Holy Week Ideas/ Lessons

I just read this post on the Garber's site and thought it would be great to do during this week. You can link to it here: http://thegarbers.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-advent.html
It's already Wednesday but you can read through the verses with your kids and catch up pretty quickly. Great idea for next year.

Palm Sunday - Make a base using a large piece of Styrofoam covered with sheet moss. Cut palm fronds from green construction paper. Ask your kids to plaace the fronds around the base while someone reads Luke 19:28-48

Monday - Borrow a donkey from your Nativity set and place it on the fronds. Read Luke 20.

Tuesday - Add thirty nickels to the display to represent Judas's pay of silver coins. Read Luke 21.

Wednesday - Make three crosses from twigs gathered from the yard and bound together with twine. Press the crosses into the foam. Read Luke 21.

Thursday - Hang a small grapevine wreath on the center cross to represent the crown of thorns. Read Luke 23:44-49.

Friday - Encourage each family member to offer prayers of gratitude for God's amazing plan of salvation. Read Luke 23: 44-49.

Saturday - Build Jesus's tomb by gluing rocks around a toliet paper roll cut in half. Place a large stone at one end. Read Luke 23:50-56.

Easter morning - Replace the grapevine wreath with a crown. Read Luke 24.