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1 SPRING SUNDAY SCHOOL PRESCHOOL TEACHER GUIDE Get your FREE, customizable DIGITAL COPY of this teacher guide. It s as EASY as Visit group.com/digital to set up a free olie accout for your church. 2 Eter the Activatio Code below to add this teacher guide to your accout. 3 Dowload PDF or Word files to your computer ad edit, prit, or them to your teachers. ONE-TIME ACTIVATION CODE:

2 group.com/suday-school We kow you care about kids We do, too! That s why we attempt to esure that all crafts, toys, ad gizmos meet or exceed atioal safety stadards ad are produced by maufacturers that do t use child labor or abuse their labor force. You ca order Group resources kowig that i additio to carig for your kids, you re also carig for childre elsewhere. Let s keep kids safe! We strive to provide products that are mechaically reliable ad hold together durig ormal, iteded usage. Items are also checked for flammability, ad both pait ad surface coatigs are checked for heavy metals icludig lead. You ca help your childre stay safe by seeig that toys ad gizmos are used as desiged, for the purposes desiged, ad that ay broke pieces are disposed of promptly ad properly. We value your feedback. If you become aware of a problem affectig the safety of ay of our products, please iform us immediately. FaithWeaver NOW Bible Curriculum, Preschool/Ages 3 & 4, Sprig Copyright 2001 ad 2016 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced i ay maer whatsoever without prior writte permissio from the publisher, except where oted i the text ad i the case of brief quotatios embodied i critical articles ad reviews. For iformatio, visit group.com/permissios.! OK TO COPY Whe you see the OK TO COPY ico, this meas permissio to photocopy the page from FaithWeaver NOW Bible Curriculum for Preschool, Sprig, is grated for local church use. Copyright Group Publishig, Ic. group.com Credits Co tributig Authors: Lida Aderso, Jacqui Baker, Gwy D. Borcherdig, Ruthie Daiels, Sara K. Elder, Aa Goodwi Smith, Alliso Hummel, Carol Mader, Jeifer Nystrom Edit ors: Stephaie Marti, Amy Nappa, Jessica Sausto, Owe Shattuck, Ali Thompso Copy Editors: Lydsay Gerwig, Becky Helzer, Sarah Yepishi, Adrea Zimmerma Chief Creative Officer: Joai Schultz Cover Desig ad Art Directio: Jeff Specer Iterior Desig Team: Jared Bigham, Jeff Bruacci, Joyce Douglas, Kate Elvi, Suzi Jese, Dolly Palmer, Rebecca Swai Cover Photography: istockphoto.com/grafvisio All Scripture quotatios, uless otherwise idicated, are take from the Holy Bible, New Iteratioal Versio, NIV. Copyright 1973,1978, 1984 by Biblica, Ic. Used by permissio of Zoderva. All rights reserved worldwide. ISBN Prited i the Uited States of America.

3 3 Cotets Itroductio...4 The Lessos * * Lesso 1: Jesus Teaches About Good Fruit Luke 6: Lesso 2: Jesus Tells the Parable of the Lost So Luke 15: Lesso 3: Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet Joh 13: Lesso 4: Jesus Is Tried ad Crucified Luke 19:28-40; 23: Lesso 5: Jesus Appears to Mary Joh 20: Lesso 6: Apostles Defed Their Faith Acts 5: Lesso 7: Saul Meets Jesus Near Damascus Acts 9: Lesso 8: Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead Acts 9: Lesso 9: A Agel Frees Peter From Jail Acts 12: Lesso 10: Lydia Is Coverted Acts 16: Lesso 11: Paul s Jailer Believes i Jesus Acts 16: Lesso 12: Paul Describes Livig by God s Spirit Romas 8: Lesso 13: Paul Describes Geuie Love 1 Corithias 13: * We recommed startig the quarter so that Lessos 4 ad 5 alig with the dates of Palm Suday ad Easter Suday. Visit the Digital Dowload Ceter for a suggested schedule. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Table of Cotets

4 4 The future of Suday school + family miistry is NOW. N o doubt about it, the world is chagig. Families used to go to church every week. Kids used to have loger attetio spas. Teachers used to have more time to prepare. Ad did t our budgets used to be bigger? Eve the Suday school Bible curriculum you used just a couple of years ago is already out of date. But there s oe thig that s ever chaged: the eed to grow families closer to Jesus. That s why we created FaithWeaver NOW, ad it s differet from aythig you ve ever see before! It combies Suday school with family miistry. Sure, you ve see Suday school aimed at families. But FaithWeaver NOW actually hits the target by havig everyoe i the family learig about the same Scripture each week. It s simpler ad easier. Sometimes chage is a woderful thig. Goe are the days whe you eeded to sped hours preparig your lessos ad hutig for supplies. FaithWeaver NOW will have you ad your team ready to go i a sap. It s made for NOW. Life is complicated ad full of distractios. FaithWeaver NOW keeps faith o track through eve the most frezied lifestyles. What makes FaithWeaver NOW the perfect curriculum for TODAY s church? Families lear the same Bible passage i age-appropriate ways. Kids do t just hear the Word. They experiece it. Simple ad easy lessos fit eve the busiest lives. Kids see God i their everyday world. The Scope & Sequece goes through the Bible every three years. You ca customize it however you like, with both prit ad digital versios. Create a vibrat family miistry that s ew that s wow that s NOW. FaithWeaver NOW gives you a fresh strategy for beig more successful tha ever i brigig families closer to Jesus. Thom ad Joai Schultz Chairma ad Chief Creative Officer Group Publishig, Ic. Itroductio Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

5 Lesso 1 5 Jesus Teaches About Good Fruit Luke 6:43-45 By age 3, childre uderstad they re growig. They re fasciated with babies, who are smaller tha they are, ad are begiig to uderstad that while they used to be tiy babies, ow they re big boys ad big girls. This is the perfect time to itroduce preschoolers to the idea that God is the oe who helps them grow. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 5 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 10 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. The Greatest Treasure Lear the Key Verse. Puppy Poiters Hear how Theo wats to grow up to be a big, strog dog. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, small box Teacher Pack: gold cois CD player, Theo puppet, dog picture, tape Teacher Pack: CD Tape the dog picture to Theo s paw. Bible Poit God helps us grow. Key Verse You are a forgivig God, gracious ad compassioate, slow to ager ad aboudig i love (Nehemiah 9:17). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will ask God to help them grow. 3 Bible Exploratio about 15 mi. Bible Time: Growig God s Way Sort fruit accordig to what kid of tree it grows o, ad lear that God causes thigs to grow. Bible; bowl of apples, orages, peaches, ad cherries; kife; scissors; 4 small bowls Teacher Pack: Fruit Trees poster Cut apart the Fruit Trees poster. Set each sectio o a table with a small bowl ear each. Set out a bowl of apples, orages, peaches, ad cherries. Have a kife earby, out of childre s reach. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

6 6 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Trees of a Kid Create a tree with differet kids of fruit. My Bible Hugs, scissors, paper fasteers Remove the Lesso 1 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut out the circle of fruit ad the squares o each page. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Fruit Tree Sacks Make fruit trees to eat. cookies, large pretzel rods, white frostig, food colorig, small bowls of cut fruit, paper towels, squeeze bottles, cups of water Tit a cotaier of white frostig gree, ad put the frostig i squeeze bottles. Set out small bowls of fruit that has bee cut ito small pieces to prevet chokig. Ceter 3: Babies ad Grow-Ups Discuss what aimals used to be before they grew up. magazies, scissors Cut out pictures of aimals such as cows, chickes, horses, ad pigs from magazies. Ceter 4: Fluffy Trees Glue pompom fruit to tree braches. modelig dough, small braches from a tree or bush, pompoms of various sizes ad colors, craft glue Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 10 mi. Actio Prayer Thak God for helpig them grow. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. My Bible Hugs Tear out the Paret Letter i the back of each My Bible Hugs book to give to parets whe they pick up their childre. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 1 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

7 7 Jesus Teaches About Good Fruit Luke 6:43-45 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Jesus Compares Trees to Authetic Faith I his refereces to good ad bad trees i this passage, Jesus is obviously drawig a aalogy to the fruit that people bear. Notice that the distictio is ot betwee healthy apple trees ad diseased apple trees. It is betwee fruit trees ad thors or briers; it is the kid of tree that makes the differece. May kids of trees look good but do t produce fruit. So it is with people. Jesus seems to be sayig that a perso who is ot really a servat of God, o matter how good he or she seems to be, caot possibly produce fruit for him. Coversely, someoe who really is God s servat will automatically produce fruit. The Jesus Coectio As we make our relatioship with Jesus a priority, we ll fid our actios will bear fruit that will please him. Read aloud Luke 6: What ca you do to store good thigs i your heart? I what circumstaces ca you brig good thigs out of the good you ve stored i your heart? If you passioately follow God, the good you ve stored will flow out to a eedy world. Ask God to show you someoe i your church who has a eed. Ad the do the good thig ad help that perso. Do t forget to pray for the perso! You ca write your prayer here. The Heart Is Kow Through Actios The i Luke 6:45, Jesus expouds o the priciple he itroduced i the tree metaphor. What comes out of us through our speech ad behavior flows from what is withi. If what is iside us is good ad God-hoorig, our lives will hoor God. If what is iside us is evil, our lives will ot hoor God. No matter how hard we try to make good impressios, o oe will be fooled for log if our hearts are deceitful. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

8 8 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3), My God (track 4) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tips Do t kow the melodies to the sogs i this guide? Dowload the 99-cet Kids Sogs app by Alkeo ad play the tues for 200+ commo childre s sogs. Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3 o the CD) to the tue of Are You Sleepig? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus welcomes, Jesus welcomes (Poit up.) Everyoe, everyoe. (Make gatherig motio.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) Come ad lear, come ad lear. (Make gatherig motio.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: Jesus wats all of us to come to church because God helps us grow. Let s sig a sog about how good God is. Lead childre i sigig My God (track 4 o the CD) to the tue of My God Is So Great. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) God loves me always. (Poit toward the sky.) God forgives me each day, Ad that is why I love him so. (Hug yourself.) Lesso 1 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

9 9 My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) (Repeat.) After the childre have sug it through, have them share some of the thigs that God does to care for them such as lovig them, makig good fruit grow o trees, or helpig them grow. The lead the childre i thakig God for carig ad helpig them grow. Say: Let s lear more about what Jesus said about how God helps us grow. 2 Key Verse activity The Greatest Treasure Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to Nehemiah 9:17, ad show childre the words. Use a small box as your treasure box. Give each child a gold coi. The Greatest Treasure Bible small box Teacher Pack gold cois Say: God s give us a great treasure of his love ad forgiveess. Our Key Verse from the Bible is Nehemiah 9:17, which says, You are a forgivig God, gracious ad compassioate, slow to ager ad aboudig i love. This meas that God forgives us ad always loves us. Let s say that together. Lead the childre i repeatig this simplified versio of the Key Verse with you: God forgives us ad always loves us. Have each child place his or her coi i the treasure box while sayig the Key Verse. How is God s love like a treasure? should we keep God s love i a box or give it away? Why? Say: Jesus loves everyoe. We ca treasure God s love ad forgiveess, ad we ca also give love ad forgiveess to others! Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

10 10 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet dog picture tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape the dog picture to Theo s paw. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hello, Theo! What s this o your paw? Theo: This is my hero Ucle Rolf. I wat to grow up to be just like him! Teacher: What do you like about Ucle Rolf? Theo: He s so smart ad big ad strog! Teacher: Well, today we ll be talkig about how God helps us grow. Kids, ca you show Theo how much you have grow? (Pause for childre to jump up ad show how big they are.) So, Theo, God will help you grow from a cute puppy ito a big, strog, full-grow dog maybe eve like Ucle Rolf! Ad growig up is good! Theo: I m glad God helps us grow! Teacher: Why do t you help us with our cheer. We ll say, Praise God! God helps us grow! Are you ready, childre? Are you ready, Theo? The let s thak God! (Lead Theo ad childre i cheerig Praise God! God helps us grow! three times.) Theo: I m goig to put this picture up o my wall to help me remember that God will help me grow up to be big ad strog. Bye, everyoe! Teacher: Let s say goodbye to Theo. Ecourage the childre to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. what did Theo have i his paws? what did Theo lear about growig up? Say: Let s see what the Bible tells us about how God helps us grow. Lesso 1 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

11 11 Bible Time: Growig God s Way Ope your Bible to Luke 6:43-45, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that God helps us grow. I fact, whe we look at the world aroud us, we ca see may thigs that God causes to grow. Show the childre the bowl of fruit. where does fruit come from? Cut each piece of fruit i half, ad allow the childre to dig out ad examie the seeds i each piece of fruit. Say: God created fruit. Iside fruit there are seeds. If you were to plat the seeds i dirt ad keep the seeds watered, you could grow more fruit. God created the fruit seeds, ad God helps the seeds grow. If you plated a apple seed, do you thik you d get a lollipop tree? Say: No, if you plated apple seeds, you d get a apple tree. If you plated a orage seed, do you thik you d get a giraffe tree? Say: No, if you plated orage seeds, you d get a orage tree. God created apple seeds to grow apples. God created orage seeds to grow orages. God created the fruit. God created the seeds iside the fruit, ad God makes the fruit grow. Show kids the Fruit Trees pictures you cut apart before class. Have the childre sort the fruit i the bowl to go with the proper tree. Bible Time: Growig God s Way Bible bowl of apples, orages, peaches, ad cherries kife scissors 4 small bowls Teacher Pack Fruit Trees poster Bible Time: Growig God s Way Easy Prep Cut apart the Fruit Trees poster. Set each sectio o a table with a small bowl ear each. Set out a bowl of apples, orages, peaches, ad cherries. Have a kife earby, out of childre s reach.! allergy alert Say: The Bible tells us each tree grows its ow kid of fruit. Ad we kow God helps the trees grow fruit. God helps us grow, too. whe you grow up, do you thik you ll be a elephat or a perso? whe you grow up, do you thik you ll be a apple tree or a perso? Say: Whe you grow up, you ll be a grow-up perso. If you re a little boy, you ll grow up to be a ma. If you re a little girl, you ll grow up to be a woma. God created us, ad we re good creatios! Ad God helps us grow to be just what he wats us to be. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

12 12 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Trees of a Kid My Bible Hugs scissors paper fasteers Ceter 1: Trees of a Kid Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 1 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut out the circle of fruit ad the squares o each page. Ceter 1: Trees of a Kid Help the childre place the fruit circle behid the tree o the My Bible Hugs page ad push a paper fasteer through the ceter. Have the childre separate the progs of the paper fasteer ad flatte them agaist the page. The have the childre make the fruit tree chage by turig the circle so that the differet fruits show through the widows. What does God do to help the fruit grow? what does fruit eed to grow? Say: God seds rai ad sulight to help fruit trees grow. God helps us grow, too. Whe we eat healthy fruit, we ll grow big ad strog. God helps us grow by providig healthy food for us to eat. Lesso 1 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

13 13 Ceter 2: Fruit Tree Sacks Have childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Give each child a paper towel, a large roud cookie, ad a large pretzel rod. Have childre each arrage the cookie ad the pretzel to look like a tree. Have the childre squeeze icig oto their cookies. The have the childre scatter fruit o their trees. what would it be like if God did t help fruits ad vegetables grow? What would we eat? what would it be like if God did t help us grow ad we stayed little our whole lives? Say: I m thakful that God makes fruits grow because they taste so good. Ad I m thakful that God helps us grow bigger ad stroger ad he helps our light shie brighter. Let s thak God for helpig fruit trees grow, for helpig us grow, ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray. Provide cups of water with the sack. Ceter 3: Babies ad Grow-Ups Have the childre look at the pictures you ve cut out. The discuss with the childre what each aimal was whe it was a baby. For example, a dog was a puppy ad a cat was a kitte. What do kittes [puppies, babies, calves, colts] grow up to be? What will you be whe you grow up? Say: God created us all to grow to get bigger ad stroger util we re all grow up. God helps us grow. God is good! Ceter 2: Fruit Tree Sacks cookies large pretzel rods white frostig food colorig small bowls of cut fruit paper towels squeeze bottles cups of water! allergy alert Ceter 2: Fruit Tree Sacks Easy Prep Tit a cotaier of white frostig gree, ad put the frostig i squeeze bottles. Set out small bowls of fruit that has bee cut ito small pieces to prevet chokig. Ceter 3: Babies ad Grow-Ups magazies scissors Ceter 3: Babies ad Grow-Ups Easy Prep Cut out pictures of aimals such as cows, chickes, horses, ad pigs from magazies. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

14 14 Ceter 4: Fluffy Trees Ceter 4: Fluffy Trees modelig dough small braches from a tree or bush pompoms of various sizes ad colors craft glue Give each child a small hadful of modelig dough ad a small brach. Show them how to stick the brach i the dough, usig the dough as a base, so it stads up like a tree. The have childre put a dot of glue o a pompom ad stick it to the brach. Let kids put lots of pompoms o the braches. who makes the trees grow taller ad have fruit? who makes you grow taller? what kids of thigs will you be able to do whe you are big? Say: God helps us grow bigger. He has woderful thigs for us to do whe we get big. 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that God helps us grow. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember that God helps you grow this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: Before you tur off your light ad go to bed, ask God to help you grow each day. Lesso 1 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

