The Last Supper

This page takes you through the various activities we had at Messy Church on  7th March 2015. Have a look and try a few!

Upper room

Take a shoebox.  Glue the table and benches together.  Add some bread, a cup and a candle.  Make pipe cleaner people or use plasticine to add something to the scene.

Jesus sent two of his followers to follow a man to a house, and then to say to the owner, ‘The Teacher says: “Where is my guest room in which I can eat the Passover meal with my followers?” The owner will show you a large room upstairs that is furnished and ready. Prepare the food for us there.”

Do you ever eat upstairs or do you always eat downstairs?

Playdoh Food

Make some food out of playdoh and put it on a paper plate.

Once they had found the room, the disciples prepared the Passover meal

What do you have to do to get a meal ready?

Bread table

Use the icing to fix 4 marshmallow legs under your table. Make some food out of the fondant icing to put on your table.

Jesus was celebrating a festival called Passover with this special meal.  At Passover the Jews remembered the story from a long time ago of Moses leading their people out of Egypt

What do you eat if you have a special meal?

Prayer table

Make a place for yourself at the table with Jesus.  Decorate a plate and cutlery.  What would you like to say to Jesus?  Write it on the cloth.

Jesus had this meal with his 12 closest disciples

What would it be like to have a meal with Jesus?

Painting

Paint some of this picture of the last supper.

Jesus was celebrating a festival called Passover with this special meal.  At Passover the Jews remembered the story from a long time ago of Moses leading their people out of Egypt

What festivals do we celebrate?

Last Supper scene

Colour in the pictures of the disciples and Jesus and stick them to the box to make a last supper scene

Jesus had this meal with his 12 closest followers.  It was the last meal he had with them.

Who would you invite to have a special meal with you?

Disciples

Draw in each of the disciples’ faces and colour in their clothes

This was the last meal Jesus had with his 12 disciples

Who would you invite to a special meal?

Cushion

Glue shapes or draw on the cushion.  Then stuff it.

At Passover meals today people sit on cushions to remind them that they are free and relaxed not slaves

What do you think is the most comfortable sort of chair?

Placemat

Decorate the plate with food. Put it in a laminated pocket and ask the helper to laminate it for you.

Jesus thanked God for the meal they were eating

When you use this placemat it can remind you to thank God for the food you have to eat

Decorate bowl

Decorate your bowl with porcelain pens. When you get home follow the directions to cook it to fix the design.

Jesus took a cup and thanked God for it and gave it to his followers and they all drank from the cup.

Do you have any special cups at home?  Why are they special?

Goblet

Put glue on your goblet and decorate it with tissue paper.  Then give it another coat of glue

Jesus took a cup and thanked God for it and gave it to his followers, and they all drank from the  cup

The shared cup was part of the special meal and they used it to tell the Passover story

Clay bowl

Make a bowl or chalice out of clay. If you don’t know what a chalice is look at the picture to help you.

When Jesus gave them the cup he said, “This is my blood which is the new agreement that God makes with his people.

What a strange thing to say.  What do you think he meant by talking about blood?

Bread

Put your hand in each box and taste the pieces of bread. Look at the photos of the different types of bread and try and match them up

While they were eating, Jesus took some bread and thanked God for it and broke it. Then he gave it to his followers and said, “Take it; this is my body.”

What do you think Jesus meant by this?

Stencilled towel

Use fabric paint and the template to make footprints on the towel.

At the meal, Jesus washed his friend’s feet.  He did it as an example for them, to show them that they must serve each other.

What does it feel like to have someone wash your feet? 

Money bag

Wrap up a few chocolate coins. Decorate the bag and put the coins in.

Jesus said that one of his disciples would turn against him.  He was right; Judas took money to do it.  The disciples were very sad when they heard this.

Do you know how much Judas was paid?