Easter message with chics!

A vintage Easter postcard shows child with chics.

 EASTER MESSAGE
I am but a little Child,
And have not much to say,
But I wish you each and all,
A joyous Easter Day. 

       Learn to draw baby chics step-by-step with just a few shapes. Then color them in with your crayons. When you finish your Easter picture give it to a friend or family member to hang in their home at Easter time.

Draw two baby chics dressed in capes pecking away at crumbs.

But best of all,
At Easter time
Is when you wake
Right up and find

Two little chicks
Or maybe three,
Busy as a chick
Can be

Scratching here and
There to find
Good things to eat
At Easter time.

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"Easter Greetings" for all God's creatures...

"A Joyful Easter" with deer and pussy willow.

EASTER GREETING
We welcome each one today,
And hope each heart is brimful of love,
And although I'm quite small to have much to say,
I can speak of my Father above,

For Jesus has died on the cross,
And has risen for you and for me,
So this is the greeting we give everyone,
For from darkness we've all been set free. 

       Here is a Springtime puzzle for you to solve. Shade in all the sections with a dot to reveal the hidden picture below.

Here is a little puzzle for kids. Print and shade for answer.

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Why I Love Jesus

"A Joyful Easter" postcard shows Jesus with staff

WHY I LOVE JESUS

I love Jesus very much,
Shall I tell you why?
'Cause He suffered on the Cross
And for the world did die. 

Jesus rode through the city gates as the people
waved palms and shouted "Hosanna." Coloring page.

       "Jesus rode into Jerusalem at the season of the Passover feast. Passover is a holy Jewish observance. Jesus' 12 disciples were with him. On the road joyful crowds surrounded him. Waving "palm branches and shouting "Hosanna," they led him to the gates of the city. He entered the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and scolded the men who were selling doves to be used as offerings. He said the temple should be a house of prayer and they had made it a den of thieves. Then he healed the blind and crippled people who came to him in the temple. The priests didn't like what he did. They were jealous of him and wanted to get rid of him."

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Easter Joys, Spring Redresses Nature

Vintage Easter Bunny Greeting

EASTER JOYS
Every bell is ringing clear,
Sending messages so dear,
Telling mankind far and near,
This is Easter Day.

Birds are singing in the trees,
Faintly sounds the hum of bees,
Fragrance wafting on the breeze,
On this Easter Day.

       Did you know that the tradition of purchasing "Easter clothes" of modern times, so widely advertised by merchants are only meant to emphasize the spirit of the day, quite as much as the "Easter egg" which is supposed to typify the germ of a resurrection of life?  So that as all nature is renewed and redressed in the Spring, it is fitting that mankind should follow. 

Draw an Easter bunny hiding eggs, step-by-step.

 If we make use of
Both our eyes,
We often find
As a surprise

The hidden nest
Of Mister Bunny.
Or possibly
His brother Sunny

And sometimes, slipping
Through the grass
We see Bre'r Bunny
Hopping past.

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To An Easter Lily

Antique postcard of child holding Easter lilies.

TO AN EASTER LILY

Tell me, lovely Lily,
Nodding in the field,
As you lift your petals white,
And sweetest fragrance yield;
Why are you so happy?
Why are you so glad?
When many people round about
Do look so very sad?

Thus the Lily answered,
Whispering soft and low,
''Can't you guess why I am glad?
Really don't you know?
Then I'll tell my secret,
If you'll bend your head,
I am happy on this day,
For Christ rose from the dead.''

 

As sister fixes eggs for Easter
Bunny becomes a carrot-feaster!

 

Very vintage coloring for Easter from the 1950s.

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Easter Sacraments

EASTER SACRAMENTS
BY HENRY PARK SCHAUFFLER

There is a Soul Gethsemane
Where I must kneel,
A prayer which I must pray
Till I can feel
That, though the anguish redden on my brow,
And Calvary's begun,
From Him I'll take the sacrament of Love: —
" Thy will, not mine be done."

There is a Resurrection Life
That I must share,
A tomb that I must leave;
And though I bear
The wounds which I have won upon my cross.
Transfigured, they will shine —
A sacramental pledge of Love with Faith,
To make His rising mine. 

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The Resurrection, Or Easter Day by George Herbert

 THE RESURRECTION, OR EASTER-DAY
BY GEORGE HERBERT

Up and away,
Thy Savior's gone before.
Why dost thou stay,
Dull soul? Behold, the door
Is open, and his Precept bids thee rise,
Whose power hath vanquished all thine enemies.

Say not, I live,
Whilst in the grave thou liest:
He that doth give
Thee life would have thee prize't
More highly than to keep it buried, where
Thou canst not make the fruits of it appear.

Is rottenness,
And dust so pleasant to thee,
That happiness,
And heaven, cannot woo thee.
To shake thy shackles off, and leave behind thee
Those fetters, which to death and hell do bind thee?

In vain thou say'st,
Thou art buried with thy Savior,
If thou delay'st.
To show, by thy behavior,
That thou art risen with him; Till thou shine
Like him, how canst thou say his light is thine?

Early he rose.
And with him brought the day.
Which all thy foes
Frighted out of the way:
And wilt thou sluggard-like turn in thy bed,
Till noon-sun beams draw up thy drowsy head?

Open thine eyes,
Sin-seized soul, and see
What cobweb-ties
They are, that trammel thee:
Not profits, pleasures, honors, as thou thinkest ;
But loss, pain, shame, at which thou vainly winkest.

All that is good
Thy Savior dearly bought
With his heart's blood:
And it must there be sought,
Where he keeps residence, who rose this day:
Linger no longer then; up, and away.

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