7-10 days before Easter to give your grass enough time to grow. Every day use a small spray bottle to water your grass and set it by a window to let your grass grow.
Step Three: Create your garden with whatever you’ve collected. We placed small rocks in front of the tomb and added faux flowers and real flowers around the bottom as part of our garden.
Step Four: Create three crosses using twigs. Either hold them together with twine or hot glue. Stick them in the dirt on top of the hill.
On good Friday place the large rock in front of the tomb and on Easter morning roll the stone away from the opening of your tomb!
​Easter Books for Kids
After we made our Easter garden we read some of our favorite stories about Easter with our kids. These are some great books that help teach the Gospel to children:
- The Garden, The Curtain and the Cross
- The Donkey Who Carried a King
- The Tale of Three Trees
- The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story
- The Jesus Storybook Bible
This is one of my favorite Easter crafts we have done and my kids loved it as well.  They are so proud of it and it’s a great reminder of Jesus’ resurrection and why we celebrate Easter! If you make your own resurrection garden please share with us on instagram @foxfarmhome we would love to see them! Â
Happy Easter!
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