Help children deepen their understanding of the last week of Jesus's mortal ministry - the greatest events of the world, with these simple lapbooks for children. Excellent for home study, home school, sunday school, children's ministries, and even zoom/online connections with children.
This is a download - a printable booklet, which you then cut out and add to a standard file folder 📁 to create the lapbook. No physical product will be shipped to you.
Your kids will love building these Lapbooks and remembering what happened in the last week of Christ's mortal ministry, and why we love Him--our Savior and Redeemer.
Every lapbook includes a QR Code link to a 2-minute rock animation ("rockmation") of the rocks telling the story of the specific Holy Week event. Five of the 8 lapbooks also include full tutorials on how to make the rock art.
This Download Kit for the Complete Set Includes:
🌟 34-page Printable to create the 8 Lapbooks, one for each day or event of the Holy Week.
🌟 1 Video - How to assemble the lapbook from the printable: https://youtu.be/k6sw09H8T8Q
🌟 1 Video - What rock shapes to find
🌟 8 Videos - Rocks tell the stories of each Holy Week Event.
🌟 5 Videos - Tutorial for Kids to make the more complex scenes of the holy week.
Lapbook Printable Elements:
📂 - Scripture Scroll, Recap & Review
📂 - Bible Story Pocket and Title Tag
📂 - Write and Draw It and Rock Art Label
📂 - What Does It Mean
This Digital Download Kit contains a 34-Page printable booklet (8 1/2 x 11) AND full-length rock art video tutorials to help your children find and use their own rocks and pebbles to create the resurrection tomb.
The children assemble their own lapbooks, work through the activities, watch the tutorials, and make their own Holy Week rock art pictures.
A Bonus Video gives Step-by-Step instructions on how to put the lapbooks together and how to use them.
These 8 lapbooks are optional companion activities to the hardbound book, He Is Risen - Rocks Tell The Story of Easter on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3KNgFC1
Again, this is a download - a printable booklet, which you then cut out and add to a standard file folder 📁 to create the lapbook. No physical product will be shipped to you.
Here's the link: https://youtu.be/1t60NWD_qtM
In the vid above, we're making this:
Thank you for teaching the little ones in your life about our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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A beautiful gift for adults, teens and children! This coffee-table book invites conversation about the true meaning of Easter in a simple way that anyone can enjoy - seeing the most important story in the world, in a new and fresh way--through humble rocks and pebbles.
We Reprinted the Popular "HE IS RISEN" Books! (Click HERE to buy on AMAZON)
The rocks in the book, HE IS RISEN, come alive to tell the story themselves! Plus, you get to see all the art in the book. This is such a easy way to share the Good News with everyone!
or this 90 sec video: TURN UP THE VOLUME.
Want a no-cost, super fun and meaningful early Easter Egg Hunt? Or just easy activities for each event of the Holy Week? I partnered with genius, family-fun-blogger, Melia, to create an easy way for you to bring our Savior into the Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Baskets, and easy daily devotionals for Holy Week.
Print these strips, and put in the plastic eggs…The instruction video is on the printable!
Each video is very short, so it's a quick before or after school activity to bring in the love of God into your home this special season. For Example, here's 45 seconds for Palm Sunday: https://youtu.be/hSf3fy0CspM
CLICK HERE for Printable.
CLICK HERE for FREE Printable.
CLICK HERE to purchase our Downloadable Easter Resurrection Lapbook ONLY; or to purchase the entire bundle of 8 digital Lapbook Lessons, CLICK HERE Thanks for supporting us so we can make more meaningful fun for children!
They are so neat! Melia taught me about them when she made these to go with the rock art tutorials. You simple take a standard file folder, and fold it as directed, and it becomes the lapbook! Add the cutouts from the printable, and you've got a really special activity for the kids to learn more about our Savior, AND do the rock art tutorials with me online!
Try it out with the Easter Resurrection Lapbook for just $2.99. And if you want the kids to learn about each of the major events of the Holy Week, get all 8 for just a single price of $10.
Melial explains how it comes together in this video:
Celebrate Easter this year with the whole family and learn how to make the resurrection scene with rocks and then use this learning lapbook to help the kids remember what they learned about Easter Sunday!
