Best Day Ever At Home – Week 2
Main Teaching Principle of Series: Best Day Ever At Home is a three-week series created to do as a family at home. It will help kids learn why Easter is the best day ever and how every day can be the best day ever when they are following Jesus! Each week includes a family lesson that parents can use at home with both preschool and elementary kids, as well as a preschool video and an elementary video that will show kids how God promised to make a way for us to be friends with Him forever, how Jesus was God’s plan for fulfilling that promise, and how that makes Jesus the best ever! INTRO 1. Gather your kids, and tell them how excited you are to have church with them at home today. 2. Have every family member answer the following question: If you were planning the best day ever, which wouldyou choose … • Eating a big marshmallow peep or a giant jelly bean for lunch?• Getting a pet duck or a pet chick to live in our home?• Finding eggs filled with money or finding eggs filled with candy in your backyard? 3. Then say: • It would be fun to plan the best day ever! Did you know that God has a plan just for you? He does! Itis the best plan ever! Let me hear you say this after me: (Pause to let your kids repeat after you)Elementary (ES):God’s Plan (make book with hands) Jesus Is (both hands point up) Preschool (PS): Is the Best Ever (two thumbs up) The Best Ever (arms above head, wiggle fingers) PRAISE & WORSHIP Here are two awesome videos that will get you and the kids moving and worshiping in no time: READ THE BIBLE Watch today’s Preschool and/or Elementary video here below: Afterwards, ask your family: 1. ES Only: Did God have a plan for His people? (Yes) What was God’s plan? (To send His Son Jesus to payfor our sins and fix our friendship with Him) Why was God’s plan the best plan ever? (Because it wassaving people from their sins forever and made a way to fix our friendship with God) 2. PS Only: Were the people excited to see Jesus? (Yes) What did they shout when they saw Jesus?(Hosanna!) That means “Save us!” They knew Jesus was the best ever and that He had come to savethem! LET’S PRACTISE 1. You will need the following items to create a game to help kids to remember that God’s plans are the best! • Something to write on (paper, dry erase board, or chalkboard)• Something to write with (pencils, crayons, markers, dry erase marker, or chalk) 2. You will draw each item below, and allow your family to guess what it is. Once they guess correctly, read thesection that goes along with what you just drew. • Scared face: Have you ever felt scared or nervous? (Allow response) Sometimes it can feel scary whenthings happen around us that we can’t control. But we can trust that God has a good plan for ourlives!• Family: Who can you talk to when you don’t know if God’s plans are good or you have a questionabout Jesus? (Allow responses) We can always talk to God. And God gave us each other, as a family, totalk with also.• Trash can: If you had plans for how to build a fort, would you throw the plans in the garbage or readthem closely? (Read them closely) Yes! Just as you don’t build something without using a good set ofplans, God doesn’t want us trying to build our life without using His best plans! The Bible tells usGod’s best plan for us, so we should read it often.• Cross: Did Jesus die on the cross for the sins of one person or for everyone? (Everyone) Yes! Ourfriendship with God is broken because of sin, or the wrong things we do. So God made a plan to fixour friendship with Him, and that meant Jesus would die on the cross to take the punishment for thesins of all people. God’s plan was the best ever because Jesus made a way for us to be friends withGod forever!• Easter Basket: What makes Easter the best day ever? (It’s when we celebrate that Jesus came back tolife, it’s when Jesus made a way to fix our friendship with God forever)• Phone: Who is someone that you can tell about Jesus? (Allow response) What God planned for Jesus todo for us is the best! It’s too good to keep it to ourselves! You could invite the person you mentionedto watch church online at home next week to hear more about Jesus and God’s plan for them! 3. Have your child repeat the Need to Know after you with motions:Elementary (ES): God’s Plan (make book with hands) Jesus Is (both hands point up)Preschool (PS):Is the Best Ever (two thumbs up) The Best Ever (arms above head, wiggle fingers) MEMORISE IT 1. Say: There’s a verse in the Bible that we can learn to help us remember God’s special plan to fix ourfriendship with Him. Jesus lived, then He died on a cross to take the punishment for our sin, but He didn’tstay dead! These are the words the angel said to Jesus’ friends when they went to where he was buried:“He is not here! (shake head “no”)He has risen, (two thumbs up)Just as He said He would!” (cup hands around mouth)Matthew 28:6 (make book with your hands) 2. Have your family repeat each phrase of the verse after you, with motions, in any of the following ways:• Hopping like a bunny• As fast as possible• Whispering• Holding your nose• Flapping wings like a chick PRACTICAL APPLICATION Ask your family what they want to thank God for and what they want to ask Him to do. Listen to any concerns yourchild expresses without interruption. Then pray the following over your family: • Father God, we thank You for
