Crafting Through the Easter Season: Palm Sunday Palm Branches

If your children are like mine, then they enjoy a fun crafting activity. Bring the Passion week to life in your home through crafts. Crafting through the Easter season from Palm Sunday to the Resurrection is a great way to share the redemption story of Jesus’s perfect sacrifice on the cross that bought us our salvation. It is free to anyone who will receive this gift of salvation, but it cost Jesus His very life and God the Father His only begotten Son.

For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

Jesus says in John 10:18, “No one can take my life from Me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what My Father has commanded.”

Palm Sunday is the Sunday before the crucifixion. Palm Sunday is also called the Triumphant entry and it marks the beginning of the end. Jesus’s mission is coming to a climax as He heads into Jerusalem and will soon be crucified.

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Palm Sunday was such a great occasion. One that has been celebrated all through history and is still celebrated to today.

Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey that had never been ridden before was to fulfil prophecy in Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

The people expected this promised King to come on a mighty chariot and dressed in majestic robes. But Jesus came riding on a lowly donkey, humble and meek. Because His Kingdom is not of this world.

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be delivered over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not from here.” John 18:36

Jesus riding on a donkey shows us that He is the Prince of peace. In the culture of that day, Kings rode on horses during times of war and they rode on donkeys during times of peace. This was a vet symbolic gesture on Jesus’s part. And so Jesus’ passion week begins. In peace, humility, gentleness and love.

May Jesus make a triumphant entry into our hearts bringing His divine peace, gentleness, meekness and love. And may we, as His followers exhibit these same qualities as well. May the world see the true King living in and through us as we show kindness, gentleness, humility and love to each other.

Palm Sunday Palm Branches

Materials:

Green craft paper or felt
Scissors
Clothes pin

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Directions:

1. Fold a piece of green craft paper or felt in half.

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2. Next, cut out the shape of a leaf.

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3. Cut slits in the paper/felt so that it resembles a palm branch.

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4. Use a clothespin for the stem.

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5. Wave your palm branch, march about the house and boldly proclaim: Hosanna! Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the Lord! Hosanna!

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The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” John 12:12-13