Easter Wings by George Herbert

Butterfly hatching from an egg...
Resurrection symbol

LORD, WHO GREATEST MAN IN WEALTH AND STORE,

THOUGH FOOLISHLY HE LOST THE SAME,

DECAYING MORE AND MORE,

TILL HE BECAME

MOST POOR.

WITH THEE

OH LET ME RISE

AS LARKS, HARMONIOUSLY,

AND SING THIS DAY THY VICTORIES:

THEN SHALL THE FALL FURTHER THE FLIGHT IN ME.

MY TENDER AGE IN SORROW DID BEGIN :

AND STILL WITH SICKNESS AND SHAME

THOU DIDST SO PUNISH SIN,

THAT I BECAME

MOST THIN.

WITH THEE

LET ME COMBINE,

AND FEEL THIS DAY THY VICTORY

FOR IF I IMP MY WING ON THINE,

AFFLICTION SHALL ADVANCE THE FLIGHT IN ME.

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Easter Morning

Waiting at the empty tomb...

Easter Morning

by Edmund Spenser

Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin,
And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win;
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin,
And grant that we, for whom thou diddest die.
Being with Thy dear blood clean washed from sin,
May live forever in felicity:
And that Thy love we weighing worthily.
May likewise love Thee for the same again:
And for Thy sake, that all like dear didst buy,
With love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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Egg Rolling

       "One of the annual sights in the city of Washington is Easter egg rolling on the White House grounds, on Easter Monday, in which several thousand children usually take part. The game is played in pairs, each player having one egg. These are rolled down hill, the unbroken egg taking its rival, if the latter is cracked.

       This custom probably came from Germany, where, at Easter-time, egg rolling is practiced on tracks made of sticks, laid side by side. In Germany the sport begins Easter-eve at midnight, and lasts about three hours. Apples and little round cakes are rolled as well as eggs.

       In Bohemia, children roll eggs in a row, starting them all at once, and watching to see which will reach the bottom of the hill first.

       In the north of England, eggs are used in playing hand ball on Easter-day." by Sandham, 1916

Egg Roll in D.C. 2012

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The Chiva Bus Parade

Chivas come from Columbia, South America.

        These fifth grade students studied the brightly colored buses, Chivas, of Latin America. This transportation is unique to the culture of people who live south of our Mexican boarders. Students shaped clay into basic bus shapes and then attached animals, ladders, and people to the outside of their buses before painting them in bright, bold acrylic paints.

These artisan rustic buses are adapted to rural transport.

Chivas must carry passengers, luggage, and sometimes even domestic animals over mountainous terrain.

These buses are built tough and can plow through

 just about anything, including mud!

See more Chivas or Caminones at pinterest

The Four Seasons Index

       The four periods into which the year is divided by the ever-changing position of the earth in relation to the sun. As the earth revolves about the sun in nearly circular obit, its axis at all times points toward the Pole Star and is inclined to the plane of its orbit 23 1/2 degrees. Therefore different parts of its surface are at different times of the year exposed to the vertical rays of the sun. Astronomically speaking, in the northern hemisphere spring extends from March 21, the time of the vernal equinox, to the summer solstice, June 21; summer from June 21 to September 21, the time of the autumnal equinox; autumn to December 21, and winter from that date to the beginning of spring. In the southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed, and spring begins September 21. In the torrid zone the changes in the seasons are not marked by differences in temperature, but by wet and dry periods.
       Artifacts included here come from several of my blogs featuring the holidays and/or weather related content.

For All Seasons:

• Songs of The Seasons

Woven tree art project may be used to incorporate any
season: Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter, depending
on the landscape and colors used in the selection of
yarns as well.

