TEACHING THE RESURRECTION STORY TO THE YOUNG

We will use 12 plastic Easter eggs, Inside each egg you put a verse of the Easter Resurrection Story, and an item to represent that. You then number the eggs 1-12 with a marker. Hide them and have the kids hunt for them, and when all are found as the teacher you open them IN ORDER, telling the Story of the Death Burial and Resurrection.

1. A piece of cracker, broken Matthew 26:26

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

2. 3 Silver dimes (pieces of silver)Matthew 26:14
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

3. 1 purple piee of cloth (felt or material - represents the purple robes. Mark 15:17
 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head,

4. thorns (from any bsuh or rose Matthew 27:29
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

5. scourge (piece of think string or rope tied to a twig. Mark 15:15
 And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

6.Cross made of toothpicks John 19:17
And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 18a Where they crucified him,

7. 3 nails John 20:25
 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

8. sign (this is the king of the jews) Luke 23:38
 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

9. Sponge Matthew 27:48
 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

10. Spear (toothpick or straight pin)
 John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

11. Rock Mt 27:59
 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

12. EMPTY
 Matthew 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.