When God is with me, I can be courageous. Rahab and the Spies. Joshua 2:1-22; 6:1-25. Rahab helps two spies.

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1 OVERVIEW CARD Key Question: Bottom Line: Memory Verse: Bible Story Focus: Coloring Page: Who is always with you? God is always with me. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid When God is with me, I can be courageous. Rahab and the Spies Joshua 2:1-22; 6:1-25 Rahab helps two spies. Music: Superhero Wherever, Whatever My God is Number One Bible Lesson: Story: The Beginner s Bible Joshua and the Spies Pages 128 to 131 Super Kid

2 ACTIVITY 1 2 s/3 s only In and Out Children will jump in and out of the taped square on the floor. Have them say the Bottom Line when they jump out of the square. What You Need: Floor tape Before the Activity: Use the tape to make a large square on the floor. During the Activity: Challenge the children to jump into the square. Then ask the children to jump out of the square and say the Bottom Line. Repeat several times. Before the Activity: God is always with me! During the Activity: There is a big square on the floor. (Point.) We are going to jump into the square (demonstrate) and then jump out (demonstrate). When you jump out of the square, I want you to say our Bottom Line: God is always with me! Are you ready? (Do activity.) After the Activity: Great job, friends! You jumping out of the square reminds me of the spies who got to come out of hiding in our lesson today. God was with them and God is with us. God is always with all of us! Who is always with you? God is always with me.

3 ACTIVITY 2 2 s/3 s only Hide and Seek Play a game of hide and seek with small super duck heroes. What You Need: Small Duck Super Heroes Play a game of hide and seek. Hide the small duck super heroes and have the children find them. During the activity: These are Super Ducks. They are going to hide and you re going to try and find them. Close your eyes while I count to 10 and hide them. At the end of the activity: You did a great job hiding and seeking! A woman named Rahab does a great job hiding some people in our Bible lesson today. She keeps them safe and hidden while mean guys are looking for them! I m so thankful that Rahab had the courage to help those spies, because she knew that they followed God. Rahab was courageous, because she knew she wasn t alone. God was with Rahab! And when God is with you, you can be courageous too. Who is always with you? God is always with me.

4 The image part with relationship ID rid10 was not found in the file. September Week 5 and ACTIVITY 3 - All Spy Verse Have the children sneak around the room when the music is playing and freeze in their best superhero stance and say the memory verse when the music stops. What You Need: CD player and The Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini. Sneak around the room together, pretending to be spies, while listening to the The Pink Panther Theme. When you stop the music, everyone must do a courage pose and say the Memory Verse. Repeat as many times as desired. Before the activity: Rahab did a very courageous thing in our Bible lesson today. She hid the good spies from the mean guys. Let s pretend we are spies when we hear this music. (Play music.) When it stops (stop music), I want us all to do our most courageous pose and say our Memory Verse together. Are you ready to sneak around like spies? (Pause.) Here we go! (Continue as long as there s interest.) At the end of the activity: I m so thankful that Rahab had the courage to help those spies, because she knew that they followed God. Rahab was courageous, because she knew she wasn t alone. God was with Rahab! And when God is with you, you can be courageous too. Who is always with you? God is always with me.

5 The image part with relationship ID rid10 was not found in the file. September Week 5 and ACTIVITY 4 4 s/5 s only Superhero, Superhero, Where s Your Duck? Play a fun game by hiding a small superhero duck in one child s hand while another child has to guess who has it. What You Need: Small Superhero Duck Before the Activity: Guide the children to sit in a circle. During the Activity: Choose a child to be It. Have It sit in the middle of the circle and ask him to close his eyes. Give the duck to one of the children sitting in the circle, and tell her to hide the superhero behind her back. Have the children say, Superhero, superhero, where s your duck? Then ask It to open his eyes and try to guess who had the duck. Give It three chances to guess. Continue the game by allowing the child who hid the duck behind her back to be the next It. Continue the game until every child has had a chance to be It. Before the Activity: Let s play a game! We are going to play, Superhero, Superhero, Where s Your Duck? Everyone sit in a circle. During the Activity: One person is going to be It. They will sit in the middle of our circle and close their eyes. I will give one of our friends this duck (hold up) to hide. The person who is It will have three chances to guess who is hiding the duck. Whoever is hiding the duck will be It the next round and sit in the middle of the circle. Are you ready to play? (Pause.) After the Activity: That was so much fun! You did a great job hiding and finding the superhero duck. In our Bible lesson today, we heard about someone who hid something too! Do you remember what it was? (Pause) Yes! She hid the spies, because she knew that they were a part of God s army. I m so thankful that Rahab had the courage to help those spies, because she knew that they followed God. Rahab was courageous, because she knew she wasn t alone. God was with Rahab! And when God is with you, you can be courageous too. Who is always with you? God is always with me.

