Make an Easter Tree – Lent Week 2
Week 2 –
Decorate your tree with white flowers – real or fake. We cut little circles out of a paper plate, cut frills around the edges and made a hole in the middle to hang them with. You could even thread white popcorn.
Explanation: At church this week we made a black cross on our hands and said sorry to Jesus for bad things in our life. Then when we had shared these things with Jesus we went to the cross at the front of the hall and we took away a white flower. In the bible a little white flower from the hyssop plant (psalm 51) was sometimes used to sprinkle water on people in a special ceremony to remind people that God had made them clean from sin. Today this flower reminds us that God takes away those bad and sad things that we are sorry for and makes us clean and new again like white snow.. or a white flower!
Isaiah 1:18 (New Living Translation)
18 “Come now, let’s settle this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.
Make an Easter Tree – Lent Week 1