This week, Sojourn celebrated Easter, and, in SojournKids, we studied the story of Jesus’ resurrection from Matthew 28:1-10 and John 20:1-23. We learned that:
You can download the SojournKids “At Home” sheet here.
The Midtown Kids will be making these to celebrate our Crucified but Risen King on Sunday!! A big thanks to Jenna Schrock and Danielle Hammon for putting this idea together:
Instructions: (1) Get Paper crowns. We cut out a lot of crowns, but we’d encourage you to purchase them (this was a lot of work). You can get a pack of 12 paper crowns at a craft store for about $6.00. You may be able to get some donated from Burger King for free. (2) Kids then cut out thorns from brown construction paper. They glue the thorns on one side of the crown. Talk about Jesus suffering and death while they are putting the thorns on the crown. Talk about how his suffering led to glory. (3) Make the other half of the crown shine with jewels, glitter, stickers, markers, crayons, etc. Jewels can be stuck on with school glue, glue sticks, or a glue gun. Give a lot of drying time with school glue. (4) Lastly, fit the crowns to little heads. Just use tape to keep the crowns in place.
Louisville graphic artist and Sojourn member Danielle Hammon has put together this “Spread the Good News” Roman Times newspaper layout as an art project for our SojournKids Grade School classes on Easter Sunday. The Roman Times newspaper layout includes the complete eye-witness report of Jesus’ resurrection from the Apostle John (John 20:1-31 NIV) as well as the picture captions, “Risen from the Dead” and “Eye-witness Accounts.”
The project helps teach that Jesus’ resurrection is good news told by eye-witnesses that we should tell as well. The pictures and headline for the paper are left blank so that children can color in their own pictures of the empty tomb or an eye-witness telling the good news. The newspaper layout was designed to be printed on 12″ x 18″ newsprint. Click on the graphic above or the following link to download a PDF version of the newspaper layout then print.
If you enjoy this resource, you can leave a comment below to thank Danielle for her work.
Sojourner Mandy Groce has just posted another great coloring page over at Tony Kummer’s Ministry-to-children.com. You can click on the preview picture above for a printable PDF version of this coloring page. MTC.com has also made a higher resolution JPEG image available.
We’ll be using this Easter coloring sheet in our SojournKids Bible classes on Resurrection Sunday. It has a picture of Jesus along with the words, “He is Risen.” Other phrases decorate the picture as well. As with all of Mandy’s coloring pages at MTC.com, you are free to use this in your church, home, or Christian school.
If you enjoy this resource, you can leave a comment below to thank Mandy for her efforts.
