Holy Week

Activities

  1. Who?
    Who are these people in the Holy Week story? Write a sentence about each of them.

Joseph of Arimathea

Judas

Pontius Pilate

  1. Where?
    What are these places in the Holy Week story. Write a sentence about each of them.

Temple

Gethsemane

Golgotha

  1. What?
    What are these important words in Holy Week? Write a sentence saying what each one means.

Sabbath

Passover

Crucifixion

  1. Holy Week Calendar
    Design a calendar of Holy Week, saying briefly what happens on each day. You can include pictures.
  2. Wordsearch
    Use the words in 1,2 &3 and any others from the story of Holy Week to make a wordsearch.
  1. Match up the days

Holy

Sunday

Good

Wednesday

Easter

Thursday

Maundy

Friday

Palm

Saturday

Spy

Sunday

  1. Fill the gaps

Copy out the words below and fill in the gaps.

Holy Week

On Palm Sunday Jesus came into _____________ Jerusalem on a donkey. The crowds cheered. On Monday Jesus turned the ____________ tables over in the temple. On Tuesday, Jesus taught in the temple. On Wednesday, Judas decided to ______________ betray Jesus. On ______________ Maundy Thursday, Jesus celebrated the Last Supper. He went to pray in the Garden of ______________ Gethsemane and he was arrested. On Good Friday he was ______________ condemned to death and executed. On Saturday it was the __________________ Sabbath, when all Jews rested from work.

On Sunday the women came to the tomb and found that it was empty! Jesus had ___________________ risen from the dead.

WORDS:

betray, condemned, Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Maundy, risen, Sabbath, tables.

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