Activities to Help Introduce the Bible Lesson

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1 Activities to Help Introduce the Bible Lesson (Choose one or all options to do with your family prior to reading the scriptures) Option 1: Picture words Invite your kids to play a guessing game. Choose a volunteer to be the artist. Whisper to the artist one of the following picture words: bucket, well, water, drink, woman, or husband. Your kids should try to guess what the artist is drawing. The artist may not speak or write any letters or words on the paper. When your child guesses what the artist has drawn, choose another to be the artist. Play several rounds. Say: Does anyone know what all these pictures have in common? They are all pictures of things in the Bible story we are going to hear today. Option 2: Bucket-ball relay Form two teams. Direct each team to stand in a single-file line. Position four foam balls and one bucket at the front of each line. At the end of each line, mark a square on the floor with tape. Explain the rules of the game. When you say go, the first kid in line will pick up a bucket and put one ball inside. He will then pass the bucket to the second player. Players must pass the bucket down the line until it reaches the last player. The last player will put the ball in the square and then pass the bucket back up the line. Each player must take a turn passing the bucket. When the bucket returns to the first player, he will put another ball in the bucket and pass it back down the line. Continue play until teams have moved all the balls into the square at the end of the line. When a team finishes, players should sit down. Say: Good work, everyone! Today we are going to hear a story from the Bible about a woman Jesus met at a well. The woman went to the well every day to collect water with a bucket.

2 Activities to Help Review the Bible Lesson Option 1: A Good Guess (Choose an Activity a day) Write the following words on separate index cards: awake, blanket, flag, frown, hippopotamus, island, penguin, rain, smell, straw, watermelon. If needed, make extra word cards. Choose a volunteer to be the first player. Give her a word card. The player should look at the word and then set the card aside facedown. The player should use words or gestures to lead the rest of the kids to guess what word was written on the card. She may not say the actual word. If a player has the word penguin, she could waddle with her hands to the side and say, an animal that is black and white and lives in cold places like Antarctica. When a kid guesses the correct word, invite him to lead the next round. Give several kids a chance to describe or act out the words on the cards. Say: You did a good job guessing what was written on the cards. In the Bible story, Jesus knew everything about the Samaritan woman. He knew about her husbands, and He knew her greatest need to be saved from sin. Jesus offered the woman a gift. What does Jesus offer? Jesus offers eternal life. Jesus knows us and our needs. He does not have to guess what is going on in our lives. We can trust in Him for salvation and eternal life. Option 2: Bottled water labels Print and cut apart the bottled water labels in the translation you use. Prepare enough labels for each kid to have one or two. Provide kids with markers and labels. Invite them to color and decorate the labels. Then demonstrate how to tape a label around a bottle of water. Encourage kids to share unopened bottles of water with friends or family members, or arrange to provide bottled water to local group in need. As kids work, review the Bible story. Help kids understand that the living water Jesus offered the woman wasn t like the water the woman drew from the well. When Jesus talked about living water, He was talking about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit satisfies people s spiritual thirst for a relationship with God. Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to those who come to Him by faith. Say: What does Jesus offer? Jesus offers eternal life. Jesus said that whoever drinks from the water that He gives will never get thirsty again ever!

3 Option 2: Bible Skills Review Provide a Bible for each child. Guide them to find John 4 in the Bible. Encourage kids to use the table of contents if they need help. Invite one of your children to retell or review the Bible story in their own words. Ask others to supply any details the volunteer may have left out. Then encourage your kids to use the Bible to answer to following review questions: 1. Where did Jesus stop during His journey to Galilee? (at a well in Samaria, John 4:3-6) 2. Whom did Jesus meet at the well? (a Samaritan woman, John 4:7) 3. What did Jesus say to the woman? ( Give Me a drink, John 4:7) 4. Why was the woman surprised that Jesus was talking to her? (Jesus was a Jew, and she was a Samaritan; John 4:9) 5. What kind of water did Jesus say He could give the woman? (living water, John 4:10) 6. Whom did Jesus tell the woman to bring to the well? (her husband, John 4:16) 7. Who did the woman know was coming? (the Messiah, John 4:25) 8. Who did Jesus tell the woman He is? (the Messiah, John 4:26) 9. What does Jesus offer? Jesus offers eternal life.

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6 What does Jesus offer? Jesus offers eternal life.

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8 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17

9 Jesus Offers Eternal Life Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. John 4:13-14 (NKJV) Jesus Offers Eternal Life Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. John 4:13-14 (NKJV) Jesus Offers Eternal Life Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. John 4:13-14 (NKJV) Jesus Offers Eternal Life Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. John 4:13-14 (NKJV)