Pretend Trip to Jerusalem
Take the children on a “flight” to Jerusalem (line up chairs in a hallway for the plane) and a short walk to a “garden” just outside the gates of the Old City (move extra plants and/or flowers into the Primary room and display a picture of the Garden Tomb; see Primary 2 manual, picture 2-62 or Primary 7 manual, picture 7-35).
Have the pianist play Easter songs as the children enter the “garden” (see CS Topics index—Easter). Then hold an Easter morning “sunrise service.”
Tell the children that if they were really at the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, there would be many people there who loved Jesus but who were not members of our Church. We would want them to know of our love and reverence for Jesus Christ.
Tell about Palm Sunday (see John 12:12–15), show Primary 7 manual, picture 7-28, and sing “Hosanna” (CS, pp. 66–67).
Assign helpers to hold pictures from the Primary 7 manual of Christ at the Last Supper (7-29), Christ in Gethsemane (7-30), Christ on the cross (7-33), and Christ at the tomb (7-34).
Ask the children to tell what they remember about the pictures.
Sing “Help Us, O God, to Understand” (CS, p. 73).
In advance, assign the following:
* someone to tell the events of the first Easter morning (see John 20:1–18),
* a member of the bishopric or Primary presidency to give a short message about how we can always remember Jesus Christ (see “In Remembrance of Jesus,” Friend, Apr. 1998, IFC);
* several children to share very briefly why they are grateful for the Savior, or how they know that He loves them.
Sing “I Feel My Savior’s Love,” (CS, pp. 74–75).
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