{"product_id":"storytelling-with-shapes-holy-week","title":"Storytelling with Shapes: Holy Week","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStorytelling with Shapes: Holy Week\u003c\/strong\u003e guides you through a creative, engaging, and tactile way of experiencing the stories of Holy Week. Because of the varying degrees of difficulties in the puzzles, Storytelling with Shapes: Holy Week can be used by many age groups, children, youth (6th–12th grade), and even during intergenerational events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorytelling with Shapes: Holy Week\u003c\/em\u003e uses seven individual shapes (tans). When these tans are combined, they create larger shapes (tangrams), helping participants imagine the story. An ancient Chinese story tells the legend of tangrams about a wise sage who, on his journey to bring a square sheet of glass to the king, fell, and the glass broke. When the sage presented the pieces to the king, he restructured them to form images that helped to tell of his journey. The king loved this way of storytelling and recreated the shapes out of wood. And that’s how tangrams were invented!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticipants using this resource will also tell of a journey, Jesus’ journey through Holy Week. For each of these events—Jesus’ triumphant entry on Palm Sunday, the Last Supper Jesus had with the disciples on Maundy Thursday, the events surrounding Jesus’ death on Good Friday, the questions and heartbreak Jesus’ followers faced on Holy Saturday, and the surprising, good news of Jesus’ resurrection on Easter Sunday–we’ve paraphrased the related scripture and created a mini-story for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorytelling with Shapes: Holy Week\u003c\/em\u003e includes five mini-stories (Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday), with shape templates of varying challenges and a storytelling leader guide, allowing participants of all ages to join the storytelling fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShape \u0026amp; Story:\u003c\/strong\u003e Each mini-story contains one tangram, with two options available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMatch \u0026amp; Place:\u003c\/em\u003e Match the individual shapes to the shapes on the page and place each shape on its spot to form the large shape connected to the story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eVisualize \u0026amp; Place:\u003c\/em\u003e Visualize and experiment with how your shapes fit together to create the larger shape in the silhouette. Then, using all seven shapes, fill in the silhouette to solve the tangram puzzle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStorytelling Cards:\u003c\/strong\u003e Each mini-story contains three tangrams, each with two options available. An included leader guide helps lead participants through the storytelling process, providing instructions on when to create the shapes as the story unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePiece it Together:\u003c\/em\u003e Make the tangram puzzles as you read the story. Arrange your shapes to piece the picture together from each storytelling card.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSolve the Silhouette:\u003c\/em\u003e Solve the tangram puzzles as you read the story. Arrange your shapes to form the silhouette from each storytelling card.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope this new way of telling, hearing, and shaping these Holy Week stories will allow for a deeper understanding of the events of Holy Week as we piece together how they fit into our lives today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow can I use these?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorytelling with Shapes: Holy Week\u003c\/em\u003e can be used by children, youth, and adults of all ages as a creative way to enter into the stories of Holy Week.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSunday School\u003c\/strong\u003e: take time on Palm Sunday and Easter to walk through the events of Holy Week with your tangrams. This is a creative way to help solidify the events of the Holy Week and Easter stories with your participants.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYouth Group\u003c\/strong\u003e: make life-size versions of the tangram shapes and see which groups can assemble each story fastest! Also, these can serve as tangram fidget devices as you lead lessons on Holy Week and Easter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAdult Bible Studies \u0026amp; Intergenerational events\u003c\/strong\u003e: invite adults to use the tangram shapes to create the shapes from the stories during Bible studies; have intergenerational groups work together to figure out the silhouette puzzles. You could also see what other shapes they might come up with to represent additional parts of the Holy Week and Easter stories.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat will I receive?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will receive a ZIP file with two PDFs: one for the Story \u0026amp; Shape activity and another for the Storytelling Cards activity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Illustrated Ministry","offers":[{"title":"Ministry Use (Church Size: 101–500 members)","offer_id":54157883277630,"sku":"sif1787251999588","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ministry Use (Church Size: 1–100 members)","offer_id":54157883310398,"sku":"oyi1787251999589","price":23.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ministry Use (Church Size: 501+ members)","offer_id":54157883343166,"sku":"yrx1787251999590","price":30.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Personal Use (NOT available for churches to select)","offer_id":54157883375934,"sku":"isj1787251999591","price":7.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/4119\/4302\/files\/storytelling-with-shapes-holy-week_1.jpg?v=1787252006","url":"https:\/\/poshstylefashion.shop\/products\/storytelling-with-shapes-holy-week","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}