Welcome to Holy week 2025. I wanted to write about each day, but I should have started earlier. Project for next year. 😁 There is so much week left. So I will leave a couple of ideas here if you haven’t started yet, please start today.

Here is EASTER STUDY PLAN that my family and I have been doing. It’s brought such a joyful spirit into our home.

Here are some FUN EASTER IDEAS for children from around the world. These are quick and easy ideas.

Here are some OTHER EASTER PLANS AND IDEAS (including music and videos.

My extended family has been following a very sweet tradition over the last several years. It came from my mother’s upbringing in the Anglican Church. We make a schedule and we all take turns and “wait one hour” (See Matthew 26: 40-42) with the Savior. Depending on the size of your family, you could break up the time between Thursday night through Saturday. We usually do Good Friday and on through 3pm on Saturday (the 9th hour) through His ordeal on the cross.

During the hour that we “wait with Him” we spend time studying about His ordeals –

• The Last Supper,
• Gethsemane,
• His betrayals,
• the arrest,
• the illegal trials in the night,
• His judgements and discussions with Pontius Pilate,
• His torture by the Romans,
• His rejection by His people (and choice of Barabas),
• His long walk carrying His cross,
• And His crucifixion, death, and burial,
• His triumphant Resurrection!

Or reading talks, listening to music, praying etc. When we’ve finished our hour, we text the next person on the list and hand the watch over to them. I have a brother who works a night shift, so he has been taking the overnight hours. Sometimes we’ve had to take double hours or sit with very young children during their hours. But that has been very sweet, too. We’ve totally made it an opt in experience, (not wanting to force anyone that doesn’t want to do it). But I have especially loved how my children have appreciated and grown in this tradition.

What Easter Traditions have you and your family done?