Activity Array

Here you'll find an array of activities for elementary children that can be used in Children's Ministry, after-school programs, in the classroom and by homeschoolers.

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Jesus Celebrates the Passover

A graphic featuring a biblical scene of Jesus and his disciples sharing a meal, with text about redemption and instructions for a Passover celebration.

This presentation correlates Luke’s account of the Lord’s Supper with the Passover celebration. The children get to participate in the Passover with the foods. We hear of Jesus’ love and are reminded that He indeed is our Redeemer and Savior. He is the Messiah and invites us to join in His kingdom, so we look forward to the final fulfillment of the Passover when Jesus comes again. It is His blood that is on the door to our hearts. He is the Passover Lamb that died for our sin. He is coming to take us to Heaven, our Promised Land. It is because of Jesus’ sacrifice that we are truly free! He has redeemed us and, as we find in Revelation 22, will eventually recreate and restore our home on earth where we will live eternally, when it is time.

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Companion Post: The Lord’s Supper

This lesson includes one or more of the Savior Souvenirs — a communion cup, a ‘cracker’ made of air dry clay, a ‘water basin’ which simply is a plastic lid like from a milk jug, or a towel which simply is a portion of a cut up cheap wash cloth.

The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ last week before his death, resurrection, and the weeks that followed. You can find a list of the other lessons here along with their links.


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The Lord’s Supper

A digital image showing two panels. The left panel features a depiction of Jesus at a table with twelve followers, highlighting a scene from Matthew 26 about faith and betrayal. The right panel presents Jesus speaking to his followers, with a message emphasizing faithfulness, referencing Zechariah 13:7.

This presentation shows the Lord’s Supper and acknowledges the weakness in Judas and Peter. We will follow their stories along with Jesus’ Faithfulness in the next few presentations. We see how much Jesus loves us. He is our strength. He is Faithful!

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Companion Presentation — Jesus Celebrates the Passover

This lesson includes one or more of the Savior Souvenirs — a communion cup, a ‘cracker’ made of air dry clay, a ‘water basin’ which simply is a plastic lid like from a milk jug, or a towel which simply is a portion of a cut up cheap wash cloth.

The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ last week before his death, resurrection, and the weeks that followed. You can find a list of the other lessons here along with their links.


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Triumphal Entry

Hosanna! Jesus Saves and Delivers us!

Option 1

An illustrated worship guide featuring a scene with Jesus and people joyfully proclaiming 'Hosanna!' under palm trees, with scriptural references and craft activity suggestions.

In this newer PowerPoint Presentation, the kids are encouraged to act out the story. The focus is in one of the key words, HOSANNA, which means, save us; deliver us. Many in the crowd had experienced Jesus delivering them from many ailments and even demon possession. They accepted Jesus as Messiah and Savior. However, not everyone did. The leaders wanted to shut up the crowd’s acclamation. But Jesus said if they did, the rock would cry out. Jesus longed for the leaders to understand the truth. He wept over the city and the results of their actions.

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Option 2

A colorful graphic featuring the text 'God is Amazing! His Work is Exciting. Praise Him in Song' against a background of palm leaves, and a scene on the right depicting cut-out figures celebrating, including Jesus on a donkey with speech bubbles saying 'Praise God!' and 'Hosanna!'

His Bible story can be found in all the gospels. We’ll have fun praising God in skit or with action figures made by us! God is worthy of our praise! Jesus is amazing! Let’s praise them for all they do.

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Triumphal Entry Stick figures — by teacher for teachers;

This lesson includes one of the Savior Souvenirs — a pretend palm frond or donkey.

The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ last week before his death, resurrection, and the weeks that followed. You can find a list of the other lessons here along with their links.

Craft Ideas — For these crafts I re-imagined and re-crafted the coloring pages.

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Jesus Anointed

John 12

Left page features an artistic depiction of Mary anointing Jesus with perfume, accompanied by biblical quotes from John and Matthew.

We can choose, like Mary, to honor God and share our love for Him. Sharing our love for Jesus is like a sweet smell wafting through the air.

Preparation: Have some little containers like the old negative canisters or spice bottles with paper wrapped around them to hide what is inside. Inside place different smelly objects like orange peels, cut garlic cloves, a cotton ball with vanilla on it, etc. Take into consideration your children’s allergies.

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This lesson includes one of the Savior Souvenirs — a small perfume bottle. I found small bottles at the Dollar Tree. I put some glitter glue (with perfume mixed in) in them to represent the perfume.


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Savior Souvenirs — Celebrating Jesus

An image with two sections; the left side features a graphic displaying a gift box labeled 'Savior Souvenirs' alongside text about special gifts of forgiveness and eternal life. The right side highlights the phrase 'I Am' with biblical references and illustrations depicting Jesus at key moments in the Gospels.

In this PowerPoint presentation we take a quick look at many of the significant times during Jesus’ last week before He gave His life. For each of the stories, there is an object for the kids to collect. I call the collection Savior Souvenirs. It is very similar to Resurrection Eggs, however I felt I made enough changes to call it something different and I wanted to honor those who have decided to move away from the pagan portions of Easter. We place the souvenirs in a gift box (I got some from Dollar Tree) because Jesus gave the greatest gift of all — His life! Through him we have forgiveness and eternal life! Print out. The items you choose to put in the box may vary.

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Savior Souvenir Activity

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The Savior Souvenirs work into the stories of Jesus’ last week before His death and the weeks after His resurrection. You can find a list of those lessons and their links here.

