For all Christians, Easter Sunday is a day of joy and celebration. Use these Easter Sunday school ideas with your preschoolers to help them understand the significance of this day.
Sunday School Ideas to Celebrate Easter
Set up your room before your class arrives. Your theme this Easter Sunday is to create a party – a celebration – to emphasize the happiness that we feel now that the Lord has risen. Hang balloons, banners, etc. Create a festival atmosphere.
Bible Story: This morning, either use a bible story book appropriate for this age group to tell the story of why Christians are so happy on Easter Sunday, or tell the story in your own words that a Sunday school class in this age group will understand. If you use a book where this is not the case, make sure that you emphasize the joy that we have on this day.
Activity: Play a few games – for example:
Stick the tail on the bunny – draw an outline of a rabbit and pin it on the wall at an appropriate height for the children to reach. Have a ball of tissue paper ready to use as the tail and then blindfold each child in turn, take them to the drawing, give them the tissue paper tail, and have them stick it on where they think the tail is.
Treasure hunt – hide a few Easter related items, such as small decorative chicks or rabbits, or paper shaped as Easter eggs, etc around the room and have the children find them. Make sure these are not in obvious places that would be seen before the children were told to look for them. The child who finds the most should be awarded with a small prize such as bookmark.
Pass the parcel – you will need to have some music for this game such as a CD or tape player, and a small parcel that’s wrapped. You can either wrap up something you will give as the prize to the winning child, or you could give something such as bookmark to whoever is left not holding the parcel at the end of the game.
Have the children sit in a ring. Give the parcel to one child and start the music. The children should pass the parcel from one to the other around the ring. When the music stops, whoever has the parcel in their hands is out and must leave the ring. Encourage those who are out to clap along in time to the music. When it comes to the last two children, the winner is the child not holding the parcel.
Discussion: After the games, settle the children down again and tell them once more about why we, as Christians, rejoice on Easter Sunday.
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