Bulletin Board: Jesus Took the Fall

Melody Mondays-Resurrection

Jesus Lives Again
(tune: "The Farmer in the Dell")

Jesus lives again.
Jesus lives again.
Alive and well,
oh, go and tell,
Jesus lives again!

Jesus helps His friends.
Jesus helps His friends.
Toss your net
and fish you'll get.
Jesus helps His friends.

Jesus cares for friends.
Jesus cares for friends.
He cooked some fish
oh, tasty dish.
Jesus cares for friends.

song found in "Bible Songs & Action Rhymes" idea book

When teaching the Resurrection lesson to the 2 year olds we didn't go into Jesus cooking fish for his disciples on the beach after the resurrection. Because of this I only used the first verse of this song.

Jesus' Resurrection

Resurrection cookies/buns

These were a big hit with everyone when teaching the lesson on Jesus' Resurrection. Kim found this idea and made these for both of our classes during VBS. They are super neat! As you can see in the picture you take a big marshmallow and a crescent roll (not cooked) and wrap the marshmallow to show the tomb not empty. You roll it in sugar and cinnamon and bake. As it bakes the marshmallow melts and when you remove them from the oven you have an empty tomb! These were cooked ahead and brought to class but we used a non-cooked roll to show the children that the marshmallow was in the tomb! I just loved these. They taste really good too!!

Tomb

My friend Sasha and I made this tomb to use in the 2 year old class at VBS. It was not hard at all. I called our local furniture store and asked for a box. We cut the box down a little so it wouldn't take up quite so much room. Sasha made rocks from poster board. We had them laminated for durability so we could use them again in the future. The stone was made by covering a piece of the box that we cut off and stuffing a little paper into one side. We cut a hole for the entrance and that's it! The box was plenty big enough for the kids to get in and look for Jesus! It was a big hit. Boxes are great for making props and just about every store has boxes that they would love to get rid of.

Three-in-One Visual

I am a big fan of using things more than once, especially big things. My friend, Kim, and I made this two summers ago and it is still being used almost every quarter in our teaching. We took an office chair box and laid it out completely flat. On one side we spray painted it a dark gray with light gray circles to make it appear to be stone. After it dried, we stood it up to see where we would want the door to be. We took a pencil to draw where the door was to go and, with a box cutter, cut it out. We held onto it though to be used as the door. It will fold up flat for easy storing when not being used. We used it like this picture for Daniel in the Lions' Den (we brought in a lot of stuffed lions to put inside), Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead and Jesus' Death and Resurrection (place a mat inside for the body to lay on and then have the mat be empty for Jesus' resurrection). The kids love being able to act out each of these stories with this visual.
For the Fiery Furnace lesson, we added red, yellow and orange tissue paper to the bottom of the door and three kids could be Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (with a 4th child being the protector in the furnace). This was a favorite by the children!!!