But before that, for the 3-5 set, Lent isn’t really for them. She even started to draw pictures of the tomb and of the crucifixion. She looked at the cross and at the image of the resurrected Jesus in the garden and tried to make sense of them. She played at being in the tomb with Jesus and then coming out again. When Bella was about five or six she started to be interested in Lent in small ways. Or maybe she was getting creative with what kinds of books are good Lenten reading for little ones, focusing on saint stories, Bible stories, and books which will inspire prayer, fasting, and almsgiving? On Facebook I recently saw a mom posting about needing to bring out her huge box of Lent/Easter books and I wondered what on earth could be in that box, lots of books about bunnies and flowers and eggs? Maybe.
Also, a few books for older kids while I’m at it. But preschoolers, it’s not really a liturgical season they will dwell in readily in their imagination.Ī few picture books about Easter will have to suffice and I’ll also mention some books that aren’t explicitly seasonal but which might be profitably read during Lent or given to a child in an Easter basket. Kids who have made their first communion, or at least who are preparing to make their first communion, they can start to enter into the season of Lent. No, little ones might be able to get Easter, but Lent is really a season for adults and older children. Lent is about death, the passion is hard for kids. Advent is a season made for small children: angels and babies, and wonder. Advent is about a baby, kids can get that. Time to look fondly on that box full of picture books for Advent and Christmas that I brought out just three months ago and packed away just last month and to wonder why the pickings for Lent are so much slimmer.
It’s that time of year again, time to muster the books and plans for Lent with children.
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