Our Easter Booklet

You should have found a little booklet among your child's papers from this week.  This was something new for my class this year because we usually do a devotional craft based on the book, Benjamin's Box.  This little booklet tells a child friendly version of the events of Holy Week.  We started last Thursday with Palm Sunday and the joyous entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  Here are our little fingerprint palms.

We then talked about how much Jesus loved his disciples.  It was hard for them to believe that He loved them so much that He washed their dirty, smelly feet.  The children thought this was more funny than serious because they could not comprehend how big an act of love this was for the disciples.  So we painted our little feet to remind us about Jesus' love for us.

Above you will see our page to represent the Last Supper Jesus shared with the disciples.  Each child drew a special meal that they would share with Jesus.  Then below are our little prayer hands representing the many hours Jesus spent in the Garden of Gethsemane before he was taken by soldiers to be crucified.

Finally you see the cross that we painted.  Even though it is really sad, the children focus on the Good News that comes on Easter morning.  As we know this day is called Good Friday, even though it isn't really good at all.  It is the saddest part of Easter, but we added this page to our little book to remind us that Jesus leaves us for three days and comes back to us on Easter morning.  Stay tuned for the last two pages of our booklet and the Good News of Easter morning.