Easter Lilies

We are gearing up for Easter here despite colder-than-usual temperatures and later-than-usual blooms. We have started to see a few spring bulbs popping up, and the snowdrops have been blooming for a few weeks now. I didn't get a picture of snowdrops, but here are some primroses, some unknown purple flowers, and a brave daffodil all blooming on the side of our main village road.





Despite these glimpses of spring, most of the trees still look like this:


And so, to bring a little spring inside, and to get ready for Easter, we got inspired by this post to do a flower-nature-Easter study. We bought some in-bloomed lilies from Aldi and chose one to draw every day until it had fully bloomed. The first day we paired it with one of our favorite get-ready-for-Easter books, The Parable of the Lily. After we read it, we started to draw.



Our first day drawings looked like this:


It took ten days for both flowers to bloom, and the kids whined a few times about drawing it when it hadn't changed at all, so we skipped a few days in the middle. In the end, it was a fun way to prepare for spring and for Easter. And a simple way to bring spring into our homes and the reason we celebrate Easter into our hearts! Here are some samples of the drawings. By the end Justin was getting tired of it, so he skipped drawing the pitcher and just drew the flower...







I took a picture of all the drawings laid out together next to each other, but you couldn't really see anything since we used pencil and it didn't show up from far enough away to get them all in one photo. The kids did a great job noticing the small changes, so it was a good exercise for both observation and art!

Now onward to the rest of Easter...Good Friday crafts, egg hunt, and service at our village church, and an Easter party on Sunday at a friend's house, too.


Comments

  1. din'illahi27 March 2018 at 11:06

    Fun idea!
    Recently someone gave me some daffodils, and while i did not draw them, i did notice their day by day process of opening and blooming, and then, only partially because of laziness i left the daffodils in the vase of murky water for a couple weeks after their prime, fascinated by the decaying part of their life cycle. Not saying you should do this but...it can be interesting to find beauty even in dearth and decay...(-:

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  2. Rachel30 March 2018 at 06:42

    Yes! Our branch that we chose to draw had two blossoms and one took so long to bloom that by the time it did the other was dying. So we got the full cycle, too!

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