Dave Hop Teach the following responses to your audience so they can join in with the story.
Rabbits – Say ‘Boing boing!’ Chickens – Make chicken sounds
Chocolate Eggs – Mime eating a chocolate egg Sad – Make a sad face
Soldiers – Salute and sit to attention Running – Run on the spot
Gardener – Pretend to dig Scratching – scratch head
Rolled – Mime rolling a very big stone
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When we think of Easter we might think of rabbits and chickens. And chocolate eggs! But actually there’s more to Easter than rabbits and chickens and eggs. Easter goes back a long, lo-o-o-o-ng way. And it’s about Jesus. And all his friends.
Now Jesus’s friends were sad – because they thought he was gone – they had seen him die on a cross, and they were very very sad. REALLY SAD.
Three days after he died – on a Sunday morning – very early in the morning, one of Jesus’s friends came running to his grave. She was called Mary. There were supposed to be soldiers guarding the grave – but when Mary got there, the soldiers had gone – and the tomb was open. It was like a big cave with a heavy stone in front and the stone had been rolled away. Next thing you know lots of Jesus’s friends came running to see what was going on. They couldn’t see any soldiers either, and they could see the stone had been rolled away, but they couldn’t find Jesus so they went away scratching their heads.
Mary stayed there thinking, and then she heard a footstep and saw a gardener working nearby. She said, ‘What’s happened to Jesus?’ And the gardener smiled, and he called her name, ‘Mary!’ And she realised, this wasn’t the gardener, he was Jesus, he was alive, raised from the dead! It was a miracle!!
So, next time you think about Easter, with its rabbits and chickens and chocolate eggs, you can remember about Jesus too – the miracle man who came back from the dead.
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