Palm Sunday Jesus enters Jerusalem. Mark 11:1-10 Lesson plan

 Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King                                       For kids ages 2-8

Review: we’ve been talking about prayer and how we worship God. One way we worship is prayer and another is worship with our lips and hands.

Need a stuffed (puppet) lamb and leaves coats,a horse,  Popsicle sticks and glue.  

This week we’re going to talk about praise and worship.

Memory Verse: "I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." Psalm 63:4 NIV

Who knows that holiday we celebrate this month? (Easter)  why do we celebrate Easter? Well we celebrate Jesus coming dying on the cross and paying for our sins. Making a way for us to go to heaven. We’ll be talking more about that in the weeks leading up to Easter but today we’re going to talk about something that happened a week before Jesus died on the cross.

Before we do who can tell me who is Jesus? Why did Jesus have to come?

For this part of the lesson I cut out pictures of God, Adam and Eve, also blobs in black construction paper to represent sin and red to represent the blood of Jesus, a little lamb and several cut outs of Jesus.

 In the beginning God made a man and a woman but they sinned and now they couldn’t be with God because Sin was in the way (black construction paper). This made God very sad because he loves us but now every child they had now had sin in their hearts and they couldn’t be with God. People had to sacrifice animals to cover their sin. But God still wanted a relationship with us so he taught us through the bible and he promised that he would come and make a way for us. He would pay so we could have a ticket to heaven. A lamb could only cover sin but it didn’t take it away. God wanted us to be with him forever so he was going to have to get the greatest lamb of all Jesus he was going to have to pay for us. So when Jesus came he showed us he’s love and power.

What did he do? He healed the sick, brought people back to life, he feed them and did great miracles but our sin was still in the way. God can see our hearts and he knew that for us to be with him he had to remove the sin. 

now the week before Jesus died he went to Jerusalem to celebrate the pass over because that’s where the temple was (church). But before he entered the City he told his disciples to do something 

Mark 11:1-10New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King

From Oriental Trading

11 As they all approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent out two of his disciples. ² He said to them, “Go to the village ahead of you. Just as you enter it, you will find a donkey’s colt tied there. No one has ever ridden it. Untie it and bring it here. ³ Someone may ask you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ If so, say, ‘The Lord needs it. But he will send it back here soon.’ ”

⁴ So they left. They found a colt out in the street. It was tied at a doorway. They untied it. ⁵ Some people standing there asked, “What are you doing? Why are you untying that colt?” ⁶ They answered as Jesus had told them to. So the people let them go. ⁷ They brought the colt to Jesus. They threw their coats over it. Then he sat on it. ⁸ Many people spread their coats on the road. Others spread branches they had cut in the fields. ⁹ Those in front and those in back shouted,“Hosanna!”“Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Psalm 118:25,26)¹⁰ “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!”“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Discussion Questions: (From http://www.kidssundayschool.com/1633/preschool/2015-2016-curriculum-schedule.php)
 

For younger kids. from Oriental trading 

So even before his disciples got their Jesus knew what was going to happen. He told them to go in and get a colt so he could ride it into the city.

1.     What kind of animal did Jesus tell two of His disciples they would find in the village? (Donkey colt.)
2. What did the disciples of Jesus do with the colt? (Put their cloaks on it and brought it to Jesus.)
3. Had anyone ever ridden the colt before? (No.)
4. As Jesus rode the colt into Jerusalem what did people put on the road in front of Him? (Their cloaks and, branches they had cut in the fields.)
5. What did the people shout as they followed Jesus? (Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the Highest!)
6 . Were the people happy to see Jesus? How can you tell? (Yes. They shouted praises to Him, and they put their cloaks in the road as a sign of worship.)
7. What are some ways we can praise Jesus? (Allow for answers. Then make sure the children know that they can also worship God through prayer.)  

 This people that saw Jesus coming knew who he was and they worshiped him like they would worship a king. They cut down branches so he wouldn’t step on dirt and rocks but on their coats and branches. The people sang praise to Jesus. Even today we need to worship and sing praises with our lips and our hands. We may not cut down branches to lay at Jesus feet but we can lift up our hands to worship him as we sing praise to him.

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Memory Verse: "I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." Psalm 63:4 NIV

From Oriental trading 

For this lessons craft we made praise branches by tracing our hands in green construction paper then cutting and pasting them on a Popsicle stick. We also did a craft from oriental trading as well as some leis they sold there. 

Some Coloring Sheets for younger kids from

freefuneaster.com

Fun snack idea from

Small Things With Love

Fun Snack from

Happy Home Fairy