Godly Play story - Jesus & Zacchaeus Movements
Slowly take the box of Zacchaeus materials and place it beside you (make sure it doesn’t restrict any child’s view of the story). Sit back and begin when you and the children are ready.
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Lift the lid of the box, keeping the contents concealed from the children. This increases the mystery and decreases the distraction of the other items in the box. Take out the purple underlay and lay it out carefully in front of you. As you begin to tell the story, take the beige road, smooth it out and place Jerusalem at the end of the road to your left. Place Jericho at the edge of the beige road in front of you and place the tree down the road to your left. Place three people on the side of the road closest to you and three people opposite them on the other side.
Once every year the people of God go up to Jerusalem, the holy city of God, to celebrate the feast of the Passover, to remember how God led them through the waters to freedom.
This year Jesus was going through the city of Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. Crowds of people wanted to see him.
Place Zacchaeus on the underlay Zacchaeus was the chief tax collector. People didn’t like Zacchaeus. He took too much of their money. So he was very rich. Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus too.
Put Zacchaeus behind the three people and move him up and down, trying to see over them.
But he was too short…