Yegg-a-thon (Easter Community Event)

Planning an Easter Community Event? Here are some fab resources for you. You’re welcome.

Liturgy resources at the bottom and and load of Easter crafts, great for your Messy Church, cafe-church, Community Event, or simply having fun at home. And remember, crafts aren’t just for kids. Have you considered doing craft at a Bible study group for a change?

First of all, Yeggs!

Have a craft-a-thon to knit these cute happy Yeggs (they only take about half an hour each) – a great low-threshold event to invite non-Christian friends to. Plenty of cake and tea, and those who don’t knit can do one of the other Easter crafts (see below).

Then later, use the Yeggs to Yegg-bomb your town, or host a Yegg-lympics or Yegg hunt. All instructions, including five different Yeggs and more ideas for using your Yeggs, in this PDF. Yeggs – Pattern and games Click here to download.

Other games you could play are:

Kim’s Yeggs – put half a dozen Yeggs on a tray, then cover with a cloth a secretly remove one. Take away the cloth and see who can describe the missing Yegg.
Matching Yeggs – have several pairs of matching Yeggs and put them under bowls. Players take turns to lift two bowls. They keep the Yeggs of they are a matching pair. Player with the most Yeggs wins.
Fashion Yeggs – make a paper costume for your Yegg. Who will yours be? Yegg Sheeran? A Yeggephant?
Yegg-Splat – divide the room in half and put the same(ish) number of years in each half (ie, 2 six-year-olds = 1 twelve-year-old), and the same number of Yeggs. Set a timer for one minute and each team has to try to get all of the Yeggs out of their half and into the other team’s half. The winner is the team with the fewer eggs on their side of the room.
Yegg-splosion – Start with a dozen Yeggs and one extra Yegg-sploding Yegg. This will (pretend) explode when touched and cover the player with Yegg-goo. Players take turns to remove 1, 2 or 3 (normal) Yeggs. Whoever takes the last Yegg must act out the Yegg-splosion and loses that round.
Hint – This is the game Nim. Can you work out a winning strategy?

Easter Crafts

Paper Eggs – pop along to this site and download their paper eggs. Decorate as many as you’d like then make then 3D by folding in half (decorated sides together) and gluing back-to-back. Here’s a handy video to show you how.
Try shaving foam marbling, from that same fab site
Easter Basket use a paper plate to make an Easter Sunday Son-rise basket (then fill it with eggs)
Empty-cave croissants – super-delish! (at bottom of post)
For the more academically-inclined, see if you can calculate the date of Easter with this brain-boggling number-buster.
Son-rise Easter cross craft make and fold a paper palm cross, then add it to a beautiful sunrise (includes video)
Puzzle Pages – printable A4 puzzles for Easter Day

Liturgy for Lent 2

Mark 8:31-38, Romans 4:13-25

Confession and Absolution

Jesus said, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
Amen, Lord, have mercy.

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
Amen, Lord, have mercy.

“For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?”
Amen, Lord, have mercy.

May the God of all mercy cleanse us from all our sins,
grant us grace to follow our Lord,
strength along the path
and at the end, home.
Amen.

Blessing and Dismissal

May God, who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
grant us the faith of our father Abraham
and may that be reckoned to us as righteousness.
And the blessing …

Go from here to walk in the faith of Abraham
And grow strong in your faith as you give glory to God.
We will so walk.
Amen.

Yegg-splosion Strategy

When I was a kid in junior school (about 10ish) I ran a stall at my school’s summer fete where unsuspecting parents paid 10p to play me at Nim and I’d give them 50p if they beat me. They never did, of course. I was a geek even then and I’d worked out the winning strategy. Here it is:

Think of the Yeggs as groups of four. Thirteen Yeggs makes three groups of four and the Yegg-sploding Yegg left over. Let your opponent start and make sure you take whatever is left from the group of four. So if they take 1, you take 3 (1+3=4). If they take 2, you take the other 2, and so on. They will always be left with the Yegg-splosion.

Of course, if your opponent is uber-polite and insists that you start … you’d better hope that they don’t know the strategy. Take 1 each time and wait for a mistake.