The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar — Counting Down to the Best News Ever

Christmas has its advent calendar. Now Easter has one too.

For many families, the weeks leading up to Christmas are filled with daily anticipation — little doors opened each morning, a growing sense of excitement building toward the celebration of the day itself. But Easter — the most important event in all of human history, the death and resurrection that stands at the very centre of the Christian faith — often arrives without the same sense of deliberate, joyful, family-centred preparation.

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar is designed to change that.

This innovative 15-door countdown calendar works just like an advent calendar — giving children aged 5 to 8 a concrete, daily, exciting way to count down to Easter Sunday while their families work through two weeks of Easter family devotions based on the passages from the beloved bestselling children's storybook The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross.

By the time Easter Sunday arrives, your children will not just know that Easter is coming. They will understand — at a genuine, age-appropriate, personally felt level — why Jesus died, why he rose again, and why that is the best news the world has ever heard.

Why Easter Needs Its Own Countdown

The weeks before Easter are among the most significant in the entire Christian calendar. They mark the journey of Jesus toward Jerusalem, toward the cross, toward the tomb — and then toward the empty tomb that changed everything. They are weeks that deserve the same deliberate, family-centred, daily engagement that most Christian families give to the weeks before Christmas.

But without a structure — without a daily rhythm of anticipation and preparation — Easter can arrive and depart without ever having been truly entered into. The story of the cross and resurrection is told on Sunday morning, received gratefully, and then the family moves on to lunch.

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar gives families a structured, beautiful, and genuinely engaging way to enter the Easter story together — door by door, day by day, devotion by devotion — building toward Easter Sunday with the kind of growing anticipation and deepening understanding that the significance of the event genuinely deserves.

How It Works

The calendar is beautifully simple in its design and profoundly rich in its content:

15 Doors Like an advent calendar, the Easter calendar has 15 doors — one for each day of the two-week countdown to Easter Sunday. Each morning, children open a door and discover what lies inside — building daily excitement and providing a concrete, visual way for children to track how close Easter is getting.

Two Weeks of Family Devotions Behind each door is more than a simple surprise — there is a daily family devotion based on the passages and themes from The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross storybook. These devotions are designed to be used together as a family — short enough to be realistic for busy households, rich enough to genuinely engage children and parents alike with the meaning of the Easter story.

Based on a Bestselling Storybook The devotions are rooted in the content of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross — the bestselling children's book that has helped thousands of families understand the whole sweep of the biblical story from the garden of Eden, through the temple curtain, to the cross of Christ. Families who have read the storybook will find the calendar devotions deeply complementary. Families encountering the material for the first time will find it a wonderful introduction that leaves them wanting to go deeper.

For Children Aged 5 to 8 The devotions and activities are carefully designed for children in this age range — old enough to engage meaningfully with the content, young enough to benefit from the imaginative, concrete, and interactive approach the calendar provides.

What Children Will Learn

Over the two weeks of the Easter countdown, children will journey through the biblical story that makes Easter not just a holiday but the most important event in human history:

• The garden of Eden — the beautiful world God made, the devastating entry of sin, and the promise that God would one day provide a way back
• The tabernacle and the temple — the curtain that separated sinful people from the holy presence of God, and what it meant for that separation to exist
• The journey of Jesus toward the cross — his entry into Jerusalem, his last supper with his disciples, his arrest and trial
• The cross itself — why Jesus had to die, what his death accomplished, and why the tearing of the temple curtain at the moment of his death was one of the most significant moments in all of history
• The empty tomb — the resurrection that vindicated everything Jesus claimed and accomplished, and that makes the gospel genuinely, permanently, world-changingly good news
• The invitation — what the death and resurrection of Jesus means for every person who hears about it, including the child holding this calendar

By the time they open the final door on Easter Sunday, children will have a genuine, age-appropriate, personally felt understanding of why Easter is not just important but absolutely, incomparably, forever the best news the world has ever received.

What This Calendar Will Help Your Family Do

• Create a meaningful, daily Easter countdown that builds genuine anticipation and genuine understanding in the weeks leading up to Easter Sunday
• Establish a regular family devotional rhythm during the Easter season that keeps the death and resurrection of Christ at the centre of your family's life and attention
• Help children aged 5 to 8 understand at a genuine, age-appropriate level why Jesus died and why he rose again — and why that matters for them personally
• Connect the whole biblical story — from the garden to the cross — in a way that helps children understand Easter not as an isolated event but as the climax of the entire story of Scripture
• Make Easter Sunday arrive with the same sense of prepared, joyful celebration that Christmas morning brings — because the day itself has been genuinely anticipated and genuinely prepared for
• Use alongside the storybook and activity book in The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross range for a comprehensive, multi-format Easter engagement that serves children across the full age range

Who Should Use This Calendar?

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar is ideal for:

• Families with children aged 5 to 8 who want to make the weeks leading up to Easter genuinely meaningful — not just a countdown to a chocolate-filled Sunday but a daily engagement with the greatest story ever told
• Parents who already love The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross storybook and want a resource that extends its content into a two-week family devotional experience
• Grandparents looking for a meaningful, gospel-centred Easter gift that gives grandchildren a structured and exciting way to prepare for Easter
• Home-educating families wanting to incorporate Easter Bible teaching into their curriculum in a creative, daily, family-centred way
• Sunday school teachers and children's ministry workers wanting to resource families with a beautiful, practical Easter preparation tool they can use at home
• Churches wanting to give families in their congregation a meaningful, accessible Easter resource that helps them celebrate the resurrection with genuine preparation and genuine joy
• Christian families in India wanting to help their children understand and anticipate Easter as the most important Christian celebration — approaching it with the same deliberate, daily, family-centred preparation that Christmas receives

Part of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Range

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar is part of a complete range of resources built around the beloved bestselling storybook:

• The Storybook — for children aged 3 to 6, telling the whole sweep of the biblical story from Eden to the cross in a simple, beautiful, and genuinely gospel-centred way
• The Colouring and Activity Book — for children aged 5 to 8, extending the content of the storybook through 32 pages of colouring, puzzles, mazes, and activities
• The Easter Calendar — for children aged 5 to 8, providing a 15-door countdown to Easter with two weeks of daily family devotions

Together, these resources form a comprehensive, multi-format, multi-age Easter engagement that can serve families with children across the full primary age range — and that makes The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross one of the most complete and most trusted Easter resource collections available for Christian families today.

All titles in the range are available at forthetruth.in.

The Best News — Prepared For, Celebrated Well

Easter Sunday deserves to arrive as the climax of weeks of genuine, joyful, family-centred preparation. It deserves to be met by children who know why Jesus died, who understand what the empty tomb means, and who have been building toward this day with the kind of growing excitement that the significance of the event genuinely warrants.

The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross Easter Calendar makes that kind of Easter possible — one door at a time, one family devotion at a time, one morning at a time — until the day itself arrives and your children greet it not just with chocolate and holiday clothes but with genuine, biblically grounded, personally felt joy at the best news the world has ever heard.