No KDI this week!
Table Activities- The table activities this week include an Easter sensory bin, Easter dot painting, cross decorating, Easter playdough, Easter foam kits, jelly bean graphing, Easter clay mats and wooden cross decorating.
Small Group Activities- This week we will be making "Resurrection Eggs" to focus in on the story of Easter, making a cross suncatcher, adding an Easter picture to our journal and making a "Hand" Easter lily.
Large Group Activities- We will have an Easter egg hunt and chalk Easter drawings outside this week!
Books of the Week- "The Easter Lily Parable" by Liz Curtis Higgs and "The First Easter" by Paul Maier.
Bible Story- This week our Bible story takes us to the cross. Last week we heard about Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to cheers and shouts of "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
Now, less than a week later, we see Jesus get arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane where he was betrayed by one of his disciples. He is mocked, he is whipped, he is beaten, he has a crown of thorns placed on his head, and finally he is sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be crucified for blasphemy- claiming he was God. Pilate was hounded by the Jewish leaders to give them permission to crucify Jesus. The shouts of "Hosanna" changed to "Crucify!" The disciples ran away, betrayed or denied knowing him. He was left utterly alone, even abandoned by His heavenly Father as he paid the price for my sins and yours and the whole world's.
Uncomfortable, hard, but the truth is, our children are sinners and are in need of a Savior. There is nowhere in the Bible that says children aren't accountable for the sins they commit, in fact, Psalm 51 says, "Surely I was sinful from birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me." We are all sinners separated from God, but Jesus' perfect life and innocent death brings me home! What love! May we love God and love others enough to let them know of his love and their need for a Savior like Him!
Pics from yarn week-
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