Our last stop on our Easter Journey with Jesus (before Resurrection Sunday) is “What does the cross mean?”
I do these activities on the last day of the school week before Easter Sunday.
Our repeatable phrase for this day is “Jesus says I’m worth it all!”
(as I said in the main Easter Journey with Jesus post, I always summarize the main point of the story into a short phrase using words the kiddos already have some understanding of to make the story more relatable to them! I find this way leads to way more retention than trying to do a whole memory verse at this age, because even if they can memorize the whole verse, they may not understand what they are repeating back to you.)
For this topic, I include two coloring sheets:
For the young toddlers, I spend more time on the phrase “Jesus says I’m worth it all” rather than “Jesus died for me” as a toddler’s sense of someone dying may not really be ready for such an important lesson – however, I like to include the other page so parents can use it if they want to talk about it 🙂
Here are some videos of my precious friends practicing our phrase 😍
Yah you are girl!
Oh yah! My friends are DEFINITELY worth it all! 😍
One of my favorite cross crafts is the Paid in Full cross:
It’s so simple but SOOOOOOO full of meaning!
I’ll confess, this is a craft that is more for me and the parents than the kiddo 😊
So to make sure the kiddos get some related self expression, here’s the next craft:
Dollar Tree has these great blank wooden crosses…
…just give them some paint, a paint brush…
…or fingers work too 😉 …
…and let them make it their own!
I started with the lighter colors (yellow, red, orange), then after they dried moved on to darker colors so the colors wouldn’t mix and become brown.
Beautiful!
And uniquely their own 💖
I pray you know this Easter that you were worth it all! 💖💖💖💖💖
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