Easter: School workshop

This week I joined a group of people at St.Mark's church in Barrow in Furness and together we ran some creative Easter workshops for children.  There were four workshops each covering a different creative area;  Visual arts, music, creative writing and dance.  I worked as part of the visual arts group.

The workshops were open to children from two schools, one year group from each.  The children were shared between the four creative groups (about 16 in each) and in each group, half the children were from one school and half from the other.

The theme for the day was Easter.  The main organiser of the day kicked off the morning with a time of introductions and fun before giving a short talk about Easter and what it means for us.  She did a brilliant job involving the children and encouraging them to think about and share what they thought Easter was about and every now and again she got them to shout together "I am special and God loves me."  The children were all from faith schools, one Catholic and one Church of England, so they had a good knowledge of Easter and why it is important.  They were able to explain to us that when we celebrate Easter, we are celebrating the fact that Jesus is the Son of God, he died on the cross to pay for our sins so that we can be forgiven and have eternal life!

After she had finished her introduction to Easter we split off into our workshop groups...

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