10+ Simple Ideas to Make Easter as Special as Christmas
Easter Is A Season | 17 min
Welcome to the Easter Season! We hope you enjoy this video.
RESOURCES FOR CELEBRATING THE EASTER SEASON
PURPOSE: Just as during the Christmas season our activities have Christmas elements, the same can be true with activities during the Easter Season. The goal is to create worshipful, Christ-centered experiences during the Easter season that deepen faith in Jesus Christ and familiarize us with the sacred events.
FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON
Study Resources
Videos and Resources for Daily Reflection, Study, Devotion, and Praise. Prepare for the miracle of the Resurrection with these foundational messages.
- “A Christ-Centered Holy Week: A Simple Guide for Families” | John and Lani Hilton
- “Easter Is A Season” | Lani Hilton
- What’s So Good About Good Friday? | Eric Huntsman
- “Celebrating Holy Week through a New Look at the Gospel Texts” | Eric Huntsman
- Easter - Come Follow Me Insights | Tyler Griffin, Taylor Halverson, and Eric Huntsman
- Find Joy in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This Easter, Celebrate His Greater Love for You | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Sacred Music Suggestions
Music Resources for Daily Reflection, Study, Devotion, and Praise
Activities Indirectly Connected to Easter Themes
Goal: Activities are not just attended, but are worshipful and participatory, helping individuals and families deepen faith in Jesus Christ and remember and love Him throughout the Easter season.
Physical & Experiential
- Walk or hike with reflection: (Goes with the 2026 youth theme “Walk with me”)
- Road to Emmaus (about 7 miles) Luke 24; discuss lesson learned from this account
- Jericho to Jerusalem (about 18 miles; Jesus went from healing a blind man in Jericho to the Triumphal Entry entering the city of Jerusalem and ending at the temple)
Family History & Missionary Work
- Family history / temple service D&C 138:27, 30 1 Peter 3:18-20; Temple service matters because Jesus was resurrected and we all will be resurrected.
- Missionary-focused activities *Matt. 28:16–20 (“Go and teach all nations baptizing them…”)* It is the commandment from the risen Savior to his disciples to go tell people the good news.
Gathering/Fireside
- Could be led by full-time missionaries; talk about teachings of the Savior; Youth invited to bring friends; Focus on the Savior’s final days, Atoning Sacrifice and Glorious Resurrection
- For ideas for specific days of Holy week see that day's section below: Palm Sunday event; Good Friday event; Thursday, Last Supper commemoration; Wednesday, Woman showing adoration days before his burial. Although the events happened during Holy Week, commemorations of these events could also happen outside of Holy Week.
Service & Love for the Savior
- Do something that demonstrates your love of the Savior, like the love exemplified by the woman in Mark 14:3-9, days before his burial. She poured perfume on Jesus Mark 14:3–9; She asked “what can I give to the Savior” not “what can I get from Him;” she acted out of sacrifice and adoration for the Savior. What can we do to show our love for Him? Jesus asked us to remember her and her actions.
- Also inspired by teachings the last week of his life: Matthew 25:34-40 “inasmuch as you have done it to the least of these you have done it to me.” and teachings from the Last Supper: Jesus teaches service John 13:12–17 & “As I have loved you love one another.” Use JustServe.org for local service ideas
- Memorize/display/decorate portions of “The Living Christ”
Misc skills
- Yard work, pruning / gardening John 15 (“I am the vine”)
- Cooking activities (Mediterranean foods, lentil soup, pita bread, grape juice) to prepare for a Last Supper commemoration