Easter

  Easter

The Empty Tomb

People were mean to Jesus and made fun of him before he was crucified.  They dressed him in a  purple robe and put a crown of thrones on his head.  They called him THE KING OF THE JEWS.

  

The mean people put a crown made out of thorns like this one on Jesus’ head.  The thorns hurt his head.  We looked at this crown and talked about it.  We wore our other crown though because we didn’t want our heads to bleed!

Digital Resources

• Saddleback Kids Videos (on YouTube):  
• Triumphal Entry
• The Last Supper
• Jesus Washes the Apostles' Feet 
• Jesus Prays  
• Jesus' Sacrifice
• God is with Us
• Jesus' Ascension

•  The Beginner's Bible App  Stories:  "Washing the Feet", "The Last Supper", "Arrested & Crucified", "Jesus is Risen!"  (This app is good for several reasons.  As the text is read, each word is highlighted, so it's excellent for beginning readers.  This is an app version of The Beginner's Bible, so it's good to have the printed book f, or kids to use at home too. In class we wait until the text has been read and then take turns with the interactive parts.)
• Bible for Kids App Stories:  "The Donkey and the King", "A Goodbye Meal", "In the Garden", "It is Finished", "A Happy Sunday", "Into the Clouds"

Video Resources - DVD Read and Share Bible, Volume 2:

• Story 11:  The First Lord's Supper - "Jesus Borrows a Donkey"; "Jesus Rides Like a King"; "How to Serve"
• Story 12: Jesus' Resurrection - "Jesus s Alive!"; "Jesus with Two Friends"; "Jesus Goes to Heaven"

Print Resources

• Where is Jesus? by Mary Manz Simon
• The Story of Easter (a Little Golden Book) by Jean Miller
• Read Aloud Bible Stories, vol. 2 by Ella K. Lindvall, page 131, "A Sad Day and a Happy Day"
• The Story of Easter by Gwen Ellis, Read and Share Series 
• God Gave us Easter by Lisa Tawn Bergren, Scholastic 
• The Easter Story, The Beginner's Bible
• The Easter Story by Tracy Harrast, Peek-a-Bible Lift-a-Flap Book
• Large pictures of Jesus on the cross with King of the Jews sign above his head, Jesus riding a donkey into town on Palm Sunday, Jesus holding the cup at the Last Supper, Jesus Praying

Prop Resources

• 2 crowns - a toy crown to wear and a real thorn crown to see
• Purple fabric to use for the robe they put on Jesus
• BIG nails to use with picture of Jesus on the cross to see where they were used.  Discuss that Jesus didn't have any broken bones.
• 30 pieces of silver
•  Resurrection Eggs from FamilyLife.com  These are expensive.  You can make your own.  Use your own resources to note events in the stories.
• Tomb, rock, guards, and angel figures (from Tales of Glory maybe)

Song(s)

 Use flip chart for Apostles song.  Find Judas.  

Vocabulary

• cross
• nails
• tomb
• resurrection
• sin
• crucifixion 
• silver color
• Easter
• Ascension

9/14/2014 Class

We did so many things today!

1. Kids dressed up in pieces of the armor of God.

This soldier has the Sword of the Spirit, the Helmet of Salvation, the Shield of Faith and the Breastplate of Righteousness on.  Still need the Belt of Truth and the Gospel Shoes of Peace.  We'll get that in another picture later.

We talked about where their brains and hearts were in their bodies and how big they are.  (Brain is the size of 2 fists; Heart is the size of 1 fist.)  Explained that the Helmet of Salvation and the Breastplate of Righteousness are so important because they protect the brain and heart.  (I need to take a stethoscope to class next week.)

2.  Watched "The Beginning" (~4 minutes long) from Read and Share DVD Bible, Vol. 1.  In the video it shows hands creating man.  We talked about God using words to create things, and so that part might not be right.  Told them that God made all the land animals and the first man, Adam, from dirt.  He might have made the other animals out of dirt too, but we don't know for sure.

3.  Explained the picture clues for the New Testament books Matthew - Romans.

4.  Emphasized what God made on Days 1 and 2 and what it looked like.  Mentioned that God made light on Day 1 but didn't make the sun until Day 4.  The light may have been Jesus. (John 1 talks about Jesus being the light.)

5.  Donuts -- Teachers pick up a few extra donuts on the way to class in case child(ren) don't have one.  Today, students had to use a full sentence and ask for a donut.  They needed to say, "Please," but no one had to be told that.  (Yea!)  I asked them if they were glad that they had a donut.  I explained that when you are glad, you are thankful.  That conversation lead to talking about prayer.
Several of the students prayed, giving thanks, and mentioned specific things God had made.  One guy was grateful for books too.  :)

6.  Work -- Work is a good thing.  God worked and then he rested.  Adam's first job was to name all of the animals.  As we get bigger, we will help at home by doing jobs or working.

7.  Showed them the envelope that was going home with them today.  They didn't know what it was called so I told them that it was a "paper pocket" and was called an envelope.  Fun things can go in pockets and fun things can go in envelopes.

8.  Sang the "Day One" song.