Category Archives: Easter
More Easter resources for children’s ministry
A Glorious Easter Probably one of the best list of Easter resources for children’s ministry online. See also my other websites – http://easterplus.blogspot.com and http://eliab.com
Easter Ideas for children’s program
Easter Video Series: The Meaning of Easter with Phil Vischer RememberingTheCross Easter-school-assemblies-power-point EASTER slide show power-point JESUS IS KING! power-point Easter power-point FreeBibleImages.org
The Ascension – Craft idea
Check out some great resources for either Sunday School or family devotions. ChristianityCove.com Here is one really good idea for a Craft activity at Easter which focuses on The Ascension.
A very special Sunday
A very Special Sunday . A video from Steelehouse Media
How important is it to be popular?
Download these slides that were used as part of a Palm Sunday talk to children. How important is it to be popular? We welcome you -Palm Sunday prayer (Powerpoint Slide) JESUS IS KING! (Powerpoint Slides)
All-Age Worship Resources
All-Age Worship Web Resources 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 … Continue reading
Looking for an Easter Family Service idea?
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). … Continue reading
Easter Talk- The Good News
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 … Continue reading
Easter Cross
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 … Continue reading
History of the Easter Egg
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 … Continue reading
Easter Craft -Empty Tomb
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 … Continue reading
Resurrection Symbols Activity
Children’s Activity on the Resurrection. Click to enlarge
Looking for Easter Resources?
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, … Continue reading
Easter March
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 … Continue reading
Easter Plus
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
Reaching out at Easter
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 … Continue reading
Hot Cross Buns
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 … Continue reading
Easter Resources from the Web
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
Easter Chant
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. ( … Continue reading
Colours for Easter
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 … Continue reading
Easter Pass the Parcel
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 … Continue reading
Sweet Easter
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. … Continue reading
Picture Relay
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 … Continue reading
Children’s ministry Easter links
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
