CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. JESUS LOVES ME – Count the Ways (birth to resurrection) mini-book. Book Reads: Jesus came to earth to show the way. – Jesus showed me how to be baptized. – Jesus taught me how to pray. – Jesus showed me how to care for others. – Jesus showed me how to love. – Jesus died for me. – Jesus was resurrected so I can live again.
GREAT FOR Come Follow Me lessons (Primary and home), family home evening, and Bible study
Little LESSON LIFESAVERS
Jesus Loves Me – Count-the-Ways (to Resurrection) spotlight book
OBJECTIVE: Help children understand that Jesus Christ loves each one of them. With this book, they can count-the-ways as each page spotlights what Jesus did to show His love to us.
Activity – Jesus Loves Me – Resurrection Book
Children can review this “Jesus Loves Me” book to spotlight the life of Jesus and remind them of the things He did to show His love for us.
THE BOOK READS: Jesus Loves Me
– Jesus came to earth to show the way.
– Jesus showed me how to be baptized.
– Jesus taught me how to pray.
– Jesus showed me how to care for others.
– Jesus showed me how to love.
– Jesus died for me.
– Jesus was resurrected so I can live again.
TO MAKE Print or copy activity. Assemble and bend tab at top and glue or staple pages together.
THOUGHT TREAT: New beginning basket.
Idea 1: Make an Easter basket using a small round bowl for the mold with Rice Krispies recipe (on the box of Kellogg’s cereal).
Idea 2: Make a nest using bread dough and bake. Fill a basket with candy eggs and tell children that baby birds come from eggs. They are hatched in the springtime. This is when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. When we see these eggs, let’s remember Jesus and that he loves us.
SING Easter Songs using the song visuals to download from GospelGrabBag.com: Jesus Has Risen, Did Jesus Really Live Again?, Easter Hosanna, I Know That My Savior Loves Me (and more).
TESTIMONY:
Bear your testimony that Jesus loves each of us. Because of his great love for us, he suffered and died and was resurrected so that each of us can also be resurrected someday.
MORE LESSON IDEAS:
• Present Sunbeam Lesson 45 – The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Easter) in the Primary 1 manual.
MORE SUNBEAM LESSON ACTIVITIES:
GO TO ANOTHER LESSON 46 ACTIVITY
Click HERE to find 45b POSTER activity for this same lesson – Sunbeam Lesson 46: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Easter) (shown below).
THIS IS THE LAST LESSON ACTIVITY 1-46 to match the Sunbeam Primary 1 manual.
Click on the 46b POSTER above or HERE to go back to Sunbeam Lesson 1: I Am a Child of God.
GO BACK
Click HERE to find 44a CRAFT activity for the previous Sunbeam lesson 45: The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Easter) (shown left).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click HERE for Sunbeam lessons 1-46.