15 15 Ask a paret to pray with you. Curl up i a ball ad ask God to help you grow. Whe you ve fiished prayig, stad up slowly ad stretch while thakig God for helpig you grow closer to him. Say: If you wat to pray after the light is off, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to curl up i a ball, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Form a circle, ad have the childre sit dow. Have the childre curl ito small balls ad the slowly ufold ito tall preschoolers stadig o their tiptoes with arms stretched high. The have the childre pray: Dear God, Thak you for helpig me grow. I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Sed the letter to parets home with your kids or give it to parets whe they pick up their childre. This is a great way to show families they re importat to your church ad to support their role as spiritual leaders to their childre. Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Weavig Faith at Home My Bible Hugs Weavig Faith at Home Easy Prep Tear out the Paret Letter i the back of each My Bible Hugs book to give to parets whe they pick up their childre. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 1

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17 Lesso 2 17 Jesus Tells the Parable of the Lost So Luke 15:11-32 Preschoolers have a uique ability to forgive ad forget very quickly. If you have ever watched them playig together with oe aother, you ve oticed how they ca be archeemies oe momet ad best frieds the ext. Their memory of wrogs doe agaist them is geerally very short. As you teach this lesso, draw upo their abilities to forgive ad forget. Poit out that God is lovig ad forgivig ad always ready ad willig to forgive us. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible Poit God is lovig ad forgivig. Key Verse You are a forgivig God, gracious ad compassioate, slow to ager ad aboudig i love (Nehemiah 9:17). 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Forgivig ad Lovig Sig a sog about God forgivig ad lovig them. Puppy Poiters Hear Theo ask for ad receive forgiveess. Bible, CD player Teacher Pack: CD CD player, Theo puppet, tor picture, tape Teacher Pack: CD Tape the tor picture to Theo s paw. Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will thak God for lovig ad forgivig them. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: So Much to See ad Do Lear about the prodigal so with a floor poster. Bible, double-sided tape, heart sticker, crayos, ik pad, wet wipes, scissors Teacher Pack: Lost So poster, gold cois Cut out the father ad so figures from the poster. Set the poster o the floor, ad place the father ad so ext to the home. Place a few of the gold cois i a pile ext to the father. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

18 18 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Comig Home! Make a movable so puppet. My Bible Hugs, 1 craft stick per child, tape, scissors Remove the Lesso 2 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. O each page, cut out the so ad slit the paper alog the dotted lie. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Mud! Make ad eat chocolate puddig mud. Ceter 3: Home ad Away Act out the Bible passage. istat chocolate puddig, milk, cotaier with lid, paper cups, plastic spoos blocks Teacher Pack: father ad so figures from the Lost So poster Ceter 4: Welcome Home Greetig Create greetigs to celebrate comig home. Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. 1 sheet of costructio paper per child, glue sticks, magazies, scissors, crayos My Bible Hugs, crayos Cut pictures of happy faces out of magazies. Prit Welcome Home! o a sheet of 12x18-ich costructio paper. Prepare oe sheet for each child. 5 Lastig Impressios about 10 mi. Actio Prayer Say a prayer about beig forgive. 1 heart sticker per child Teacher Pack: The Lost So Returs poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 2 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

19 19 Jesus Tells the Parable of the Lost So Luke 15:11-32 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders The Youger So Demads His Iheritace I Jewish law, the oldest so received two-thirds of the iheritace, ad the rest was divided amog the other childre. Sice it appears that there were oly two sos, the youger would have bee etitled to oethird of the father s holdigs. However, Jewish law did ot allow a perso to sell his father s lad iheritace because it had bee give by God. So i askig his father to give him the lad early, the youger so was maeuverig agaist the law. Ay Jew would have see what the so was doig ad would have refused to buy the lad. It was also agaist the law to sell such lad to a Getile. Sice that must have bee what the youger so did, the Jews listeig to this story would have bee appalled. so ad save him from the death he deserved. What a woderful picture of our God, who watchfully waits, ready to forgive us whe we retur to him i repetace! The Jesus Coectio Picture a God axious to meet you eve whe you feel ashamed. Kow his love for you, ad cherish the relatioship you have with Jesus. Who i your life does t deserve mercy? They are just out of optios. They ve made their bed This chage of heart wo t last. Reach out to these people i kidess ad joy. Pray for them right ow. You ca write your prayer here. The So Squaders His Iheritace The ext part of the story is t hard to predict. The youger so foolishly spet his iheritace ad was left with othig. At that poit, he realized how wrog he had bee ad decided to retur to his father, hopig oly that the father would accept him back as a hired had. He was coviced that he had sacrificed his right to be his father s so. He ow decided to do what he kew was right. The Humiliated Father Forgives the So Because a family would ot ormally forgive a so for such a si, Jesus listeers would have bee extremely surprised ad agry to hear that the ma ra out to meet his returig so. What Jesus described was a father itet o gettig to his so before the eighbors did. Eve though the so had tured away, sied willfully, ad disgraced the family ame, the father was waitig to forgive his Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

20 20 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5), Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5 o the CD) to the tue of Boom, Boom! Ai t It Great to Be Crazy? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Stomp feet.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Nod head.) We ve come to worship Jesus Christ. (Clap hads.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be at church? (Stomp feet.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: At church we get to lear how God is lovig ad forgivig. Let s sig about how Jesus wats everyoe to come to church. Lead childre i sigig Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3 o the CD) to the tue of Are You Sleepig? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus welcomes, Jesus welcomes (Poit up.) Everyoe, everyoe. (Make gatherig motio.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) Come ad lear, come ad lear. (Make gatherig motio.) (Repeat 2x.) Lesso 2 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

21 21 2 Key Verse activity Forgivig ad Lovig Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to Nehemiah 9:17, ad show the childre the words. Say: I m so glad God forgives us whe we re sorry! Our Key Verse from the Bible is Nehemiah 9:17, which says, You are a forgivig God, gracious ad compassioate, slow to ager ad aboudig i love. This meas that God forgives us ad always loves us. Let s say that together. Lead the childre i repeatig this simplified versio of the Key Verse with you: God forgives us ad always loves us. Forgivig ad Lovig Bible CD player Teacher Pack CD: My God (track 4) Have the childre show you how they look whe they are sad ad happy. The ask childre to show you how they tell others they re sorry. Fially, ask childre to show you how they tell others, I forgive you. Explai that childre are goig to sig a sog about how God loves them ad forgives them. Lead childre i sigig My God (track 4 o the CD) to the tue of My God Is So Great. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) God loves me always. (Poit toward the sky.) God forgives me each day, Ad that is why I love him so. (Hug yourself.) My God is so good. (Give the thumbs-up sig.) God forgives me ad loves me (Hug yourself.) Eve if I do somethig that s wrog. (Give the thumbs-dow sig.) (Repeat.) Lead kids i this discussio. What have you doe that might make God sad? Have you ever had to say you re sorry? How did you feel? How did you feel whe the perso forgave you? Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

22 22 Say: God forgives us ad always loves us eve whe we do wrog thigs. God is lovig ad forgivig. 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet tor picture tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape the tor picture to Theo s paw. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hi, Theo! It s ice to see you at church today. What happeed to the picture you have there? Theo: I was lookig at it, ad I accidetally ripped it. I m really sorry. Will you forgive me? Teacher: Of course I ll forgive you! Theo: Thak you! Teacher: You re welcome, Theo. I our Bible story today, we re goig to hear about a so who asks his father for forgiveess. Theo: That souds like a excitig story! Teacher: It is! Ad do you kow what? I m sure I ca tape that picture back together agai. Why do t you leave it for me ad I ll fix it later? Theo: Thaks! I ll put it away ow. Teacher: Bye, Theo! Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo, ad the put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. Have you ever broke somethig that did t belog to you? What happeed? How does it feel whe someoe forgives you? Say: Sometimes we make mistakes. It feels good whe others forgive us for those mistakes. God is lovig ad forgivig. God forgives us for our mistakes, too. Lesso 2 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

23 23 Bible Time: So Much to See ad Do Ope your Bible to Luke 15:11-32, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that God is lovig ad forgivig. Let s hear a story that Jesus told about a father who loved ad forgave his so. There oce was a father who had two sos. The father loved his sos very much. Ask a child to place the heart sticker o the father. The father s yougest so did t wat to live at home aymore. The yougest so said, Give me a lot of moey, Dad, so I ca go away from here. How do you thik the father felt whe the so said that? Say: The so s words made the father sad, but he gave the so some moey. Have a few childre each take a gold coi from the father s pile ad use double-sided tape to stick it o the so. The the so left his father s home. He wet far away to aother city. Have several other childre use crayos to color the path the so took from the father s home to the city. I the city, the so spet all his moey o the wrog kids of thigs. Have a few childre take the cois off the so ad place them o the city with double-sided tape. Whe he ra out of moey, he had to get a job. The oly job he could do was feed pigs. Have oe child move the so alog the path to the pigsty. Ask each child to place a thumb o the ik pad ad the make muddy thumbprits i the pigsty. Let childre clea their thumbs with wet wipes. It was t a very good job. The so was so hugry that he eve thought about eatig the pigs food! All of a sudde, the so realized that eve his father s servats were livig better tha he was. The so realized how much he d hurt his father by leavig home. Bible Time: So Much to See ad Do Bible double-sided tape heart sticker crayos ik pad wet wipes scissors Teacher Pack Lost So poster gold cois Bible Time: So Much to See ad Do Easy Prep Cut out the father ad so figures from the poster. Set the poster o the floor, ad place the father ad so ext to the home. Place a few of the gold cois i a pile ext to the father. He decided to go back home ad tell his father, I m sorry. Have a child move the so alog the path from the pigsty back to the father s house. His father saw him ad ra to him. Place the father ext to the so. The father hugged his so ad kissed him. The so said, I hurt you, Dad. I m so sorry! The the father said, I love you, so. I forgive you. Whe have you felt bad because you ve doe somethig wrog? How do you thik the so felt whe his father forgave him? How ca you show others that you ve forgive them? Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

24 24 Say: Just as the father i the story loved ad forgave his so, our God is lovig ad forgivig toward us. 4 weavig faith ito life Ceter 1: Comig Home! My Bible Hugs 1 craft stick per child tape scissors Ceter 1: Comig Home! Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 2 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. O each page, cut out the so ad slit the paper alog the dotted lie. Ceter 2: Mud! istat chocolate puddig milk cotaier with lid paper cups plastic spoos! allergy alert Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Comig Home! Give each child a Lesso 2 page from My Bible Hugs. Help childre each tape the so to a craft stick. Show childre how to slide the so up through the slit i the page, walk from his father to the far-off lad, ad come back home agai. Talk about how the father was so excited that the so was comig home. Say: Whe we do somethig wrog, we re as far away from God as this father ad so are from each other. But whe we tell God we re sorry, we ca be close to God agai. How do you thik the so felt whe his father hugged ad kissed him? Whe God loves you ad forgives you, how do you feel? Say: Whe we do somethig wrog, we ca tell God we re sorry. God is lovig ad forgivig, just like the father i the story. Ceter 2: Mud! Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Lesso 2 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

25 25 Say: I our story today, the youg so eded up feedig pigs. He was so hugry that he almost ate the pigs food. Pigs love to roll i the mud. For our sack today, we are goig to make preted mud to eat. Pour a package of istat chocolate puddig ito a large cotaier. Add the milk ad cover with a lid. Let the childre take turs shakig the cotaier util the puddig is set (about five miutes). Pour the puddig ito small cups ad let sit while you discuss the questios. How do you thik the so felt whe he was takig care of the pigs? How would you feel if that was your job? Say: Let s thak God for lovig ad forgivig us ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack, ad the let kids ejoy their mud. Ceter 3: Home ad Away Ecourage the childre to use blocks to build the father s home ad a far-off tow. Give them the father ad so figures from the Lost So poster to act out the story. How do you thik God feels whe you do somethig wrog? How ca you thak God for forgivig you? Say: The father loved ad forgave his so. Whe we do somethig wrog, we ca tell God we re sorry. God is lovig ad forgivig. Ceter 4: Welcome Home Greetig Give each child a 12x18-ich piece of costructio paper with the words Welcome Home! prited o it. Let childre choose pictures to glue o their papers. They may also draw cheerful pictures. Ceter 3: Home ad Away blocks Teacher Pack: father ad so figures from the Lost So poster Ceter 4: Welcome Home Greetig 1 sheet of costructio paper per child glue sticks magazies scissors crayos Ceter 4: Welcome Home Greetig Easy Prep Cut pictures of happy faces out of magazies. Prit Welcome Home! o a sheet of 12x18- ich costructio paper. Prepare oe sheet for each child. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

26 26 Has someoe you loved ever bee away for a log time? If so, what was that like? Whe someoe comes home after beig away for a while, how do you celebrate? Say: God is lovig ad forgivig, so God celebrates every time oe of his childre comes to him. You ca put this greetig o a door at home to welcome a paret home from work or to welcome a visitor. Whe you welcome someoe, you ca remember the so i the story ad his lovig ad forgivig father. 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that God is lovig ad forgivig. I would like each of you to choose a way to show you kow that this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: draw a picture of Jesus ad hag it i your room. Each time you see it, thak God for lovig you every day. Have a adult help you write a apology to someoe you may have hurt. Ask that perso to forgive you, ad tell him or her about Jesus love ad forgiveess. Say: If you wat to draw a picture, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to write a apology, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Lesso 2 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

27 27 Actio Prayer Before prayig, talk with the childre about how importat it is to tell God we re sorry whe we do somethig wrog. Remid them that i the story, the so told the father he was sorry for leavig ad the father forgave the so. God is lovig ad forgivig just as the father i the story was. Place The Lost So Returs poster o the floor, ad have childre gather aroud it. Let them idetify the father ad the so i the picture. The give each child the opportuity to pray, God, I m sorry for the thigs I do that are wrog. Whe a child prays this prayer, let the child put a heart sticker o the picture of the so to show God s forgiveess. Let each child take a tur prayig ad puttig a sticker o the picture of the so. The close by havig the childre repeat after you the lies to the followig prayer. Actio Prayer 1 heart sticker per child Teacher Pack The Lost So Returs poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Thak you, God, for lovig me Ad also for forgivig me. Help me try to do what s right So I m close to you all day ad ight. I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 2

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29 Lesso 3 29 Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet Joh 13: 1-17 Preschoolers love to help! I fact, they ofte wat to help eve whe you do t exactly eed their help. They ejoy workig alogside adults ad receivig praise for a job well doe. As you teach this lesso, poit out that whe childre help others, they are beig like Jesus. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep Bible Poit God wats us to help others. 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Key Verse Christ died for us (Romas 5:8). 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Scripture Sigals Use sigals ad objects to lear the Key Verse. scissors Teacher Pack: Jesus figure, glow-i-thedark cross Cut out the Jesus figures ad stads, ad assemble oe figure. Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will help others. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Puppy Poiters Hear what Theo eeds help with. Bible Time: Dirty, Dusty Feet! Wash each other s feet. CD player, Theo puppet, towel, brush, strig Teacher Pack: CD Bible, cups, pitcher of juice, tissues Wrap Theo i a small towel, ad tie a brush to his paw with strig. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 3

30 30 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep 4 Ceter 1: Footprits Make footprits o their papers. My Bible Hugs, 5 paper towels, pie pa, tempera pait, soapy water, clea water, towels Remove the Lesso 3 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Fold at least five paper towels together, leavig a surface as large as the bottom of a child s foot. Place the paper towels i a pie pa. Pour tempera pait over the paper towels, allowig the pait to soak i to create a large ik pad. Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Sacks to Share Help each other make sadwiches to share. Ceter 3: Helpig Liks Work together to make a chai. butter, jelly, bread, craft sticks, apkis, kife Teacher Pack: heart ad star liks Ceter 4: Helpig Hearts Create a mural of thaksgivig for a church leader. blak wrappig paper, tempera paits, pie tis, 1 spoge per child, scissors, marker, wet wipes Cut iexpesive kitche spoges ito heart shapes. Pour thi layers of various colors of tempera pait ito pie tis. Spread white or brow wrappig paper o the floor so childre ca create a mural. Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Actio Prayer Say a prayer about beig a helper. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 3 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

