Activity
Choose several events from the Easter story to be acted out by participants. Using these scenes, play a
game of charades.
Variation
Have participants re-enact the scenes in friezes–or stop-action scenes.
Variation
Have the participants set up the scenes in the order that they happened. Take pictures of each pose.
List of events and scripture references
There are many traditions and stories surrounding the food we know today as a “pretzel” and it is difficult to separate the facts from the legends. The exact origin of the pretzel is unknown and, like the doughy treat, its history takes many twists and turns.
“Little Rewards” and “Little Arms”
One tradition says that as early as 610 AD, …
While assembling their new water bed, my sister Betty and her husband, Everett, realized they would need a hose. Everett dashed to the hardware store and bought one. They attached it to the bed, ran it through the apartment to the kitchen tap and left to wait for the bed to fill. About an hour later they checked on its …
Game Materials
1. Easter symbols: Choose from among the following symbols based on the size of your group.
Easter items related to the Biblical account:
Gray fleece or donkey (Matthew 21:2-5), Palm branch or a coat (Matthew 21:8-11), A vial of perfume (Matthew 26:7-13), A lock of hair (Matthew 26:7-13), 30 silver coins or 3 10-cent coins (Matthew 26:14-15), A …
Use a traditional Jewish Passover Meal – Seder to introduce youth to Easter.
Preparation
Set a low table with a white cloth, beautiful dishes, and accessories to demonstrate this meal. Furnish low tables, pillows, or rugs, on which the youth and leaders can recline during the observance. Include A large platter—the ke’arah; three matzot—or matzah— the unleavened bread that is …
I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself 200,000 times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the imitation of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that …
We live in a world of limitations. Limits protect us from very real dangers. But when those limitations are based on a lie, they become chains that prevent us from becoming all that we could be.
The little elephant was so curious, so full of life. He stretched his nimble little trunk, straining to catch butterflies. He bent down to …
Game Materials
Easter Cards
Game Objective
Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Easter crowdbreaker.
Game Preparation
1. Select the front panels of several Easter Cards with different pictures. Use 2 identical cards for each group. Each group must have different card.
2. Cut one card of the 2 cards into pieces. The …
When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man, And skill a man,
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom …