You've probably noticed the giant Easter egg that's been hanging around H Street recently. It's big, and yellow, and has the hashtag #HstEaster on its side. The egg is the work of Capital City Church, which holds its services at the Atlas (1333 H Street). The church members wanted to reach out, and engage the larger community in a fun way. Though the egg has mostly hung out at the corner of 11th and H, it has also visited Taylor Gourmet (1116 H Street), and I'm told it may have a Karaoke night in its future. More info and pics of the egg's construction after the jump. Here's a little more about the egg: "The overall dimension of the egg is 7.5 ft tall, 5 ft wide, with its largest circumference being 16 ft. The egg itself only weighs about 75 lbs, but is weighed down internally with lots of extra weight to keep it from blowing away like in the 30 mph winds we got on Monday, which was a true test for its durability. The only 'crack in the egg' has come from some small act of vandalism when someone tore a small hole in the back to take a look inside. The egg can play music, talk and listen, all of which is done with electronics that are taken out when not in use, which is what the person who vandalized it on Sunday discovered." All pics and explanation text appearing below provided by Hunter Wilder, the guy who actually built the egg. Connect Four PVC pipes together with two four-way connectors Secure outer south-pole side of PVC pipes to a wide cut-out circle of plywood. Secure a second smaller cut-out circle of plywood in the inner south-pole side PVC pipes and place a metal pipe between the center of inner circle of plywood and the north pole inner side of PVC pipes. Now make several different sized circles out of PVC pipes and secure them around the egg. The shape of the egg is finally coming alive! Now wrap the egg up and down with packing sealing wrap as many times as desired. The more you wrap the smoother you egg will end up. I actually thought about stopping the egg here and adding some lights, would have looked really cool and modern. Now paper mâché the egg! In order to do so, I actually bought paint rolls to roll the mâché mixture on the egg and then place the dry newspaper on top. Cover the egg with a few layers putting mâché mixture on both sides of every piece of the newspaper. Hint: smaller strips of the newspaper caused less wrinkles than larger strips. Paint with regular exterior paint once paper mâché has dried completely and thin plywood around bottom to form a base. Decorate to your liking!
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April is truly a historic month in which we commemorate two of the most important events in the history of mankind: the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and the reestablishment of his church and kingdom here upon the earth in these, the latter days. Members of the Church also believe that Christ was born on April 6 in the year 1 B.C. (See D&C 20:1.). Check out this great FHE lesson for Easter! Scripture: John 11:25 Hymn: I Know That My Redeemer Lives #136 Lesson: My Brother and the Resurrection, Resurrection and Restoration Treat: Sunflower Seed Bread and Fluffy Easter Cake Activity: Striped and Checked Eggs, Marbled Eggs, and Easter Baskets •View entire lesson...
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So on this, the first day of the week, Mary comes to the tomb with the spices that she has carefully prepared. But she is not alone. Other women are with her, all undoubtedly traumatized and frightened and floundering in a flood of grief. It is early in the morning, so early that the garden is still dark. Perhaps they come before the sunrise to avoid being seen. Perhaps they are just that eager to minister to Him. Mark and Luke tell us that Mary actually enters the tomb when she finds—to her astonishment—that the stone has been rolled away.
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Inspired by the Easter Story Wreath I saw at Oriental Trading (pictured below), I thought it'd be fun to draw my own version for kids to color, cut and assemble! I wanted to include Pentecost in my wreath (it's not included in the one above) and also add scripture verses to make it tell the Easter story in better detail. (And by-the-way, I really didn't care for the "happy hippy" Jesus in their wreath--I mean, he's SMILING during the agony in the garden? Really?) So anyway, here is my own version of an Easter Story Wreath. Please feel free to print as many as you like! There are three documents to print (2 image docs and one scripture egg doc). To assemble the wreath simply print, color and cut out the images. For a wreath base I used a large circle (approx. 11 1/2 " in diameter) cut from a 12" x 12" piece of cardstock: I arranged the pictures to "tell" the story from Palm Sunday (starting on the top right) through Pentecost (placed in the top center). If you're interested in making this wreath I'm sure you're already very familiar with the order of the events, but I will go ahead and list them just in case: 1. Jesus enters Jerusalem (palm branch and donkey pictures) 2. The Last Supper (bread and wine pictures) 3. Jesus Prays in Gethsemane (praying hands picture) 4. Jesus is Crucified (cross picture) 5. Resurrection (empty tomb picture) 6. Ascension (Jesus in clouds picture) 7. Holy Spirit Comes Down (dove and flames pictures) Here is an example of an assembled wreath will look like: I overlapped some of the pictures on top of each other to make them fit nicely--feel free to arrange them however you like! Glue stick or Glue Dots work well to affix the pictures to the wreath base. You can print the wreath images by clicking on the links below: Easter Wreath Pictures Page 1 of 3 (Microsoft doc) Easter Wreath Pictures page 2 of 3 (Microsoft doc) Easter Wreath Pictures page 3 of 3 (Microsoft doc) NOTE: Some people have mentioned that their scripture eggs are printing out blank. If you experience this, you can try editing the document to re-arrange the order of the "egg shape" to send it to the back. This has fixed the issue for most people. I hope that helps. If you are still unable to print the eggs with scripture in them, you can also print the text separately and simply cut and paste it onto the blank eggs. Below is the document with the scripture verses by themselves: Scripture Verses TEXT ONLY (microsoft doc) I hope this wreath helps make the Easter season more meaningful for your family! Sharing With: Catholic Icing Works for Me Wednesday
So we have managed to get to Easter, a time for new beginnings and lots of chocolate ! This is such a hopeful time of year, and the lockdown easing has coincided with some warm sunshine, enough to lift all our spirits I have been loving the signs of Spring popping up everywhere, and a meet up with friend for a walk an
