Activities for Lent

Last updated on: February 28, 2006

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Styrofoam Easter Egg Decorations What you will need: Styrofoam eggs, lace, beads, sequins, short straight pins, silk flowers, Rick Rack etc. What to do: 1. Use straight pins to stick lace, beads, sequins, or anything else that would look pretty onto the eggs. You may need to buy straight pins with the round heads to stick some beads on that have large holes. 2. To hang the egg, cut a length of ribbon use a straight pin to secure it to the top of the egg.

Cotton Ball Chick What You Need ·2 yellow cotton balls (see tips) ·1/2 of a clean egg shell or cup from egg carton ·Black construction paper ·Orange construction paper ·Scissors ·Hole punch ·Glue How To Make It 1. Use the hole punch to make eyes out of black construction paper. 2. Cut a small square from orange construction paper and fold it in half to form a triangle for the beak. 3. Glue one cotton ball into the bottom of the egg shell. Glue the other cotton ball on top for the head. 4. Glue on the two eyes and beak. 5. You're done!

The Egg Hunt Cut six eggs each out of four different colors of paper. Hide the eggs throughout the school. Divide students into four teams. Give each team a written clue or directions to help them find their first egg. On the back of the first egg, write a clue or directions to the second, and so forth. The winning team is the first to find all six eggs and return to the classroom. Mystery Egg If possible, obtain plastic Easter eggs. (Even half a dozen is sufficient.) Fill each egg with a different substance--sand, coins, paper, candy, rocks, grass, etc. Students must try to guess what is inside each egg by asking questions. (i.e. Is it soft or hard? Does it taste good? Is it something usually found outside? and so forth.)  A variation is to tell one student what is inside the egg. That student must then answer questions. Scrambled Eggs Cut egg halves out of paper. On the back of each half, write a word or draw a picture. On the next half, write or draw its opposite (i.e. hot/cold, big/little, over/under, etc.). Label the first half A and the second B. When students arrive, give each one two mismatched egg halves (one A half and one B half). Students must find their other half by asking other students questions in English. When the students make a match, the student holding the A half keeps the match. The winner is the first student to give away his B half and find the match for his A half. (This activity may also be done with rhyming words, numbers/number words, pictures/vocabulary words, etc.) Egg Relay Race The way you play this game is to have at least 15 kids and/or adults.If you were playing with 15 people you would need 5 hard-boiled eggs because there are 3 people on a team and you get the point.Well,you put the egg on the spoon and run with it to the next person in the line(you need to put the three people in a line about 10 to 15 feet apart.)If you drop the egg then you have to go back to YOUR starting point and run with it again. Whoever wins gets the desired prize of the person who is responsible for holding the race.There are first,second, and third places.I've played this at my school since second grade,I'm in sixth now, and it's been more delightful every time I play it!! Egg Toss People pair-off and face each other at a starting line. each pair is given one egg. An official blows a whistles (or shouts some appropriate term), and each person takes a large step backwards. The person in each pair with the egg tosses it to the person without. When all couples have completed their toss, the official signals for a second round and the process repeats (large step backward, toss, pause, etc, etc). If a couple does not successfully complete its toss, and the egg has not broken, they return to the starting line. If it breaks, they're out. The couple that's left in the end (presumably far away from the starting line) wins.

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Easter Prayer RED is for the blood He  gave. GREEN is for the grass He made. YELLOW is for the sunflowers so  bright. BLACK is for the dark of night. WHITE is for the grace He  gave. ORANGE is for the sun He made. PURPLE is for the hours of sorrow. PINK is for our new tomorrow. A bag full of jelly  beans, colorful and sweet. It's a prayer, a promise, and a child's  treat. May the risen Lord Bless you this Easter and always.

Shrouding Sacred Statues & Pictures Take out purple dye and reheat. Count your statues and holy pictures, then cut strips of cloth to dye and use as shrouds for the artwork on Passion Sunday, just as the shrouds are used in church. This reminds us that with the arrival of Passion Sunday, the last most solemn and sorrowful weeks of Lent have begun. Good-Deed CounterJar Dye lima beans purple to be used as counters in a jar. Dye the lima beans as directed. Draw a large cross on the poster-board. Explain that purple is a color for royalty, for Christ is our risen King. Every time a child does an act of charity, penance, or alms, he/she will receive a bean to place in his/her jar. Every week in Lent, glue all the week's beans onto the poster, filling in the cross. This shows that we are all helping Jesus to carry His cross. Each bean helps Jesus carry the cross and helps us prepare for Good Friday and Christ's Passion. Supplies: 1-lb. Bag of lima beans 1 package of purple dye 1 large poster board 1 jar per child to display on altar Make a Works of Mercy Mobile Have your children review all of the works of mercy. Then either draw or cut out pictures from magazines to fit the description of each work. Attach to hanger with tape and string and have the children hang them in their rooms to remind them to do these good works during the remainder of Lent. Make Stations of the Cross Booklets Gather holy cards, pictures from magazines or religious greeting cards. Run off copies of each text page of the Stations of the Cross from a missal or other good source. Arrange the text on one side of the page and have children choose a picture to glue on the opposite side. Have student color or glue a picture on the front of the booklet also. Staple booklets for children. Optional: Use the booklets to say the Stations in the church. Recreate a Last Supper Meal Traditional items needed are bitter herbs; parsley, chives, and celery greens. Unleavened bread is served with the herbs. Then the feast day meal of yearling lamb is roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and the traditional brown sauce. Each time you dip into the herb sauce, remember our Lord answering sadly the question of the apostles as to who was the traitor: "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me" (Matthew 26:23). Afterwards the table is cleared and in front of the father is put a tray of unleavened bread and red wine. He blesses them and hands some to each individual, each drinking and eating, remembering our Lord, Who must have celebrated such "love feasts" many times with his apostles. This was signifying our Lord's great farewell.

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