Sharing Bread
Greeting: Welcome each child as they come in the door. Make sure they have name tags, and the parent has signed them in on the sheet.
Opening: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Sing song “I am Special”
Development:
Scripture: I taught you to remember the words of Jesus. He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35b
Saint: Jude was also called Thaddeus, and was one of the twelve apostles, and probably a first cousin of Jesus. He was a quiet and humble man.
He is often portrayed with a flame above his head. God's spirit at Pentecost filled Jude with the love of God that he wanted to tell all people about that love.
After Jesus' Ascension, Jude traveled as a missionary to Syria and Mesopotamia. Wherever he went, he taught people to be simple, humble, and prayerful. He made many converts, especially among the Jewish people living in those countries. He sent a long letter to his Jewish Christian friends. “We owe God praise and thanksgiving for endless mercy,” he wrote.
Story: Last Supper (194) Catholic Picture Bible
Activity: See booklet
Wash the inside of eggshells (use the eggs for your own purpose) let the children decorate the outside of the eggshells (one each) . Give the children ½ a paper towel (wet) to add on the inside of their shell. Add sprout seeds to the shell. When they take home the shell the seeds will sprout in a two days, and the shell will grow hair. The eggshell held life once before and it holds life again.
Song: This little light of Mine (sign language optional.)
Exercise: Head, shoulders knees, and toes (foreign language optional)
Prayer: Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Children of the lord.
Bible Verse: A friend loves at all times (sign language optional.)
Blessing: Go with the Lord at your side.
Dismissal:
Celebrate New Life
Greeting: Welcome each child as they come in the door. Make sure they have name tags, and the parent has signed them in on the sheet.
Opening: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Sing song “I am Special”
Development:
Scripture: We bring you good news that what God promised to our ancestors, this God has fulfilled by raising Jesus. (Cf. Acts 13:32-33)
Saint: Thomas was brave when Jesus told his disciples that he was going to return to Judea to visit his friend Lazarus. The other disciples thought all of them would be stoned to death. Thomas told the others “Let us also go, that we may die with him.
After Jesus rose from the dead the other apostles told Thomas “We have seen the Lord.” Thomas did not believe and told them “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger in the holes in the nails I will not believe.
Eight days after the resurrection of Jesus, Thomas saw Jesus himself, and Jesus said to him “Bring here your finger, and see My hands;and bring here your hand , and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.
Thomas said back to the Lord “My Lord, and my God!” And Jesus said to him “Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen,yet have believed.”
Story: Jesus is Alive (204)
Activity: See booklet
Easter bunny on paper plates. Use cotton balls for the fur, and add whiskers, and big floppy pink ears.
Song: This little light of Mine (sign language optional.)
Exercise: Head, shoulders knees, and toes (foreign language optional)
Prayer: Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Children of the lord.
Bible Verse: A friend loves at all times (sign language optional.)
Blessing: Happy Easter! May you be filled with the Joy of Jesus' new life. Amen
Dismissal:
Jesus is a Friend
Greeting Welcome each child as they come in the door. Make sure they have name tags, and the parent has signed them on the sheet.
Opening: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Sing song “I am Special”
Development:
Scripture: In the Bible God talks to us about love and friendship. God tells us that it is wonderful to have good friends. (Cf. Sir 6:14:15)
After closing the Bible say … A friend is also someone you can talk to. God is our friend. We talk to God when we pray. And God is always ready to listen to what we have to say.
Saint: Guardian Angels, “He Has given his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways” (Ps. 91) Both the Old and the New Testament recognize that God gives each person born into this world an angel guardian. Jesus, calling a little child to him, said that the angels in heaven watch over children such as this one. By a loving providence God reaches into human life to guard and, protect and lead us on our way to salvation.
Story: Jesus appears to two disciples.
Activity: friendship chains cutting strips of paper, and glue into a circle to make a chain.
Song: Jesus loves me/ Jesus loves the little children (sign language optional)
Exercise: Hookey Pookey,Head Shoulders, knees and toes.
Prayer: God made us a family. (R.) We need one another. (R.) We help one another. (R.) We love one another. (R.) We forgive one another. (R.) We play together. (R.) We work together. (R.) We celebrate together. (R.) We praise God together. (R.) Amen.
Bible Verse: Thank you God (sign language optional)
Blessing: May the love of the Lord be in your hearts, and in your words and deeds throughout the week.
Dismissal:
Jesus is a Helper
Greeting: Welcome each child as they come in the door. Make sure they have name tags, and the parent has signed them in on the sheet.
Opening: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Sing song “I am Special”
Development:
Scripture: I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no onecomes to the Father, but by me. (Jn 14:6)
Saint: We call Jesus “The Sacred Heart” because of his great love for us. The woman who did more than anyone else to make the Sacred Heart known was Margaret Mary. She was born in France in 1647.
Margaret Mary was a religious sister who loved God with all her heart. Because she was sorry that everyone did not love Jesus, she often knelt for hours in a chapel before the tabernacle. The tabernacle contained the consecrated host, which we call the Blessed Sacrament.
One day as she was praying, Jesus appeared and showed her his Sacred Heart. “Behold the Heart that has loved humans so much. Tell others about my love for them.”
Sister Margaret Mary spent the rest of life doing as she was ask by Christ himself.
Story: The Blind Man (181)
Activity: See booklet
Song: Whole world in his hands (sign language optional)
Exercise: If you are happy and you know it. (foreign languages optional)
Prayer: Rise and Shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory. Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory children of the lord.
Bible Verse: You are the light of the light of the world.
Blessing:May the Lord bless you and your family each and everyday. May you seek time in your day to pray, and may the love of the Lord be in your thoughts as you play.
I Can Help
Greeting: Greet each child as they come in the door. Make sure they have nametags, and the parent ahs signed them on the sheet.
Opening: Sign of the Cross, Our Father, Sing song “I am Special”
Development:
Scripture: A happy heart lights up your face. (Proverbs 15:13:)
Saint: Apollonia lived in Alexandria Egypt, and had a reputation for being a tough old woman. Many of the people that lived in Alexandria at the time worshiped false Gods, and the same people often started fights with Christians. One day as Appollonia was on her way to the market she saw a mob of people arguing about Christianity the argument quickly escalated into a fight. Appollonia tried to reason with the people, but they knocked her teeth out.
She is regarded as a Saint because she was bold enough to stand up for the religion she believed in, and did not give into the mob. It took courage to do what she did.
Appollonia is considered the patron saint of teeth, and people often pray to her when they have a toothache.
Story: The Good Samaritan
Activity: Craft in activity book, and paper plate mirror.
Aluminum foil
Scissors
Glue
Glitter
Crayons
See my smile mirror. Pre-cuts pieces of aluminum foil and add them to the paper plates. Allow each child to decorate the plate as they wish with glitter or color the plate.
Song: Jesus loves the little children (sign language optional)
Exercise: Learning to set the table in the properly.
Prayer: Have the children repeat the prayer after you.
Thank you for my smile, dear God (r.) It’s a very special part of me (r.) May it bring a lot of happiness to every friend I see. Amen (r.)
Bible Verse: Thank you God (sign language)
Blessing: Thank you for giving me my own special smile to share with others everyday. May you be blessed even more each time your friendly smile makes other people happy. Sometimes the simplest thing like a smile can help to brighten a day.
Dismissal: Please remember to help the children gather all their belongs, and make sure their parent signs them out.