Resurrection Garden Small World Play

Happy Easter everyone!  Easter is my favourite celebration of the year.  In the UK, Easter usually marks the end of the long, cold winter and the first daffodils start to bloom.  Moving to a climate that only has the wet and dry season, I don't experience Easter with the same sense of relief, but the Easter message of redemption is just the same.

Ideally I wanted to create a resurrection garden after seeing this inspirational post, but after a disastrous experience with plants last year, I thought I'd better stick to a small world play.

This was probably the hardest small world play I've done so far.  Should the angel be fancy or plain?  Should the angel have a face?  Should the cross feature at all seeing as we are celebrating the fact that he has risen? What colour should the cross be?  I didn't want to trivialise the Easter message and hopefully I haven't.

Wugs enjoyed it.  The tomb ended up being a home to all the animals and the tree was showered in rolled oats and the angel (that I had given so much thought to) was completely abandoned!

What we used:
Fake flowers
Stones
Brown and green playdough
Animal figurines
Craft sticks
Rolled Oats
Wooden Peg Doll
Feathers
Silver Acrylic paint
Silver glitter pen
Scoops