Bible story from Luke 19:28-40 and Mark 11:1-10
Bible truth for toddlers – Jesus is the King!
‘Jesus and his friends were almost at the big city of Jerusalem. Lots of people wanted to see Jesus. But how was Jesus going to arrive in the city? Not in a car or a helicopter (they didn’t have those!) Not on a big, strong horse.
Jesus sent two of his friends to borrow a donkey. They bought it to Jesus and put their cloaks on it and he rode into the big city.
Crowds and crowds of people were there. There were mums and dads, grandmas and grandads and children just like you! They called out ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!’ as Jesus passed by. They shouted, ‘hosanna!’ (which means ‘God saves’) They waved palm branches and threw their cloaks into the road.
They welcomed Jesus – the King sent from God.’
Some pictures to use to tell the story – you could use the printouts as a craft if telling the story at home or with older children.
Dowload the links to make the street scene
People pictures are available in this blog post
The donkey to make
https://lettheirlightshine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/leglessdonkey.pdf
The street scene https://lettheirlightshine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/streetscene.pdf
The trees and palm leaves
https://lettheirlightshine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/palmleafsceneparts.pdf
I cut the cloaks out of material.
