Purpose: To help children understand the meaning of Easter.

Material: An egg. An Easter lily.

Lesson: There are many symbols around us in the church today. Do you know what a symbol is? ... It is something that reminds us of something else. The decorated evergreen trees remind us of Christmas and the lilies remind us of Easter.

The important part of a symbol is to remember what it stands for. The Easter egg is a symbol of Easter because, at the right time, an egg can break open and we have new life in the chick that is born.

Let's look at the Easter lily and see wh…