If your church is like mine, then Easter Sunday will be a high attendance day in your Sunday school and Children’s ministry. We don’t do the traditional Easter Egg hunt during ministry time, because we want to make Easter about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But what should you teach if your Sunday school curriculum does not have a dated lesson for Easter?
Sunday School Lessons On Easter
There are many places on the internet to find Bible lessons about Easter to teach in your children’s Sunday school class. You can find a large listing of these type sites on my Sunday school lesson page.
Another popular option is to use a special Easter lesson like the Resurrection Eggs. Most churches have a set somewhere in their Sunday school department. It is basically an extended object lesson with twelve eggs each having a clue about the meaning of Easter. I like the Gospel focus of this approach, but would be a little hesitant to do such a complicated object lesson. You can buy a set of Resurrection Eggs from Family Christian stores.
Children’s Easter Videos
Sometimes a dramatic video about Easter can be very effective in telling the Easter story in a fresh way. As a rule I don’t like to use video teaching in Sunday school, but an occasional video is an excellent way to use technology. Be sure to select a video that you have personally watched. When using a video it is good to pause it every ten minutes for discussion. Kids have a lot more questions than they can hold to the end of the Sunday school period.
I recommend the Passion Trilogy and An Easter Carol. You can also get these from Family Christian Stores.
Special Easter Craft Project
I’ve written another article about finding Easter Crafts for children’s Sunday school. Crafts are always a great way to promote hands on learning. There are so many powerful symbols of Easter in the Christian tradition. These can easily be used to retell and teach the story of Jesus being raised from the dead.
What do you plan to teach on Easter? Leave a comment and start the conversation.
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Carolyn!@Goodsprings Baptist 02.18.08 at 8:47 pm
I do the resurrection eggs during our egg hunt while the
eggs are being hidden. On Easter morning, for the five
year olds sunday school I do a story I call : The darkest
day\the brightest day. I use the large flannel board and already have the 3 crosses up. It is covered with a piece of (see-through) black nylon net. This represents
the darkness God sent that sad day. For the brightest day, I change it to the tomb with the stone rolled away.
the children decorate it with felt easter lilies.
Jared Kennedy 03.04.08 at 8:51 pm
Our kids worship leader, Chandi, has a cute idea for our kids worship time. We’re singing “Low in the Grave He Lay.” The kids will begin in a squatting position for the verses, then they will jump up and down with hands and arms stretched above their heads as we begin the chorus. I realized that I’ve been doing this inside all of my life. It will be fun to actually get to jump along with the kids!!
Tony Kummer 03.05.08 at 12:10 am
Jared - I really like that idea. Thanks for the comment.
Melissa 03.05.08 at 9:55 am
I’ve really never thaught about an “egg hunt” taking away from what the true meaning of Easter is. I’ve been children’s ministry director form almost three years now- I just continued the “tradition” of the last director - The only difference being we do not have a hunt on Easter Sunday-Our hunt this year is being held at my daughters home on Saturday the 15th-Last year we visisted one of the Nursing homes in our area and delivered flowers then came back and did a coloring contest/lunch and then the hunt-parents of children that are not “faithful” to church had a blast and were actually in church the next day.
sita jayatilaka 03.05.08 at 1:16 pm
Do you think that we are called upon to convert others to our faith or our way of thinking. I really dont. GOD, His SON and the HOLY SPIRIT will do the needful. We are called upon to show the love of Christ, and do things that would please him. These acts will will touch their hearts to inquire as to why they received love and kindness. The SPIRIT of the LORD will step in and provide the ignition!! Am I on the correct path? Share your faith and thoughts please.
Ruth 03.07.08 at 3:40 am
In India the Easter Egg hunt is not a tradition but I have been thinking about something like a Treasure hunt with verses for our children.