I love the Jelly Bean Prayer. I found it mentioned on the 1+1+1=1. In fact, I printed out the little coloring book 1+1+1=1 has on her blog last year to share with JDaniel.
The idea is that you share the gospel with your child as you give to them the jelly beans one at a time while they learn the poem that makes up the prayer.
Red is for the blood He gave,
Green is for the grass He made,
Yellow is for the sun so bright,
Orange is for the edge of the night.
Black is for the Sin we made
White is for the Grace He Gave
Purple is for the hour of sorrow,
Pink is for the new tomorrow.
While I love the idea of using jelly beans to share the gospel with children, I didn’t want to have to give JDaniel jelly beans every time we went over the Jelly Bean Prayer.
Little boys love stones and they love to hold them. I decided to have JDaniel help me paint some stones the colors mentioned in the prayer. I later went back and wrote the message each stone conveyed in the poem on it.
This set of stones is so easy to work with. Right now it lives in a basket in our kitchen and I have pulled it out to go over the prayer during meal times a few times this week.
By the time we get to Easter Sunday JDaniel will have a real understanding of Easter and of God.
Here are some other wonderful Easter activities for kids:
Experiments with Egg Parachutes
You will find even more Easter activities on my Easter board on Pinterest.
This post is linked to Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday.
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What a fun and creative idea to use stones instead. 🙂
JDaniel loved helping gather the rocks.
My boys are grown, but I know a couple of little ones who will love this! Forwarding a link right away – thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing this idea.
This is a wonderful lesson. Thank you! I’m pinning it. 🙂 Kristi
I am so glad you like it. Thank you for pinning it.
So meaningful and great idea, thanks for sharing!
I love that they can be used with very young children and older children too.
What a wonderful idea, so much more enduring than jellybeans! I’m going to send my kids out looking for some stones, so we can do this too.
Let me know how your rocks turn out.
This is a great idea! Definitely going to try this out!
I love them too.
love this idea!! we just finished an All Around Easter thing at our church, and one setting was in the Garden where kids got to pick a rock to write a prayer on. but this idea would have been awesome!
I love the idea of a prayer on a rock. Great idea!
I love the idea of using the stones a lot more than the jelly beans! Great idea!
I love that I can use the stones year after year.
What a great idea to use the stones instead of the jelly beans!
I took the stones to church to use with my two year old class. They loved the rocks during lesson. It gave them something to touch and hold that they didn’t try to eat.
Ohmigosh – I love that poem. I’ve never heard it. Thank you so much for sharing!
I really love it too. It was new to me last year.I was so excited when I read it.
I love the idea of using the rocks instead. They’re so pretty, too.
You have a little one that would probably love to collect rocks.
I like this, too, except that the rhyme uses “made” and “gave” twice.
Great idea, though.
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You poet mind is always thinking!
You’re brilliant! Great idea!!
Thank you so much!
My boys (ages 6 and 7) are having a hard time understanding Palm Sunday/Easter. I think your painted rocks (and the colored jellybeans) are great ways to break it down and make it clear. Great idea.
JDaniel likes do go over one concept at a time sometimes. I think it helps him wrap his brain around the concepts.
What a cute idea!
I am so pleased you like it.
Wonderful TRUE TALE of Easter! Jelly Beans and all!
THANK you for sharing!
Coralie
Thank you so much for stopping by!
What a wonderful idea using painted stones! Happy Easter 🙂
Stones really ended up making a pretty Easter item to have out and to share.
Thank you for sharing! I have been wondering how to get my kids to truly understand that Easter is really about Resurrection Sunday and not just bunnies.
Erika
My two year olds in Sunday school loved the stones.
Great idea, thanks for sharing.
Happy Easter.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter!
A very great idea. Thanks for sharing!
Letter T
I am so glad you stopped by!
This is a beautiful idea!
Thank you so much!
Wonderful poem and love your painted rocks. Very clever idea.
It will be hard to put them away after Easter!
I like that! I have never hear of the jelly bean before and the poem is fantastic! Thanks for this!
Thank you for stopping by!
What a great idea. You are such a good mom.
Thank you so much! I try to be!
Terrific idea of using stones instead of jelly beans! And stones are a great metaphor for building a solid foundation of faith (jelly beans really don’t hold up to well in the long run…).
I love the idea of the rocks applying to building a strong foundation too.
I love this. What a beautiful gift you’ve given him.
He seems to learn best through object lessons.
Charlie’s CCD teacher sent home the same prayer with a bag full of jelly beans. We read it tonight. I hope I am doing a good job explaining the real meaning of Easter. Grace called the story of Easter “freaky”!
I bet you are doing a wonderful job! Grace is right! It is hard to understand how God would be willing to do this for us.
What a great idea!!! No sugar – all message!
That is one of the reason I decided to use rocks.
Have you ever heard Petra’s Coloring Song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6012RghSQ (I wouldn’t show this video to kids, but the song is good).
My kids are always in favor of coloring rocks.
I will have to check the song out!
Great idea to paint the rocks. Blessings on your Easter celebrations! He is Risen…
He has Risen indeed!
That’s awesome! I had an idea for an Easter egg hunt in which the children can not only gather up eggs and candy, but can also learn the names of Christ….see my post if you’re interested..
I really love your idea!
I LOVE this!
I am so glad!
Holy COW! I’m like commenter number 43! You rock! As does your post! You know I’m going to borrow an idea that came to me with your truly loving post! I’m going to add words like these to some of the eggs that we (I mean I’ll ask Mr. Bunny) when he hides them!
I am so excited that you want to try it.
May the Holy Spirit guide you in all your endeavors♫♪
I hope the same for you!
I love that too!~Ames
Love this and the idea of using stones. I try to limit the amount of candy in the house so this is perfect.
I have never seen this activity! It is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea! 🙂
This was such a Thoughtful post…
I really like the idea of the Jelly Bean prayer but I absolutely love your Take on it!
Terrific post for the letter “T”!
Thanks for linking.
A+
Really love this! Perfect for Easter. My kids love rocks and poems. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks!
What a great idea, and not using candy. I love it!
What a cool idea! Never seen one like it! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great weekend,
Beth =-)
Love love love this.
What a wonderful way to bring meaning to celebrating Easter with your family!
great way to share the story of Easter. Thanks for sharing at our Share Day