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I found this craft online years ago and always wanted to do it Easter Sunday at church. Alas, there aren’t usually ovens on hand during Easter Sunday church services. Now that Lydia is old enough to kinda sorta a little bit understand about Jesus’ death and resurrection, I thought it was time to finally do this one!

Collect the following delicious and somewhat sinful items: canned crescent rolls, marshmallows, melted butter, brown sugar (or cinnamon and sugar mix).

Roll said marshmallows in melted butter. Just enough to get ‘em wet.

I told Lydia we were pretending the marshmallow was Jesus. (I know. Just go with it.) I explained how when Jesus was put in the tomb the women were going to rub his body with precious oils and good smelling spices. So, that’s what we were doing–dipping Jesus in the butter…er, oil. (I know, it’s weird. Keep reading.)

Then roll buttery marshmallow in brown sugar/cinnamon-sugar mix.

Or you know, roll Jesus in the spices.

Place one marshmallow on the wide end of a crescent roll. Roll up and make sure you pinch the edges so it’s sealed tight!

Now, I explained to Lydia about the tomb and it being sealed with a rock. So we pretended the crescents were the tomb and we sealed Jesus…er, the marshmallow up in the tomb.

Cook for the appropriate amount of time.

If you don’t seal the crescents up tight, your marshmallows might leak out…not a pretty sight. And kinda confusing if you’re pretending they are supposed to be Jesus…

As we waited for the tomb-snacks to cook, we read a few stories about Jesus’ death and resurrection. Lydia had lots of questions to ask. Some of them were about the pictures in the book. But some were about the angel that rolled the stone away or other aspects of the story. She was definitely interested.

When the timer rang, I put one tomb-snack on Lydia’s plate. I reminded her that this snack was like Jesus in the tomb. I asked her what she thought happened to the marshmallow. Then we opened up the crescent and peeked inside. Our marshmallow was gone! It was a big empty roll! And Lydia was AMAZED. She stared at it—and was almost afraid! She said, “But where did it go?!”

I explained to her that just like we were surprised that our marshmallow was gone, Jesus’ friends were surprised, too. They didn’t expect Jesus to come back to life. But he did! And he’s alive today.

Later on that day, when my husband came home, Lydia told him all about our snack. She said, “We pretended the ma’smewwow was De-dus!” Then she described how the marshmallow was gone and said, “I was like…I was like…” but couldn’t put her finger on the emotion she felt! She was so excited and I *think* she caught the idea of the surprising and amazing miracle of Jesus resurrection!

(oh, and I *did* finally tell her the marshmallow just melted and wasn’t resurrected!)

PS: these were DELISH.

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23 Comments so far

Lydia is so darn cute. I love the idea of resurrected marshmallows. Thanks for sharing!

You have the best ideas!! Thanks for sharing.

What a great idea!! I think we’ll be doing this tomorrow. Thank you!

Evan did this at school last week. He kept saying “Jesus Rose”:) Love Lydia’s determination!!!

What a great idea! Today is baking day with Caroline, so we’ll add this one to the list!

[...] is a great Easter food craft to do with your little [...]

We did this with Nora tonight and she loved it! We tried the “Resurrection cookies” last year but they were a bomb. These were simple but made the point!

[...] In the days leading up to Easter, we’ll be focused on the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection, and our crafts and activities will reflect that focus with things such as paper palm leaves, resurrection eggs and crescent roll tombs. [...]

[...] great for kids, too… and see what else we’ve posted in the past about fun food… Resurrection Rolls, Maple Syrup Snow Candy, Rainbow Toast, Monkey Treats, Banana Berry Smoothies, Dried Fruit, and [...]

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[...] are Resurrection Rolls: here’s a version of the recipe (we use regular biscuits, rolled out) http://impressyourkids.org/2009/04/10/good-fridayeaster-food-craft/. Such a wonderment comes over everyone as they bite into the warm ugly (but great smelling) [...]

This is FABULOUS!! I’m definitely bookmarking this one! Thank you!

I LOVE THIS! I did it for breakfast on Easter with my son last year … He was so amazed! I love being able to “show” the amazing things God/Jesus did for him!

i totally went to the store to get supplies for Resurrection rolls today and they were out of marshmallows! Crazy eh? Hopefully hubby will be able to find some tomorrow.

OUT OF MARSHMALLOWS? Maybe a whole church is making Resurrection Rolls at church this weekend?!

We just made them today! Hopefully you’ll find some soon!

I hope so too! It was totally weird!

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[...] I definitely want to try either Resurrection Rolls or Empty Tomb Cookies this year! Have you tried either…or both? Which would you [...]

My 12 yr old daughter and I baked these today. I was afraid she would be too old to enjoy it but we both loved it! We decided that it would be our new tradition. Thank you for the idea.

Yay! You are never too old for marshmallows!

[...] have been all over the internet, so I have no idea whose fun original idea this was [here’s one more in-depth version by “Impress Your Kids”]. We had so much fun making these on Easter [...]

[...] Make resurrection rolls. – I’ve seen this idea all over the internet, and it’s always basically the same. [...]

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