Jesus is Raised! Children's Easter Sunday School Lesson

Jesus is Raised!

Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Sunday and our resurrection when He comes again.

 

Needed: Bibles, toilet paper rolls, cones or another placement marker

 

 

Lesson: Read Matthew 27:62-66.

 

 

On the Saturday after Jesus died, the priests asked Pilate, the Roman governor, to put guards around Jesus’ grave. Why does it say that they did that? (The priests didn’t want Jesus’ followers to come steal Jesus’ body and then, lie and tell people that Jesus came back to life.)

 

(Read Matthew 28:1-10.)

 

 

How did Jesus come back to life? (After Jesus died, God brought Him back to life.)

 

God can do anything. He can even make dead people come back to life. One day, when Jesus comes back to Earth, He will make our souls go back into our bodies and bring our bodies back to life. Our bodies will be perfect, and we will live forever with Jesus and God forever.

 

(Read Matthew 28:11-15.)

 

 

Why did the priests pay the guards to lie about Jesus being alive again?

 

The priests didn’t want people to believe in Jesus, and they didn’t want people to know He came back to life, so they paid the guards to lie about what happened.

 

 

Game: Resurrection Race – Divide students into pairs. Have each pair line up along one line. Place cones a good distance from the line, directly in front of the pairs.

 

Give each pair two rolls of toilet paper. On, “Go!” the first person from each pair will wrap their partner in toilet paper, using the whole roll. The wrapped person will then break free of the toilet paper and run around the cone and back toward their partner. They will then wrap their partner, and the second person will do the same thing. The first pair to have both people wrapped and run around the cone wins.

 

Explain to students that this is what will happen to us. Our bodies will be dead, but then when Jesus comes back, He will bring our bodies back to life, just like God brought Jesus’ body back to life.

 

 

Game: Resurrection Tag – Pick one student to be It. That student is Death. Pick another student to be Jesus. When Death tags someone, they fall down and lie on the ground like they’re dead. Jesus can then come to tag them, and they can get back up. If Death tags Jesus, Jesus must count to three (because Jesus was dead for three days), but can then get up again. If Jesus tags Death, the round is over. Play until everyone has had a chance to be both Death and Jesus or as long as time permits.

 

Remind students that Jesus will come back one day and will raise everyone who believes in Him back to life, just as God raised Jesus back to life on Easter morning.

 

 

Closing Prayer: Father God, we praise You for bringing Jesus back to life and for promising to raise us again one day. Help us always to believe in You so that we’ll be ready when Jesus returns one day. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.