6 ACTIVITY 5 4 s/5 s only Let s Hide Have the children bring the parachute up and down several times and when it goes all the way up, the children will let go and hide underneath as it drops down. What You Need: Parachute Before the Activity: Spread the parachute out and allow each child to grab a piece to hold onto. During the Activity: Have the children bring their arms up and down to move the parachute up and down. As the parachute goes all the way up, say, Hide! and have the children let go of the parachute and go under it to hide as it comes down over them. The parachute should balloon up and come down slowly. Do this several times. Next, with your help, have the children grab ahold once more and tell all of the girls to let go and go under the parachute and hide. Then ask the girls to come back out and hold the parachute again. Then, with your help, have all of the boys let go and go under the parachute and hide. Then ask the boys to come back out and hold the parachute again. Repeat as many times as desired. (Option: If you do not have an equal number of boy and girls in your classroom, you can call out individual names to go hide or categorize the children by the color of shirt or dress they are wearing.) Great hiding! You were just like the spies when Rahab hid them! Rahab did a great job hiding the spies in our Bible lesson today. She kept them safe and hidden while mean guys are looking for them! I m so thankful that Rahab had the courage to help those spies, because she knew that they followed God. Rahab was courageous, because she knew she wasn t alone. God was with Rahab! And when God is with you, you can be courageous too. Who is always with you? God is always with me.

7 CRAFT WEEK 1 Rahab and the Spies What You Need: Rahab Helps the Spies Activity Page on white cardstock, crayons, red yarn, and white glue Before the Activity: Place the crayons in the center of the tables. During the Activity: Hand out an Activity Page to each child. Point out Rahab and the spies on the page and encourage the children to color their pages. Hand out the yarn pieces and encourage children to glue them next to the window. Talk about how the spies told Rahab to tie a red rope from her window so they could find her home and make sure she was safe when they returned. Before the Activity: (Pass out an Activity Page to each child.) Take a look at your pages. Who do you see? (Pause.) These are the spies (point) and this is Rahab (point). We heard about them in our lesson today! During the Activity: Let s use the crayons to color our pages. Then I want you to take one of these pieces of red yarn and glue it next to the window. Remember, in our lesson, the spies told Rahab to tie a red ribbon from the window so that her family could be found and kept safe. (Finish activity.) After the Activity: Your pages look great! I think what Rahab did took SO much courage. She was Rahab the Courageous for sure! We can have courage too when we remember that God is always with me! Who is always with you? God is always with me! Great job, friends.

8 CRAFT WEEK 2 Shield What You Need: Shield Logo cutout on white cardstock, thick, 8-inch paper plates in any color, cardstock strips in any color, scissors, glue sticks, and packing tape Before the Activity: Fold each cardstock strip into a ring shape and secure it with tape. Tape the ring securely to the back of the plate as a handle for the shield. Each child will need one shield. During the Activity: Give each child a shield and an Activity Page. Help the children glue the logo to the center of their shields. Allow the children to decorate their shields with stickers. Before the Activity: You are SUPER KIDS! During the Activity: We are going to make a shield to remind us that we are brave, strong, and courageous! (Do activity.) After the Activity: WOW! Your shields look SUPER! Now you can go home and show your shield to your families so they will know that you are SUPER KIDS too! We can all be SUPER because God is always with us! Who is always with you? God is always with me.

9 SMALL GROUP Small Group Time What you Need: Parent Take Home Card, Playdoh, Star Cookie Cutters, Rolling Pins, and Sticker Roll SMALL GROUP LEADER (SGL): Today s Bible lesson was so cool! Where s my SUPER small group so we can talk about it? I see SUPER [child s name] and SUPER [child s name] and (call each child in your small group and give them a high-five as they come to you). Now, who can tell me what SUPER thing God helped Rahab do in our lesson? (Pause for response.) God helped Rahab hide the good spies. That s right! It took a lot of courage to do that a lot of SUPER courage. Rahab believed in God s power, and that gave her the courage to do the right thing and hide the good spies. You can be SUPER courageous too, because God is always with you. Who is always with you? CHILDREN and SGL: God is always with me. SGL: Do you think it was hard for Rahab to hide the spies? I mean, what if she got caught hiding them? Sometimes doing the right thing can be hard, but knowing God is with us gives us the courage to do the right thing anyway. That is why she was SUPER courageous and did what God wanted her to do. I want us to be SUPER courageous and do what God wants us to do too! SGL: Now let s sit down for prayer time. One, two, three, eyes on me! Let s make a list of good things that are hard to do, like telling the truth or saying we re sorry when we ve done something wrong. When we pray, we can ask God to help us be SUPER courageous and do the right thing, even when it s hard. So tell me, what s one good thing that s hard to do? Ok, it s time to review our lesson. I am going to ask you some questions and you will get a sticker for answering them. I have some really cool stickers today. Are you ready? (Pause.) Great! (Ask the children the questions from the Parent Take Home Cards. You can also make up additional questions from our video lesson. Don t forget to ask them to say their memory verse for another sticker. You can repeat the same questions over and over as repetition is good for preschoolers.) You are such great listeners! Now I ll pray before it s time to say goodbye until next week.