Autumn Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: Search Both The Halloween & Thanksgiving  Artifacts at Thrifty Scissors

1. The Mist and All
2. Craft a Fall Landscape Using Leaf Rubbings
3. Shape a pinch pot acorn 
4. Craft a Paper Scarecrow Jumping-Jack 
5. Draw a Scarecrow Emphasizing The Use of Pattern(s)
6. Harvester Picture Puzzle
7. Practice Shading An Owl
8. "When the Frost Is On The Punkin"
9. Cut & Paste Popped Corn On the Cob
10. A Wise Old Owl 
11. A Fall Leaf Craft for Two and Three Year Olds 
12. The Frost
13. Tear and Paste Falling Leaves
14. Create Fall Leaf Patterns
15. A Fall Collage Featuring An Owl
16. The Karo Corn Maiden Coloring Sheet
17. "In October" Poem
18. "The Cornstalk's Lesson" Poem
19. Pumpkin and Jack-O-Lantern Number Books
20. "Roasting Corn" Poem
21. Paint Fall Foliage With Hugs and Kisses
22. Paint, Cut and Paste a Leafy River Scene
23. Craft a Paper War Bonnet
24. Draw a Design from A Spider's Web
25. Craft a Ruote Paste Web
26. Draw a Shaded White Spider Web
27. Wad, Wrap and Tape a Fall Pumpkin Craft
28. Weave Indian Corn for Autumn Fun!
29. Autumn
30. Lessons: Pumpkin Soup 
31. "Little Jack Frost" poem
32. Find The Acorns Puzzle 
33. Acorn poem by Edith King

Winter Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: Search Christmas Artifacts at Thrifty Scissors and Then Children's Christmas Arts & Crafts From The Belsnickle Blog

1. "When Winter Comes"
2. A stacked felt Christmas tree 
3. The Snow Bird
4. Christmas Paper Plate Snow Globe 
5. Mark The Soft-Falling Snow  
6. How Teachers Can Craft a Giant, Recyclable, Snowman for Their Classrooms
7. Sculpt a snow scene with clay
8. Jest 'Fore Christmas  
9. The Snowman Song 
10. 12 Six-Sided Snowflake Templates 
11. Sliding Down Hill
12. Little Ones Can Print Snowmen With Their Hands  
13. Make pine cone Christmas trees
14. Search for Winter Fun coloring sheets
15. Snow-Flakes
16. Rotating Library for Winter Book Themes 
17. Windy Poems 
18. Snowdrops  
19. The Snowman's Resolution
20. The Snow Storm 
21. A Winter Artist
    

Spring Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans: Search Easter Artifacts at Thrifty Scissors and Then Easter Related Crafts at The Easter Egg Crafts Blog

1. Stencil Rabbits Eating Clover  
2. 7 Gardening Books for Kids
   
3. Draw a mother hen and her chicks 
4. Craft a Simple Butterfly Mask
5. Color Alphabet Chicks
6. Craft a Very Hungry Caterpillar 
7. Frogs, Toads and Pollywogs for Spring  
8. Positive and Negative Bunnies
9. Doodle an Easter bunny or chick
10. Repeating Line Butterfly Design
11. The Living Butterfly
12. A Tisket, A Tasket, A Green and Yellow Basket 
13. Dunking Ducks 
14. Create a Butterfly Yarn Picture
15. Craft a Paper Robin Toy for Spring
16. "Handy" little butterflies
17. Decorative Bird Box - design and finish 
18. Draw a Bunny Portrait
19. Drawing Butterflies Through Five Progressive Steps
20. Craft Doily Butterflies 
21. Search for Rainy Days and Rainbow Coloring Sheets 
22. Search for Garden and Flower Coloring Sheets 
23. The Rain Regiment
24. The Shadow
25. The Merry Breeze
26. How Mother Nature Cleans 
27. Caterpillar On The Wall
    

Summer Artifacts & Art for Enhancing Lesson Plans:

1. Rain In Summer
2. Salt Lifting Some Sand Castles
3. Children love to paint rock pets
4. Glue together a shell mosaic box
5. Search for camping and scouting coloring sheets
6. Weave Some Yarn Trees!
7. Grasshopper Green 
8. The Cloud House 
9. Fire Flies 

Check out more weather related artifacts from popular collections across the web...

• 25 Fun Weather Activities and Crafts
• Weather related crafts from Red Ted Art

Additional Four Seasons Crafts:

• Four Seasons Tree Craft from easypeasyandfun
• 4 Season Felt Board Craft by Amanda
• Four seasons hand print craft from funnycrafts 

Index last updated on January 19, 2025