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Holy Week | Review
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This is the review of the five day mini series exploring holy week. Each day a small activity was linked to an event from the days leading up to Easter. Review – The five days and how we can use them. The 5 days could be used as a whole teaching session, as interactive parts to an Easter labyrinth, with children in a Sunday or midweek group, with seekers, or with families. |
Easter and Christmas are the two central celebrations of our faith, understanding their meaning is central to understanding Christianity.
That God came and made himself man, that he lived a blameless life, that he was wrongly put to death, that through his death the price was paid for our salvation, and that he defeated death on the third day are all concepts that need to be taught.
Click on the foot for the daily activity:
Witnesses to the crucifixion | Worksheet
This worksheet is an activity connected to the Witnesses to the crucifixion lesson. The first part examines how the emotions of the witnesses may have been different. The second part gets the children to examine the end of the story for the three witnesses. if you are doing this lesson in parts then get the child only to complete the activity for the character they have been examining.
There is also a puzzle in the background and the words ‘Jesus lives’ to be completed.
The PDF can be downloaded by clicking on the images.
Witnesses to the crucifixion | Craft
The central image to the witnesses to the crucifixion lesson (in large below) is really quite simple to recreate. I’ve made the mural image here from paper and fabric scraps. It could be made individually on a piece of printer paper or it could be made onto a noticeboard or wall in your teaching room, onto the floor of your hall or grass outside the church.
The pdf includes images for the three heroes in colour and as outlines (image below linked). I’ve not added a message to mine but the speech bubbles and the headings are included in the PDF file. If you would like individual images of the characters then please click on their names below the image.
Centurion, Beloved, Salome, Mother Mary, Mary
You need to create a dark background because the sky went dark, a space for the women to watch which isn’t too near,an earthy colour or green and a space for the soldiers, probably dry earth. You can use any medium you wish for this, eg: paper, sandpaper, fabric, grass, dirt, sand… etc.
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Witnesses to the crucifixion | Games
Rather than 3 play posts for the Witnesses to the crucifixion lesson the games are listed here – if you want more games connected with Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter then click here for the last Easter theme lesson. This lesson has 3 heroes, (the soldier, Salome, and the disciple Jesus loved) ideally you would choose one or split your group into 3 and each cover a different hero. I’ve tried to include games than link with all three
Obstacle race – It’s been a while since I fell back onto this traditional game, but the journey to the cross through the streets of Jerusalem, or getting through the crowds to see Jesus, can easily link in.
Shadow charades – set up a sheet or screen and a bright light to play charades. this version allows letters to be made to spell out words and ties into the idea of standing in the shadow of the cross.
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