Play a game of charades using key Easter events.

1. Youth Ministry -
Easter Charades
Play a game of
charades using key
Easter events.
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2. Activity
Choose several events from the
Easter story to be acted out by
participants. Using these scenes,
play a game of charades.
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3. Variation
Have participants re-enact the scenes
in friezes–or stop-action scenes.
Have the participants set up the
scenes in the order that they
happened. Take pictures of each
pose.
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4. List of events and scripture
references
• Jesus and the twelve disciples
come into Jerusalem from
Bethany, to partake of the
Passover meal. (Mark 14.12-16)
• Jesus was arrested in the Garden
of Gethsemane (Mark 14:43-52)
• Jesus’ brought before Annas
(John 18:12-14)
• Jesus before the Jewish Leaders
(Mark 14:53-65)
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5. • Jesus before Sanhedrin (Mark
15:1a)
• Jesus before Pilate (Mark 15: 1b-5)
• Jesus before Herod (Luke 23:6-12)
• Pilate releases a prisoner (Mark
15:6-15)
• Jesus survived painful beating,
whipping, and mocking (Mark
15:16-20)
• Pilate handed Jesus over to be
crucified (Mark 15:6-15)
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6. • Jesus was mocked by the soldiers
as they dressed Him in a purple
robe and a crown of thorns (John
19:1-3)
• Jesus was crucified on Golgatha,
which means the Place of the
Skull (Mark 15:22)
• The sky turned dark for three
hours (Mark 15:33)
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7. • Jesus cried, “Father! Into your
hands I commit my spirit!” and
He died (Luke 23:46)
• Pilate’s sealing and guarding the
tomb (Mt.27:62-66)
• Mary Magdalene, Mary the
mother of James, Salome,
Joanna and other women start
for the tomb (Mt.28:1, Lk.23:55-
24:1)
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8. • The earthquake, the stone
rolled away by the angel, the
open tomb, and the terror of
the Roman guards (Mt.28:2-4)
• The report of the guards to the
chief priests (Mt.28:5-6)
• The chief priests’ bribe to the
Roman guards (Mt.28:12-13)
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9. • The Roman guards spread the
lie that Christ’s body was stolen
(Mt.28:15)
• The women see the open tomb,
and the message of the angels
(Mt.28:2-7, Lk.24:2-8, M.16:3-8,
Jn.20:1-2)
• The recovery of the grave
clothes by Peter and John
(Jn.20:3-8)
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10. • Jesus Appears to Mary
Magdalene (Jn.20:11-18,
Mk.16:9)
• Jesus Appears to women
returning from the tomb
(Mt.28:8-10)
• Jesus Appears to Peter later in
the day (Lk.24:34, 1Cor.15:5)
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11. • Jesus Appears to the Two
Emmaus disciples (Lk.24:13-33)
• Jesus Appears to the 10
Apostles in Jerusalem, on
Easter Sunday, with Thomas
absent (Lk.24:36-43, Jn.20:19-
24)
• Jesus Appears to the 11
Apostles in Jerusalem, one
week later, with Thomas
present (Jn.20:26-29)
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12. • Jesus Appears to seven
Apostles, by the Lake of
Tiberias, in Galilee (Jn.21:1-23)
• Jesus Appears to 500 brothers
and sisters on a Galilean
mountain (1Cor.15:6)
• Jesus Appears to Jesus Appears
to James (1Cor.15:7)
• Jesus Appears to the Eleven in
Galilee (Mt.28:16-20,
Mk.16:14-20, Lk.24:33-53,
Act.1:3-12)
• The Ascension (Act.1:3-12)
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