Easter Sunday 2021

I’ve taken a huge craft break as we moved back into our classrooms over the past few months, we have gone back to a semi-normal way of doing Sunday school at my church and crafts aren’t a huge priority right now. We are no longer on line only. We have a new format.

I took last year’s craft from Passion week and tweeted it a bit for Easter Sunday and it went along with our lesson perfectly of course.
Easter Sunday is always an all hands on deck week and I was in with a class of 5 year olds and they did great with it. I even took this really terrible picture of my sample I did as I showed them how to make it.

Here is the template. I meant to post it earlier, but it will be her for future use.

Items you need:

Easter Sunday The Empty GraveDownload

(grey or brown construction paper, optional)

Crayons

Scissors

Glue or tape

Directions:

• Start by reading Luke:24:1-12
• You can have your child color the printable.
• Glue the tomb to the center of the printable.
• Glue the the rock to the side of the tomb.

Jesus is Arrested

In today’s lesson, Jesus takes His disciples to Gethsemane to pray. He is betrayed as He has predicted and arrested. Before He is faced with the greatest trial of HIs life, He spends time praying and asks His disciples, those around Him to do the same.

This week’s craft is much like the craft we did during Passion week, https://biblecraftsforyourkiddos.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/thursday-passion-week/ except we are adding an additional layer by having 2 sets of hands and showing Jesus’ hands chains. I am on the road, and didn’t get to the actual crafting and picture taking stage before I left, but I hope you can figure it out!

Items you need:

Jesus is ArrestedDownload

Crayons, markers, or colored pencils

Grey paper (optional)

Scissors

Glue or tape

Directions:

• Start by reading Read Matthew 26:36-56
• You can have your child color the printable.
• Color the hands with which ever medium you choose.
• Cut out the hands, being careful not to cut out the little triangle that connects the two hands. You will need that so that it stays connected. 
• Fold the hands so that the look as though that are folded in prayer.
• Fold the thumbs up so the that you can glue them above the words that say “ Jesus prayed and asked His disciples to pray.” Make sure they are spaced out enough so that it gives a nice 3-D effect. 
• Do the same for the second set of hands and glue that set below the words.
• Print out the lined paper on grey paper or color it. Cut them out and make a paper chain. Put the chains on Jesus’ hands (the second set of hands).

Last Supper

The last supper. Jesus was explaining to His disciples that He was the last Passover lamb. He was the blood that was going to be shed for their sins. He was the last sacrifice. What a tough night. I just came back from a funeral today. My vehicle went up in flames just a couple weeks ago and as I sat at that funeral I couldn’t help but think that I could have been sitting there at my own husband’s funeral. Death is hard. It makes us feel helpless. I am thankful that we have hope in a Savior who has conquered death.

Items you need: 

Last Supper PrintableDownload

Crayons

Glue

Scissors

Directions: 

• Start by reading Luke 22:7-19
• You can have your child color the printable
• Cut out the sheep, cross, blood drop and the rectangles. 
• Fold the thin rectangle in thirds and glue it on the back of the fatter rectangle to make a handle. 
• Glue the sheep and the cross on opposite sides of the front of the rectangle.
• Cut the dotted lines of the main printable. 
• Place the sheep/cross insert into the cut slits and move them. The sheep should disappear when the cross is outside and the cross will disappear when the sheep is showing. Jesus came so there was no need for animal sacrifices any more. He took their place and he took our place too. 

Give to Caesar What is Caesar’s

You can’t trick Jesus…He’s a wee bit smarter than you are, you know what I mean? I love this story, because it’s one of the ones where you read, “…and they were astonished,” or “…the people were amazed,” or marveled and I I love to read that because it gives me a little chuckle. Yep. I bet those people were astonished and amazed, how could they not be? I mean, it was Jesus after all.

