(And All My) Work Be Praise

Walk through Holy Week in Duplo and LEGO scenes, created mostly by my nine-year-old, with a little help from his big brother and some specific requests from me. Palm Sunday Jesus cleanses the temple. The Last Supper The Garden of Gethsemane: Jesus prays while Peter, James, and John sleep. Jesus sees Peter in the courtyard as the rooster crows. The soldiers cast lots for Jesus' garments. Soldiers guard the tomb. Mary gazes into the empty tomb. Thomas meets Jesus: "My Lord and my God!"

Since we're all stuck at home instead of celebrating Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday physically with the body of Christ, I thought I'd do a recap of the various Holy Week activities our family has done in the past. Most are geared towards young children, but I've found it's easy enough to include the older ones by having them read an appropriate passage of Scripture, play "stage manager" to a skit, help lead a hymn, or simply talk in more detail about what was happening and why. (As an added bonus, those of you who didn't know my big kids as preschoolers get to see old pics!) *Palm Sunday Easy-peasy "palm" branches. I saw one on Pinterest this week that was multiple hands overlapped to make a big branch, which looked fun and we might attempt on Saturday! Naturally, if you're going to make palm branches, you might as well have a parade and shout "hosanna." I have it on good authority that dads make great donkeys. ;)...