Symbols

Materials
Picnic basket, thermos filled with grape juice, red-checkered picnic tablecloth, A wooden cross lying in the bottom of the basket, Load of French bread sticking out of basket. Cut some corporate Logos from newspapers and magazines and glue them to sheets of paper. Some possibilities are the McDonald's Logo, Nike, Coke, Pokeman character, Disney, IBM, etc. Try to choose logos that would be recognized by your age group. You can also use common signs like a stop sign, streetlight, male and female toilets, $, MRT logo, etc. Place all of these items in the basket.

Activity
(Show the children / youth the items but do not open the picnic basket to see the contents yet.) What do you think of when you see these items? Most of us think of a picnic!

Lay out the picnic tablecloth on the floor and set the basic in the middle of it. Invite the children / youth to join you around the basket.

Application
One night, Jesus had supper with his disciples. We call it the Last Supper. What do you think they ate at the last supper? Jesus took two things at the supper and used them as symbols. Take out the sheets with symbols you have created and see if the children can guess what each symbol represents. Lastly, take the bread and pour the grape juice into a clear cup or glass. Ask the children what these things represent.

Explain the significance of the broken bread and the wine. Explain that just symbols are a reminder of something important, the last Supper reminds us that Jesus' body was broken and his blood was shed s that we might have forgivenes from our sins. Finally take out the cross and tell them that just as the cross has become a symbol of churches (you find them on top of most church buildings to advertise that it is a church) the Lord's supper is supposed to advertise the death of Christ for our sins.