31 31 Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet Joh 13:1-17 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Jesus Offers to Perform a Demeaig Task It is especially sigificat that Jesus washed the disciples feet because oe of the disciples was willig to stoop below the others to do this demeaig task. The washig of feet, ecessary because people i Jesus day all wore sadals, was customary before the begiig of ay meal ad was ormally doe by a servat as guests etered the house. However, sice this was a private meal, there was apparetly o servat there. The water, the basi, ad the towel were there, ad certaily the disciples thought about the fact that o oe had washed their feet. But oe of them took the iitiative to do the washig before the meal. After the food had bee set out, Jesus took actio. Joh records all this i detail, likely feelig guilty for ot beig the oe to pick up the towel ad basi to serve his brothers ad his Lord. serve oe aother; they eeded to take actio if they were to receive the blessig promised i Joh 13:17. The Jesus Coectio Jesus etire missio was oe of humility. Imagie a kig leavig his posh palace to live as a homeless ma, facig abuse ad mistreatmet. Ridiculous? Absolutely. Why did Jesus do what he did? All for the love of you ad me. Thak Jesus for makig a way for you to someday live where he is. Ackowledge that because of him, you do t have to be afraid or ashamed about meetig God. Jesus bet dow low to lift you up high. How ca you live out your gratitude? Talk to God about that. You ca write your prayer here. Peter at First Refuses Jesus Service Peter s resistace to allowig Jesus to wash his feet revealed that Peter did t uderstad what was really happeig, part of which was Jesus illustratig the cleasig power of his death. Peter also exhibited pride i his refusal to let Jesus wash his feet. He did t yet uderstad that Jesus came to serve, ot to be served. Peter s rejectio of Jesus act was based o a uderstadig of the Messiah that did t allow for such a humble, servatlike actio. Go ad Serve Others Through his actios ad words, Jesus commads us to serve oe aother as he served his disciples, but ot specifically i the washig of feet. To claim to be exempt from such service would be to claim to be greater tha Jesus himself. Ad it would ot be eough for the disciples to recogize that they were to Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 3

32 32 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5), God Is Listeig (track 6) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5 o the CD) to the tue of Boom, Boom! Ai t It Great to Be Crazy? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Stomp feet.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Nod head.) We ve come to worship Jesus Christ. (Clap hads.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be at church? (Stomp feet.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: Today at church we ll lear that God wats us to help others. Let s sig oe more sog before we hear what the Bible says about that. Lead childre i sigig God Is Listeig (track 6 o the CD) to the tue of Did You Ever See a Lassie? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. God is listeig whe we talk to him, (Put had to ear.) Talk to him, talk to him. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) He listes whe I pray; he listes whe you pray. (Poit to self, the to others.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) (Repeat 2x.) Lesso 3 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

33 33 2 Key Verse activity Scripture Sigals Say: Our Key Verse from the Bible is Romas 5:8. This verse says, Christ died for us. This meas that Jesus Christ died to take the puishmet for the wrog thigs we do. The good ews is that Jesus came back to life! Let s say our Key Verse together. Lead childre i sayig the Key Verse with you: Christ died for us. Explai that you ll show a object or a sigal for each word i this verse. Hold up the Jesus figure to represet the word Christ. Explai that Jesus died o a cross, so hold up the glow-i-the-dark cross to represet died. Whe you say, for us, poit to yourself ad several of the childre. Repeat the verse several times usig the objects ad sigals to help childre remember the words. Let several of the childre take turs beig the oes to hold up the Jesus figure ad the glow-i-the-dark cross. The put the items back ito the Teacher Pack for later use. Scripture Sigals scissors Teacher Pack Jesus figure glow-i-the-dark cross Scripture Sigals Easy Prep Cut out the Jesus figures ad stads, ad assemble oe figure. Why do you thik Jesus Christ was willig to die for us? Who ca you tell about the love Jesus has for us? Say: God wats us to help others. Jesus helped us by dyig for us ad takig away the puishmet for the wrog thigs we ve doe. 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet towel brush strig Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Wrap Theo i a small towel, ad tie a brush to his paw with strig. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 3

34 34 Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hello, Theo! You look like you re i the middle of doig somethig. Theo: I was playig i the mud ad had to take a bath. I got so-o-o dirty! Now I eed my fur brushed. Ca you please do that for me? Teacher: I would love to help you by brushig your fur, Theo. I our Bible story today we re goig to hear about a time that Jesus helped his frieds. Jesus was a servat to his frieds. Theo: I d like to stay ad hear the story, but I eed to go fiish cleaig up. Teacher: Okay. I ll see you i a little while to brush your fur. Goodbye! Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. have you ever helped someoe? How did you help them? Say: Let s fid out how the disciples felt whe Jesus helped them. Bible Time: Dirty, Dusty Feet! Bible cups pitcher of juice tissues! allergy alert Bible Time: Dirty, Dusty Feet! Ope your Bible to Joh 13:1-17, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that God wats us to help others. We re goig to hear a story about Jesus servig his frieds. Remember, servig meas helpig. Oe day Jesus ad his frieds were eatig dier together. Have childre pass aroud the cups, each takig oe cup before passig them to the ext child. Pour juice ito each child s cup. Say: Now you may ejoy your juice. But while you re drikig, liste to the rest of the story about Jesus ad his frieds. Jesus ad his frieds were sittig ad eatig together. The Jesus did a surprisig thig. He got up ad washed the feet of each disciple. Because they walked o dusty roads, their feet were dirty. Jesus was beig a helper by servig his frieds. Whe Jesus was fiished, he told his frieds that they should also help each other. Let s preted to wash each other s feet. We ca practice servig, or helpig, each other. Lesso 3 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

35 35 Give a tissue to each child. The help childre form pairs by turig to a child ext to them. Show childre how to wipe each other s shoes clea with a tissue. If childre still have part of their drik to fiish, remid them to wash their hads before drikig. Say: Just as Jesus ad his frieds were good helpers, we ca also help each other. What do you like about helpig others? Say: Jesus was showig his frieds how to be good servats, or good helpers. God wats us to help others. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Footprits Have childre each take off oe shoe ad oe sock. Have childre take turs each placig a foot o the paper towel ik pad ad the steppig oto his or her My Bible Hugs page. The wash each child s foot. Remid childre that Jesus washed his frieds feet. How did it feel to get your feet dirty? how did it feel whe I washed your feet? how do you thik Jesus feels whe we help each other? Say: God wats us to help others. Whe we help each other, it makes us feel good. Ceter 1: Footprits My Bible Hugs 5 paper towels pie pa tempera pait soapy water clea water towels Ceter 1: Footprits Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 3 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Fold at least five paper towels together, leavig a surface as large as the bottom of a child s foot. Place the paper towels i a pie pa. Pour tempera pait over the paper towels, allowig the pait to soak i to create a large ik pad. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 3

36 36 Ceter 2: Sacks to Share Ceter 2: Sacks to Share butter jelly bread craft sticks apkis kife! allergy alert Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Have childre form pairs. Tell them they are goig to help each other make today s sack. Oe child will use a craft stick to spread softeed butter o a slice of bread; the the other child will spread jelly o a slice of bread. Have them put the two pieces of bread together to make a sadwich, ad the cut it i half for them to share. What are some other ways you ca help each other? Say: Let s thak God for showig us how to help each other ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Helpig Liks Teacher Pack heart ad star liks Ceter 3: Helpig Liks Remove the heart ad star liks from the Teacher Pack, ad be sure the liks are separated. Give yourself ad each child a heart or star, ad sit i a circle with the childre. Explai that childre are goig to help each other make a chai. Pass your heart or star to the child o your left, ad have that child add a lik to yours. The that child should pass the chai to the ext child to add aother lik, ad so o util every child has added a lik. As childre work, poit out that whe they help each other, the chai is easier to complete. Why is it more fu to help each other? How did you feel whe you worked together to make the chai? Say: God wats us to help others. Whe we help each other, God is very happy. Lesso 3 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

37 37 Ceter 4: Helpig Hearts Say: There are people i our church who help us. Let s show how thakful we are for this help! Explai that childre will make a poster of thakfuless for a pastor or other leader i your church. Show childre how to dip the heart-shaped spoges ito the pait ad press these oto the paper. Use wet wipes to clea hads after paitig. As childre work, let them share some of the thigs they like about the perso who will receive the mural. Use a marker to write a few of these affirmig statemets amog the paited hearts. how have people i our church helped you? how ca you help others i our church? Say: God wats us to help others. Oe way we ca help others is by ecouragig them. This picture you ve made will ecourage ad help [ame of perso who will receive picture]. Deliver the mural after the pait is dry. Ceter 4: Helpig Hearts blak wrappig paper tempera paits pie tis 1 spoge per child scissors marker wet wipes Ceter 4: Helpig Hearts Easy Prep Cut iexpesive kitche spoges ito heart shapes. Pour thi layers of various colors of tempera pait ito pie tis. Spread white or brow wrappig paper o the floor so childre ca create a mural. 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 3

38 38 Say: Today we leared that God wats us to help others. I would like each of you to choose a way to help others this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: help a fried clea up his or her toys. Tell your fried that God wats us to help others. help your mom or dad clea the house. Remember that God wats us to help others. Say: If you wat to help a fried, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to help your parets, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Remid childre that God wats us to help each other. The close by sayig this prayer together: Dear God, A helper I would like to be, Servig others happily! I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Lesso 3 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

39 Lesso 4 39 Jesus Is Tried ad Crucified Luke 19:28-40; 23:1-49 As you teach childre about Jesus crucifixio, emphasize that God had a special pla for Jesus. Explai that Jesus came to earth to die so that we could someday live i heave with God. The be sure to tell childre that God also plaed for Jesus to come to life agai. Repeat the fact that Jesus is alive today so childre ca uderstad that Jesus death did ot separate us from him forever. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. For Me! Lear how the cross makes them closer to God. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, maskig tape Bible Poit Jesus died for us. Key Verse Christ died for us (Romas 5:8). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will thak Jesus for dyig o the cross. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Puppy Poiters Hear what the cross remids Theo of. Bible Time: Joy ad Sadess Liste to the Bible story o the CD ad do actios to the story. CD player, Theo puppet, tape Teacher Pack: CD, glow-ithe-dark cross Bible, CD player, 1 palm brach per child Teacher Pack: CD Tape the glowi-the-dark cross to Theo s paw. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

40 40 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 1: A Cross to God Create a path to show how the cross brigs us close to God. Ceter 2: Cruchy Crosses Make crosses to remid them of Jesus sacrifice. Ceter 3: Praise Jesus! Use a doll ad palm braches to re-eact the Bible story. My Bible Hugs, glue sticks, 8 iches of ribbo per child, scissors cookie sticks, frostig, craft sticks, apkis 1 palm brach per child, doll Remove the Lesso 4 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut eough 4-ich pieces of ribbo for each child to have two. Set out glue sticks. Ceter 4: Palm Parade Make palm braches to wave. 1 cardboard tube per child, 4 feet of gree crepe paper per child, scissors, tape Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Actio Prayer Tell Jesus thak you. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Teacher Pack: glow-ithe-dark cross Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 4 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

41 41 Jesus Is Tried ad Crucified Luke 19:28-40; 23:1-49 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Jesus Eters Jerusalem o a Dokey Jesus etered the city ridig a colt i order to fulfill the Messiaic prophecy i Zechariah 9:9. This was a sig that Jews had bee watchig for. I additio, a kig ridig a horse idicated that the kig was goig ito battle, whereas a kig ridig a dokey was a symbol of peace. Pilate Orders Jesus Crucified Pilate, the Roma goveror of Judea, had bee less tha pleasat to the Jews durig his rule. He had take moey from the Temple treasury for a city water project ad had brought images from the Roma Empire ito the city of Jerusalem. But he kew ot to go too far i his irritatio of the Jews. If too may complaits about him reached Rome, he might lose his positio. So he was likely feelig isecure whe the Jews came to him with their request to crucify Jesus. Thus, eve though it appears that Pilate felt Jesus was iocet, he was uwillig to stad up agaist the Jews. happeed as Jesus died made a differece i that ma s life. Everyoe who witessed Jesus death seemed to sese that somethig very wrog had happeed (Luke 23:48). The Jesus Coectio With all the demads o our time ad attetio, it s easy to forget that everythig i this life is about Jesus. This oe truth is wove ito the very fabric of creatio. What a hoor to be i a lovig relatioship with Jesus! Pick up a rock. What does it tell you about God? Its mere existece is a testimoy to the greatess of a Creator with o begiig or ed. Ivest five miutes i praisig God, who created you ad loves you. You ca write your prayer of praise here. It is sigificat that Jesus was crucified betwee two crimials. To the Jews, this idicated that he was a crimial. It seems likely that the religious leaders had exerted their ifluece to arrage for this positioig as oe more way to humiliate Jesus. Darkess Falls Whe Jesus Is Crucified Whe Jesus died, the skies became dark from oo util 3 o clock i the afteroo whe the su would ormally have bee at the height of its brilliace. There is o way to explai this darkess as a atural pheomeo. God must have darkeed the su. The ceturio metioed i Luke 23:47 was a Roma soldier, loyal to the emperor. Somethig about what Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

42 42 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5), Say ad Believe (track 7) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Ai t It Great to Be at Church (track 5 o the CD) to the tue of Boom, Boom! Ai t It Great to Be Crazy? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Stomp feet.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be here at church? (Nod head.) We ve come to worship Jesus Christ. (Clap hads.) Boom, boom! Ai t it great to be at church? (Stomp feet.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: Today we ll lear that Jesus died for us. Ad whe we believe i Jesus we ca be part of his family. Let s sig about believig i Jesus ow. Lead childre i sigig Say ad Believe (track 7 o the CD) to the tue of Agels Watchig Over Me. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Say ad believe. (Touch mouth ad the head.) Say ad believe. (Touch mouth ad the head.) Say ad believe that Jesus is Lord. (Touch mouth ad the head; the poit up.) Say ad believe. (Touch mouth ad the head.) Say ad believe. (Touch mouth ad the head.) Believe that Jesus is Lord. (Touch head, ad the poit up.) (Repeat 2x.) Lesso 4 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

43 43 2 Key Verse activity For Me! Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to Romas 5:8, ad show the childre the words. For Me! Bible maskig tape Say: Our Key Verse from the Bible says, Christ died for us. Let s say it together. Lead the childre i repeatig the Key Verse with you: Christ died for us. Explai that Christ is aother ame for Jesus. Have the childre help you make a very large cross o the floor with maskig tape. Have oe child stad at each of the four poits o the cross. Poit out how far away they are from each other. The have the childre begi walkig o the tape cross toward each other. As they walk, have the etire class say the Key Verse. Whe they reach the middle of the cross, have kids place their arms o each other s shoulders, ad poit out how close together they are. Tell the childre that because Jesus died for us o the cross, we ca be close to God just as they are close to each other. Choose four differet childre, ad repeat the process. Cotiue util all childre have had a chace to walk o the tape cross. Whe have you bee far away from someoe you love? How do you feel kowig that you ca always be close to God? What ca you tell a fried about the cross? Say: Because Jesus died for us, we ca always be close to God. Have kids joi together to give a big group hug to each other. 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) glow-i-the-dark cross Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape the glow-i-thedark cross to Theo s paw. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

44 44 Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hi, Theo! It s ice to see you at church today. What do you have there? Theo: It s a cross. Teacher: It s beautiful. Theo: My mom ad dad gave it to me as a remider. Teacher: A remider of what? Theo: Each time I look at this cross it remids me that Christ died for us. Teacher: That is somethig importat to remember, Theo. Theo: Do you thik our frieds would like to hear the story of how Jesus gave his life for us? Teacher: I thik they would. We ll see you later, Theo. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. What remids you of Jesus? Whe you thik of Jesus, what do you thik about? Say: Crosses help us remember that Jesus died for us. Let s fid out from the Bible why Jesus did this special thig for us. Bible Time: Joy ad Sadess Bible CD player 1 palm brach per child Teacher Pack CD: Joy ad Sadess (track 8) Bible Time: Joy ad Sadess Cue the CD to the Joy ad Sadess segmet (track 8). The ope your Bible to Luke 19:28-40; 23:1-49, ad show the childre the words. Say: Last week we leared to help each other. Today s Bible story tells us that Jesus died for us. Provide each child with a palm brach, ad ask childre to hold the braches i their laps. Explai that childre should liste carefully to the story o the CD ad watch you to follow the actios. Play the Joy ad Sadess segmet of the CD. Follow the script below, ad lead childre i the actios. Ito Jerusalem Jesus came, Ridig a dokey who had o ame. (Preted to ride a dokey.) The people were happy ad started to sig (Wave palm braches.) Hosaa ad praises to Jesus, their kig. (Bed at the waist to bow.) They waved their palm braches (Wave palm braches.) ad the laid them dow Lesso 4 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

