Three Sunday School Lesson Plan Ideas for Easter

Easter is one of the most important religious times of the year and is a time to reflect on the life and work of God. Easter is also a very fun time for children because they think of it as the time of year when the Easter bunny comes to give them some goodies. Easter can also be a great time of the year to teach children about the teachings of God and how the significance of Easter plays into their religious beliefs. If you are a Sunday School teacher and need some lesson plans for Easter, here are some great ideas.

You can have the children participate in a Ten Commandments game for a great Sunday School lesson plan idea. The Ten Commandments game is a game that children of any age can play; it works with the three year old children all the way to the teenage children. For the Ten Commandments game you will need to print off a set of the Ten Commandments and cut them out individually and then get some tape and a poster board. You can get the poster board and tape and your local retail store for about three dollars. You need to place a piece of tape on the back of each and then go around the room asking the children about a specific commandment. You can also put them in a hat and have each child grab a commandment out of the hat or you can designate a child to a certain commandment. You can also ask the children about the Ten Commandments in general like how many commandments God gave. Make each child answer a general question about the Ten Commandments or have them explain which commandment they got and why it is important. After each child explains their commandment you can have them stick that commandment on the poster board in the corresponding order according to the number it is. This is a great lesson plan for a Sunday School teacher to use a game in order to teach the children about the Ten Commandments and their importance in our world.

You can also have your Sunday School children make a cross for a great Easter lesson plan and this lesson plan is also good for a child of any age. Get about 24 Popsicle sticks and glue which you can find at a craft store for a few dollars and some blank paper. You will also need to get some colored pencils or crayons which are at any retail store and cost about five dollars. Have the children glue two Popsicle sticks together to form a cross and then have them glue the cross onto a blank piece of paper. Have the children then draw a sun going behind the cross using crayons or colored pencils. You can use this as a great Easter lesson plan because the cross and the sun behind it are very significant within the religious community and tell the story about Jesus and how he was crucified. The cross and the sun behind it will help your Sunday School class learn about Jesus help them understand why these items are so important to the religious community. This is a very easy and simple Sunday School lesson plan for Easter that is fun but also educational.

You can also have your Sunday School children sing special hymns associated with Jesus and the different times in Jesus' life for a great Sunday School lesson plan. You can gather some of the religious hymns that show different periods in Jesus' life like the Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection and explain to the children why these hymns and songs were important at that time. You can use the hymns and songs to show the different moods during each of the important events that occurred to Jesus and relate that to self-expression and things we are going through today. You can allow the Sunday School children to come up with their own hymn or song expressing an important time in their life or an important event to them. This is a great way during Easter to teach the children both about the importance of music in our culture as well as the important things that happened to Jesus. The hymn and song activity for Sunday School is a good game primarily for the older children because they will be able to understand the importance of the songs better and might also be able to relate better. This game could be used for a child who is younger, but the older children will get more out of this game and also will be able to come up with their own song easier.