Easter is the perfect time to use the Jelly Bean Prayer to teach children about the sacrifice Christ made when He was nailed to the cross. Each coloured jelly bean in the prayer represents a part of redemption.
Check out the list of materials that we use with this activity.
Jelly Bean Prayer
Share the Good News of Jesus with your children in this fun and easy way. This is a great hands-on activity as well, which will help reinforce the Resurrection in a way that kids will be able to learn and enjoy at the same time.
Supplies
To make these gorgeous jelly bean jars, you will need:
- a jar for each child – plastic is a great idea, the size of the jar doesn’t matter
- ribbon
- white cardstock
- hole punch
- jelly beans
- Jelly Bean Printable Pack
How to make the Jelly Bean Prayer Jars
This is super easy to do.
First you will need to download the printable pack. In this pack, you will find a variety of activities and resources including:
- A one-page poster that can be printed out on white cardstock and laminated
- A page that contains 4 smaller posters/cards that can be printed out on white cardstock and laminated and used to label jars
- A page that contains 4 bookmark type posters/cards that can be printed out on white cardstock and laminated and used to label jars
- A jelly bean prayer book that contains a jellybean that children can colour in the correct colour as they read the poem on each of the pages
- Pages come in colour and black and white versions
After choosing the labels (4 smaller posters or 4 bookmark posters) that you want to use to label your jars, print and cut them out and laminate them for durability.
Punch a hole in the top left hand corner of the mini posters and cut a length of ribbon, threading one end through the hole that was just punched.
Wrap the ribbon around the top of the jar, and tie in place.
Fill the jar with jelly beans and put the lid on.
They are now ready to pass out to friends and family.
Other Easter Themed Activities & Printables
- Easter Counting Cards
- Easter Rocky Road
- No Bake Bird’s Nest Treats
- Printable Easter Planner
- Easter Activity Grades 1 – 3
- Easter Tracing and Cutting Strips
- Dyeing Easter Eggs Sequencing Printables
- The Easter Story Printables
- Jesus is Alive! Printables
- Easter Activity Pack – Preschool
- Easter Multiplication Worksheets
- Easter Subtraction Worksheets
- Easter Addition Worksheets
- Easter CVC Baskets
- Make your own Blueberry Dyed Eggs
- Easter Egg Basket Craft Activity
- How to Naturally Dye Eggs for Easter
- Easter Dessert Board
- Easter Activity Pack ~ Grades 1 – 3
- Easter Colour By Code
- Easter Tracing and Cutting Strips
- Resurrection Activities for Kids
- Salvation History – God’s Plan of Salvation for Us
Nursery Rhyme Easy Read Books {3rd}
Dotsy
Hello. I used to use something similar with my students to teach about Easter. Then something awful happened. A black student asked his mom if he was a sin, since he is black. I felt so horrible, I still feel it in the pit of my stomach just thinking about it. I think sometimes we don’t realize the connections children make. My solution was to use ‘dark’ as the color of sin – but then I just stopped doing it all together. How a child feels inside about themself is just too important to ignore. I found other ways to teach about Easter, with no connotations of anything else. Just a friendly heads up – if I can save one child from feeling that, and one teacher from making that same mistake, then it is worth writing one short comment. God Bless.
Ethelyn Kay Beck
Hi, where can I find the downloads for The Jelly Bean Prayer?
Great idea. The students will be able to relate to the meaning of the colors of the jelly beans.
Thank you for sharing and your help in printing this inspirational idea.
S Jones
Under the Supplies Heading, click on Jelly Bean Printable Pack to get the file.