45 45 So the dokey with Jesus would ot touch the groud. (Set the palm braches o the groud.) But the oe week later the crowd became mad. (Make a agry face.) They did t love Jesus, which made Jesus sad. (Make a sad face.) They wated to hurt him ad hag him o a cross. (Make a cross with two idex figers.) Jesus family ad frieds were sad at their loss. (Rub your eyes as if cryig.) But Jesus kew this was part of God s pla (Poit up to God.) So God could be close to each child, woma, ad ma. (Hug yourself.) Jesus died for you ad for me, (Poit to a fried ad the to yourself.) Ad frieds with God we ow ca be. (Hug yourself.) What makes you sad about this story? What makes you happy about this story? How do you thik Jesus felt whe the people wated to hurt him? How do you kow that Jesus is your fried? How ca we tell Jesus thak you for lovig us so much? Say: Let s wave our palm braches agai to thak Jesus for lovig us so much. Have the childre pick up their palm braches agai, ad the lead them i wavig the palm braches ad sayig Praise Jesus! ad Thak you, Jesus! ad I love you, Jesus! Afterward, have childre place their palm braches i a pile, ad set aside the pile. Say: Jesus died for us so that we could be close to God. Because of what Jesus did, we ca live with God i heave someday! 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

46 46 Ceter 1: A Cross to God Ceter 1: A Cross to God My Bible Hugs glue sticks 8 iches of ribbo per child scissors Ceter 1: A Cross to God Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 4 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut eough 4-ich pieces of ribbo for each child to have two. Set out glue sticks. Ceter 2: Cruchy Crosses cookie sticks frostig craft sticks apkis! allergy alert Distribute the My Bible Hugs pages. Poit out how far the childre are from heave ad from God. Remid childre that because Jesus died for us o the cross, we ca be close to God. Help childre make a lie of glue from the childre to the cross ad from the cross to heave. The help them press a strip of ribbo over each lie of glue. How do you feel whe you re far away from someoe you love? How do you feel whe you re close to someoe you love? How does our picture remid you of what Jesus did for us? Who ca we thak for helpig us get close to God? Say: I our picture, the childre got close to God through the cross. Because Jesus died for us o the cross, we ca be close to God. I m so happy that we ca be close to God! Ceter 2: Cruchy Crosses Have the childre wash their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Give each child a apki ad two cookie sticks. Show childre how to use the craft stick to dab a little frostig o oe cookie stick. The childre ca stick the cookies together to form a cross. Allow each child to make several crosses to eat. Have you ever doe somethig for someoe else that was hard? What was it? How does it make you feel whe you thik about Jesus dyig for you? Say: Jesus died o the cross so that we could be close to God. Let s thak God that Jesus died for us ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Lesso 4 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

47 47 Ceter 3: Praise Jesus! Set out palm braches, ad ecourage childre to set them dow as a road from oe ed of the room to the other. The have childre form two lies as if liig up o opposite sides of a road. Give each child a opportuity to walk a doll alog the road while the rest of the childre call out, We love Jesus! Ceter 3: Praise Jesus! 1 palm brach per child doll What do you like about Jesus? What good thigs has Jesus doe? Say: Because Jesus died for us o the cross, we ca live forever someday with God i heave. Jesus loves us so much! Ceter 4: Palm Parade Give each child a paper towel tube ad several 1-foot legths of gree crepe paper. Show childre how to tape the crepe paper to the ed of the tube to make a palm brach. Let kids wave these i the air. Ceter 4: Palm Parade 1 cardboard tube per child 4 feet of gree crepe paper per child scissors tape How do you thik Jesus felt whe people were wavig braches ad cheerig for him? How do you thik Jesus felt whe people became agry ad wated Jesus to die? Say: It s sad that Jesus had to die o the cross, but because Jesus died for us, we ca be close to God! Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

48 48 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that Jesus died for us. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember Jesus this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: draw a picture of Jesus o the cross. Thak Jesus for dyig for you. Tell a fried about Jesus. Be sure to tell your fried that Jesus loves him or her ad died for us all. Say: If you wat to draw a picture, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to talk to a fried, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer glow-i-the-dark cross Actio Prayer Have childre sit i a circle. Tur off the lights so the cross glows. Have childre pass aroud the cross ad tell Jesus thak you for dyig o the cross. Help childre by begiig with a prayer such as, Dear Jesus, thak you for dyig o the cross so we ca be close to God. Whe each child who wats to pray has doe so, ed the prayer. Pray: I Jesus ame, ame. Lesso 4 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

49 49 Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 4

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51 Lesso 5 51 Jesus Appears to Mary Joh 20:1-18 Preschoolers will aturally feel the joy of Jesus beig alive. Learig that he died ca be disturbig for them at first, but as they lear that he rose from the dead ad is alive forever, their sadess will tur to excitemet ad joy. This lesso may be their first itroductio to the fact that Jesus is alive today! Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Alive Today! Play a game to lear the Key Verse. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible Bible Poit Jesus is alive. Key Verse Christ died for us (Romas 5:8). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will celebrate that Jesus is alive. Puppy Poiters Hear why Theo is late. CD player, Theo puppet, plastic Easter egg, tape Teacher Pack: CD Tape a plastic Easter egg to Theo s paw. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: He s Alive! Lear that Jesus was i a tomb ad that he came back to life. Bible, plastic Easter egg from the Puppy Poiters activity Teacher Pack: Jesus figure, Mary Sees Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Hide oe Jesus figure iside your Bible. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 5

52 52 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Jesus Appears Create a ivisible drawig of Jesus, ad the make him appear. My Bible Hugs, ewspaper, white crayos, watercolors, paitbrushes, cups of water, smocks Remove the Lesso 5 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cover a table with ewspaper, ad set out supplies. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Empty Cave Sacks Make a empty cave. Ceter 3: Play-Clay Creatios Create artwork from modelig dough. pita bread, teddy bear crackers, apkis modelig dough Teacher Pack: Mary Sees Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Ceter 4: Easter Place Mats Make place mats to use i celebratig Jesus resurrectio. Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. Actio Prayer Thak God for givig us Jesus ad for brigig him back to life. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. 1 sheet of costructio paper per child, stickers, crayos My Bible Hugs, crayos plastic Easter egg from the Bible Time activity Teacher Pack: Jesus figure Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 5 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

53 53 Jesus Appears to Mary Joh 20:1-18 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Mary, Joh, ad Peter Discover a Empty Tomb It is obvious from Mary s respose ad from that of the disciples that o oe expected Jesus to rise from the dead. The other disciple metioed i verse 2 was Joh himself. Eve though he arrived at the tomb first, he did t go i immediately. Bold, impetuous Peter arrived after Joh ad burst ito the tomb to see what had happeed. The body was goe, but the grave clothes were still there. I fact, the wrap that had bee o Jesus head was folded up, ot tossed carelessly as a grave robber might have doe. We are t told of Peter s respose, but we see that whe Joh followed him i ad saw the positio of the grave clothes, Joh believed. Peter ad Joh left the tomb, but Mary could t. For her, the disappearace of Jesus body was still a mystery. As she stood outside sobbig, she peered ito the tomb ad saw two agels sittig there. I her grief, it did t register who or what they were. Her respose to the agels iquiry idicates that she had t grasped what had happeed. She was sad because she thought Jesus body had bee take away. She had o comprehesio that Jesus had rise. It is iterestig that Jesus repeated the same questio the agels had asked Mary. The agels ad Jesus were both tryig to help Mary uderstad what had actually happeed. But she just could t comprehed it util Jesus called her ame. She kew the voice of Jesus ad recogized him. The Jesus Coectio The same voice Mary heard calls to us, ivitig, assurig, welcomig us ito a full life with him a timeless relatioship with Jesus. It was the resurrectio of Jesus that chaged everythig ad gave the disciples the courage they eeded to face death uafraid. How is the resurrectio of Christ chagig the way you live? What questios do you have for God? Ask him right ow. You ca write your prayer here. Mary Does t Recogize the Rise Jesus Why did Mary ot recogize the Lord she was lookig for whe she tured aroud ad saw him? Several factors probably cotributed to her lack of recogitio: She kew he was dead ad was ot expectig him to be alive, she may ot have raised her eyes to really look at him because she did t wat to show her tears, she may ot have see clearly through her tears ayway, ad Jesus was ow i his glorified body he may have looked very differet from whe she had last see him. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 5

54 54 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: We Welcome You (track 9), Chage Me (track 10) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig We Welcome You (track 9 o the CD) to the tue of The Mulberry Bush. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. We welcome you to church today, (Shake hads with someoe.) Church today, church today. (Nod head.) We welcome you to church today. (Shake hads with someoe.) We re so glad you ve come. (Smile ad poit to corers of mouth.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: I our lesso today, we ll lear that Jesus is alive today! Let s celebrate by sigig. Lead childre i sigig Chage Me (track 10 o the CD) to the tue of Agels Watchig Over Me. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus, chage me. (Poit up, the to self.) Help me do what you would do. (Clasp hads.) Jesus, chage me. (Poit up, the to self.) Help me do what you would do. (Clasp hads.) Jesus, chage me. (Poit up, the to self.) Help me love as you would love. (Hug self.) Jesus, chage me. (Poit up, the to self.) Help me love as you would love. (Hug self.) (Repeat from the begiig.) Lesso 5 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

55 55 2 Key Verse activity Alive Today! Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to Romas 5:8, ad show childre the words. Alive Today! Bible Say: Our Key verse from the Bible is Romas 5:8. This verse says, Christ died for us. This meas that Jesus Christ died to take the puishmet for the wrog thigs we do. The good ews is that Jesus came back to life. Jesus is alive! Let s say our Key Verse together. Lead childre i sayig the Key Verse with you: Christ died for us. Have childre form trios. Have two of the childre face each other ad clasp hads (as if playig Lodo Bridge ). Have the third child stad i the middle of their hads as if he or she has bee captured. Have all the childre softly say together, Christ died for us. The have those claspig hads lift their hads to release the captured child as everyoe shouts, Jesus is alive! Play several times so that each child has a tur at both roles. How did you feel whe you were captured ad were thikig about Jesus dyig? How did you feel whe you were set free ad could shout that Jesus is alive? Say: Jesus is alive, ad that meas we ca be free from thigs that are wrog. 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), but keep Theo hidde. Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet plastic Easter egg tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape a plastic Easter egg to Theo s paw. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 5

56 56 Teacher: I told Theo to come out whe he heard the music. Theo, where are you? Frieds, I ll cout to three, ad the I wat you to help me call for Theo. Oe, two, three Theo! (Have childre call for Theo. The have Theo appear with a Easter egg attached to his paw.) Theo: Here I am! I was out hutig for Easter eggs. Teacher: I m glad you re here. I did t kow where you were. That remids me of the Bible story we re goig to hear today. A woma could t fid Jesus just as we could t fid you. Theo, may I borrow your Easter egg for our Bible story? Theo: Sure! It s empty. I already ate the cady that was i it. Teacher: That s okay. Thak you! (Take egg from Theo s paw.) Teacher: Goodbye, Theo! We ll see you later. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo, ad the put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. How did you feel whe we could t fid Theo? Whe have you looked for somethig that you could t fid? Say: Today i our Bible story, we ll lear about a woma who could t fid Jesus just as we could t fid Theo. Let s fid out what happeed. Bible Time: He s Alive! Bible plastic Easter egg from the Puppy Poiters activity Teacher Pack Jesus figure Mary Sees Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Bible Time: He s Alive! Easy Prep Hide oe Jesus figure iside your Bible. Bible Time: He s Alive! Ope your Bible to Joh 20:1-18, ad show the childre the words. Say: Last week we leared that Jesus died for us. Today s Bible story tells us that Jesus is alive. Give the plastic Easter egg to a child to hold. Show childre the Jesus figure that s ot hidde i your Bible. Say: After Jesus died, his body was placed ito a cave called a tomb. We ca preted that this egg is the tomb Jesus was placed i. Roll ad fold the Jesus figure so that it will fit iside the plastic Easter egg. Ask the child holdig the egg to ope it, ad place the Jesus figure iside. A big stoe was rolled i frot of the tomb. Close the egg. Three days after Jesus died, Mary, oe of Jesus frieds, wet to the tomb early i the morig. Lesso 5 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

57 57 Have the childre preted to be Mary ad walk aroud the room oce util they reach the tomb agai. While childre are walkig, remove the folded Jesus figure from the egg ad set it aside or hide it. Set the opeed egg o the floor. Say: Whe Mary got to the tomb, she saw the stoe rolled away. Whe Mary peeked iside, what do you thik she saw? Jesus was t there! The tomb was empty! Mary ra to tell Jesus frieds that Jesus was goe. The she wet back to the tomb. Have the childre preted to be Mary agai ad walk aroud the room. As childre are walkig, place the secod Jesus figure beside the tomb. Later whe Mary was back at the tomb, she saw a ma. Who do you thik it was? Pause for childre to respod, ad the show childre the poster. Mary saw Jesus! He was t dead he was alive! God had brought Jesus to life agai. Ad do you kow what? Jesus is alive today! Whe we celebrate Easter, we celebrate the fact that Jesus is alive ad livig i heave. How do you thik Mary felt whe she saw Jesus alive? What do you wat to tell others about Jesus? Say: Mary was so happy! Jesus had died, but ow Jesus was alive! Mary wated to tell everyoe the good ews. We, too, ca tell others the good ews that Jesus is alive. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Jesus Appears Have childre first use a white crayo or wax cadle to coect the dashes to create the picture of Jesus o the My Bible Hugs page. The show childre how to brush pait Ceter 1: Jesus Appears My Bible Hugs ewspaper white crayos watercolors paitbrushes cups of water smocks Ceter 1: Jesus Appears Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 5 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cover a table with ewspaper, ad set out supplies. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 5

58 58 over the picture of Jesus. Jesus will appear as white lies shiig through the pait. Who appeared at the tomb with Mary? Who appeared o your page whe you paited? Why is it excitig that Jesus is alive? Say: Just as Jesus appeared i your pictures, Jesus appeared to Mary outside the tomb. Whe Mary foud Jesus, she was very happy! She was so glad that Jesus is alive! We ca be glad, too, because Jesus is alive today! Ceter 2: Empty Cave Sacks pita bread teddy bear crackers apkis! allergy alert Ceter 2: Empty Cave Sacks Have the childre wash their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Give each child a apki, a half piece of pita (or pocket) bread, ad several teddy bear crackers. Have childre place the teddy bears iside the pita bread just as Jesus was placed iside the tomb. The have childre remove the teddy bears to make a tomb as empty as Jesus tomb. Remid childre that Jesus tomb was empty because Jesus is alive. Allow childre to eat their bread ad crackers. How did Mary feel whe she saw that Jesus was alive? What good ews ca you tell others o Easter? Say: Jesus tomb was empty because Jesus is alive! That s great ews! Let s thak God for brigig Jesus to life ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Play-Clay Creatios modelig dough Teacher Pack Mary Sees Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Ceter 3: Play-Clay Creatios Place the Mary Sees Jesus poster o a low table. Let childre use modelig dough to make additios to the picture, such as trees, flowers, rocks, ad aimals. As childre complete their creatios, allow them to place their additios o the poster ad leave them there for others to see. Lesso 5 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

59 59 How did Mary feel whe she saw Jesus? Why does Easter make you smile? Say: O Easter, we celebrate the fact that Jesus is alive! It s a very happy time filled with lots of smiles! Ceter 4: Easter Place Mats Give each child a piece of costructio paper. Make stickers ad crayos available. Let childre create place mats that celebrate Easter ad the fact that Jesus is alive. Ecourage childre to use these as they eat dier later i the day ad to tell their families what they leared about Jesus today. Ceter 4: Easter Place Mats 1 sheet of costructio paper per child stickers crayos How ca we celebrate that Jesus is alive? Who ca you show your place mat to ad tell that Jesus is alive? Say: Easter is a day to celebrate ad show how happy we are that Jesus is alive! 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 5

60 60 Say: Today we leared that Jesus is alive. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember that Jesus is alive this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: sig a worship sog to God, thakig him for Jesus. Keep a stoe i your pocket. Each time you reach ito your pocket, remember the stoe that covered Jesus tomb. Jesus is alive! Say: If you wat to sig, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to keep a stoe i your pocket, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer plastic Easter egg from the Bible Time activity Teacher Pack Jesus figure Actio Prayer Gather the childre i a circle. As you say this prayer, hold up the Jesus figure from the Teacher Pack ad the plastic Easter egg at the appropriate times. Prompt the childre to say the italicized words with you. Say: Thak you, God, for givig us Jesus (Jesus figure). Thak you for raisig Jesus out of the tomb (plastic egg). Thak you that Jesus is alive. I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Lesso 5 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

61 Lesso 6 61 Apostles Defed Their Faith Acts 5:12-42 As preschoolers lear that we should tell others about Jesus, they may begi to thik of ways to share their faith. Most likely they will store away this kowledge to be applied a bit later i life. This lesso helps them see that everyoe eeds to kow about God, ot just them ad their families or church frieds. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. CD player, towel, flashlight Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible Poit Tell others about Jesus. Key Verse The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective (James 5:16). 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Paper Bag POWerful! Use a fu activity to lear the Key Verse. Bible, 1 paper luch bag per child Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will tell others about Jesus. Puppy Poiters Hear how Theo tells others about Jesus. CD player, Theo puppet, costructio paper, tape Teacher Pack: CD Make a megaphoe by rollig a piece of costructio paper so that it has a larger opeig o oe ed tha the other ed. Tape the paper i place, ad the attach it to Theo s paw. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: Tellig Others About Jesus Place apostle puppets i jail, help free them, ad tell others about Jesus. Bible, CD player, 1 craft stick per child, tape, crayos Teacher Pack: CD, Jail Cell poster, agel ad apostle patter Cut the dotted lies aroud the door o the Jail Cell poster so that the door opes ad closes. Cut slits as idicated. Photocopy the agel ad apostle patters, ad cut out eough agels ad apostles for each child to have oe of each. Write the childre s ames o the figures. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

