There’s nothing like Easter to make your child ask about death. As they grow older, the questions get harder to answer. “When you die, will you come back to life, mummy?” Fobbing them off with a Creme Egg only gets you so far. So we created the Lego Easter Story.
“I’m not going to die till I’m 100,” is my standard response to questions about my death. This normally quietens their fears, but last time I used it, they got upset, crying, “That means you only have 61 years left!” ‘Curse you, Maths’, I muttered, as I tried to convince them that this is still a LONG time. Then they asked the real biggie, the one that makes my heart clench inside and tears start in my eyes:
“When will I die, mummy?”
“Not for a long, long time darling.”
Tight hugs, drippy tears on soft hair.
“I know, let’s play with your Lego!”
My children are 7 and 5. (I also have a toddler, but he’s not that into theology yet.). It’s important to me that they understand the joyful message of Easter, and I’m happy to let them talk about their thoughts. But we could all do with a distraction sometimes.
It was my eldest’s idea to create the Easter Story from Lego. They’ve just been making comic strips in ICT, based on photos of themselves in superhero scenes, so he was keen to make an Easter comic. So here is his handiwork: The Lego Easter Story.
Happy Easter!
Haha! The only question my kiddo had after I told him easter story (as well as I remembered it anyway) was, “and then did Jesus kill all the bad guys with a laser?” :-/
Ps intrigued. How did you get Lego Jesus to stick to the lego cross?
The legs have got holes in the back! Who knew? We have a lot of laser talk in our house too! x
Why is your toddler not into theology yet – I am very disappointed in you ;). Love this Jess. My little holy Joes have been watching Easter stories on youtube all week – closely monitored like as some strange stuff does come up when you google “dying on a cross”. Will show them this and I bet they get the Lego out xx
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I don’t even want to know what YouTube makes of it. I’m sure you’ll have a Lego masterpiece on your hands, I’ll look out of the post! xxx
Love this ! What a great idea to get on the kids level and explain it to them in a fun way !
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Thanks hon, I was struggling with the death questions so thought a bit of diversion would be good!
This is great, Jess. And a lot easier to relate to the kids than making them sit through all 954 hours of Jesus of Nazareth …
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Indeed, Tim, possibly the longest film in the world. Only equal to Ben Hur, that Good Friday classic.
Love this! Looking forward to more stories in Lego!
My girls helped me with the children’s liturgy this week which involved acting out the Easter story. On reflection casting my eldest (very pious / possibly destined to be a nun!) as Jesus and the youngest as Judas (totally and utterly self-centred and not ashamed to admit it! -she notably pointed out that she wouldn’t rescue the lost sheep if she was God because ‘it would be hard and I don’t like doing hard things.’) was slightly too close to the truth!
Ha ha ha, she wouldn’t rescue the lost sheep! That made me laugh a lot. Always difficult casting children in religious plays! xx
I bloody love this. You can explain everything with Lego! Genius idea, you can do so many other things! They should show this in schools. Xxx
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Thanks so much Emily! It’s really my son that should take the credit, it’s all his idea and handiwork! xxx
At our children’s liturgy they used the idea of a caterpillar changing into a butterfly to explain the resurrection which I thought was nice for my 4 year old.
Oh yes, I’ve had that one in children’s sermons too, I like it.
Only you could write this post, honey. Genius. Wry Mummy gold. x
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D’awww thanks you angel! xxx
Love it! cracking post as always!!
What happened to the Lego after this marvellous ‘Easter Story’ was re-enacted? My money is on the fact that it fell into a million pieces and half of it got lost between the cracks of the sofa. And you the stood on a lump of it, blasphemed and hit the wine and bread to come to terms with your foot injury??
Am I right?
Happy Easter you beaut xxx
Yep, the disciples are currently strewn around the floor creating a bare foot minefield! Happy Easter lovely xxx
Love this. Great way to lighten the questions.
Thankfully N’s not asked anything so I’m presuming nursery haven’t been telling him anything yet. He’s funny about dying though, because Grandma died just over a year ago after cancer. He says she went to heaven, then I had to explain her body was cremated and her soul’s looking down from heaven. But now he gets confused because one of his NCT friends is called Evan, so he keeps saying that ‘Grandma’s at Evan’s’! Ooops
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Love this! When our middle was about 4 we were talking about the true meaning of Easter and we finished telling him the story and he started at me and said about Jesus rising from the dead….people can DO that? He was totally confused and amazed all at the same time.
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A lovely dramatization! I think using LEgo makes this story more interesting for kids. #sharewithme
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Great lego work!!! Argh the death thing is never going to be easy. I’m not sure I even understand it!! One of life’s learnings that we’d rather not learn about x #BrilliantBlogPosts
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Yes, exactly Sam. x
Wow this is amazing, you clever lady xx
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Hilarious bab! As an RE teacher. I LOVE THIS! My girl is at a Catholic Primary school so is well versed in the whole crucifixion story. She weirdly ruddy loves it! x
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I”m thinking it will become part of the curriculum 🙂 xx
I am stealing your lego easter story when my kids get old enough to start asking all those scary questions that I don’t want to answer. And if it didn’t look like I was favorite you lately I would pick this as my favorite Easter link up. It’s brilliant and I also want to steal your response to when I am 100! Which is fantastic! Love it. You are too funny and yet it’s all so true. Don’t worry i will credit you to my kids when they ask where I heard this story. hahahaha In years to come! Thanks for linking up to Share With Me. Happy Easter! #sharewithme
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Thanks Jenny! Aw you are so sweet, bless you. It’s so hard to know what to say, I just tried to focus on the positive part about Jesus rising again.
This is brilliant! Those tough questions can be tricky, this is perfect 🙂
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I know – I do feel like I ducked it a bit, but how can I promise I won’t die?
What a lovely idea, looks like lots of fun!
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Thanks Sian. Yes it was really sweet, my son spent ages on it, making sure we had all friendly faces instead of his mean Lego Star Ways heads! He even took the photos on my phone!