There are people in our lives who are more wise than we are and we are often amazed at the things they say and at how they look at situations. If we are wise, we will learn from them. If we aren’t we will walk away unchanged. Jesus was asked if they should pay taxes or not and He took a Roman coin and asked them who’s face was on it? It was of course Caesar’s and His answer was simple, ” Give to Caesar, that which is Caesar’s and give to God that which is God’s.” Take some time and impart some wisdom on your children. explain this story to your children. what is God’s? What does He wasn’t? Our heart.

Items you need: 

Give to Caesar What Is Caesar’s PrintableDownload

Crayons

Green construction paper or a piece of paper colored, green (optional)

Yarn or string, about 5 inches

Glue

Scissors

Tape

Directions: 

• Start by reading Mark 12:13-17
• You can have your child color the printable
• Cut out the coin/heart being careful to keep them together so that you can fold them later. 
• Apply glue all over the back side of the coin/heart and then place your string in the center of one side and fold it closed. 
• Open the card and place the heart in the center of the circle you have cut and tape the strings to the top and bottom of the inside of the card and tape them down.
• To make it spin, all you ha ego do is twist the coin/heart and then close the card and when you are ready to watch it spin, open it up!

*** It will spin a little faster if you use card stock and string, but it will still work with paper and yarn. 

Jesus’ Triumphant Entry

That’s just another way to say Palm Sunday…but you know, we covered Palm Sunday way back when at the beginning of Covid. Oh, man…does that bring back memories. I honestly didn’t think I had another Palm Sunday craft in me, but you know, the Lord always provides. As we continue to make our way through the LifeWay lessons I knew we’d get to this point. The gospel message is an everyday message. It is not an Easter Sunday message. Jesus came to earth and died on the cross and was raised from the dead after 3 days in order that our sins would be forgiven. That truth is an everyday truth and every story in the Bible can be traced back to His love for us.

Items you need: 

Jesus’ Triumphant Entry PrintableDownload

Green construction paper * (optional)

Crayons ( if no colored paper)

Scissors 

Glue

Directions: 

• Start by reading Matthew 21:1-11
• If you have green paper, print the leaves out on the green. You only need 4 leaves, I gave 2 different options for the leaves. You can choose which ever page of leaves you like best. 
• Color color the printable. Be sure to color both sides of the larger oval as that is the ear of the donkey and it will be folded down. The smaller oval is the inside of the ear. 
• Cut out the printable pieces.  Fold the donkey head  on the dotted line and you can glue together after you cut out or you can just cut it out on the dotted line. 
• Glue the small oval inside the large oval. Glue it to the back of the donkey’s face and then fold the ears over.
• Next cut out the leaves that you have chosen. 
• Glue the leaves down to the main printable page and then the donkey you are all done! 

Jesus Raise Lazarus

Jesus is all-powerful. He showed His power over death even before He rose from the dead. He raised many people, one of which was His friend Lazarus. He delayed Himself so that God would be glorified. Sometimes we suffer, but the result is a stronger faith.

This craft is a reminder that Jesus called Lazarus out of the grave and that He has the power over death. The same Jesus who raised Lazarus has the same power in our lives today.

Items you need: 

Jesus Raises Lazarus PrintableDownload

Grey construction paper or yardstick 

Crayons ( if no colored paper)

Spoon

3 squares of toilet paper connected

Googley eyes (optional)

Scissors 

Directions: 

• Start by reading John 11:1-44
• If you have grey paper, print the grave out on the grey. Color color the printable.
• Cut out the grave and glue to the center of the printable. 
• Take your spoon and glue the eyes or your googley eyes to the rounded side of the spoon. 
• Cut your toilet paper into about 1/2 in strips. about 3 tips to fully cover my spoon. 
• Dab a bit of glue to the back of the spoon and wrap the toilet paper gently around the spoon. Continue covering the spoon until Lazarus is wrapped completely in toilet paper. 
• It took about 3 stiles to fully cover my spoon. 
• Glue him to the printable so it looks like he has just been called out of the grave by Jesus. 

Jesus is the Bread of Life

This confused the people so much. Bread how can You be bread? They argued among themselves and they misunderstood Him. But when you know Jesus, you understand that He is the something that you are lacking in life. He fills that God-sized hole in your heart. He fills the hunger in your life that was insatiable before you found Him, the bread that filled you up.

