Friday: The sad garden
You need
Things to make a Jesus figure and a donkey, or just use a plastic animal! Some bread and wine (juice)
Cross made out of twigs or lollipop sticks tied with string.
Activity
Read Holy week story from when Jesus arrives at Jerusalem riding on a donkey to the Garden of Gethsemane. or The servant king and A dark night in the Garden from The Jesus Storybook Bible.
Make Jesus and the donkey and ride him across your garden over leaves on the ground.
Jesus ate a special last dinner with his friends. He asked us to do this thing to remember what he was about to do. Place a little bread and some juice in a tiny cup for Jesus.
Jesus was then praying and crying in the garden. He was talking to God about a very hard thing he needed to do and being separated from God.
Make a cross for your garden.
Remember that Jesus died on that cross but came back 2 days later! That’s what we celebrate on Easter Sunday!!
Communion
As a family take communion together. See separate instructions for this.
