There’s so many way you can share the Easter story, but here’s a really simple idea:
- Print out pictures of the Easter story (here’s some you might like).
- For an active session, you could hide the pictures and have a Treasure Hunt and get everyone to find all the pictures.
- Bring everyone together and see if you can work out together the order of the picture to tell the Easter story chronologically.
If you’re doing this in a big group, you could put people into small groups with a set of pictures each to work out the order, or if you can’t do that, you could get people to stand and the front holding the pictures and have people call out where to move them to to get them into the right order.
If you use these pictures, a tip is that they tell the story as it’s found in Mark’s gospel. - Once the pictures are in order, have a go at telling the story by creating one sentence for each picture.
You could work all together, or work on a picture each. If there’s quite a few of you, split into pairs or small groups and give each a picture to work on. - Share your sentences in order, displaying the pictures.
- Ask everyone, “I wonder which part of this story you liked best and why.” If this works, invite people who’d like to to share.
- Ask everyone, “I wonder which part of this story is for you.” Again, if appropriate, invite people to share their thoughts.
- Give an option for people to create their own pictures.
Have creative resources available, such as paper, pens, pencils, paints (water colours work well for a non-messy option) or even collage. There’s a template here which you can use to create pictures like these.) - Allow time to clear up and if people want to, they can share their creations.
- Finish with a moment of quiet thanks: Thank you for this story and how it has meaning for us.