Palms of Praise
A Palm Sunday Activity To Teach About Praising & Honoring God in the Little Things
Objective:
To Teach About Praising & Honoring God in the Little Things.
Bible Reference:
When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”– Luke 19:37-40
Introduction:
At the time of writing this post (in the year 2020), the world is in a lockdown and people have been confined to their homes. Churches have been asked to remain shut and the entire lent season has been spent within the confines of people’s homes. In what would have otherwise been a Palm Sunday where people would be walking in procession with their Church congregation with Palm leaves in their hands singing praises to His Holy Name, people were sitting in front of laptops watching televised Church services. Though people weren’t able to sing praises, Jesus told the Pharisees that even the rocks will cry out His wondrous praises which means that even the most lifeless and stoney hearted will erupt in His praise.
Activity:
In this activity, you will be teaching the children to use 3 things that we all have at home to conjure up a praise procession for Jesus –
1. Paper
2. Palms ( not the leaves but the palms of their hand)
3. Pen
Sounds simple enough, right? Show them the images towards the end of this post and ask them to make something similar and write down how they can praise and honour Jesus sitting at home.
Remind them that honouring God is not just singing and playing the guitar. It’s also the little things like obeying their parents, helping them out at home, sharing with their siblings and so on. Let them know that their words not be empty ones rather write only what they plan on implementing
