Jelly Bean Prayer

Jelly Bean Prayer                                              Week before Easter

Materials:

• Jelly Beans
• Red
• Green 
• Yellow
• Orange
• Black
• White
• Purple 
• Pink 
• Make sure to buy a bag or bags with colors such as black and white or purple and pink!
• Snack-size sandwich bags (to put jelly beans and prayer poem in)
• Paper to print prayer off on

Prayer Poem:

• Red is for the blood He gave
• Green is for the grass He made
• Yellow is for the sun so bright
• Orange is for the edge of night
• Black is for the sin we made
• White is for the grace He gave
• Purple is for the hour of sorrow
• Pink is for our new tomorrow

What I Did:

I printed out the poem and cut them into rectangles long enough to fit into the sandwich bags. I made the colors in the poem blank lines for the children to fill in (to take up some time; not necessary). They may need help with where purple and pink go because they are a little vague, but if you tell them the answer, explain why purple is sorrow and pink is the new tomorrow. 

After they filled in the blanks, I dumped a bag of jelly beans into a shoe box (any kind of box or bowl would work as well) and had the children find the colors in order and place the beans into their bags. Then we discussed what each jelly bean represented, so they might be able to tell the story of Easter to someone else using just jelly beans. Don't let them eat the jelly beans!