Celebrate Easter All Week By Learning About The Last Week of Christ's Life

Ever since my oldest was about 3 years old we have celebrated Easter all week leading up to Easter Sunday. This helps us celebrate the Easter season {much like the Christmas season} rather just Easter on one day. It also helps to keep the appropriate focus on Jesus Christ and His Atonement and Resurrection.

“There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The baby Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.” Gordon B. Hinckley

Each child has this little chart to fill out as the week progresses. There are scriptures to be read every day. While no one is certain exactly which day each event occurred, these are the traditionally held beliefs according to the Gospel of Mark. To download the chart and pictures click on the link below.

Celebrate Easter All Week - The Last Week of Christ's Life

Here are some additional activities to do each day with your family. The activities will be updated as I finish them with my own children. {Monday's and Saturday's are still in the works} The bible videos were all recently released at The Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos. They were created to inspire and help strengthen faith in Jesus Christ. Any words that are spoken are quoted directly from the King James version of the Bible.

Palm Sunday:
Bible Video: The Lord's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem
Donkey Craft 

Monday:

Craft: Sugar Cube Temples
Trace your child's body on butcher paper. Let them cut out pictures of good things for their body from magazines and glue them on their body's outline. Pictures could include food to eat, exercise, bathing, reading, education, etc. 

Tuesday:

Love One Another Activity
Ten Commandment {Greatest Commandment} Activity

Wednesday:

Bible Video: Jesus Teaches About the Widow's Mite
Craft: Homemade Clay Oil Lamps

Thursday:

Bible Video: The Last Supper
Bible Video: Jesus Warns Peter and Offers the Intercessory Prayer
Bible Video: The Savior Suffers In Gethsemane
Sacrament Worksheet and Booklet

Friday:
Bible Video: Jesus Is Tried by Caiaphas, Peter Denies Knowing Him
Bible Video: Jesus is Condemned Before Pilate
Bible Video: Jesus is Scourged and Crucified
Bible Video: Jesus Is Laid in a Tomb
Craft: Stained Glass Cross and Hot Cross Buns
Art Study

Saturday:

Sunday:
Bible Video: Jesus Is Resurrected
Bible Video: He Is Risen
Craft: The Empty Tomb 
Hand Print Lilies

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Palm Sunday Donkey Craft

"Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?

And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee." {Matthew 21: 5-11}



This craft is so easy! Cut out the body of a donkey using brown paper. Let the kids add hair, a tail, eyes, etc. Use two clothespins to create the legs and feet and allow the donkey to stand upright.


Even the littlest, chocolate milked stained face youngster can get involved.

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