Pathway to Easter

Our church had a new Easter event this year called Pathway to Easter. There were five different stations that each represented the last days of Christ. They children did an activity at each of the stations. It was a wonderful event, especially because it was held in our brand new building.

Before the kids went to the stations, they got a cupcake that they decorated with icing and jelly beans. This was, by far, Noah's favorite part of the event.
At the first station, Palm Sunday, the kids make a palm leaf.This is our friend Jason dressed up like a disciple at the second station, the Last Supper. We washed each other's hands and had juice, crackers, and grapes.
The third station was the Garden of Gesthamene where the children made prayer pots. They wrote "family", "church", "community", "praise", and "people who need help" on a craft stick, decorated it with a flower, and put it in a pot. We choose one to pray for each day.
At the fourth station, the crucifixion, the children wrote the word "sin" on a piece of paper, taped it to a bouncy ball, and threw it. This symbolized us being able to throw our sins away because of Jesus' death and resurrection.

The fifth station was the resurrection where we made an Easter wreath.

Noah's second favorite part was carrying this pink balloon around. He actually wanted a different pink balloon that another baby was holding, but we persuaded him to take this one instead.