62 62 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 1: Freedom to Share Put a apostle puppet i jail, ad the help set it free. Ceter 2: Megaphoe Sacks Make a tortilla megaphoe, ad tell others about Jesus. Ceter 3: Sharig Time Tell others the good ews about Jesus. My Bible Hugs, apostle puppets, agel figures, modelig dough small tortillas, apkis, soft cream cheese, plastic spoos CD player Teacher Pack: CD, heart Remove the Lesso 6 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut alog the dotted lies of each page to create a door. Ceter 4: My Megaphoe Make megaphoes to spread the good ews. 1 plastic foam cup per child, pecils, crayos Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 10 mi. Actio Prayer Pray for help i sharig Jesus with oe specific perso. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 6 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

63 63 Apostles Defed Their Faith Acts 5:12-42 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders The Jailed Apostles, Miraculously Freed, Retur to the Temple As described i Acts 4, Peter ad Joh had bee brought before the Sahedri for questioig ad told to stop teachig i the ame of Jesus. Frustrated but fidig o reaso to puish them, the Sahedri had to let them go. Now, after performig more miraculous sigs ad arousig more excitemet amog the people, all of the apostles were brought i ad locked up overight. The Sahedri likely iteded to puish them the ext day. However, the ext morig, the doors ad gates to the cell were still securely locked, but the prisoers were goe. Rather tha accept the superatural release of the apostles, the authorities apparetly cocluded that someoe i the Temple police was a sympathizer ad had freed the prisoers. advised the Sahedri to leave the apostles aloe. He said that if what the apostles were doig was simply self-maufactured it would go owhere, but if it was of God, eve the Sahedri would t be able to stop it. The Jesus Coectio The Holy Spirit is sometimes described as a deposit assurig that God will make good o his promises of what is yet to come. The Holy Spirit guides, covicts, ad ispires us as we grow i our relatioship with Jesus. God has give his ow Spirit to live i you, makig you alive, aimatig your soul, givig you his very essece. Pray that God will help you feel fully alive. You ca write your prayer here. Whe the apostles were approached i the Temple court agai, o force was used to brig them back to the meetig of the Sahedri. Had the apostles wated to resist, the support of the crowd would have made it difficult for the religious leaders to brig them i. But the apostles did t resist. Notice that the high priest did t eve wat to utter the ame of Jesus. Perhaps the high priest was afraid that the apostles would make him ad the Sahedri look guilty for the death of Jesus. His guilt was hautig him, ad he was becomig paraoid about the disciples motives. Gamaliel Advises the Sahedri to Let the Apostles Go Peter, respodig for all the apostles, was very clear. Members of the Sahedri could t disagree with the priciple; they just disagreed over what it meat to obey God. Mistake as they were, they thought they were obeyig God. Gamaliel s respose to the Sahedri was wise. After remidig the Sahedri of two people who had commaded followigs ad later faded away, he Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

64 64 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player towel flashlight Teacher Pack CD: We Welcome You (track 9) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig We Welcome You (track 9 o the CD) to the tue of Agels Watchig Over Me. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. We welcome you to church today, (Shake hads with someoe.) Church today, church today. (Nod head.) We welcome you to church today. (Shake hads with someoe.) We re so glad you ve come. (Smile ad poit to corers of mouth.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: Welcome to church. Today we re learig to tell others about Jesus. Let s sig a sog about that. Tell childre that they re goig to sig This Little Light of Mie. Explai that the little light is their love for Jesus ad that lettig it shie meas showig others about Jesus. Tur off the lights to sig This Little Light of Mie (ot o the CD). As you sig the first verse, have the childre pass a glowig flashlight aroud the circle. Durig the secod verse, have oe child hold the flashlight as the others cover the flashlight with the towel. Whe you sig o, have them remove the towel. Repeat the sog several times. This little light of mie, I m goa let it shie! This little light of mie, I m goa let it shie. This little light of mie, I m goa let it shie. Let it shie, let it shie, let it shie! Hide it uder a towel? No! I m goa let it shie. Hide it uder a towel? No! I m goa let it shie. Hide it uder a towel? No! I m goa let it shie. Let it shie, let it shie, let it shie. Lesso 6 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

65 65 2 Key Verse activity Paper Bag POWerful! Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Give each oe a luch-size paper bag. Ope your Bible to James 5:16, ad show childre the words. Paper Bag POWerful! Bible 1 paper luch bag per child Say: Our Key Verse from the Bible is James 5:16. This verse says, The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective. That meas that prayer is powerful. Let s say this together. Lead childre i repeatig this simplified versio of the Key Verse with you: Prayer is powerful. Say: Whe somethig is powerful it ca get big, importat jobs doe. A explosio is powerful. People ca use a explosio to break up rocks to make a road, or to tear dow a old buildig. We are goig to make preted explosios to remid us that prayer is powerful. Show how to ope ad iflate a paper bag by puttig your mouth to the opeig of the bag ad blowig. Demostrate how to gather the opeig of the bag, twistig it shut so the air remais i the bag, ad hold the bag i oe had. Say: Now that our bags are ready, let s say our Key Verse, Prayer is powerful, agai. We will say it very slowly. Whe we say powerful, clap your bag betwee your hads. Lead childre i sayig the verse with pauses betwee each word to icrease excitemet, ad the have them pop their bags. Shout ad cheer after the bags are popped. Repeat the activity several times. Most kids will be able to reuse their bags, but have extra bags o had to replace ay that tear. What are some importat thigs you have prayed to God about? how did God use his power to help with those importat thigs? Say: Prayer is powerful because God is powerful. We ca talk to God about aythig. If it is importat to us, God will liste ad aswer i the way he kows is best. We ca also ask God to help us tell others about Jesus. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

66 66 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet costructio paper tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Make a megaphoe by rollig a piece of costructio paper so that it has a larger opeig o oe ed tha the other ed. Tape the paper i place, ad the attach it to Theo s paw. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hi, Theo! It s great to see you. What do you have there? Theo: It s a megaphoe. Whe I wat people to hear me, I speak through it. (Demostrates by holdig it up to his mouth.) Hello! Teacher: May I try it? Theo: Sure! (Take megaphoe from Theo, hold it close to your mouth, ad speak through it.) Teacher: Hellooooooo. (Take megaphoe away from mouth.) Teacher: Wow! That really does make my voice louder. What were you usig the megaphoe for, Theo? Theo: I m usig it to tell others about Jesus. Teacher: That s great! Our Bible story today shows us that we tell others about Jesus. Speakig of our Bible story, it s time to tell it! Thaks for visitig us, Theo. Goodbye! Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo, ad the put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. What was Theo doig with the megaphoe? Say: You do t have to use a megaphoe to tell others about Jesus. But it is very importat to tell others about Jesus. Lesso 6 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

67 67 Bible Time: Tellig Others About Jesus Ope your Bible to Acts 5:12-42, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us to tell others about Jesus. A group of Jesus frieds were so excited about Jesus that they wated to tell everyoe about him. Distribute the apostle figures, ad let the childre color them. Help each child tape a craft stick to the back of his or her figure to make a puppet. The have childre use their puppets to say Jesus loves you to each other. Say: Some people did t wat Jesus frieds to tell others about Jesus. They put Jesus frieds i jail. Have the childre place the craft stick part of their puppets through the slits i the Jail Cell poster. have you ever gotte i trouble for somethig you did t do? What happeed? how do you thik Jesus frieds felt about beig i jail? Say: Jesus frieds were goig through a hard time. But they stayed happy. A amazig thig happeed while Jesus frieds were i jail. A agel came, opeed the door, ad let the me out! Distribute the agels to the childre. That s amazig! If God ca sed a agel to set Jesus frieds free, he ca do aythig! Let s sig God Seds Agels as we set free Jesus frieds. Sig God Seds Agels (track 11 o the CD) to the tue of He s Got the Whole World i His Hads. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God is watchig over us. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. God is watchig over us. Bible Time: Tellig Others About Jesus Bible CD player 1 craft stick per child tape crayos Teacher Pack CD: God Seds Agels (track 11) Jail Cell poster agel ad apostle patter Bible Time: Tellig Others About Jesus Easy Prep Cut the dotted lies aroud the door o the Jail Cell poster so that the door opes ad closes. Cut slits as idicated. Photocopy the agel ad apostle patters, ad cut out eough agels ad apostles for each child to have oe of each. Write the childre s ames o the figures. (Repeat from the begiig.) As you sig, have childre take turs opeig the door with their agels ad walkig their puppets out the door. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

68 68 Say: The agel set free Jesus frieds ad told them to keep tellig others about Jesus. Have childre use their puppets agai to say Jesus loves you to each other. how do you thik Jesus frieds felt whe the agel set them free? Why should we tell others about Jesus? Say: Jesus frieds had a hard time, but they could still be happy. Hard times help us grow. It was importat for Jesus frieds to tell others about Jesus. It s also importat for us to tell others about Jesus. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Freedom to Share My Bible Hugs apostle puppets agel figures modelig dough Ceter 1: Freedom to Share Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 6 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Cut alog the dotted lies of each page to create a door. Ceter 1: Freedom to Share Give kids their apostle puppets ad their agel figures. Distribute small amouts of modelig dough, ad have childre push the apostle puppets ito the dough so their puppets will stad up. Help childre fold up the top half of their My Bible Hugs pages alog the solid lie so that the top half of the page is stadig up. The show childre how to ope ad close the jail doors. Childre ca place their apostle puppets i jail. The they ca use the agel figures ad ope the doors to let the apostles out. After they free the apostles, ecourage the childre to use the puppets to tell each other about Jesus. What do you like to tell people about Jesus? Lesso 6 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

69 69 Say: Jesus frieds told others about Jesus eve if they had to go to jail. That s because it s importat for everyoe to kow Jesus. You ca tell others about Jesus, too. Ceter 2: Megaphoe Sacks Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Serve each child a small tortilla o a apki. Show childre how to roll the sack ito the shape of a megaphoe; help them add cream cheese to hold it together. The have childre tur to a parter ad use their megaphoes to tell oe thig they kow about Jesus. Suggest that childre say thigs such as Jesus loves me, Jesus loves you, ad Jesus is alive. The allow childre to eat their megaphoes. how does it feel to tell others about Jesus? Who else ca you tell about Jesus? Ceter 2: Megaphoe Sacks small tortillas apkis soft cream cheese plastic spoos! allergy alert Say: Let s thak God for helpig us tell others about Jesus ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Sharig Time Have childre sit i a circle. Had oe child the heart. Explai that you ll play some music while childre pass the heart aroud the circle. Each time the music stops, the child holdig the heart should tell oe thig he or she kows about Jesus. Begi the game. Stop the music frequetly so all the childre will have a chace to share. If childre eed help, ask them questios such as Who loves you? ad What have you heard about Jesus? Ceter 3: Sharig Time CD player Teacher Pack CD: various sogs heart Who ca you tell about Jesus? What will you tell them about Jesus? Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

70 70 Say: Jesus loves you, ad Jesus loves everyoe. We wat everyoe to kow that Jesus loves them. That s why we tell others about Jesus. Ceter 4: My Megaphoe 1 plastic foam cup per child pecils crayos Ceter 4: My Megaphoe Give each child a plastic foam cup ad crayos to decorate the outside of the cup. The show kids how to use a pecil to poke a hole i the bottom of a cup ad the getly tear aroud the hole ad remove the bottom. Ecourage kids to use their megaphoes to loudly say, Jesus loves you! to others. What do you thik Jesus frieds said about him? Who told you about Jesus? Say: Kowig that Jesus loves us ad saves us is such good ews we wat to tell others about Jesus. Let s use our megaphoes to shout Jesus loves you! so everyoe ca hear. Allow childre to joyfully shout the good ews. 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared to tell others about Jesus. I would like each of you to choose a way to tell others about Jesus this week. Lesso 6 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

71 71 Give kids these two challeges to choose from: each ight before you go to bed, ask Jesus to help you tell others about him the ext day. share your luch with a fried while sharig the ews of Jesus love! Say: If you wat to pray each ight, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to share your luch, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Have childre form a circle. Ask each child to thik of oe perso they wat to tell about Jesus. Have each child pray, Jesus, please help me tell [perso s ame] about you. Pray: Dear God, thak you for helpig Jesus frieds be happy whe they have hard times. Thak you for helpig them keep tellig others about Jesus. Please help us tell others about Jesus, too. I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 6

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73 Lesso 7 73 Saul Meets Jesus Near Damascus Acts 9:1-20 Preschool childre uderstad the cocept of chage i very cocrete ways. Use cocrete examples to poit out the chages that occur aroud them. As they see ad uderstad the cocrete examples of chage, they ll begi to uderstad the ways that God ca chage them. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep Bible Poit Jesus chages our lives. 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 10 mi. 3 Bible Exploratio about 15 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Caterpillar, Butterfly See a caterpillar chage ito a butterfly. Puppy Poiters Help Theo chage from a spotted puppy ito a ot-so-spotted puppy. Bible Time: Watch Saul Chage Meet Saul ad hear how Jesus chaged him. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, 1 empty bathroom tissue tube, bathroom tissue Teacher Pack: twisty worm, butterfly CD player, Theo puppet, dot stickers Teacher Pack: CD Bible, flashlight Teacher Pack: Saul Meets Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Cover Theo s face with dot stickers. Key Verse The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective (James 5:16). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will ask Jesus to chage their lives. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

74 74 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Butterflies! Chage caterpillars ito butterflies. My Bible Hugs, markers Remove the Lesso 7 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Chage Sack Chage a cream cheese face from sad to happy. Ceter 3: Chage Me Sig a sog about how Jesus chages us. plates, craft sticks, bagels, cream cheese, cereal CD player Teacher Pack: CD, glowi-the-dark cross Set the glow-i-the-dark cross uder a bright light at the begiig of class so it will glow later. Ceter 4: Butterfly Beauty Create paper butterflies. three 8-ich squares of colorful tissue paper per child, oe 12-ich cheille stem per child Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Actio Prayer Hold a butterfly ad ask Jesus to chage them. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Teacher Pack: butterfly Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

75 75 Saul Meets Jesus Near Damascus Acts 9:1-20 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Saul Ecouters Jesus o the Damascus Road Saul was travelig to Damascus to arrest Christias whe Jesus met him o the road. A light he later described as brighter tha the su (Acts 26:13) flashed out of heave, ad he dropped to the groud. Whe Jesus questioed Saul, Saul s questio i retur was geuie. The term lord ca refer simply to a perso of superior stadig. It seems that Saul really did t kow who was addressig him. Whe Jesus told him who he was, the truth of all that had happeed must have swept through Saul like a flood. All that Saul had believed about Jesus was wrog, ad i his zeal for God, he had bee persecutig those who believed what was true! Blided Saul Is Told to Wait for Istructios Why did God choose Saul? God could have used ayoe. Perhaps he chose Saul to be a supreme example of how a life ca be chaged whe God eters it. It is ofte suggested that Saul of Tarsus became Paul after this coversio. The truth is that Saul was his Jewish ame but Paul was the Roma equivalet by which he became better kow. The Jesus Coectio Maybe you have t experieced that kid of Road to Damascus coversio, ad that s okay. The road that brought you to a relatioship with Jesus does t matter. What is importat is whether or ot you are makig the most of your jourey with him. Thik of oe perso you ca share your Lord with. Pray that God will help you show that perso the light. You ca write your prayer here. It s iterestig that Jesus told Saul that he was to go ito the city ad wait for istructios ad that Saul was blided ad remaied that way as he waited i Damascus for three days. We ca oly speculate o what wet through Saul s mid durig that time, but he must have bee goig through all the Old Testamet Scriptures stored i his memory, sortig out how Jesus could be the Messiah i spite of Saul s earlier belief. God gave him time to thik! Aaias Helps Saul Saul s meetig with Aaias itroduces aother aspect of the story. Imagie the faith it took for Aaias to seek out the ma he probably kew was comig to tow to arrest him ad other Christias. How better could the Christias there ad aroud Judea have foud out about the chage i Saul? God defiitely kows what he is doig! Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

76 76 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: We Welcome You (track 9), God Is Listeig (track 6) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig We Welcome You (track 9 o the CD) to the tue of Agels Watchig Over Me. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. We welcome you to church today, (Shake hads with someoe.) Church today, church today. (Nod head.) We welcome you to church today. (Shake hads with someoe.) We re so glad you ve come. (Smile ad poit to corers of mouth.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: I m glad you re here at church today. We re goig to see how Jesus chages our lives. Let s sig oe more sog first. Lead childre i sigig God Is Listeig (track 6 o the CD) to the tue of Did You Ever See a Lassie? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. God is listeig whe we talk to him, (Put had to ear.) Talk to him, talk to him. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) He listes whe I pray; he listes whe you pray. (Poit to self, the to others.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) (Repeat 2x.) Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

