Easter egg hunt on good friday?

[mommaof3]

Hi everyone and Easter Blessings! I have a question about what is required and what you can and can not do on Good Friday. My sisters and I all have children under the age of 7 who will be getting together tomorrow (Good Friday) since we all live in different cities and another state. We planned a simple egg hunt and just were going to let them play together, and of course have tuna and the adults would fast and abstain, but is it a mortal sin to let the kids participate in the egg hunt?? I know it is a day of remembrance of Christ’s suffering but a mortal sin?? Please help so we can be observant of what we should. Thanks everyone!!!

 

[Bobby_Jim]

I guess it’s now after Good Friday, and nobody responded.

I don’t think it’s a mortal sin for seven-year-olds. As an adult I think an egg hunt makes more sense on Sunday. But it’s hard for a seven-year-old to enter into the somberness of Good Friday for the whole day.

We used to die eggs on Good Friday. Kind of a fun, festive thing, but it gave us a structured way to spend the afternoon that was in some way related to Easter. We would go to Stations at noon, maybe read together the Passion narratives from the gospel, and then die eggs.

I think it is good to get some “churchy” stuff in there for the kids, in addition to the eggs. As they get older, they will be able to keep Good Friday in a more reverent manner. One tradition I really like is keeping the TV & radio off on that day, which clues the kids in that there is something different, and something solemn, about this day.

 

[quaero]

A friend of mine made a set of Easter Story eggs which would be perfect for this. She took a dozen plastic eggs and numbered them with a sharpie marker 1 throught 12. Then she put in various things to tell the Easter story. The ones I can remember include, (1) a tiny piece of bread for the last supper,(2) 3 dimes for the 30 pieces of silver, (3) a piece of knotted rope for the scourging, (4) a thorn, (5) a small piece of purple cloth for the mock robe, (6) a tiny wooden cross, (7) a small piece of white cloth with a very simple drawing of Jesus’s facefor Veronica’s veil, (8) a nail, (9) a sponge, (10) a toy sword ( playmobile), (11) a rock, (12) the 12th egg ( we used one spray painted gold, but white or sparkly would be good too) is left empty to represent the empty tomb. We hid the numbered eggs along with all the candy filled ones. We just told the kids not to open the numbered ones since they were special and we would open them one by one at the end. We then had them open them in number order and let them guess what each object had to do with Easter. It only took a few minutes and the kids loved it.

 

[Oblaidon]

I wish I would have seen this sooner. Very good idea to put Christ back into Easter.