4 Bonus Snacks
**Allergy Alert: Before offering any of the following snack activities, be sure to check your children’s ministry’s records of kids’ known food allergies. Steer clear of ingredients that any kids are severely allergic to and have some safe snack alternatives on-hand (such as fresh fruit) to share with kids with severe or multiple food allergies.
Bonus Snack 1: Palm Sunday Palm Toast
You’ll need:
- plates
- cups
- leaf-shaped cookie cutters
- toast
- green food coloring
- spreadable margarine
- plastic knives
First, have kids use the cookie cutters to create leaf-shaped toast. Then have kids mix green food coloring with spreadable margarine and use plastic knives to make their “palm toast” green. If you don’t have access to toast, consider pre-baking leaf-shaped cookies and using green icing.
Bonus Snack 2: Resurrection Rolling Rock
You’ll need:
- the ingredients to make chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies (we like the recipe at sugarapron.com, but note that it does include peanut butter)
- green-colored powdered sugar (mix regular powdered sugar with powdered food coloring)
- plates
- spoons
Have kids mix ingredients to make no-bake cookies and roll them into balls like rocks. Then have them roll the “rocks” in green-colored powdered sugar to add “moss” to the rocks.
Bonus Snack 3: Resurrection Pancake Tomb
You’ll need:
- 1 pancake per child
- a glass with a smaller diameter than the pancakes
- old-fashioned ribbon candy or Airheads Xtremes Sweetly Sour Candy Belt candies
- red licorice strings
- chocolate kisses
- silver chenille wire
Have kids use the rim of the glass to press a hole out of a pancake’s center. The pancake will be the tomb, and the hole is the opening. The cutout circle will be the rock that was rolled away.
Place a small piece of the old-fashioned ribbon candy or Airheads candy roll in the opening to represent the cloth. Make stick people for Mary and Peter from the licorice string.
Make wings from the chenille wire, and attach them to the chocolate kiss with the ends of the wire. Place this in the opening to represent the angel.
Bonus Snack 4: A Locked Room
You’ll need:
- 5 graham crackers per child
- Teddy Grahams
- icing
- Skittles or M&M’s
Have kids build cubes using graham crackers and icing. Then have them leave the bottom open (no graham cracker there).
Have kids stick a Skittles or M&M’s candy to one graham cracker side to make a doorknob. To retell how Jesus appeared in the locked room, they can lift the house and slide the Teddy Graham under so he’s in the room without opening the “locked” door.
These Easter Games kidmin ideas were originally published on ChildrensMinistry.com, © Group Publishing, a division of David C Cook.