77 77 2 Key Verse activity Caterpillar, Butterfly Keep the butterfly ad twisty worm out of sight. Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to James 5:16, ad show the childre the words. Say: Our Key Verse from the Bible is James 5:16. This verse says, The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective. That meas that prayer is powerful. Let s say this together. Lead childre i repeatig this simplified versio of the Key Verse with you: Prayer is powerful. Caterpillar, Butterfly Bible 1 empty bathroom tissue tube bathroom tissue Teacher Pack twisty worm butterfly Say: We re learig today that Jesus chages our lives. Prayer is a powerful part of Jesus chagig our lives. Let s see how Jesus chages somethig i ature i a powerful way. Hold up the twisty worm. Say: Let s preted that this is a real live caterpillar. Pass the caterpillar aroud the circle so each child gets a chace to pet it. A caterpillar goes through a amazig chage just like we do whe we decide to love Jesus. First the caterpillar starts buildig a cocoo aroud itself. A cocoo is like a soft blaket that the caterpillar wraps aroud itself to go to sleep. Place the twisty worm iside the empty bathroom tissue tube. Tear off a log piece of bathroom tissue, ad wrap it oce aroud the tissue tube cotaiig the worm. Have each child come to you ad wrap the tissue paper oce aroud the tube. Be sure ot to cover oe ed of the tissue tube. Say: After the caterpillar builds its cocoo, it s as if it goes to sleep for a little while iside the cocoo. Why do t you curl up where you are ad preted to be a sleepig caterpillar? Ecourage the childre to lie dow ad close their eyes like little caterpillars. As they do, remove the twisty worm from the tissue tube ad put it out of sight. Place the butterfly iside the tissue tube. Say: Okay, it s time to wake up ow! You kow, the caterpillar was t really sleepig at all. It was actually goig through a amazig chage. The same thig happes to us whe we decide to love Jesus. Christ makes us a ew creatio. Ad prayer is a powerful part of that chage. As we uwrap the cocoo, let s say our Key Verse to remid us how powerful prayer is ad how powerful Jesus is as he chages our lives. Give each child a chace to uwrap the tissue paper as he or she repeats the Key Verse. The remove ad hold up the butterfly. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

78 78 Say: Wow! The caterpillar tured ito a beautiful butterfly! Whe we decide to love Jesus, our hearts chage kid of like the caterpillar did. It s almost like we become ew persos ew creatios. What are some ways you have chaged? how has prayer helped you to chage? Say: We chage whe we grow taller or get smarter. Jesus helps us chage o the iside by helpig us be icer to our frieds ad family ad share our toys with others. Whe we pray to Jesus ad ask him, he helps us chage. Prayer is powerful! 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet dot stickers Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Cover Theo s face with dot stickers. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Theo! What do you have all over your face? Theo: I put spots o my face because I wated to be like my fried Spotty the Dalmatia. But ow the dots are stuck, ad I wat to chage back to the way I was! What should I do? Teacher: Childre, do you thik we ca help Theo? (Let childre respod. The allow them to take the stickers off Theo.) Teacher: How s that, Theo? Theo: Thak you! I m so glad to be chaged back to a puppy without spots! Teacher: This remids me of the chage a caterpillar goes through. Frieds, ca you tell Theo our Bible Poit for today? (Have childre repeat the Bible Poit: Jesus chages our lives.) Theo: That s great! Well, I m goig to go tell my mom that I chaged back ito my ow self. Goodbye! Teacher: Goodbye, Theo. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

79 79 how did Theo chage? Say: Just as we helped Theo chage from a spotted dog ito a ot-so-spotted dog, Jesus chages our lives whe we decide to love him. Let s fid out about oe ma whose life Jesus chaged. Bible Time: Watch Saul Chage Have the childre sit i a semicircle aroud you. Ope your Bible to Acts 9:1-20, ad show the childre the words. Ope the Saul Meets Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack), ad have a child help you hold it so all ca see the picture. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that Jesus chages our lives. We re goig to lear about a ma amed Saul. Jesus chaged Saul s life. Bible Time: Watch Saul Chage Bible flashlight Teacher Pack Saul Meets Jesus poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Poit to Saul i the picture. Say: Saul was a mea ma. Let s all growl ad make mea faces. (Let childre respod.) I ll preted I m Saul for a miute. I m Saul, ad I do t like Christias. They love Jesus, but I do t like Jesus. I wat to make the Christias stop talkig about Jesus to everyoe. Begi speakig i your ormal voice agai. Oe day Saul was goig to a city. He plaed to fid all the Christias there ad put them i jail. Suddely, a bright light shoe all aroud Saul. Choose a child to shie a flashlight o the poster. That light was Jesus. Jesus said, Saul, why are you hurtig me? Saul was so surprised! He did t kow it was Jesus, so he asked, Who are you? Jesus said, I m Jesus. You re hurtig me ad hurtig my people. I wat you to love me, Saul. I wat you to be oe of my followers, too. How do you thik Saul felt the? Say: Before Jesus spoke to Saul, Saul did t believe Jesus was real. The Saul met Jesus, ad Saul chaged his mid. Tur off the flashlight. Saul decided to believe Jesus was God. Saul decided to love Jesus. Jesus chaged Saul s life. Saul chaged from a mea, agry ma ito a ma who loved others. He wet all over the world to tell other people about Jesus. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

80 80 Have the childre show smilig faces to show the chage God made i Saul. What was Saul like before he met Jesus? What was Saul like after he met Jesus? Say: Jesus chaged Saul from a mea ma to a kid ma. Jesus wats to chage our lives, too. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Butterflies! My Bible Hugs markers Ceter 1: Butterflies! Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 7 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Ceter 1: Butterflies! Give each child a Lesso 7 page from My Bible Hugs, ad have the childre poit out the caterpillars they see o the page. Show childre how to draw circles o the page ext to the caterpillars. Childre should draw two circles o each side of a caterpillar to chage the caterpillar ito a butterfly. As childre work, remid them that just as caterpillars become butterflies, Jesus chages our lives. how do you feel whe you chage from sad to happy? how do you feel whe you chage from doig somethig wrog to doig somethig right? how has Jesus chaged you? Say: Caterpillars chage ito beautiful butterflies. I the same way, whe we decide to love Jesus, Jesus chages our hearts to kid ad lovig hearts. Jesus shows us right from wrog. Jesus teaches us how to love others. Whe Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

81 81 Jesus chages our lives, our lives become more beautiful just as the caterpillars became beautiful butterflies. Ceter 2: Chage Sack Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Give each child a plate ad half of a bagel. Have childre use craft sticks to spread cream cheese o their bagels. The show childre how to place pieces of cereal as eyes. Next have the childre make a frowig mouth with a few cereal pieces. Say: Saul had a uhappy ad mea heart before he decided to love Jesus. Whe Saul decided to love Jesus, Jesus chaged Saul s heart. Saul chaged ito a kidhearted ma who loved others. Ceter 2: Chage Sack plates craft sticks bagels cream cheese cereal! allergy alert Ecourage the childre to chage the frow ito a smilig mouth by rearragig their cereal pieces. how do you thik Saul felt after he met Jesus? How did Jesus chage Saul? How ca Jesus chage us? Say: Jesus chages our lives. He chaged Saul from mea to kid, ad he chages us, too. Let s thak God for chagig us ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Chage Me Have the childre form a circle, ad set the glow-i-the-dark cross iside the circle. Tur off the lights, ad ask childre how the cross has chaged. Tur the lights back o, ad ask childre how the cross has chaged agai. Remid childre that just as the cross chages, Jesus chages our lives. Sig Chage Me (track 10 o the CD) to the tue of Agels Watchig Over Me. Tur off the lights while you sig. Ceter 3: Chage Me CD player Teacher Pack CD: Chage Me (track 10) glow-i-the-dark cross Ceter 3: Chage Me Easy Prep Set the glow-i-thedark cross uder a bright light at the begiig of class so it will glow later. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

82 82 Jesus, chage me. Help me do what you would do. Jesus, chage me. Help me do what you would do. Jesus, chage me. Help me love as you would love. Jesus, chage me. Help me love as you would love. (Repeat.) have you ever bee mea or ukid to someoe? how did you feel? How did the other perso feel? Say: Just as the cross chaged ito a glowig cross, Jesus chages our lives. He chages our hearts so that we show love to others. Ceter 4: Butterfly Beauty three 8-ich squares of colorful tissue paper per child oe 12-ich cheille stem per child Ceter 4: Butterfly Beauty Allow childre to choose three squares of tissue paper ad oe cheille stem. Show childre how to stack the three squares, ad the gather them together alog a imagiary vertical lie dow the ceter of the square (see diagram). Fold the cheille stem i half, like a V. Isert the gathered sectio of the tissue ito the fold of the cheille stem. Twist the cheille stem to hold the gathered tissue i place ad form two ateae, each about four iches log. Separate ad arrage the tissue to form the wigs of the butterfly. What s differet after a caterpillar chages to a butterfly? What was differet whe Saul chaged? Say: The chage from a caterpillar to a butterfly is excitig. Whe Jesus chages us it s excitig, too. Whe we see butterflies outside, we ca remember that Jesus chages our lives. Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

83 83 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that Jesus chages our lives. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember that Jesus chages your life this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: Draw a picture of a butterfly, ad hag it i your room. Each time you see it, pray ad ask Jesus to chage your life. each ight whe you chage ito your pajamas, thak Jesus for chagig your life. Say: If you wat to draw a picture, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to chage your pajamas, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Had oe child the butterfly. Have the child holdig the butterfly say, Jesus, chage my life. The have that child give the butterfly to the ext child so he or she ca pray. Cotiue util all childre have had a chace to pray. Actio Prayer Teacher Pack butterfly Pray: I Jesus ame, ame. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 7

84 84 Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Lesso 7 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

85 Lesso 8 85 Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead Acts 9:36-43 Youg preschoolers have very active imagiatios ad fid it easy to talk to usee people or thigs. Prayer is a atural way for them to express themselves to God. Teach the childre that God is truly preset ad listeig to their every eed ad cocer. Ecourage them to look for aswers to prayers ad to see those aswers as God s power at work. Reassure childre that God does t always aswer right away or the way we wat him to, but God always loves them ad hears their prayers. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Prayer Is Powerful Use motio ad dyamics to uderstad the power of prayer. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible Poit God hears our prayers. Key Verse The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective (James 5:16). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will thak God for hearig their prayers. Puppy Poiters Hear how God aswered Theo s prayer. CD player, Theo puppet, small book, tape Teacher Pack: CD Tape a small book to Theo s paw. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: Tabitha Is Alive! Act ad dace as if they re Tabitha s frieds durig the Bible story. Bible, CD player, 1 crepe paper streamer per child, tape Teacher Pack: CD, Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

86 86 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Prayig Hads Trace their hads to joi with aother had i prayer. My Bible Hugs, crayos Remove the Lesso 8 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Tabitha Sacks Cut gelati ito the shape of a girl like Tabitha. Ceter 3: Tabitha ad Peter Drama Act out the Bible story. gelati, two 8x10 pas, girl-shaped cookie cutter, spatula, paper plates towel, Bible-time clothes Prepare two 8x10 pas of figer gelati. Ceter 4: Tabitha Clothes Decorate paper vests to wear. 1 paper grocery sack per child, scissors, crayos Cut oe paper grocery sack per child as idicated i the diagram (page 94) to form vests childre ca decorate ad wear. Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Actio Prayer Praise God with prayer. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. 1 crepe paper streamer per child Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 8 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

87 87 Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead Acts 9:36-43 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Peter Arrives to Fid Tabitha Dead It appears from the text that o oe thought to sed for Peter util after Tabitha had died. Peter was i Lydda, about ie miles away. It would have take about five or six hours to brig him from there, so it was ecessary for him to hurry. If he delayed, the people i Joppa would have to bury Tabitha s body. Whe Peter etered the room, he set away the widows ad the mourers, just as Jesus had doe whe he raised Jairus daughter i Mark 5. Peter wated some time to be aloe with the Lord. Peter kew what the Christias i Joppa wated him to do, ad he o doubt expressed that to God. But he udoubtedly wated to fid out what the Lord wated to do. From Peter s actios, it is apparet that the Lord gave Peter the directio he eeded. Peter the used the same wordig that Jesus had used i raisig Jairus daughter, with the exceptio of oe letter: Tabitha arise, istead of Talitha arise. The Jesus Coectio Thaks to Jesus, who offers life ot just beyod but through death. No amout of bleakess ca fade the woder of this miracle. Thik about Peter s previous goof-ups ad how God ultimately used him as a key leader i the startup of the church. God goes beyod forgiveess; he restores. What do you feel ashamed of? Cofess your shortcomigs to him ow, ad experiece complete healig. You ca write your prayer here. Miracles Establish the Apostles Credibility How did Tabitha hear Peter s commad if she was dead? As Peter spoke, the Lord retured her to life. The Lord made Tabitha hear ad arise. She was istataeously ad completely restored. The disease was goe, ad ay decay that had take place sice death was wiped away. Imagie the joyous scee whe Peter preseted Tabitha alive to the crowd! The result of this miracle, as with other miracles the apostles performed, was that may believed i the Lord. Miracles testify to God s power ad ecourage people i their faith. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

88 88 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3), God Is Listeig (track 6) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3 o the CD) to the tue of Are You Sleepig? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus welcomes, Jesus welcomes (Poit up.) Everyoe, everyoe. (Make gatherig motio.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) Come ad lear, come ad lear. (Make gatherig motio.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: You re all welcome today. Today we ll lear that God hears our prayers. Let s sig a sog about how God listes to us. Lead childre i sigig God Is Listeig (track 6 o the CD) to the tue of Did You Ever See a Lassie? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. God is listeig whe we talk to him, (Put had to ear.) Talk to him, talk to him. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) He listes whe I pray; he listes whe you pray. (Poit to self, the to others.) God is listeig whe we talk to him. (Put had to ear.) God hears our prayers. (Nod head.) (Repeat 2x.) Lesso 8 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

89 89 2 Key Verse activity Prayer Is Powerful Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to James 5:16, ad show the childre the words. Say: Our Key Verse from the Bible is James 5:16. This verse says, The prayer of a righteous ma is powerful ad effective. That meas that prayer is powerful. Let s say this together. Lead childre i repeatig this simplified versio of the Key Verse with you: Prayer is powerful. Say: Whe we say the word prayer, I wat you to put your hads together as if you are goig to pray. Are arm muscles a sig of power? Ca you show me your arm muscles to show how powerful you are? Say: This verse uses the word power. Whe we say power, I wat you to show your arm muscles to show how powerful prayer is. Let s say, Prayer is powerful. As you say this, lead the childre i makig prayig hads ad the flexig their arm muscles. Have the childre begi sayig the Key Verse quietly, crouched low to the floor. Have the childre follow you as you repeat the verse with the motios, each time growig taller ad sayig the verse louder. Oce you re stadig up, reverse the process util childre are seated o the floor. Remid the childre that God hears our prayers whe we shout ad whe we whisper. Who aswers our prayers? Say: Prayer is powerful ad works whe we pray for thigs that God wats. God listes ad cares about the thigs that are importat to us. God hears our prayers ad aswers because he loves us so much. I m thakful that prayer is powerful. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

90 90 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet small book tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape a small book to Theo s paw. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hello, Theo! I m happy to see you today. You look happy, too! Theo: I am happy! I foud a book that I d lost, ad that makes me feel very happy! Whe I lost the book, I prayed ad asked God to help me fid the book. Ad the I remembered that the book was uder the couch! Teacher: Theo, your story remids me of the Key Verse we just leared. Frieds, ca you tell Theo the Key Verse for today? (Allow childre to say the Key Verse: Prayer is powerful.) Teacher: You kow that prayer works, do t you, Theo? Theo: It does! Now I m goig to go read my book! Teacher: Goodbye, Theo. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. Bible Time: Tabitha Is Alive! Bible CD player 1 crepe paper streamer per child tape Teacher Pack CD: God Is Listeig (track 6) Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) How do you thik Theo felt whe God aswered his prayer? Say: Theo prayed to God, ad God heard his prayer. Let s hear about aother prayer God heard ad aswered. Bible Time: Tabitha Is Alive! Tape the Peter Raises Tabitha From the Dead poster to a wall where childre ca easily see it. Cue the CD to God Is Listeig (track 6). Have 1-foot crepe paper streamers ad tape earby. Ope your Bible to Acts 9:36-43, ad show the childre the words. Lesso 8 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

