Holy Week: "Searching Our Hearts"...For Kids!
Today for our preschool time, Addy and I talked about searching our hearts for things that we need to get rid of. See the previous post.
Since we are on the letter "E," an egg can be used to represent our heart (spiritually), and egg hunts are just downright fun, I made some things that I thought Addy could understand and recognize as things that we need to get out of our hearts and put them in the eggs.
That's the "Preschool Wall" in my Cabinet of Awesome. Click if you want to check out the whole cabinet. I love it!
I just wrote on a super official piece of white paper using an even more official purple crayon, and, of course, that purple crayon was in the hand of a master drawer. You like my angry face? Ha! Since she's 3, I just came up with 4 things.
I cut them out, folded them up and place one in each egg.
I added an extra egg into our hunt. I wanted one egg to represent having Jesus in your heart. Since having Jesus in your heart is pretty sweet and candy is sweet, I put a candy in one egg.
I hid the eggs.
Addy went out and found them.
Then we gathered them up and talked about our findings.
Sometimes we get bad stuff in our hearts. We need help to not be mean, jealous... We need Jesus to come in and empty our hearts of the bad stuff. Jesus will live in our heart if we ask Him to.
We prayed and asked for help. Mommy prayed for help too.
Simple.
I love teaching Addy about Jesus.
Since we are on the letter "E," an egg can be used to represent our heart (spiritually), and egg hunts are just downright fun, I made some things that I thought Addy could understand and recognize as things that we need to get out of our hearts and put them in the eggs.
I just wrote on a super official piece of white paper using an even more official purple crayon, and, of course, that purple crayon was in the hand of a master drawer. You like my angry face? Ha! Since she's 3, I just came up with 4 things.
I cut them out, folded them up and place one in each egg.
I added an extra egg into our hunt. I wanted one egg to represent having Jesus in your heart. Since having Jesus in your heart is pretty sweet and candy is sweet, I put a candy in one egg.
I hid the eggs.
Addy went out and found them.
Then we gathered them up and talked about our findings.
Sometimes we get bad stuff in our hearts. We need help to not be mean, jealous... We need Jesus to come in and empty our hearts of the bad stuff. Jesus will live in our heart if we ask Him to.
We prayed and asked for help. Mommy prayed for help too.
Simple.
I love teaching Addy about Jesus.