Easter Lesson

Intro

I printed these Easter sequence cards and glued them onto pieces of cardstock (just to make a little neater than white cardstock itself).  Have kids try to put sequence cards in order.

Bible Story

Then watch this Easter video (or read it all in a Children's Bible, but I chose the video just to add variety since we don't normally do videos and so our kind teacher wouldn't have to be reading foreeever). And most of the pictures used are actually from our Storybook Bible.

Now go back to cards and re-order them if necessary. (note: Palm Sunday isn't included in video) Or if you're reading from a Bible you can correct the cards as you read.

here is Eli doing the sequence cards again at home and telling ME the story

Lesson
"We can use colors to help us remember the gospel story."

BLACK reminds me of my sin. We are all sinners.  We can't be good all of the time no matter how hard we try.
RED reminds me of Jesus' blood when He died on the cross.  He paid the price for MY sin.
WHITE reminds me that Jesus forgives me and makes my heart clean as snow.
YELLOW reminds me of Heaven where streets are made of GOLD. When we have clean hearts we can live forever in Heaven.
GREEN reminds me of things that grow. Plants, trees, grass... These are things that grow.  i can grow too by learning more about Jesus by praying to him and reading the Bible.

Song
Here is a fun little song I like to sing that helps me remember all these colors... (the kids also sing this at AWANA) Click HERE for a video of how the song goes.

Gospel Fuzzies Song


We're the gospel fuzzies. We're the gospel fuzzies.
We're the gospel fuzzies with a song to sing.


Gold stands for Heaven. Gold stands for Heaven.
Gold stands for Heaven where I want to go.


But dark means I'm a sinner. Dark means I'm a sinner.
Dark means I'm a sinner & I can't get in. (by myself)


Red means Jesus died. Red means Jesus died.
Red means Jesus died and He rose again.


Clean means I'm forgiven. Clean means I'm forgiven.
Clean means I'm forgiven when I follow him.


Green means I am growing. Green means I am growing.
Green means I am growing every day in him.


We're the gospel fuzzies. We're the gospel fuzzies.
We're the gospel fuzzies with a song to sing.

Craft

I would've loved to make the Gospel Fuzzie glove for each of the children, but it was too much time and work for the size of our group.  So instead I made the half-paper worksheet with the song lyrics where the kids could glue on the coordinating fuzzies. (you can't tell from the picture but underneath show the color fuzzie on the paper for them to match with)

My kids and I also made a Wordless Lapbook here at home, centered around a lot of this same theme, so you can view that HERE.