91 91 Say: Today we re goig to lear that God hears our prayers. Our Bible story is about Peter, oe of Jesus frieds. Our Bible story talks about a woma amed Tabitha. Ca everyoe say her ame with me? Have the childre repeat Tabitha. Tabitha was a kid ad helpful lady who everyoe liked. She sewed for people who eeded clothes. But the Tabitha died. Her frieds were very, very sad. Let s preted to cry because we miss Tabitha. Have the childre preted to cry. Tabitha s frieds asked Peter to come. Peter came ad wet ito the room where Tabitha s body was lyig, ad he set all the sad people outside. The Peter kelt ad prayed for Tabitha. Let s keel as Peter did whe he prayed to God. Have the childre keel ad fold their hads to pray. Who hears our prayers? How would you pray ad tell God about Tabitha? Say: Whe we pray, God hears our prayers. Eve though we ca t see God, we kow that God is listeig. Let s joi Peter i prayig for Tabitha. Say with me, Dear God, please help Tabitha. Lead the childre i repeatig the prayer. The lead childre i sayig, I Jesus ame, ame. The direct childre to look at the poster. Say: Whe Peter fiished prayig, he told Tabitha to get up. Guess what! Tabitha opeed her eyes ad sat up! Tabitha was alive! Tabitha s frieds were so happy! We pray to God because God ca help us with aythig. Nothig is too hard for God. God hears our prayers ad ca do aythig! Distribute the crepe paper streamers. Tell the childre that they re goig to sig, dace, ad wave their streamers to show how happy they are that God aswered Peter s prayer ad helped Tabitha. Sig God Is Listeig (track 6 o the CD) to the tue of Did You Ever See a Lassie? Ecourage the childre to dace ad wave their streamers as they sig. God is listeig whe we talk to him, Talk to him, talk to him. God is listeig whe we talk to him. God hears our prayers. He listes whe I pray; he listes whe you pray. God is listeig whe we talk to him. God hears our prayers. (Repeat 2x.) Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

92 92 Whe you ve fiished sigig, have each child tape his or her streamer to the poster to make it a picture of celebratio. Have each child say, God hears my prayers, while tapig a streamer oto the poster. How do you thik Peter felt whe God aswered his prayer? Whe has God aswered your prayers? How ca we thak God for hearig our prayers? Say: God heard Peter s prayer ad made Tabitha alive agai. God hears our prayers, too! 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Prayig Hads My Bible Hugs crayos Ceter 1: Prayig Hads Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 8 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Ceter 1: Prayig Hads Had out the studet pages, ad help each child place his or her had o top of the photograph o the page. Help childre trace the outlie of their hads. Say: We put our hads together whe we pray to ask God to please hear our prayers. We kow that God hears our prayers ad aswers them. How do we kow that God heard Peter s prayer? Whe we are sad about somethig, what ca we remember to do? Say: God cares about us ad wats us to talk with him. We ca put our hads together, bow our heads, ad pray. Whe we pray, we kow that God hears our prayers. Lesso 8 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

93 93 Ceter 2: Tabitha Sacks Have the childre wash their hads (or use wet wipes). Have them gather aroud the pas of gelati ad, oe at a time, press the girl-shaped cookie cutter ito the gelati. Help each child lift a Tabitha from the pa ad place it o a small paper plate. Each time a child lifts up a Tabitha, remid the child that God raised Tabitha. Remid childre that Tabitha had died ad was lyig dow. Say: After Peter prayed, Tabitha came alive ad sat up. Have childre hold their Tabitha characters i a sittigup positio. How do you thik Tabitha s frieds felt whe God made Tabitha alive agai? Say: Tabitha s frieds were so happy that she was alive. They kew that prayer is powerful. Let s thak God for hearig our prayers ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 2: Tabitha Sacks gelati two 8x10 pas girl-shaped cookie cutter spatula paper plates! allergy alert Ceter 2: Tabitha Sacks Easy Prep Prepare two 8x10 pas of figer gelati. Ceter 3: Tabitha ad Peter Drama Gather the childre together i oe area of the room. Furish this dramatic play area with a towel (for Tabitha s bed) ad Bible-time clothes for childre to wear. Let kids choose oe child to act as Tabitha ad oe child to act as Peter, ad have the other childre act as the frieds. Ecourage kids to act out what they remember about the Bible story. Ceter 3: Tabitha ad Peter Drama towel Bible-time clothes What did Peter pray about? What ca we pray to God about? How do you feel whe God aswers your prayers? Say: Peter asked God to help Tabitha. We ca pray to God about aythig! We pray to God because we also kow that prayer is powerful. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

94 94 Ceter 4: Tabitha Clothes Ceter 4: Tabitha Clothes 1 paper grocery sack per child scissors crayos Ceter 4: Tabitha Clothes Easy Prep Cut oe paper grocery sack per child as idicated i the diagram to form vests childre ca decorate ad wear. Provide crayos for childre to decorate their vests. While childre work, remid them that Tabitha was kow for makig clothig ad helpig others. How might Tabitha s job of makig clothes have helped others? What are some other jobs that help people? Say: Tabitha was good at sewig clothes. She showed her love for God by helpig others. Tabitha s frieds were sad whe she died, but God heard Peter s prayer ad raised her from the dead! Prayer is powerful! 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that God hears our prayers. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember that God hears your prayers this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: Tell a fried or paret about a time you kew God heard your prayer. practice listeig to others this week. If God always hears us, we should hear others, too! Say: If you wat to tell about a time God heard you, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to practice listeig to others, circle the choice with two dots. Check Lesso 8 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

95 95 that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Distribute crepe paper streamers to the childre. Have the childre take turs wavig the streamers i the air ad prayig, Thak you, God, for hearig our prayers. Actio Prayer 1 crepe paper streamer per child Pray: I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 8

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97 Lesso 9 97 A Agel Frees Peter From Jail Acts 12:1-18 The world ca be a large, scary place to youg preschoolers. They feel safe i the presece of people they kow who ca protect them. Mom ad Dad are ofte there to tur o the light i the dark or chase away barkig dogs. Help the childre see that God s agels stad ready to help them as well. Teach childre that God seds his agels to protect them ad keep them from harm. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Color-Coded Rescue Play a game to lear the Key Verse. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, 1 piece of costructio paper (i various colors) per child, CD player Teacher Pack: CD Bible Poit God s agels help us. Key Verse Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved (Acts 16:31). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will thak God for sedig his agels to protect them. Puppy Poiters Help Theo lear that agels, ot ight lights, keep him safe. CD player, Theo puppet, ight light, strig Teacher Pack: CD Tie a ight light aroud Theo s paw with strig. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: Rescue Souds! Participate i the story of Peter s rescue. Bible, CD player, flashlight, marker Teacher Pack: CD, A Agel Frees Peter poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

98 98 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Safe Agel Wigs Add sparkles to a picture of a agel. My Bible Hugs, salt i saltshakers, glue sticks Remove the Lesso 9 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) Ceter 2: Agel Apple Sacks Create agels to eat. Ceter 3: Peter, Peter, Agel Take turs walkig with a agel. apple slices, large pretzel rods, paper plates, kife Peel apples ad cut them ito sectios just prior to servig. You ll eed two apple sectios for each child. Ceter 4: Agel i My Pocket Create toy agels as remiders of today s lesso. 1 flat woode clothespi per child, white glue, bowls, cotto swabs, fabric scraps, several fie-tip markers Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Hugs, crayos 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Actio Prayer Thak God for sedig agels. scissors Teacher Pack: agel patter Photocopy ad cut out the agel patter. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 9 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

99 99 A Agel Frees Peter From Jail Acts 12:1-18 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Herod Imprisos Peter ad Iteds to Kill Him Herod wated to make sure that Christia sympathizers would ot be able to release Peter. Herod assiged four groups of four soldiers each to take turs guardig Peter oe soldier o each side of Peter ad two at his cell door. These measures were extraordiary for such a prisoer. Acts 12:5 describes somethig of a competitio: Peter was securely i priso, guarded by 16 of Rome s fiest, hadcuffed to a guard o each side of him. But o the other had, God s people were prayig earestly for Peter o the ight that Herod iteded to be Peter s last ight o earth. Peter was already dead ad that his guardia agel had come to tell them the ews. Ad all the while, Peter was stadig outside kockig. Whe they wet to the door to see for themselves, they were astoished by the truth. The Jesus Coectio Fid courage. You re i a relatioship with Jesus, a great defeder who kows all ad caot be coquered. Flex your muscle your prayer muscle. God moves ad works miracles for those who pray i accordace with his will. What do you eed to pray about right ow? You ca write your prayer here. A Agel Helps Peter Escape From the text, we kow that Peter thought he was havig a visio as he was released from priso. He had bee awakeed from sleep ad suspected that he was oly dreamig. Oly after Peter s chais had falle off, after he ad the agel had walked through the gates to the street, ad after the agel had led him dow the first street, did Peter come to the realizatio that he was really free ad that God had worked a series of miracles to free him. Peter Surprises Those Prayig for Him The scee that ufolded whe Peter arrived at Mark s mother s house is somewhat comical. Rhoda, the servat girl, came to see who was kockig at the door i the middle of the ight. Whe she realized it was Peter, she was so excited that she ra back to tell the others without ulockig the door! Ad the the people who had bee earestly prayig for Peter refused to believe that he could really be at the gate. Istead, they may have jumped to the coclusio that Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

100 100 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3), God Seds Agels (track 11) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3 o the CD) to the tue of Are You Sleepig? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus welcomes, Jesus welcomes (Poit up.) Everyoe, everyoe. (Make gatherig motio.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) Come ad lear, come ad lear. (Make gatherig motio.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: Thak you for comig to church today. We get to lear somethig really eat: God s agels help us. Let s sig oe more sog before we lear more about that. Sig God Seds Agels (track 11 o the CD) to the tue of He s Got the Whole World i His Hads. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God is watchig over us. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. God is watchig over us. (Repeat from the begiig.) Lesso 9 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

101 101 2 Key Verse activity Color-Coded Rescue Have the childre form a circle ad sit dow. Ope your Bible to Acts 16:31, ad show the childre the words. Say: Raise your had if you ve ever eeded someoe s help. Let the childre respod. We all eed some help i our lives, ad God has promised to help us. Our Key Verse is Acts 16:31, ad it says, Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. Let s say that verse together. Lead the childre i repeatig the Key Verse: Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. Color-Coded Rescue Bible 1 piece of costructio paper (i various colors) per child CD player Teacher Pack CD: various sogs Tell kids that today they ll hear a story about Peter. Say: Peter was put i jail for tellig people about Jesus. A agel came ad helped Peter get out of jail. Place red, yellow, gree, ad blue pieces of costructio paper i a radom patter o the floor. Make sure there are eough pieces of paper for every child i the class (there should be more tha oe piece of paper per color). These are the jail cells. Tell the childre that while you play the music, they ca dace aroud the room. As soo as the music stops, they are to fid a colored square to stad o. Begi playig ay sog from the CD, ad the radomly stop the music. Whe everyoe has foud a square to stad o, say: Everyoe i the [ame a color] jail, your agel has arrived. Have the childre stadig o that color say the Key Verse ad the jump off their squares. Cotiue this with all the colors util all the childre have bee saved. Play agai as time allows. How would you feel if you were really i jail? What are other ways God s agels ca help us? Say: God s agels help us. God has promised to take care of us. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

102 102 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet ight light strig Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tie a ight light aroud Theo s paw with strig. Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Welcome, Theo! We re happy to see you today. Why are you carryig that ight light? Theo: I was afraid of the dark last ight, ad this ight light helps me feel safe. Teacher: We re learig about agels today, Theo, ad that God uses agels to keep us safe. Let s say our Bible Poit for Theo. (Lead childre i sayig today s Bible Poit: God s agels help us.) Theo: So I do t have to be afraid? Teacher: No, you do t. You ca go tell your parets that you do t eed your ight light aymore. Let s say goodbye to Theo. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. How ca you remember God s agels whe you re scared? Who helps keep you safe? Bible Time: Rescue Souds! Bible CD player flashlight marker Teacher Pack CD: Rescue Souds (track 12); God Seds Agels (track 11) A Agel Frees Peter poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Say: Whe we feel afraid, we ca remember that God s agels help us. Let s hear a story about a agel who helped someoe. Bible Time: Rescue Souds! Cue the CD to Rescue Souds (track 12). Set the A Agel Frees Peter poster earby. Ope your Bible to Acts 12:1-18, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that God s agels help us. Lesso 9 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

103 103 Peter was oe of Jesus frieds. Peter liked to tell others about Jesus, but ot everyoe liked what Peter was doig. I fact, Peter was throw ito jail for tellig people about Jesus. Oe ight i jail, Peter was sleepig. Let s preted we re sleepig like Peter. Begi the Rescue Souds segmet of the CD. Have the childre preted to sleep ad sore. Pause the CD after listeig to the sorig. Say: Suddely a bright light shoe all aroud the jail cell! Shie the flashlight o the childre. Start the CD agai, pausig after the tiklig souds to itroduce the agel. The show childre the poster. Say: A agel told Peter to get up. Peter followed the agel, ad the doors of the jail ulocked ad opeed i frot of him. Start the CD agai, turig it off after the soud of the door creakig ope. Say: Peter was free! God had set a agel to save him! God ad the agels ca do amazig thigs to help us. Let s sig God Seds Agels to remid us of how God s agels help us. Sig God Seds Agels (track 11 o the CD) to the tue of He s Got the Whole World i His Hads. Have childre stad up ad follow you aroud the room i a game of Follow the Leader as they sig. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God seds his agels to help us Ad keep us safe. God is watchig over us. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. We kow that God really loves us. Yes, he does. God is watchig over us. (Repeat from the begiig.) After the sog, have the childre sit dow agai. Say: God seds his agels to help each of us. Let s write our ames o the agel i this picture to remid us that God watches over each of us. Use a marker to write the first ame of each child o the agel i the picture. As you write each child s ame, say: God s agels help [ame of child]. Cotiue util each child has bee amed ad icluded o the poster. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

104 104 How do you thik Peter felt whe the agel rescued him? How would you thak God for sedig his agels to help us? Say: God set a agel to help Peter get out of jail. God s agels help us just as they kept Peter safe. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Safe Agel Wigs My Bible Hugs salt i saltshakers glue sticks Ceter 1: Safe Agel Wigs Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 9 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Ceter 1: Safe Agel Wigs Had out the My Bible Hugs pages. Show childre how to rub a glue stick over the agel. The have childre make the agel sparkle by shakig salt over the agel. How do you thik Peter felt whe the agel helped him? What would you like a agel to help you with? Say: God s agel helped Peter get out of jail. We kow that whe we re scared, God s agels help us. Lesso 9 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

105 105 Ceter 2: Agel Apple Sacks Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow to prepare their sack. Distribute a plate, two apple sectios, ad a large pretzel rod to each child. Show childre how to set the pretzel rod i the middle of the plate ad the place the apple sectios o both sides of the pretzel rod as agel wigs. How did a agel help Peter? How ca agels help us? Say: God set a agel to help Peter, ad God s agels help us, too. Let s thak God for sedig agels to help us ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Peter, Peter, Agel Ceter 2: Agel Apple Sacks apple slices large pretzel rods paper plates kife! allergy alert Ceter 2: Agel Apple Sacks Easy Prep Peel apples ad cut them ito sectios just prior to servig. You ll eed two apple sectios for each child. Have childre sit i a circle to play a game similar to Duck, Duck, Goose. Oe child will walk aroud the outside of the circle, tappig the childre s heads ad sayig Peter. Whe the child taps someoe ad says agel, the agel should get up, put a arm aroud the other child as if huggig him or her from the side, ad walk aroud the circle oce with the other child. The the agel becomes the tapper. Cotiue util all childre have bee tappers ad agels. How did the agel keep you safe i our game? How did a agel keep Peter safe i our Bible story? Say: A agel opeed the doors of the jail for Peter. I our game, the agel held you while you walked aroud the circle. We ca be sure that God s agels help us. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

106 106 Ceter 4: Agel i My Pocket Ceter 4: Agel i My Pocket 1 flat woode clothespi per child white glue bowls cotto swabs fabric scraps several fie-tip markers Put white glue ito small bowls, ad place cotto swabs earby. Give each child a flat woode clothespi. Have each child draw a face with a fie-tip marker o the ball ed of the clothespi. Let childre glue small pieces of fabric to the body part of the pi as clothig for their agels. How ca God s agels help us? Say: You ca put this little agel i your pocket to remid you that God s agels help us. 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that God s agels help us. I would like each of you to choose a way to remember that God s agels help us this week. Give kids these two challeges to choose from: ask your mom or dad to take you o a walk to a place you ve ever bee before. Pray together before you go, askig God s agels to protect you o your walk. say a prayer for each of your family members, ad the remid them that God s agels are there to help them all day, every day! Lesso 9 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

107 107 Say: If you wat to take a walk, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to pray for your family, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Have the childre sit with you i a circle. Pass the agel figure aroud the circle. As childre hold up the agel figure, have them repeat the followig prayer. Pray: Thak you, God, for sedig agels to help us. I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Actio Prayer scissors Teacher Pack agel patter Actio Prayer Easy Prep Photocopy ad cut out the agel patter. Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 9

