The Mystery of Pentecost
When the day of Pentecost came, the  apostles were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest above each of their heads.  The apostles went outside to see if  others were having the same experience during the Jewish  Festival of Shavout. All of people were speaking in a foreign language but miraculously they could understand each other.  They all becamed filled with the Holy Spirit. 

Versions  of this story can be found in three books in the Bible (Mark, Luke and Acts).  This scripture story  can also be found in both the Godly Play (volume three) and in Young Children and Worship books.
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The NSUMC 2020 Pentecost service morphed into a salsa competition.
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Click on this photo for another salsa recipe.
Empty a tea bag.  Place it on a tin pie pan in the shape of a cylinder.  Light the top of the tea bag/cylinder.  As the    flame burnes down, the ashes of the tea bag will  lift up into the air. This is just like how God's Holy Spirit fills us, and we should then let it flow out from us to show love to others.
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This tea bag experiment can give the student the experience of what the people could have felt when they encountered the holy spirit.