CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. EASTER JESUS HAS RISEN! Resurrection match game. Children will learn about the story of why we will be resurrected after we die because of Jesus. With this matching game, they will learn of Jesus, a Tomb, a Stone, Soldiers, an Angel, a Woman, Disciples, a Cross, and EASTER Jesus is risen!
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
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EASTER: Jesus Is Risen!
(Easter Morning Match Game)
OBJECTIVE: The lesson helps children understand that we celebrate Easter because Jesus Christ was resurrected.
ACTIVITY: Easter Morning Match Game
Play this match game to remind children that we celebrate Easter because Jesus was resurrected. Tell the story using the match cards.
TO PLAY: Turn two sets of cards face down on table or floor. Children take turns turning two cards over to make a match. If a match is not made, turn cards facedown again in the same place. Each child who makes a match collects matched cards to win.
TO MAKE:
Using cardstock, print or copy, color, and cut out two sets of cards, placing each set in a bag to take home. Option (shown right): To make the game go faster and save you on the cost of printing two sets in color, print one set of cards in black and white and mount them on colorful Easter-print paper. Children love selecting the two different backs to make the match.
THOUGHT TREAT: Easter Egg Hunt. Remind children that we like to search for eggs because we are reminded of baby animals born in the spring. It is a new beginning for them. Easter is a new beginning for us. After we die and are resurrected, we receive a new body.
. . . LESSON IDEAS . . .
For the EASTER: I Can Be Resurrected like Jesus – Easter morning match game
The above activity illustrates the scripture story “Jesus Christ Was Resurrected on the First Easter” (found HERE*).
Tell children that we celebrate Easter because Jesus Christ was resurrected. In your own words the story of the first Easter (see Matthew 27:57–66; 28:1–8; Mark 15:16–20, 40–47; 16:1–11; Luke 23:44–46; and John 20:1–18). Let the children take turns holding up the CARDS in the above activity.
*See Lesson 45 for the Primary Manual – CTR-A HERE.
SINGING ABOUT EASTER: Teach children “I Stand All Amazed” in the Hymnal p. 193 . . . Read More to DOWNLOAD song visuals here (some of the visuals are shown right – verses 1-1 to 2-1) ⇒
