Coronavirus Lockdown Resources

EASTER SPECIAL

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkNTU_Vv5Ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqOR4FDdYw

Click on the pdf files for three downloadable activity sheets!

Activity 1 - Print and colour the card Easter Card, why not do a couple for your neighbours or put one in the post to a friend?

Activity 2 - Make an Easter Nest - This is an activity idea to do with your parents.

Ingredients:

Chocolate - a large bar.

Cereal - shredded wheat, rice crispies or cornflakes

Mini Eggs or Smarties to go inside (CARE - please be careful if using mini eggs as they can cause a choking risk in small children).

Cake cases

Method:

Break the chocolate into small pieces and place in a large bowl.

Boil the kettle and half fill a saucepan with the water.

Place the bowl containing the chocolate over the saucepan and gently stir until the chocolate has melted.

Take the bowl off of the saucepan and place on a tea towel (CARE - the bowl will be hot)

Add the cereal in small amounts at a time (if you are using shredded wheat you will need to break it up first).

Keep stirring until the cereal is all coated and there’s no chocolate left at the bottom of the bowl.

Place spoonfuls into cake cases and place a mini egg on the top.

Place in the fridge for 3 hours or until firm before eating!

Prayer - Write or draw a prayer thanking God for Easter and for sending Jesus to die for us so that we can live with God forever. Spend a few minutes listening to God speak to your heart like little cub did in the second story. What is God whispering to your heart?

Week 1 - The Story and the Song

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN0uX-rdqdU

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Use a piece of paper or card and design a cover for a Bible, then over the next few weeks you can put your activity sheets in a folder with the cover and you’ll have made your own mini Bible!

Prayer - There’s lots of strange things going on in the world at the moment and lots of things are different to normal but God is greater than it all and he is looking after you and he’s listening when you talk to him. Can you think of three things you can thank God for today?

Week 2 - The Beginning

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEMa0kvroI

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Make some of the things God created out of playdough, if you don’t have any playdough or want to have a go at making your own - just mix together 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of salt and 1/2 cup of water!

Prayer - Look out of your window and praise God for everything he’s made that you can see, how many things can you find?

Week 3 - A Terrible Lie

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YnV-lTY8vI

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Print the snake and colour it in.

Cut out the snake and then hang it up from the middle to remind us God loves us and gives us eternal life even though we don’t deserve it.

Prayer - Think about something wrong you’ve done this week. Write or draw it on a piece of paper and then rub it out as Jesus rubs out the bad things we do.

Week 4 - A New Beginning

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCLRcA9mlQE

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Rainbows remind us that God always keeps his promises. Print the picture of a rainbow and colour it using crayons, paint, tissue paper, cut up bits of coloured paper as a mosaic or any other ideas. If you’ve already put one in your window try doing this one using something different. If you have some tracing paper or some greaseproof paper, place the printed picture underneath as a template and colour it in using felt tip pens then stick it on the window as it will make a great stained glass window!

Prayer - Draw a picture of one of your friends and pray for them.

Week 5 - A Giant Staircase to Heaven

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOqWtNeV38

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Make a tower using whatever you can find at home, some recycling, a newspaper or some of your toys, see how high you can make it and send us a picture of your towers! Also have a look and see how many different ways you can find to say ‘hello’ in different languages.

Prayer - Choose three countries and pray for them. Pray for the churches to grow, more people to know Jesus and for the virus to stop in those countries.

Week 6 - Son of Laughter

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7KL02onQfI

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Print the stars onto card or thick paper and cut them out, you need two stars to make one 3D star so one sheet will make three stars.

Colour or decorate both sides of each star. Cut up the small line inside each one, and push the stars together where the cuts are to make one 3D star.

You could add some string and hang them up!

Prayer - Draw two large stars and write or draw a prayer inside each one, in the first one thank God for something and in the second one pray for something or someone.

Week 7 - The Present

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXNOFXY3MVI

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Make ram using this link https://ohhappydaze.net/2014/11/07/god-will-provide-ram-craft/

Prayer - Write or draw a thank you prayer, thank God that he is a good Father and loves us so much he sent Jesus.

Week 8 - The Girl no one wanted

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gar8DYSuBig

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Print the picture and draw a picture of yourself or put a photo in the middle and decorate and put somewhere in your room to remind yourself that God made you and God loves you with a never stopping, never giving up, never breaking, always and forever love too.

Prayer - Draw pictures of some of the amazing things God has made and thank God for them.

Week 9 - The Forgiving Prince

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpGa9OVOuo

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Can you design Joseph a beautiful multicoloured coat? You can use the attached template and colour or make a collage.

Prayer - Has anyone hurt or upset you this week? Can you write or draw a prayer to forgive them like Joseph forgave his brothers?

Week 10 - God to the Rescue

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3Q6cjMwLk

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Make a picture of a burning bush, you could use paint, tissue paper or anything else you have at home.

Prayer - When people asked Jesus how we should pray, he gave an example, it’s called the Lord's Prayer. It goes like this:

Our Father who art in heaven (art means lives, God is our heavenly father and we can pray to him just like we can talk to our dads

Hallowed be your name (hallowed means holy and it’s like saying to God, you are really special and we worship you)

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (this means God please make everything in the world right again just like you do in heaven)

Give us this day our daily bread (this is asking God to give us everything we need for today)

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us (trespasses means sins, or the wrong stuff we do, so this is asking God to forgive us for the wrong things we do and us forgiving other people when they get things wrong too)

And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil (temptation is when we want to do something wrong and deliver means rescue, so this is saying to God please stop us from wanting to do wrong things and rescue us from bad things)

For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory (this just means you’re in charge God, you’re the king!)

For ever and ever

Amen (this means I agree)

Week 11 - God makes a way

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDXeq_WsbWY

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Can you get creative this week and recreate the parting of the red sea? Here are a few ideas why not make the scene made out of lego, cake, paper or using sheets, why don’t you have a go at one of these or come up with your own ideas!

Prayer - Do you know someone who needs God to work a miracle in their life like God did for the Israelites? Pray for them.

Week 12 - Ten ways to be perfect

Here is a link to watch the story being read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYWGyjoArFI

Click on the pdf file for a downloadable activity sheet!

Activity - Either draw around your hands on a piece of paper or do handprints using paint and then write each of the 10 commandments one on each finger or thumb.

Prayer - Pray for the nations - pick a country and pray for the people of that country, pray for the churches there, for protection from the coronavirus, for the leaders and for the children in that country.