Palm Sunday

 We made our "Easter Mountain" out of salt dough today.

 We read about The Triumphal Entry in the Bible and re-enacted it with plastic trees (palms), napkins (cloaks), pipe cleaners (Jesus), and a plastic donkey.

Here's our Easter Mountain.  So you see Golgotha there on the left, where Jesus was crucified.  And the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, where Jesus was buried.  And to the right is our Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed before he was handed over to the officials.  The pipe cleaner people we made this time are an Angel, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and John, Peter, James, John and Judas, and Pilate and Herod.

Maryn has been loving this so far.  She can't wait to put Jesus in the tomb...not sure what that's about.  She insisted we have a little panda watch over the tomb.  :)  She wanted to read The Triumphal Entry story 3 times.  We read it from Matthew 21:1-11, and practiced the verse, "And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Happy Palm Sunday, everyone.  One week until Easter, and we celebrate Jesus is Risen!