All-Age Worship Web Resources (April 2010 updated) MessyChurch (in the UK) is one church’s attempt to be church for families who might want to meet Jesus, belong to their local church and bring up their children as Christians but can’t cope with traditional Sunday morning church services. Lot’s of practical suggestions to try. messychurch blog. [...]
Easter All-Age Worship Idea On Good Friday the wood cross stands bare except for a piece of purple material draped around the cross-bar. On Easter Sunday the cross has been covered in fine ‘chicken wire’ mesh and lights at the rear have been turned on. As people come forward for communion they place a flower [...]
Easter Reflections 1. When a tree is cut through you see the ring pattern that runs right the way up and down the trunk. Good Friday is a slice through history that allows us to see the pattern of God’s love stretching forwards and backwards to infinity. 2. “Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man [...]
As Christianity spread, more familiar traditions. symbols and celebrations of spring were associated with Easter -Christ coming back to life after death. One of the oldest spring symbols is the egg. The oval shape of the egg was the same shape for a raindrop and a seed. These two were important life-giving elements. the egg [...]
Easter Craft -Empty Tomb This is a food craft to help us remember the victory of Jesus rising from death. Using chocolate Easter Eggs, biscuits and toothpicks. Simple, a bit messy and lots of fun, the empty tomb reminds us of that victory Jesus had over death. Empty Tomb Craft Other Easter resources at Max7.org
Children’s Activity on the Resurrection. Click to enlarge
At my other website at Eliab.com I have listed a page of links to original Easter puppet plays, stories chants and poems. TeacherHelp.org has a wide range of links to Easter material ( craft, plays, worksheets) suitable for Sunday School, church or a school setting. Max7.org has two short Easter videos which work well with [...]
I’d like to share a short talk I did as a part of an Easter presentation this week for a primary (elementary) school. Here is the summary. I began the talk by holding up a newspaper and talking about some news items. In the paper we find both good news and some bad news. Which [...]
Easter March (American military style march) Let me tell you what Easter means. (echo) It’s more than bunnies and chocolate beans.(echo) God’s Son was born and lived on earth. (echo) Special child, miracle birth. (echo) He healed and taught and lived God’s way.(echo) Till he was killed on Good Friday.(echo) Not scared. (echo) Blood shed. [...]
I have just started a new blog called EasterPlus which includes Easter ideas and resources for children’s ministry and worship resources. http://easterplus.blogspot.com
You may get your group of children or your family to think of ways in which they can reach out ot others with the hope that Easter brings. Make some home made biscuits. Put a cross made of icing on the top and give them to someone in your family or friend who needs some [...]
Hold up a hot cross bun and ask the group if they like to eat these buns at Easter. Say that many people all around the world like to eat these buns at Easter time and those that are Christians are reminded of Jesus death on a cross by the cross we find on the [...]
Someone asked Joseph of Arimathaea , “That was a great tomb. Why did you give it to someone else to be buried in?” “Oh,” said Joseph, “he only needed it for the weekend.”
Easter Resources from the Web Easter ideas http://www.gospel.com/topics/easter Beyond the Easter Bunny www.just4kidsmagazine.com/april.html How Easter Works www.howstuffworks.com/easter.htm Countdown to Easter www.christianitytoday.com/cpt/9g2/9g2031.html Easter Skits www.christiancrafters.com/skits.html Easter Crafts www.kidsdomain.com/craft Church of the Holy Sepulchre www.sacredsites.com/2nd56/27376.html Eliab.creative outreach ministries-puppets, stories, chants… http://Eliab.com
An Easter illustration – A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling her second graders about how Jesus was crucified and placed in a tomb with a great stone sealing the opening. Then, wanting to share the excitement of the resurrection, she asked : “And what do you think were Jesus’ first words when He [...]
Easter is… Easter is a time of joy For everyone, girls and boys. Rejoice, be glad, let’s all sing, Jesus is our risen King! Jesus is living! Yes he is living! Jesus is living! The Bible tells me so. ( You can also sing this to “Jesus Loves Me”)
An All- Age Worship Activity You need : Green, Red,Black, White and Yellow balloon bunches or streamers or flags. Call forward any of the congregation or children’s group who are wearing a green top (t-shirt, jumper, sweater…). Give them the green props and ask them to stand in a group on the far left side [...]
The young boy came home after Sunday School on Easter Sunday and told his mother he could understand about Christ but not about the roses. So he asked his mum, “Why was Christ a rose?”
A variation on the well known game. This is played in the same way as at children’s parties except you have a number of parcels circulating according to the size of your group (say one parcel per ten children). Get everyone into a large circle and give out the parcels with an even number of [...]
If you ask some children what Easter is all about they will invariably reply that it is to do with chocolate or Easter Eggs. Here is a fun way to teach the true meaning of Easter to your children’s group. The leader enters carrying either a large box marked “chocolates” or a large decorated basket. [...]
Drawing relays for children competing in teams. Choose your topic around the teaching theme of the day. Picture relays like this are great for revising a Bible story. Two to four teams line up about 10-15 metres from a wall or noticeboard where large pieces of paper have been posted. (One for each team). Place [...]
A Family Service address with considerable involvement is as follows: Worship leader begins telling a story (let’s say about a lost rabbit) only to be interrupted by two young folk offering a chocolate Easter Egg (as a thank-you or whatever). Worship leader thanks young folk, notices that it is an Easter Egg with sweets (say, [...]
A story to share at Easter He died for another Over two hundred years ago, the French Revolution brought fear and terror to France. Rich and powerful people – even the king and queen -were killed by the revolutionaries. Every day, hundreds of people were arrested, dragged from their homes and flung into horrible prisons. [...]
Easter Resources from the Web Easter Resurrection Eggs www.gospelcom.net/growingtogether/1999/03/index-03- 10-1999.html Behond the Easter Bunny www.just4kidsmagazine.com/april.html How Easter Works www.howstuffworks.com/easter.htm Countdown to Easter www.christianitytoday.com/cpt/9g2/9g2031.html Easter Skits http://www.eliab.com/Puppets/puppets.html www.christiancrafters.com/skits.html Easter Crafts www.kidsdomain.com/craft Easter Program www.street.ns.ca/easter97.html Church of the Holy Sepulchre www.sacredsites.com/2nd56/27376.html
I’ve just picked up a great resource full of ideas for Easter including drama skits, stories, poems, Easter service ideas and craft. The publication is called “Easter cracked” and is published by Scripture Union. (93 pages) http://www.scriptureunion.org.au (Aust.) http://www.scriptureunion.org.uk (Britain) http://scriptureunion.gospelcom.net ( U.S.A.)
Easter Chant Hosanna ! Hosanna ! Hear the people cry. Riding on a donkey The King is passing by. Riding to Jerusalem Wave those palms and cheer – Jesus the Messiah The “promised one” is here. Crucify ! Crucify ! Hear the people shout ! Tell governor Pilate To bring Jesus out. Crucify ! Crucify [...]
