Jesus ascended to heaven and was seated at the right hand of God. He will come back some day soon in the same way. Praise God! Our Savior reigns!
This lesson includes one or more of the Savior Souvenirs — a cloud for His ascension
The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ resurrection and the weeks following until His ascension. To see the lesson list, click here.
Peter declares His love for Jesus — John 21
We start the presentation with a Tic-Tac-Toe game to remember how Peter denied Jesus. Then we make a boat and, act out the story as it is read and presented. After breakfast, Jesus and Peter go for a walk. Jesus gives Peter the chance to declare his love. Jesus gives him a job and assures him that he will be strong and not deny Him again. We too can share our love for God and feed others. We prepare some snacks and promises in a net to give away.
This lesson could include one or more of the Savior Souvenirs — a fish or lamb.
The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ resurrection and the weeks following until His ascension. To see the lesson list, click here.
Cleopas and the other disciple were wondering about the events of Jesus’ death. Jesus came and explained the prophecies in scripture and how they were fulfilled in His life, death, and resurrection. We don’t know really what Jesus said, but we do know the prophecies that were fulfilled, so this lesson focuses on those prophesies as they looked back on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Jesus gave proof after proof that He was the Messiah and that He was Alive!
The kids love the collection and games to go along with this.
For an alternative lesson on the Savior Souvenirs
The lesson is one of the many stories of Jesus’ resurrection and the weeks following until His ascension. To see the lesson list, click here.
The following stories are witness reports of the fact that Jesus is alive! We too are witnesses because we see His work in our lives through the precious gift of His Holy Spirit. Praise the LORD!
Just click on the titles to go to the page of the lesson and activities. For the lessons prior to this time that tell of the events of Jesus’ trial, crucifixion and events leading up to that click here.
Matthew 28, Mark 16 — Jesus rises, Women see and tell, Jesus is alive!
This presentation focuses more on the event of Jesus’ resurrection. There was an earthquake, Jesus rose, an angel rolled away the stone, soldiers fell then ran, and women came. The angel and Jesus had good news for the ladies and a message for His disciples. Jesus is not dead. He is alive! He will meet you. We, too, have the assurance that we, too, will see Him! Because He lives, we too will live forever with Him! Praise God!
This presentation is based on Luke 24. It highlights the walk to Emmaus and Jesus visiting the disciples. We start out with a yummy snack that helps tell the story of Jesus’ burial and resurrection, Resurrection Rolls with croissant rolls and marshmallows. This is a fun story to act out the story, if you desire. We end with Jesus’ ascension.
Cleopas and the other disciple were wondering about the events of Jesus’ death. Jesus came and explained the prophecies in scripture and how they were fulfilled in His life, death, and resurrection. We don’t know really what Jesus said, but we do know the prophecies that were fulfilled, so this lesson focuses on those prophesies as they looked back on Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. Jesus gave proof after proof that He was the Messiah and that He was Alive!
This presentation is based on John 20. It highlights Mary Magdalene seeing Jesus at the tomb and Jesus visiting the disciples again while Thomas is there. We are encouraged to believe it — Jesus is alive! He gave his witnesses proof. They believed and we can too! We start this presentation by making resurrection rolls with marshmallows and croissant bread. We also make some cute bag puppets to help tell the story.
We start the presentation with a Tic-Tac-Toe game to remember how Peter denied Jesus. Then we make a boat and, act out the story as it is read and presented. After breakfast, Jesus and Peter go for a walk. Jesus gives Peter the chance to declare his love. Jesus gives him a job and assures him that he will be strong and not deny Him again. We too can share our love for God and feed others. We prepare some snacks and promises in a net to give away.
Jesus ascended to heaven and was seated at the right hand of God. He will come back some day soon in the same way. Praise God! Our Savior reigns!
Matthew 26, Luke 22, John 18
In this lesson, we reiterate the verse, “Watch and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” Matthew 26:41. Oh how weak we are in times of difficulty! Yet Jesus is strong! He is faithful!
This lesson includes one or more of the Savior Souvenirs — silver coins, a sword, a piece of leather like a whip, or a thorn (or a rose bush or olive tree) to represent the crown of thorns.
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.
Hosanna! Jesus Saves and Delivers us!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Credits for the pictures go to those whose they are.
We have the hope and promise that Jesus is coming again! Jesus wants us to be ready when He comes. It seems like it is taking Jesus a loooooong time, but the time of His coming is getting closer! We need Him, his Holy Spirit, in our hearts and lives. Our prayer is that we will be forever faithful to Him. In this presentation the kids get to make little clay lamps. We put battery operated tea lights in ours. Just like it’s important to have an extra battery in case we have to have our lights on for a long time, it is important to keep Jesus in our hearts each and every day. He will give us the energy to live faithfully forever!
his parable is full of truth for all of us. Jesus is a generous sower sowing seeds of truth and love everywhere. But not all the seeds fall on good soil. How is the soil of your heart? Are you ready to listen and take in the message? During this presentation we will learn about seeds, act out the parable, color, sing, and plant seeds in soft soil.
Our youth group enjoyed putting on a fun skit based on this story. It was written by Julianne Bruce for GROUP Funtastic Skits. Since then, I haven’t found it online. But maybe you can.