CLICK HERE to purchase the entire bundle of 8 Lapbook Lessons for only $10! They usually sell for $5 each, so, you're saving $30! And you can using the printable for all the kids at home--everyone getting their own for the price of one!
Many people have asked for rock art scenes from the He Is Risen book as prints for their homes and classes. I have offered the high resolution print files (up to 16x20; although many just use it for 8x10) on my ETSY STORE. Gethsemane is my personal favorite, and the central image for the Book.
Patti's Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RocksTellStories
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Thanks for watching the brand new rock art videos on the Gospel for Kids channel on how to make the bugs & frogs of the Plagues of Egypt. We learned that God has power over all things!
This is the first of a series of Old Testament art project videos I created with the Gospel for Kids Youtube channel! Gather the family, friends or class and let the lessons of the plagues sink in that God is all powerful, and He saves those who love and follow Him:
If you're looking for the Come Follow Me lesson for the kids, see: Primary Manual Exodus 7-13, March 28-April 3, 2022
You've probably seen Melia's prolific resources for families to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Watch her kids tackle the rock art and learn about the Plagues. Get resources from Melia at MTCforKids.com.
Creating these videos with the "Gospel for Kids" Youtube channel team was a blast. They filming guys were dreamy! So professional, knowledgable, and best of all, KIND! My little studio was overrun with their filming equipment. It was pretty exciting!
Let me know if you'd like to see and hear more about this cool experience!
Click Here: https://www.youtube.com/pattirokus
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Primary Come Follow Me Genesis 37–50 March 7–20;
“The Lord Was with Joseph” and “God Meant It unto Good”
Please do not share the file with anyone. Instead please give them a link to this page, so they will have all the resources that go with the printable.
You may make as many copies of this printable as you wish. But please do not use for commercial purposes. If you share or repost, please share this info with your post:
https://rockstellstories.com/blogs/news/joseph-of-egypt
by Patti Rokus of RocksTellStories.com
See her new eBook of Old Testament rock art, Bible Stories Rock.
Patti tells the Joseph of Old bible story to the kids, including demonstrations of building the rock art.
Venmo $12.99 to Patti's Business Venmo:
Rocks Tell Stories. Be sure to add YOUR EMAIL to the purchase notes, so she know where to send your free poster now and your ebook in April. Thank you! Questions to RocksTellSTories@gmail.com
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1. Rock Art Activity Printable (Click here if you don't already have it.)
2. Rock Art Video Lesson - 17 min.
3. Family Home Evening 10-Minute Video Lesson
Click here for the free printable, then come back to this page to watch the videos.
Let the kids watch this! 17 min.
(A big thanks to Melia Rios-Lazo of MTCforKids.com for creating this great FHE lesson. Let's all get in the frame of mind and heart for feeling God's love as we watch General Conference.)
Are you looking for a Family Home Evening Lesson to help your children understand why General Conference is so important? We have partnered with Patti Rokus from Rocks Tell Stories to create an easy FHE video to prepare your kids for General Conference and an activity to do during General Conference with Rocks. This video and printable was inspired by President Nelson's #HearHim invitation.
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Patti's ETSY Store: ETSY.com/shop/rockstellstories/
or Venmo: Patti Rokus (personal) and Rocks Tell Stories (Business)
Click Here: https://www.youtube.com/pattirokus
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https://rockstellstories.com/pages/friend-to-friend-primary-broadcast-free-rock-art-activity-book
Back then I didn't realize I should have made a blog post instead of a web page!
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Download the song, and accompaniment track so you and the kids can sing it,
Watch the music video, Print the sheet music, see lyrics, and anything else you want if you ask. Written and sung by Patti Rokus © 2018.
Download Song with Patti Singing it.Produced by Arlan Brunson engineered by Gaynor Brunson arranged by Blair Masters.
1. Little Mother, Mary, a humble girl, the chosen one,
To bring the holy child as foretold,
To trade our pain for joy, every soul.
Little Mother, Mary, you stood the scorn of every man
But Joseph saved you from the ancient law
And walked with you and God through it all.
Chorus:
Please let your light shine over all, heal the broken hearts,
let the anguish fall away, Today.
