I ended up caving and making my kids that yummy jello treat when we celebrated the Ascension last Thursday. My grocery store didn’t have any blue jello, so we fudged and I made juice sweetened jello (with white grape juice and blue food dye). It was a hit and something we’ll definitely do again next year!
In addition to celebrating the Ascension, it is now tradition in our family to celebrate Pentecost. Pentecost falls 10 days after Jesus ascended up into heaven, making it 50 days after the Resurrection. It was so much fun to talk about the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church last year that we knew we wanted to do it again this year! Oh the anticipation… We get to start our Sunday morning worshipping with other believers and then following that up with a celebration!
Here is a peak at what we did last year:
We started by reading some great books, and talking about the ‘gift’ of the Holy Spirit. We also went shopping for our ‘party’ supplies for the Pentecost party!
Next up, we made our tongues of fire crowns for each person to wear at our party! (tutorial included!)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. I am teaching my Sunday School class about it and you helped me to think of how I can make it more meaningful.
It is always a delight to get feedback. I hope your Sunday School lesson goes well. This is such a powerful topic to talk about!
I appreciate your sharing these thoughts and ideas. I’m teaching about the day of Pentecost and loved your ideas.
I love the idea of a Pentecost party! What a special event to share as a family. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow
Wonderful! Thanks for the ideas. Pinning this up to remember for next year! Thanks, friend!
Love this idea…I have trouble enough fitting Lent and Advent in and making it a tradition. I have loved each new step we’ve added. Never would’ve occurred to me to add Ascension and Pentecost…love the flames! You’ve given me new ideas!
I would be honored if you linked to my page! It truly is a JOY to share Jesus with my kids. Today, my son told me that I have the best ideas- I told him I just know where to look! 🙂 (And a little creativity of my own). Seriously love your ideas and so thankful that I found your blog!
Wonderful. I added it to the post on the Ascension!!!
And I just love that your son said that… I’m so thankful for community where we can share our ideas and then branch out and make modifications to suit our family!!! If you do anything for Pentecost, be sure and come back and share a link!
Thank you so much for your ideas! We had a sweet time celebrating Ascension Day!