Broughton School - Easter assembly

This morning Sarah and I went trough the snow! Yes it was snowing on the tops, to Broughton School.  We did the first of our Easter Themed assemblies.  Sarah had bought a load of different Easter Eggs and she started to talk about the size of each one and what might be inside each one.  The egg that she liked the best wasn't made of chocolate but plastic and inside it was a small metal cross.  We showed the cross to the children and asked them if they could see what it was made from - we got a number of answers most of them different metals - however the real answer was nails.  Sarah then told how Jesus was nailed onto a cross between two criminals, as she told the story I held up three cards with pictures of crosses on, two black crosses and a red one in the middle.  As she talked about Jesus dying I put the crosses into a card sleeve that looked like a grave.  She continue by saying that the two other people were dead as I lifted out the two black crosses then as I reached into lift out the red cross the card sleeve is opened to show it empty and the cross is gone and the words on the card read 'He's not here' and when it is turned over it says 'He is risen'.  Sarah continue to tell the children that the real meaning of Easter is about Jesus' death on the cross for our sins and that he is risen to eternal life - to new life and that is why we have Easter Eggs to remind us of New Life, also Easter Eggs are empty and that can remind us of the empty tomb.  We finished by singing Inright Outright and I prayed for the children