Object: Palm branches

Today is Palm Sunday, and it is a great day for everyone. It is filled with joy and enthusiasm. It is a great religious holiday in the Christian Church. We are going to talk about the first Palm Sunday today and pretend that we were part of the great crowd of people who were there. As a matter of fact, I want you to pretend that you are part of a crowd of over two and one-half million people. Can you imagine how big a crowd of two and one-half million people would be? [Let them answer.] The biggest stadium in our country does not hold more than one hundred and five or ten thousand people, and the crowd that you are a part of on the first Palm Sunday is over twenty times larger.

The crowd is a happy crowd. Do you know how a happy crowd acts? [Let them answer.] The cr…