The Holy Week for Latter-day Saint Families

by Wendee Wilcox Rosborough

Has your family ever celebrated the triumphal entry of Christ on Palm Sunday? Or learned about Passover and its connection to the Last Supper? Whether you want to create brand-new traditions or add to old favorites, The Holy Week for Latter-day Saint Families has something for everyone to more fully commemorate the last week of the Savior's mortal life. This day-by-day guide will help you and your family celebrate the week leading up to Easter. Each day you'll find something for children of all Families will be reminded of Jesus as they experience Palm Sunday, Cleansing Monday, Parable Tuesday, Betrayal Wednesday, Last Supper Thursday, Good Friday, Salvation Saturday, and Easter Sunday. The Holy Week will draw your family closer to Christ this Easter and help you celebrate the true meaning of this important holy day.

Genres: Nonfiction, Religion, Lds, Childrens, Holiday

Paperback

Published February 1, 2016

Reviews

[Kelcey Murdoch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am loving using ideas from this book to come up with a simple activity for every day of the week leading up to Easter.

[Rachel Robins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic resource that I'll be using again next year to make the week of Easter more special for my family. Such a great book with wonderful ideas:)

[Jenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favorite book about Easter for kids and teens. It is a very basic explanation of the Holy Week and it just happens to have beautiful art work. I think every LDS family needs this book.

[Rachel Robins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great book that walks you through celebrating Christ's last week on earth. Perfect for younger families. Great resource to have a copy of!

[angelle]

This is a wonderful book - every family should have this in their home!

[Terra Cross · Rating 5 out of 5]

We followed the book along reading the scriptures each day and I looked up most of the videos on youtube that she suggested. It was a wonderful Easter week! The Author did a great job! We did a coupe of the activities suggested too.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great resource for any Latter-Day Saint looking to enhance their family's understanding and traditions during the Easter season. The book walks you and your family through the seven days leading up to the Resurrection of the Savior, and each day has recommended scripture passages related to the events that took place, inspirational messages for families, music and video ideas, festive recipes, fun and meaningful activities for both the young and not so young, and beautiful fine art pieces. Whether you want to create brand-new traditions or add to old favorites, this book has something for everyone.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been on the look-out for a book of this sort for some time, so I was excited to see this printed. This book really enhanced my families Easter experience this year. The only thing I would have done different was make the binding spiral, so the book could lay flat, and put a song choice from the hymn book on each day, as well as the ones from the children's songbook. Great book though! 4.5 stars.

[Shenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a wonderful addition to my family's Easter week. My kids loved the crafts, and I loved being able to pull it out each day and easily talk about and explain different things about Easter. I especially loved the codes to pull up videos online to help show the values talked about for each day. It's definitely a book I'd recommend to anyone wanting to focus more on Christ during Easter time!

[Cecily · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed that this book helped me be more purposeful in teaching about Jesus' last week of life, his death, and resurrection. This book helped me to bring the spirit into my home and even my littlest children learned and remembered several things from what I taught. We will be using this book every Easter!

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since I like to celebrate the week of Easter, it was fun to go through this and pull in more of Wendee’s ideas to incorporate into our traditions. She does a great job doing the research and gathering work for you- I appreciated the background on the art, her thoughts and the videos and songs for each day.

[Daynagirl17 · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used this book as a guide this Easter and it was a huge success! Makes my job as a mother that much easier with everything laid out for me. Wonderfully written and great activities for the children!

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my second time reading it as I’ve looked for fun and meaningful ways to celebrate Easter and Holy Week with my kids. There were good ideas, several per day and at different levels so it can be applied to different aged children.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource. Loved the helpful QR codes for movies that go along with Holy Week!

[Sidra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy Week was awesome!

Everything I needed for a deep and meaningful Easter. We all learned so much about Holy Week and are so grateful!

[Trinna · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a cute, short little book. It's definitely in mind for very young families with small primary age kids to make simple paper crafts, play dough and such. Cute for its purpose.

I bought it online without being able to flip through it. I was hoping for something a little bit deeper for teens/families/adults to discuss the events of the week each night to remember Christ in a meaningful way. So it's not quite what I thought.

But for the audience that it is meant for. It seems a darling choice.