An Alternative lesson for the Savior Souvenirs is the Walk to Emmaus lesson.


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Lord’s Prayer — Forgive and Deliver us from Temptation and Sin

Slide with a warning about materialism featuring an illustration of a hyena caught in a trap, accompanied by a biblical quote from 1 Timothy 6:9.

…”And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” Matthew 6:9-13

The LORD knows us better than even we know ourselves. Remember how He knew Peter’s weakness and counseled that he pray that he would not fall into temptation? He counsels us to do the same. In this PowerPoint presentation we look at what temptation means and how to avoid falling into sin. The best news is that Jesus is victorious and with Him, we are winners too!

Greed or Generosity? Preparation: Have 2 buckets, as pictured above, attached to the ceiling or high place by their handles. The handles should be large enough to allow the bucket to tip over. Bucket 1 has ping pong balls and a string with a dollar bill attached. Bucket 2 is filled with dollar bills, stickers, etc. (enough for everyone in your class) and has a heart attached to the pull string. The pull strings are attached to the edge of the buckets. The first volunteer should ‘choose’ greed as represented by the rolled up dollar bill. When they pull on the string they get the dollar and are pelted with ping pong balls – hailstones. The second volunteer should choose ‘generosity’ and the kingdom of God (love, righteousness, compassion, etc.) When they pull on the string and the bucket tips, they are pelted with dollar bills, stickers, and whatever other light, gentle items that you have put in the bucket.

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Companion Posts:

Jesus teaches us to Pray

Our Father in Heaven… Your Kingdom Come

Your will be done… Give us our Daily Bread


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The Lord’s Prayer God’s will and Daily Bread

A visual guide featuring a biblical verse from Luke 11, illustrating themes of asking, seeking, and knocking, alongside instructions for a craft activity. The left side shows children interacting and asking for snacks, while the right side lists step-by-step directions for creating handprint art using clay.

…”Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread….” Matthew 6:9-13

Our Heavenly Father knows us so well and loves us so much! He generously gives us all we need. He loves hearing our requests. He invites us to ask, seek, and knock, knowing that we can trust Him to provide and protect. We can rest assured also because He knows the future and all those who connect with us throughout life. Therefore, if He sees that what we are asking for is really not for our good, how appropriate it is that we submit to Him and ask that His will be done. He has our best interest and our eternal interest in His mind.

In preparation, have special snacks near a leader to give when asked, hidden for kids to find, and behind a door or in another classroom for others to give. Also have some air dry clay, rolling pins, and butter knives. We added hand prints to our craft also by putting a thin layer of washable acrylic paint on a plate for the kids to put their hands in and then put on their clay hands.

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Craft Explanation

We added hand prints to our craft also by putting a thin layer of washable acrylic paint on a plate for the kids to put their hands in and then put on their clay hands.

Next lesson — Lord’s Prayer: Forgive and Deliver us from Evil


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The Lord’s Prayer — Our Father in Heaven

A collage featuring a group of people discussing together in a serene outdoor setting, with biblical text about being God's children, images of colorful figure toys representing creation, and a smiling person holding a treasure chest, symbolizing joy and spiritual treasures.

“Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come….. Matthew 6:9-13

This Lord’s Prayer lesson focuses on the first part of the Lord’s Prayer. We take a close look at God as our Father. What is our Heavenly Father like? He’s amazing! Loving! Full of mercy! We also explore what His kingdom is like. Isn’t is amazing how LARGE God’s kingdom is and how much He want us to be part of that kingdom! He even came to tell us about it, died so that our sins could be erased forever, rose again so that we could have eternal life, and went to heaven so that we could have His extra special gift, the Holy Spirit — God’s kingdom in us!

The kids get to make aspects of the lesson with play dough and make the first part of their very own Prayer Journal.

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Prayer Journal

Credits for the pictures go to those whose they are.

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Next Lesson: Part 2 of the Lord’s Prayer — Thy Will and Daily Bread

Jesus Teaches us to Pray — an overview of the Lord’s Prayer


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Jesus Teaches How to Pray

The Lord’s Prayer

Luke 11

A colorful educational graphic featuring the Lord's Prayer from Luke 11, with cartoon characters discussing the prayer and engaging in an interactive game.

Our nature nugget in this lesson is the Emperor Penguin. The daddy penguin cares for the egg and the little chick, like God cares for us. God wants us to be near Him. He is listening to our call. He not only gives us our daily bread, but so much more, too! Jesus taught his disciples to pray and loves it when we pray also.

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The Lord’s Prayer Coloring Pages

Optional Object Lesson: Thy Will Be Done

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Other Lesson Options:

If you want to spend more time on each aspect of the Lord’s Prayer, as I did. Check out these three lessons:

Our Father covers “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.”

Thy will and Daily bread covers “Thy will be done. Give us this day our daily bread.”

Forgiveness and Temptation covers “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”


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Jesus Teaches about Humility

Matthew 20:20-28, Luke 14:7-14

Illustration depicting a biblical scene with Jesus speaking to a mother and her two sons, set against a Middle Eastern backdrop.

James and John (or was it their mother) requested that they be able to sit on either side of Jesus in His kingdom. At a banquet, there was a similar problem. People were clamoring for the best seats. Jesus stated “For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” Humility is our focus. Our craft is the toy pictured. It’s OK if others praise us. When we are humble, Jesus lifts us up.

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Companion Post: The Parable of the Vineyard