Today we will use some bread to make some clay, because Jesus is the bread of life and why not take some bread and talk about that with your kiddos while making some clay to play with them with.

Items you need:

5-6 pieces of bread, crusts removed

Glue

Bowl

Directions: 

• Start by reading John 6:22-59
• Remove the crusts from the bread, this will make the clay a more uniform color. 
• Tear bread into small pieces and add to the bowl
• Start with 5 pieces of bread. Add about 1 1/2 tsp of glue to the bowl and knead the glue into the bread by hand. It will be sticky and yet seem dry. Keep kneading until smooth. 

• If you need to add more bread or more glue, add as you see fit, but make sure you knead the clay really well before you decide this. The clay should be fairly smooth. If it still feels tacky, add another piece of bread. 
• Once the clay is no longer tacky, you are ready to play with it. Shape it into any shape you like. I chose a cross. You can let it air dry or put it in a ziplock lock and store in the fridge to play with it later. 

You can find a picture tutorial on my instagram @biblecraftsforyourkiddos

Parables of Lost Things

The Parables of lost things. Jesus tells these parables to reminds us that He is never too quick to forget about those that are lost and that we shouldn’t;t be either. I love that this is the mission of our church and we are reminded of it so frequently that we could not forget. We must have a heart for the lost. Use this week’s craft to retell the parables.

Items you need: 

Parables of Lost Things PrintableDownload

Crayons

Green construction paper or a piece of paper colored green

Glue

2 craft sticks

About 5 cotton balls

scissors

Directions: 

• Start by reading Luke 15
• You can have your child color the printable
• Cut across the dotted line.
• Cut out the sheep pieces. Glue on the cotton balls to the large circle. 
• Then add the head piece and the little legs. 
• Cut out the roman coin piece and color it. 
• Glue the coin to the back of the sheep and wedge a craft stick between the two pieces.
• Next start on the pig. Glue the snout pice below the eyes. Bend the top pf the triangle down and glue off to one side of the head and do the same to the other side. 
• Color the lost son and glue to the back side of the pig with the last craft stick wedged between. 
• Take the construction paper and cut in in about half. Cut it to about an inch from the edge in strips making close cuts to resemble grass.
• Glue this along the edge of the grass printable.  
• Now you have all the pieces available to tell the stories of the lost things in the parables of lost things and they can get “lost” in the grass.  

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

Jesus talked in parables so people could understand, and I often wondered why. It always seemed that it would be less confusing if He just would tell them the facts straight, but as you read through the gospels, it becomes clear, it doesn’t matter. They were told the facts and they still didn’t listen. They didn’t believe. In Matthew 9 Jesus tells the story of the mustard see. be it ever so small, the potential is great. You have great potential locked up inside of you too.

Items you need: 

Parable of the Mustard SeedDownload

Crayons

Glue stick

Green Construction paper (optional)

Mustard seed (optional)

Directions: 

• Start by reading Matthew 9:31-32
• You can have your child color the printable. T
• You can print out one of the leaf pages on green construction paper. Color the other. Cut out the leaves. 
• Fold the leaves in half. Glue around the edges of the leaf and glue down to the tree so that it maintains a 3D effect. 
• If you have a mustard see. Glue to the tiny dot that represents the mustard seed.

Jesus’ Transfiguration

How can one describe Jesus transfiguration. The gospel writers do the best they can. I’m sure we can’t imagine it. What must have been going through their minds. I can’t imagine I could have begun to write down what I had seen if I were them. To describe what they saw must have been an impossible task. To see what they saw must have been overwhelming. This, is a simple craft.

Items you need: 

Jesus Transfiguration PrintableDownload

Crayons

Cotton balls 

Blue construction paper

Glue

Directions: 

• Start by reading Matthew 17:1-9
• You can have your child color the printable.
• Cut out the shapes and glue on the mountains. 
• Fluff up your cotton balls, make some clouds and glue onto the construction paper
• Glue the Jesus silhouette to the mountain.