a collection of suggested and adapted activities assembled by Pastor Emmy Kegler - emmykegler.com
Enjoy these fun activities at home with your family as you celebrate Jesus' resurrection!
Color the Easter Eggs coloring pages however youwant and cut them out. On Saturday night, tapethe eggs to a window facing the street or sidewalk,colors out. On Easter Sunday, go for aneighborhood walk. How many eggs can you “find”first?
ORTape the eggs to popsicle sticks with the color sideout. On the back of your eggs, write happymessages! You might say: “We’re all in thistogether”, “You are not alone”, or “Hope”, orsomething you think of yourself! Go out into theneighborhood and “hide” your eggs on a sticksomewhere in a neighbor’s yard where they will seethem!
Easter Egging
During this time we can feel pretty isolated... so let’s make sure we all know we’re still thinkingof each other! Grab your sidewalk chalk and draw apicture or write a happy message on the sidewalkin front of your house. Leave nice notes on yourneighbors' driveways too!
Chalk Greetings
Read the story of the Empty Tomb on page 482 ofthe Spark Story Bible. What a story! Let’s see it inaction. Grab your Lego, your building blocks, oreven just paper and markers and show us what theempty tomb looked like. Who was there? What didthey see? When you’re done, have an adult take apicture and post it to GSLC's Facebook, so we cansee all the empty tombs around our church homes!
Jesus on the Loose!
Color in the flat Jesus. Carefully cut around the lines. After he rose from the grave, Jesus couldn’t be tieddown - he was everywhere! We’re going to rememberthat Jesus can be with us anywhere by hiding our “flatJesus” all around the house. When you find one, findeveryone in the house and tell them, “Jesus is risen!”Then you get to hide him next! (You can print out more here: https://ms.wearesparkhouse.org/downloads/SHC/FlatJesus_HolyMoly.pdf?redirected=t rue )
Happy Easter - from Good Shepherd!
Build-a-Tomb
Be sure to join your Good Shepherd Family on our Facebook and YouTube for online worship services. We have some exciting things planned for Holy Week. You might even see your friends (or yourself!) Go to www.gslc-cu.org/events/online-together/ for all the info, and links to fun Kids' Stuff! You can also find some cool videos just for kids on the Sparkhouse Holy Moly YouTube playlist:www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5B6AA5CB48AA772C
and the Saddleback Kids YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbM1vIWVubIANRR54YuS0g
Watch
Draw something happy on the front (blank side) of the postcard. What words make you happy to hear? It might be “God loves you” or “Keep going.” Think of what wordsmake you happy. Write them on the back side of the postcard (or have a grownup help). Put the postcard in the mail. It will be mailed to someone who needs it!
What kinds of things make people happy? Bright colors, sunshine, puppies, rainbows? Think about whatyou like to look at. Find the postcards in your packet.
You could also mail pictures or letters to any of the people on the mailing lists, or anyone you know!
Play
Grab some colorful jelly beans and play Rainbow Bingo! Make copies of the bingo sheet, or print out more from here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1RUy5QrJkgxMrn4HoCT8oE53i9p1oS5/view You can also do it as a color scavenger hunt!
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Easy level: Find foods of each color - jelly beans count! Put them on the card and then eat them in order, left to right, top to bottom. Medium: Stand in the middle of a room and find something of each color without moving (but you can turn in a circle). Point out each color as you read the poem in order. Hard: Take the card with you on a neighborhood walk. Find every color and check it off!
~~ Rainbow Bingo ~~
RED for the wine Jesus gave his friends, promising a kingdom
to come.
GREEN for the garden where Jesus wept,
knowing he was all alone.
YELLOW for the crown of Pilate,
the governor who washed his hands;
PURPLE for the robe they dressed Jesus in,
once they'd whipped him & made him stand.
Grace Space
ORANGE for the sky as the sun went dark, a cross on his back, thorns on his head.
WHITE for the cloth they wrapped him in,
when his body was taken down dead.
PINK for the Sunday morning dawn,
when the women went back again:
BLACK for the tomb -- empty inside! Jesus is risen! Alleluia! Amen!
© 2020 Pastor Emmy Kegler, emmykegler.com
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