Activities
Why: To show we are happy because Jesus is alive.
With: Card ovals (egg shapes) in different colours, wiggly eyes, stickers, wool, chenille wires, glue, glitter
Duration: 5 minutes
Description:
- Have any of the children had chocolate eggs for Easter? (You may be able to see the evidence without asking!) Talk about how we give Easter eggs at Easter and that makes us happy, but there is an even better reason to be happy. The best news about Easter is that Jesus is alive.
- Let each of the children choose an egg shape and decorate it to make happy Easter egg people. Give them wiggly eyes and a smiley mouth, and use fun things to give them hair (glitter, chenille wires, wool, and so on).
- Why do the egg people look so happy? So that we can look at them and remember Jesus is alive. When the children take their egg people home, they will be able to tell their friends and families – so they can be happy too!
Themes: Cares, Jesus, Easter
Extra ideas
Luke 19:28-40 Luke 22:7–23
Make mini palm trees using kitchen roll tubes and green paper. Each palm tree could have four green leaves with part of Luke 19:38 on each one: ‘God bless the king/ who comes in the name of the Lord!/ Peace in heaven/ and glory to God!’
In this Easter Craft Jesus died but God brought him back to life again, cutting out to replace the scenes following colouring the pictures in.
This is a great Easter Craft activity that can be coloured in and then can be used to change the scenes through Easter by rolling the stone away.
This Easter Craft will get bad news turned into good with this Origami.
This treasure hunt could be played in Church, a Church Hall or meeting place. More questions could be added in your local area.
- How many windows are on the church?
- What does the Y-Team prayer start with?
- What is the 4th Brigade rule?
- Name the leaders at Brigade tonight?
- What time is Brigade on?
- When is the football and rounder’s competition?
- How many brigade logos are on the board?
- Which saint in the church named after?
- Where do we keep the juice?
- How many steps lead into the hall?
- Find a toy we play with at Brigade (outside)?
What you’ll need:
- Mini paper plat
- Orange acrylic craft paint
- Yellow craft foam
- Green craft foam
- Brown craft foam
- Scissors
- Glue
How to make it:
- Place the paper plate upside down on your work surface and paint it orange. Set aside to dry and repeat with a second coat if needed.
- Cut out facial shapes (triangles for eyes and a mouth with a few missing teeth) and glue to the plate.
- Use scissors to trim the plate into a pumpkin-like shape. Do this by cutting a dip in the top where the stem would be and trim the bottom to flatten it a bit.
- Cut two simple oval-shaped leaves from green craft foam and glue to back of the plate at the top of the pumpkin.
- Cut a simple rectangular stem from brown craft foam and glue to the back of the plate, between the leaves.
What you’ll need:
- 9″ paper plate
- Black construction paper
- White construction paper
- Black and pink pens
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- White crepe paper streamers
- Tape
- Pattern
How to make it:
- From the pattern (download here), cut two large ovals from black paper and two small ovals from white paper.
- Use glue stick to attach the white ovals to the black ovals. Use a black marker to add pupils to the white ovals.
- Using the pattern cut two arms from white paper and the mouth from black paper.
- Glue the facial features to the front of the paper plate. Glue the arms to the back of the paper plate.
- Cut crepe paper into five strips, 24 inches long each. Glue crepe paper to the back of the paper plate so that they hang down from the bottom.
- Add cheeks with pink marker and eyebrows with the black marker.
