Easter still continued!

Easter Sunday deserves an entry of its own as Little Learners was very special. It was our church Easter brunch and I don’t remember seeing the hall so full! As well as our faithful regulars we had a little friend of Rose’s, Ellie-Kay, join us so Rose came up as well which was lovely, and a friend of Penny’s brought along her little girls too, Sophie 4 and Emma 1. So we had six altogether and Helena came in and helped me as she knew all the children! After prayer time we launched straight into the story as I knew we had to watch the time. We began with how Barabbas was set free while the Lord Jesus took his place and ours, and continuing through Simon of Cyrene helping carry the cross, the time of the crucifixion and culminating in the wonderful Easter resurrection. I used a story book alongside the flannel graph and I had added so many items to my egg box that I had to use a shoe box instead! I added playmobil Barabbas, Simon of Cyrene, the roman centurion and several women including Mary Magdalene coming to the tomb with her lantern! Also die, white cloth, perfume and spices and others that Elaine had already mentioned. Ethan spent a long time looking at the figures around the cross on the flannelgraph and then stated firmly that the wicked soldiers should have been on that cross instead of Jesus, but how the centurion who finally believed that Jesus is the Son of God was a good centurion. He and Rose were answering the questions really well.
We watched a further clip from the read and share DVD bible by Gwen Ellis on my laptop. They loved the part where the angel came down from heaven and rolled the stone away!! We had finally come to the happy part of the story! And we just had time to sing “Jesus loves me” with the musical instruments before the children were called down for their Easter egg hunt.

During the next Little Learners Joannie and I read together out of the massive ‘Hands Up’ story book “Jesus and the Breakfast Barbecue”. This was a really lovely story to take as the boys could relate with the wonderful mural over the pulpit courtesy of Hannah and Saturday club. During our prayer time Hadley wanted to say thankyou that Jesus died on the cross.

For the next few Sundays we hope to cover some of the parables of Jesus. I began last week with the rich farmer. The boys painted cardboard barns and Ethan told Elaine afterwards how “the farmer died and the rabbits ate his carrots”!! Ethan told God in his prayer that “we love Him.”