On the way to Easter Palm Sunday story can be told as a stand alone story or used as part of the series ‘On the Way to Easter’.
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? Was he going to arrive in a car? No! Was he going to arrive in a helicopter? No! (they didn’t have those!) Was he going to ride into the city on a big, strong horse? No!
Jesus sent two of his friends to borrow a donkey. (What noise does a donkey make? Hee-haw) They bought the donkey to Jesus and put their cloaks on it’s back. Jesus sat on the donkey 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! Some of the people took their cloaks off and put them in the road for the donkey to walk on. 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’). Can you say ‘hosanna’? They waved palm branches in the air. The people in the crowd were welcoming Jesus into the big city. They were excited!
They welcomed Jesus – the King sent from God.’
Some pictures to use to tell the story
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.
Craft ideas
You could use the printouts as a craft if telling the story at home or with older children.
The pegs for legs donkey is a fun craft to make. Print and cut out the donkey shape. Colour and add wooden clothes pegs for legs.
There are some Palm Leaf craft ideas here