Palm Sunday-Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey. I used some Bible props (gate, toy donkey and temple) along with peg people placed along a paper path.
Peg people with chenille stem arms hold palm leaf limbs to sing Hosannas to the King. Leaves are hot glued to coffee stirrer limbs that slide over the chenille arms.Foam coats and palm limbs are spread along the way.
Lord's Supper upper room shoebox diorama. The table is simply a piece of poster paper cut and folded in similar form to a box lid. Peg people are clothed in 2 pieces of felt cut into rectangles with a neck slit in the middle and slid over the head of the peg doll and tied with a co-ordinating color yarn belt. A tiny wooden bowl and wooden bead with purple playdough makes the cup and a wooden bowl holds a playdough formed loaf of bread. A smaller shoebox with white poster paper windows makes the upper room. A larger shoebox with printed door and windows is the lower part of the building. When finished displaying the diorama, the table, peg people and accessories all store inside the larger shoebox. (A homeliving supper/helper roleplay for 3 year olds is also part of the lesson here.)
Peg people Jesus (with nail prints), Mary Magdalene and other Mary, 2 Roman guards, and angel (with wings painted on back) are placed in a cardstock printout tomb scene from My Little House blogspot. To make the scene more substansial, I added polyester filling inside the tree trunk, bubble wrap inside the stone table where the body had lain, and a solid flexible type of foam packing material (approximately the same thickness as the door) that I cut in the shape of the stone door and put inside it before I glued the last side of the door together. This put weight to the tree and support to the table and door that kept them from collapsing when the preschoolers played with them. The tomb itself is a little more complicated. I did put a bottom to the tomb, leaving the floor area open. The easiest thing to fill that (before you glue the bottom) would probably be some bubble wrap, because the inner wall is open at the top.
A scene where Peter and John has come to investigate.
CD suggestion-Keep your CDs and make a list of songs that you like. One I like for the Breakfast With Jesus story is Jesus Asked Peter Do You Love Me from Music for Kindergarten, Summer 2001 from Lifeway Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Easter week and time through the ascension