Benjamin's Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs

To start the season off, I finally decided to buy Resurrection Eggs for my family and CCD class. Call me lazy because you could surely make these yourself, but I liked having them done for me instead of searching for the pieces for inside the eggs.... Plus the resource book included came in useful. If you want an awesome resource to go along with the eggs, you need this book (Benjamin's Box). The story is great and matches the eggs perfectly. It is nicely illustrated and each page tells a story to match the item in the egg. The kids seem to enjoy the story and hearing it from the point of view of a little boy. I highly recommend getting this book to compliment the eggs. My kids ages 5 and 8 really enjoy this book. I am also sharing it with my third grade CCD class and they love it too. I hid the eggs around my house and told my kids to find them but not open them. Once we had all 12 eggs we took turns reading a page from the book and opening the egg that went along with the page. I used Benjamin's Box to help me create a printable to match the Resurrection Eggs activity. If you search Teaching Heart Mom on Google and then go to Easter you will see it. You can download it free here. It is five pages. The last page (foldable eggs) you will need to print three times on colored card stock. All other pages get printed once on regular paper. My kids enjoyed making the books and we will refer to them through the season.

Most kids pick up trinkets and save them. This story weaves them through Jesus’ story. Very relatable for kids. Also, the resurrection eggs go great with the books. A couple colors don’t match up, so just replace them with ones that match the book.

This story is wonderful. My 4 and 10 year olds love it. One problem - however this problem is NOT with this great book- was that after reading reviews I purchased the "Resurrection Eggs" from Family Life to go with it. The story matches up fairly well but there are a few pages that don't have eggs in that set, and there are a few eggs that don't match the pages. That is because they do NOT go together. The Resurrection Eggs are a wonderful set and have a little booklet inside that tells the story of each egg- not quite as well told as Benjamins Box. The Benjamin's Box book is an awesome book and at the top of each page shows a color of egg and a topic (I don't have it in front of me, so for example blue egg, whip). I'm not sure if there was a set of eggs at one time that was sold with this book. It doesn't matter. My 10 year old and I decided that next year, we make our own Resurrection Eggs! We will get the right color eggs and scavenge around until we can fill them to match the book and store them in an egg carton:) Then we will have two sets of Resurrection Eggs to choose from each year and two books. We are totally happy with our purchase of this book. I got my misinformation from some other reviews. But if I hadn't, we wouldn't have these two great products and a fun plan for 2015!

this is a wonderful teaching tool for teaching the easter story. I taught my 6 year old about holy week using this book and a set of resurrection eggs: http://www.amazon.com/Family-Life-Resurrection-Eggs/dp/1602006512/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1439530841&sr=8-2&keywords=resurrection+eggs Every night we'd read a chapter (short-2 pages) and then open the corresponding resurrection egg. It made for a gentle presentation of the agony of Jesus and the glory of the resurrection. We are Catholic and my director of religious education at church recommended this book. She loved the resurrection eggs; the religious classes made their own this year but she thought the purchased ones were really an asset as well.

I loved the story. My Sunday School class loved the book too.

I used this book in a group of children ages 5-12. Before I read the book to them I had them assemble their own set of resurrection eggs. I provided fill and thrill plastic eggs. They put items representing different portions of the Resurrection story in eggs which I had pre-numbered. As I read the book I had them just hold up their egg with the matching number for the page I was reading. The illustrations are beautiful; the story well told.

I used this book for school and the children really enjoyed it. It explains the Easter story so well for them.

It's great story for children for Easter. I bought it 3 years ago and my 4 and 5.5 y old were very interested and it helped them to understand the Resurrection story. It is a tale for kids with imagination (not in comic style, child needs imagination to understand words, not only colorful picture) and some religious knowledge (to catch it's just symbolic Easter story). This year kids are going through this book and eggs by themselves - my 8y old is reading and 6.5 is opening and interprets the eggs fillings. I saw also people complain that eggs' filling do not match the book... ?? Symbolism in eggs whose are matching the book is quite obvious and easy to explain even toa toddler: Resurrection Eggs: 1. LITTLE DONKEY - not "piece of fur" which could confuse younger kids but obvious animal - Palm Sunday and Jesus on the donkey - CLEAR 2. SILVER COINS - Judas and his silver coins - CLEAR 3. CUP - the Last Supper - CLEAR 4. PRAYING HANDS - praying in the garden, sleeping Apostles - CLEAR 5. WHIP - quite realistic Roman flagellum model - only problem is to explain to the child the flogging torture itself - CLEAR 6. ROOSTER - "This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times". - couldn't be CLEARER 7. CROWN OF THORNS - mocking and crowning with thorn wreath - CLEAR 8. NAILS IN THE CROSS - two crossed nail, beautiful symbolic cross - CLEAR 9. SPEAR - spear in Jesus' side - CLEAR 10. LINEN CLOTH - Jesus wrapped and put into the tomb (good base for story about Turin artifact etc ) - CLEAR 11. STONE - stone as a symbolic piece of stone cave tomb - CLEAR 12. EMPTY - no artifact because HE IS RISEN! I think clear as well...

A wonderful way to tell the Easter story to children, especially as it links to the Resurrection eggs and gives a practical guide to the Easter story..

I bought this for my grandson's first Easter. What a lovely book. We will read it often for many years!

Arrived on time and in perfect condition as described. It's a great book, lovely pictures, and I went out and bought myself some eggs so I can read to my children. Though it will have to be next Easter, as it took so long to arrive, Easter had been and gone.