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Ideas and Resources—from “The Easter Path”

Look Who’s Coming Station

• Serve party refreshments such as cake, punch, or candy.
• Give party favors such as treat-filled plastic eggs or celebration pom-pom’s.
• Use Extra craft and game ideas: http://www.cmmag.com/articles/detail.asp?ID=4221

Serve One Another Station

• Have a Service Challenge for families with ideas for them to serve others during Easter week
• Bake homemade bread while participants are entering and discuss the connection between the wonderful smell of bread baking and the gift of Jesus: the Bread of Life
• Add communion to this station

Quiet Time in the Garden Station

• Host a family prayer vigil to coincide with this station
• Make this station a prayer walk outdoors and have families pray for specific needs in your church at different stations
• Borrow lots of plants and greenery from a local nursery to create a beautiful garden setting

Farther Than the Eye Can See Station

• Ask a Christian high school or college baseball player to be a guest speaker
• Serve hot dogs and chips at this station
• Order chocolate baseballs to give to station participants as a reminder of how much God loves us   http://www.groovycandies.com/V2ProdDetail1.asp?Product_ID=2121

Light in the Darkness Station

• Give participants a glow stick to remind them to be a light in the world http://www.orientaltrading.com
• Display a wooden cross at the station entrance. Have nails, hammers, pens, and paper available. Let family members write a sin on the paper and then have them nail it to the cross.

All Things New Station

• Separate this station and host it on Easter morning, complete with a family pancake breakfast.
• Have this station outside and create a farm atmosphere by having a petting zoo for kids.

A Spin on How to Host the Easter Path

• Have small groups use the Easter Path as a progressive family outing. Have families host a station at their home instead of holding the Path at your church.
• Host the Easter Path at a local park as a community outreach.
• Spread the Easter Path out and host a station each week during Lent.