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109 Lesso Lydia Is Coverted Acts 16:9-15 There are o boudaries for evagelism. Youg preschoolers ca be very adept at talkig to their frieds ad family members about Jesus. I may ways, Jesus ca be more real to a preschooler tha to may adults. Ecourage the childre to thik of people they kow who do ot kow Jesus. Ecourage them to tell those frieds the stories of Jesus they ve leared at church. By doig so, you ll help them see that everyoe i their lives eeds Jesus. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Believe i Jesus Play a game to lear the Key Verse. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, maskig tape Make a maskig tape lie o the floor, desigatig a area as heave. Bible Poit Everyoe eeds Jesus. Key Verse Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved (Acts 16:31). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will tell others about Jesus. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Puppy Poiters Hear how Theo tells others about God. Bible Time: Come Help Us! Act out the Bible story. CD player, Theo puppet, small Bible, tape Teacher Pack: CD Bible, blue blaket Teacher Pack: heart Tape a small Bible to Theo s paws. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 10

110 110 Lesso What Childre Do Easy Prep Ceter 1: Everyoe, Everywhere Create collages of people who eed Jesus. My Bible Hugs, magazies, tape Remove the Lesso 10 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. 4 Weavig Faith Ito Life about 20 mi. (Choose 2 ceters.) 5 Lastig Impressios about 5 mi. Ceter 2: Help Me Sack Help each other fix a cheese-ad-cracker sack. Ceter 3: Sailig Ships Joi a parter i helpig boats move across water. Ceter 4: Prayer Picture Frames Make frames to hold pictures of frieds who eed Jesus. Daily Challeges Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. Actio Prayer Tell God who they wat to tell about Jesus. Weavig Faith at Home Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. crackers, sliced cheese, apkis water, 2 tubs, toy boats 1/4 sheet of craft foam per child, yar scraps, glue sticks, 2-ich selfadhesive maget strip per child My Bible Hugs, crayos Teacher Pack: heart Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 10 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

111 111 Lydia Is Coverted Acts 16:9-15 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders God Alters Paul s Plas The Jesus Coectio Although Paul had other plas, he did t hesitate to chage them whe he had clear directio from God i a visio. The text says that they got ready at oce to leave for Macedoia. Ad lookig back o the effect Paul s missioary joureys had o that part of the world, we see that God s strategy i leadig Paul where he did oly improved Paul s origial pla. Wheever Paul came to a ew city, he made it a practice to go to the local Jewish syagogue o the Sabbath to see if a opportuity would arise to share the message of Jesus with the Jews meetig there. However, there must ot have bee a syagogue i Philippi. It took 10 Jewish males to costitute a syagogue, but Jewish me must have bee lackig. Istead, a group of Jewish or God-fearig wome met at a iformal meetig place outside the city. Paul ad his team foud this meetig ad told the wome there about Jesus. Paul did t hesitate to give them his time ad attetio. He wated to reach everyoe he could with God s message of grace. Paul did t waste time woderig about what God wated. He kew. As you sped time with Jesus through Bible study ad prayer, sese his will for you ad make it your ow. Lydia was a stadout i her society, impressive by ay stadard. Do you feel itimidated by others ad too timid to share the love of Christ with them? Eve the least eedy eed Jesus. Choose oe perso to share God s love with i the comig week. Pray for that perso. You ca write your prayer here. Lydia Becomes the First Europea Covert Lydia, the leader of this little group, was a dealer i purple cloth. Purple dye was extremely costly, ad ayoe able to deal i it had to be wealthy. For a woma to be successful ad wealthy o her ow was uusual i that culture, ad it says a lot about Lydia. This woma was the first perso i Europe who Paul led to faith i Christ. Why were all the members of Lydia s household baptized? Though Luke cocetrates o the story of Lydia, that does t mea that others i her family were t preset ad did t believe o their ow. Her childre ad ay servats i her household likely followed her example ad believed i Jesus. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 10

112 112 gettig started Welcome ad Celebrate CD player Teacher Pack CD: Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3), The World Needs Jesus (track 13) whistle Welcome ad Celebrate Tip Cosistetly use the same sigal to aouce a trasitio to the ext activity. You could flip the lights off ad o, use a trai whistle, have a puppet rustlig iside a bag, or sig cleaup sogs. Keep it simple, cosistet, ad fu. As the childre arrive, greet each oe with a smile. Whe it s time to begi, use your whistle to gather the childre together i a circle o the floor. Lead childre i sigig Jesus Welcomes Everyoe (track 3 o the CD) to the tue of Are You Sleepig? Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. Jesus welcomes, Jesus welcomes (Poit up.) Everyoe, everyoe. (Make gatherig motio.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) He is here amog us. (Nod ad poit to groud.) Come ad lear, come ad lear. (Make gatherig motio.) (Repeat 2x.) Say: You re all welcome here today. Today we ll lear that everyoe eeds Jesus. Lead childre i sigig The World Needs Jesus (track 13 o the CD) to the tue of Oh, How I Love Jesus. Ecourage childre to follow the motios i paretheses. The whole wide world eeds our Jesus. (Hold hads over head i a circle.) The whole wide world eeds our Jesus. (Hold hads over head i a circle.) The whole wide world eeds our Jesus. (Hold hads over head i a circle.) Jesus loves us all. (Hug yourself.) Let s tell them all about Jesus. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) Let s tell them all about Jesus. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) Let s tell them all about Jesus. (Cup hads aroud mouth.) Jesus loves us all. (Hug yourself.) (Repeat.) Lesso 10 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

113 113 2 Key Verse activity Believe i Jesus Ope your Bible to Acts 16:31, ad show childre the verse. Say: Our Key Verse is Acts 16:31, which says, Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. This meas that whe we believe i Jesus, we ca live i heave with God forever. Let s say it together. Lead childre i sayig the Key Verse with you: Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. Say: Let s play a game to help us remember our verse ad to remid us that whe we believe i Jesus we ll someday go to heave. Stad o the heave side of the tape. Let s preted that this side of the tape is heave. Believe i Jesus Bible maskig tape Believe i Jesus Easy Prep Make a maskig tape lie o the floor, desigatig a area as heave. Explai that whe you poit to a child, he or she should say, How ca I get to heave? The you will aswer with the Key Verse: Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. The this child may move across the lie to stad beside you ad may poit to aother child. Repeat util each child has moved to the heave side of the tape. What do you thik it will be like i heave? What s oe thig you d like to ask God whe you see him i heave? Say: everyoe eeds Jesus. Whe we tell others our Key Verse, they ll kow what they eed to do to get to kow Jesus better. 3 bible Exploratio Puppy Poiters Say: Liste, everyoe, Theo s comig! He has somethig to show us. Let s fid out what it is. Play Here, Theo (track 2 o the CD), ad brig out Theophilus the FaithRetriever. Puppy Poiters CD player Theo puppet small Bible tape Teacher Pack CD: Here, Theo (track 2) Puppy Poiters Easy Prep Tape a small Bible to Theo s paws. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 10

114 114 Theo: Hi, everybody! Teacher: Hello, Theo! I see you ve brought your Bible to church today. Theo: Yes! I wat to tell my frieds about Jesus. Teacher: That s a great idea, Theo! Our Key Verse helps us kow what to tell people whe they wat to kow about Jesus. Frieds, let s share our Key Verse with Theo. (Lead childre i sayig the Key Verse: Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved. ) Theo: I m glad so may of you kow about believig i Jesus. I m goig to go tell others about Jesus ad about what I m learig i the Bible. Goodbye! Teacher: Goodbye, Theo. Ecourage kids to wave or say goodbye to Theo. The put Theo away i a safe place for ext week s use. How ca we tell others about the good ews of Jesus? Who ca you tell about Jesus ad the Bible? Say: everyoe eeds Jesus. It ca be fu to tell others about Jesus ad the Bible, ad it ca sometimes be hard. But we eed to tell everyoe about the good ews of Jesus so people will lear how much God loves them. Bible Time: Come Help Us! Bible blue blaket Teacher Pack heart Bible Time: Come Help Us! Ope your Bible to Acts 16:9-15, ad show the childre the words. Say: Today s Bible story tells us that everyoe eeds Jesus. We ll hear about how a ma amed Paul told people about Jesus. I d like you to help me act out this Bible story. Have the childre form two groups. Place a blue blaket or towel betwee the two groups, ad explai that the blue blaket is a river. Choose oe child to be Paul, ad choose a child from the other group to be Lydia. Say: Oe day Paul was prayig. Have the childre i Paul s group keel as if prayig. While he was prayig, he had a dream. A ma from a faraway place said, Come here ad help us! Have the childre i Lydia s group cup their hads aroud their mouths ad call out, Come here ad help us! The people did t kow about Jesus. Paul wated to tell the people, Jesus loves you! So Paul decided to take his importat message to the people of the faraway place. Give Paul the heart. Tell the childre that Paul traveled across water to get to the faraway place, ad the have the childre i Paul s group walk across the blaket to Lesso 10 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

115 115 reach Lydia s group. Ask the childre from both groups to shake hads ad greet each other ad the sit dow. Say: Paul told the people about Jesus. Have the childre from Paul s group take turs sayig, everyoe eeds Jesus. A woma amed Lydia wated to kow Jesus. Have Lydia ad Paul stad up. Ask Paul to give the heart to Lydia. Paul told Lydia, Jesus loves you! Lydia ad her whole family decided to love Jesus, too. They leared that everyoe eeds Jesus. Have childre stad up ad cheer. Set aside the heart. How do you thik Lydia felt whe she leared that Jesus loved her? Why did Paul wat to tell others about Jesus? Say: Some people do t kow that Jesus loves them. Is t that sad? Paul wated the people to kow about Jesus. Paul wated them to kow that everyoe eeds Jesus. We ca tell people about Jesus love, too. 4 weavig faith ito life Choose at least two of the learig ceters to help reiforce today s Bible lesso. Gather the eeded materials, ad put the supplies i a out-of-sight area util you re ready for them. Allow the childre to choose which ceter they d like to explore first. The circulate amog the childre as they create ad explore. Ecourage them to make coectios betwee their activities ad the Bible by askig them the questios icluded with each ceter s descriptio. Ceter 1: Everyoe, Everywhere Distribute the My Bible Hugs pages, ad set out magazies ad tape. Have childre look through the magazies to fid pictures of people who eed Jesus. The childre should tear out the pictures ad tape them to their pages. Remid kids that everyoe eeds Jesus. Ceter 1: Everyoe, Everywhere My Bible Hugs magazies tape Ceter 1: Everyoe, Everywhere Easy Prep Remove the Lesso 10 pages from each My Bible Hugs studet book, ad write childre s ames o them. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 10

116 116 Who eeds to kow about Jesus? Say: The people i the faraway place were excited to lear that Jesus loved them. If Paul had t told them, they might ot have leared about Jesus. If we do t tell people that everyoe eeds Jesus, they might ot lear about Jesus love. That s why it s importat to tell others about Jesus. Ceter 2: Help Me Sack crackers sliced cheese apkis! allergy alert Ceter 2: Help Me Sack Have the childre clea their hads ad the sit dow with parters to prepare their sack. Set a slice of cheese ad a cracker o a apki i frot of each child. Have oe child roll the cheese up to make a bugle or trumpet. Have that child say ito the bugle, Come ad help me! The have the other child respod, everyoe eeds Jesus while hadig the first child a cracker. Have the parters trade roles ad repeat util everyoe has a cracker. How would you tell someoe about Jesus? Say: We ca tell others about Jesus just like Paul did. Let s thak God for Jesus ad for providig our sack. Ivite oe child to pray for the sack. Ceter 3: Sailig Ships water 2 tubs toy boats Ceter 3: Sailig Ships Gather childre together i frot of a table i oe area of the room. Set out two buckets or tubs filled with water. Give childre plastic boats to play with i the water. Have them pair up ad work to get the boat from oe side of the tub to the other without touchig the boat. Show them how to blow the boat to move it o the water. How did Paul get to the faraway place? Why did he go to the faraway place? Lesso 10 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

117 117 Say: Paul got o a boat to go to a faraway place to tell everyoe there about Jesus. We ca tell our frieds at school, day care, ad at home about Jesus. We kow, just as Paul did, that everyoe eeds Jesus. Ceter 4: Prayer Picture Frames Give each child a quarter sheet of craft foam. Help childre glue colorful scraps of yar to the border of the foam to make a frame. Place a self-adhesive maget strip o the back of each frame. Explai that childre ca each glue a picture of someoe who eeds Jesus ito the frame whe they get home ad ca put this o the refrigerator as a remider to pray for that perso. Who is someoe you kow who eeds Jesus? How will you pray for this perso? Ceter 4: Prayer Picture Frames 1/4 sheet of craft foam per child yar scraps glue sticks 2-ich self-adhesive maget strip per child! maget warig Harmful if Swallowed. Say: everyoe eeds Jesus, ad God ca use your prayers to help someoe get to kow Jesus! 5 lastig impressios Daily Challeges After the childre have cleaed up their ceters, brig everyoe back to a circle area o the floor. Review the lesso activities ad the Bible Poit, ad the ecourage the childre to share what they remember about what they leared from the Bible today. Daily Challeges My Bible Hugs crayos Also use this time to challege kids i their faith. Ecourage them to choose a Daily Challege for applyig today s lesso to their lives this week. Use this challege for ecouragig your childre s growig relatioships with Jesus. Say: Today we leared that everyoe eeds Jesus. I would like each of you to choose a way to show that everyoe eeds Jesus this week. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 10

118 118 Give kids these two challeges to choose from: Tell a fried about Jesus, ad ask if he or she would like to pray with you. Everyoe eeds Jesus! draw a picture of what you thik Jesus looks like ad hag it up i your room, rememberig each time you see it that everyoe eeds Jesus! Say: If you wat to tell a fried about Jesus, circle the choice with oe dot. If you wat to draw a picture, circle the choice with two dots. Check that each child circled a choice o his or her My Bible Hugs page. Make sure you tell kids the challege you choose. Your commitmet will ispire childre ad will give them a opportuity to see God at work i your life as well as i theirs! Actio Prayer Teacher Pack heart Actio Prayer Explai that you ll start a prayer ad the you ll pause so childre ca take turs sayig the ame of someoe they wat to tell about Jesus. Tell childre that you ll pass the heart aroud the circle. Whe the heart comes to them, they ca each say the ame of the perso they wat to tell about Jesus ad the give the heart to the ext child. Pray: Dear God, we kow that everyoe eeds Jesus. It makes us sad to thik about the people who do t kow how much you love us. Please help us tell these people about the Bible. Say the ame of a perso you wat to tell about Jesus, ad the pass the heart to a child. Whe everyoe has had a chace to say a ame, close the prayer. Pray: I Jesus ame, ame. Weavig Faith at Home Have childre take home their My Bible Hugs pages whether they worked o them or ot. Have the childre tell their parets the challege they committed to i the Daily Challeges activity. Ecourage the parets to help their kids fulfill this commitmet durig the week. By workig together ad focusig o the same goals, you ad parets ca help childre weave faith ito their lives! Talk to your Director about ig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Lesso 10 Preschool/Ages 3 & 4

119 Lesso Paul s Jailer Believes i Jesus Acts 16:16-34 It s tough to be little i such a big world. This may explai preschoolers fasciatio with superheroes. As youg as 3, childre seek someoe bigger ad more powerful to rescue them from their helplessess. By presetig Jesus as the true superhero, your childre will more tagibly appreciate the qualities of our awesome Savior. He ca deliver us from our daily fears ad also rescue us from eteral separatio from God. Lesso What Childre Do easy prep 1 Gettig Started about 10 mi. 2 Key Verse Activity about 5 mi. Welcome ad Celebrate Welcome each other, ad praise God through music. Believe i Jesus Play a game i which they cross the room with Jesus. CD player Teacher Pack: CD, whistle Bible, tape, paper clip, yar Teacher Pack: Jesus figure Tape a large paper clip to the Jesus figure, ad slide the paper clip oto a piece of yar that s as wide as your meetig room. Tape the yar to the wall at each ed of the room at waist-high height for preschoolers. Bible Poit Jesus saves us. Key Verse Believe i the Lord Jesus, ad you will be saved (Acts 16:31). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will thak Jesus for savig them. Puppy Poiters Hear how Theo lears who saves us. CD player, Theo puppet, actio figure, strig Teacher Pack: CD Tie the actio figure to Theo s paw. 3 Bible Exploratio about 20 mi. Bible Time: A Jailer Believes Go to jail with Paul ad Silas to lear their story. Bible, craft sticks, tape, paper strips, blaket Teacher Pack: Jail Cell poster, apostle patter Tape the Jail Cell poster to a wall so childre ca see it while sittig dow. Spread out a blaket beeath the poster. Make three copies of the apostle patter. Tape craft sticks to the backs of the figures to create three puppets. Also make hadcuffs for each child by tapig strips of paper ito circles. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Preschool/Ages 3 & 4 Lesso 11

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