Fill in the Blanks EASTEROnline version CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD AND CLIC ON IT TO COMPLETE THE STORY. by Patricia Espinosa Cruz 1 dead church Christians holiday God Sunday times Christian bunny resurrection Easter spring hare festivals eggs cross significance Christ Jesus eggs Children Son ago rabbit eggs resurrection rabbits Easter ABOUT EASTER . . . Jesus died on a on a Friday almost two thousand years . Christians believe that on the following Sunday , Christ rose from the and , in doing so , proved that He is the of God . The day died and was buried is known as Good Friday . The following Sunday is . celebrate the of the Son of God each year between March 22nd and April 25th . SO WHERE DO THE BUNNIES COME IN ? In olden , Christian monks were very good at explaining their religion to those who hadn't heard of or Jesus . They almost always took symbols of the of the people they were teaching and used those symbols to teach about God . The timing of was such that it coincided with the festivals of many pagan religions . These spring celebrated the wakening of the world after spring . Luckily , this " awakening " went very well with the monks teaching of Jesus' ! The ideas of the rebirth of spring were merged with the teachings of Jesus resurrection to form the Easter most of us know today . EASTER TRADITIONS Easter traditions differ around the world . Here are just a few of them . in the United States and Canada say the Easter or rabbit brings at Easter . In Germany and England , they say the brings them . The hare looks like a , but it's larger , with longer ears and legs . In Australia , are quite a nuisance as they are not native to the land . For this reason , there is an attempt being made to dub the Bilby as the chief egg bringer of the land . In Italy , Belgium , and France , children say Easter are brought by the church bells . There , bells do not ring from Good Friday until Easter . Because of this , people say that the bells have flown off to Rome . As the bells fly back home for Easter , they drop colored for boys and girls to find .
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