Our kids are still quite little, so we summarize most of the story of the end of Christ's life. The kids all get a marshmallow and we talk about how Christ was pure and clean from any sin like the marshmallow is clean and pure white. We talk about how people didn't believe he was the son of God and some hated him and wanted him dead, how he suffered for our sins in the garden of Gethsemane and how he hung on the cross and died.
We use our scriptures to tell the rest as we make our rolls:
John 19: 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
We roll the marshmallows in melted butter (like the aloe, and washing of his body)
Johns 19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture and wrap in crescent roll dough (like the spices and linen Jesus was wrapped in)
John 19: 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ apreparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
The pan is the seplulchre and when we shut the oven we talk about moving the stone to close it.
Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for aprox. 11-15 minutes. We talk about how Jesus was laid in the tomb for 3 days and watch the Lamb of God while they cook.
John 20: 5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
I like this because the marshmallow is gone but the roll (or linen cloth) remains. We then talk about how we get to enjoy the sweet reward of the resurrection. Christ lives so that we can too.
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