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Labyrinth
A labyrinth would be an excellent exercise for forgiveness. It's not a game but a time for kids to seriously think about their sins and repent.
Go to http://www.lessons4living.com/color_the_labyrinth.htm to find an example of a labyrinth. Just use a painters drop cloth available at home depot and use some colored tape to show the direction and stations the kids need to use in the labyrinth.
Also check out https://www.rotation.org/topic/praying-the-labyrinth
Check out 'Easter Through the Eyes of Peter Labyrinth Workshop" by First United Methodist Church here at rotation.org.
Drama Illustration (Forgiveness) - children with props of a sheet and a flashlight.
We used this illustration in our Drama room for the kids to better understand how Peter felt when he denied Jesus and was forgiven.
While the children are doing this activity, narrate what is happening so that they understand the concept of how Peter may have felt.
Have someone in the class be Peter. With a large sheet have Peter pull the sheet behind him. Explain that this is how Peter’s heart may have felt before Jesus was arrested. It was light and guilt free. He had told Jesus that he would follow him anywhere. Then, have 1 child sit on the sheet and have Peter pull him across the stage. This is how Peter’s heart felt after denying Jesus the first time. Add another child and have Peter try to pull 2 children at one time, this is the weight he felt from denying Jesus a second time. Finally, add a 3rd child to the sheet. See if Peter can pull that child across the stage. His heart was heavy with the burden of letting Jesus down by denying him a 3rd time. Have a predetermined child to turn off the lights at this point and the 3 children on the sheet exit the stage. Tell the children the darkness represents Jesus’ crucifixion. From the audience another child will have a flashlight and shine it on Peter. The light represents Jesus’ resurrection and his forgiveness of Peter for his short-comings. Have Peter take a bow!
Drama Ideas
The following four Holy Week stories from the Gospels, and three more from Acts (showing how Peter changed) could be dramatized with various techniques, including "posing" to create photos, as puppet scenes (photos below), and using the Shadow Theater technique --really fun to do, easy to set up, and its "shadows" seem appropriate for the first four stories on this list:
- Jesus telling Peter at the Last Supper that he will "deny knowing him."
- Peter having his feet washed
- Peter denying he knows Jesus
- Peter weeping "bitterly"
- Jesus telling Peter to feed sheep
- Peter at Pentecost sticking up for the Gospel
- Peter baptizing Cornelius and his family -- sharing the Good News.
Attachments
Author Jill Kemp has a number of FREE printable one-page Bible storybooks for younger children and preschoolers which use Richard Gunther kid-friendly illustrations.
NEW Testament storybooks: http://www.lambsongs.co.nz/One...0Bible%20Stories.htm
OLD Testament storybooks: http://www.lambsongs.co.nz/one..._old%20testament.htm
These include both color and black & white story pages.
Free one-page printable storybook: http://www.lambsongs.co.nz/One...ge%20story%20col.pdf
You can find more free Bible illustrations by Richard Gunther at freeBibleimages.org and licensed for non-commercial teaching use. Illustrations by themselves are good for teaching non-readers and for using as "charade" or Pictionary clues, and for story-ordering games.
To see all of Gunther's other illustrated stories organized by Bible story go to https://www.freebibleimages.or...tors/richardgunther/
Attachments
Peter's Denial is one of the terrific presentations found in the SunScool Bible App for Kids.
Look for it in the submenu of Peter stories:
- A4-2 : He denied his Lord (Levels 1, 2, 3), Lessons in Loyalty (Level 4) Peter in the courtyard
Luke 22:37-34, 39-62;John 18:10-11; 1 Corinthians 10:11-13 - A4-3 : Lessons in Sorrow and Joy, "Peter denies, lies about Jesus" (Level 4 only)
Luke 24:1-12, 33-49; John 16:20-22; Acts 13:38-39; 1 Peter 2:21-25, 3:18, 5:1;
The App is free, ecumenical, and can be downloaded for use on tablets, smartphones, Windows, and Mac! 
Get the download link and look up the story you need in our Outline of all 170+ stories in SunScool. That page also includes app helps.
