Here’s my version:

• 2 cups of cut up marshmallows
• 1/4 cup of butter
• Cocopops
• liquorice strips (optional)
• smartie eggs or speckled eggs

Melt the butter and the marshmallows, stirring frequently. Stir in the cocopops. Immediately press this mixture into a muffin pan. Also press in the liquorice to form the handle and allow to cool and harden, preferably in the fridge. If you’d prefer them to look like birds nests, then leave out the liquorice. Once the baskets/nests have hardened, fill the baskets/nests with the smartie eggs or treats of your choice.

To be made the evening before Easter

Ingredients:

You need: 1c. whole pecans/ walnuts

1 tsp. vinegar

 3 egg whites

 pinch salt

1c. sugar

 Ziplock bag

 wooden spoon

 Tape

Bible

Preheat oven to 150°C

Place pecans in zipper baggie and let children beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces. Explain that after Jesus was arrested the Roman soldiers beat him. Read John 19:1-3.

Let each child smell the vinegar. Put 1 tsp. vinegar into mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross he was given vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30.

Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life. Read John 10:10-11.

Sprinkle a little salt into each child’s hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus’ followers, and the bitterness of our own sin.

Read Luke 23:27.

So far the ingredients are not very appetizing.

Add 1 cup sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him. Read Ps. 34:8 and John 3:16.

Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12 to 15 minutes until stiff peaks are formed.

Explain that the color white represents the purity in God’s eyes of those whose sins have been

Cleansed by Jesus. Read Isa. 1:18 and John 3:1-3.

Fold in broken nuts. Drop by teaspoons onto wax paper covered cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus’ body was laid. Read Matt. 27:57-60.

Put the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus’ tomb was sealed. Read Matt. 7:65-66

GO TO BED! Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus’ followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed. Read John 16:20 and 22.

On Easter morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie. Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. The cookies are hollow! On the first Easter Jesus’ followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty. Read Matt. 28:1-9