Object: a white sheet.

Good morning, boys and girls. Happy Easter! This is one of the happiest days of the year for you and me. What do we celebrate today? (Let them tell you.) That's right. Today is the day that God gave Jesus back to us. Jesus had been dead since Friday afternoon, and was in the grave all day on Saturday. Then on Sunday morning something unbelievable happened.

Let's try to imagine what it was like. Suppose we went to a good friend's funeral on Friday. They wrapped him up in a white cloth, something like this sheet. Now, of course, today the funeral director would not use a sheet, but in Jesus' time they did. Suppose we watched somebody wrap up the body and close up…