2. Little baby, Jesus, how far you’ve come to be with us.
I wonder what it’s like beyond the clouds.
How does your love survive among us now?
Little baby, Jesus, How will your arms embrace us all?
How can you lift a world that’s fallen down?
Will you show us how to make our way back home?
Chorus:
Please let your light shine over all, heal the broken hearts,
let the anguish fall away, Today.
3. Little shepherds watching, for endless years, a holy sign;
The angel came to tell them of His birth.
The newborn son of God to save the Earth.
Then the heavens opened, the hosts of God broke out in song.
The Savior of the world had finally come--
Messiah as a babe, the Holy One.
Chorus: Please let your light shine over all,
heal the broken hearts, let the anguish fall away, Today
Recording the song at Gaynor's Studio in Provo, Utah. So fun!
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Twenty years after my first experience of pairing a heart shape in nature with a message of God’s love for me, I was asked to be on a board of directors representing millions of children. I was utterly overwhelmed, and doubted my ability to contribute meaningfully, especially when I had not been blessed with marriage or children of my own. I dropped everything, and went to the mountains to pray for guidance, and God’s approval that He would have me do this. As I began the five-mile hike to my favorite lake, I started noticing heart-shaped rocks every few steps! After tossing hands full of heart rocks into my backpack, less than one mile in, I started laughing, and then crying. I sat on a boulder, and dumped out my now heavy pack, and watched the love tumble to the ground. In tears I said out loud, “Yes, Lord, I see. Thank you for speaking to me in a way I would understand. I will trust you, and take this humble step into the unknown, and accept this service opportunity.”
You see, I have a mother who taught me as a young child to look for God in His creations; to listen for God by feeling the subtle impressions of the Holy Spirit, and to rest in God in stillness. She made all the difference in how I would experience my entire life.
In this 3-min video, I use a pile of my heart-rocks to create the last page of my newest book that was just released a few weeks ago, He is Risen – Rocks Tell the Story of Easter. You may have seen the 1-minute viral version; but here I’m showing a rarely seen, longer 3-minute version. I feel it makes the point better that not only does God love us, but we can show our love to Him as well. And in doing so, we deepen this essential and powerful relationship that will never end.
Thank you, parents and caregivers for teaching our children. Your influence is rippling through eternity in all that matters – souls turned to God.
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...that breathes life into the cold dark months of winter. It must be the fun and brightness of Valentine's day. Although, truth be told, I haven't had a date on Feb 14 in years. Still, it reminds me of the love and goodness of friends and family. And who says that God can't be my Valentine?
The last page of my Easter book, He Is Risen, has a girl sending heart rocks to heaven. I want that girl to be me. No one knew that was my thinking when I sent out this video on Friday that got 30,000 views in 2 days on Facebook! My first "viral" video. It's just 1 minute if you want to check it out:
The drawing this Thursday, February 7, so you can get your gifts by Valentines, just in case you’re looking for something wonderful to give.
You might have notice that I’m keeping really quiet about the biggest news of all! Yes, the second rock book, (He is Risen) and the reason for all my efforts with rocks, is being released Feb. 5, TODAY!!! But I’m not officially announcing it until after Valentine’s Day. However, I have 1000 copies of the book in the garage, and would love to get them into your homes! So order on my site (free shipping if you pick them up from me), or order through your favorite bookstore. I’ll be sharing more about it later.
Yesterday I finished a 3 min video about the atonement of Jesus Christ. It’s fairly artsy and kind of intense, so I’m not sure if I’ll share it to the wider audience on social media. But many of you understand my heart, and just might find this touching. I hope so.
Please subscribe to my Youtube Channel by clicking on the subscribe button when watching a video. You'll be notified when I push out new videos . And when I get 1000 subscribers, then I get the credibility to do much more with YouTube. Thank you!
I am not able to respond to your comments because this website doesn't have that capability. But I want you to know that I wept when they started coming in. This is a humbling journey, and when I hear your thoughts, and feel your love, it's a bit overwhelming, in a delicious, heart-warming, soul-stirring way. Thank you for encouraging me, and for being a stand for light and truth! I wish I could give each of you a free book and print!!! --Patti