Easter as Lucy knows it.

So a week or so ago I taught Lucy how to draw a bunny head. I thought it would be fun for us to get into the Easter spirit and do some Easter bunny crafts. Since that day there have been bunnies everywhere. If Lucy finds a blank bit of paper she quickly fills it with a bunny picture.

She is also loving been able to write words now that she is a big school girl and absorbing all that school learning like a sponge. Here she has found a card with happy Easter on it and copied.
So with bunnies popping up everywhere daily It did occur to me that I should probably make sure she understood what the real reason for Easter is.  Always a tricky subject with little ones. An innocent man been whipped, tortured and crucified on a cross for the sins of the world, for us, is a hard one to baby down so as not to traumatise little minds.

But you know what, I needn't have worried. Lucy is theologically sound and produced the following sequence of pictures to us yesterday, (many thanks to her amazing kindy and Sunday school teachers.)
Let me talk you through them in her words.

" So here are the three crosses. Jesus died on the middle one but I didn't draw them because they wouldn't look very nice. The angry people are all the soldiers that put him there. They wore crowns because they were Roman."  NOTE: She writes Anna and Lucy on most her pictures just because those are words she can write without copying, and she is really into writing words at the moment.

"Jesus didn't just die. He rose again after 3 days and is now waiting for us in Heaven. That's him in the cave they put him in. That's an angel on the top who rolled the big stone away and that's Jesus alive again. Good aye!, except he still had holes in his hands from the nails. They hadn't healed up yet cause 3 days isn't very long." 

"And this is us all today at Easter time. It's when everyone thinks about Jesus dying on the cross. That's mummy thinking about Jesus, that's a giraffe thinking about Jesus, that's Dad thinking about Jesus, that's me thinking about Jesus, that's Oliver thinking about Jesus and so are the moon and the sun.
Oops.... I forgot to draw Nathan."

So there you have it everyone. Easter according to Lucy and I'm proud of her because there's not one hint of an Easter egg there. Commercialism didn't win the fight at our house this year. Happy Easter everyone.