God Made Me. God Made Me. Made to Pray. Made to Connect Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and what do you like to build with blocks?

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1 March 2-4: Wk 1 Ages 3-5 Side 1 Side 2 Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and what do you like to build with blocks? Read it: Adam And Eve: Page 14 Make it Stick: Adam and Eve were the first people God made! Whenever you hear their name, hold up one finger. Say: Adam and Eve were the first two people God made. God made them very different from each other. God made each of us different too! Let s play a game to see how hard it is to be the same. I am going to do something and you try to repeat what I did. See if you can act just like me. Keep playing until LARGE Group. Say: God made a lot of things, but the WORDS he put in the Bible tell us we are the most wonderful thing in the world! Dear God, thank you for making (list the names of everyone in your group) wonderful. Amen. Say: God made us wonderful so let s have some fun together. 1. Give everyone a Body Part Card. 2. Put the yellow Movement Cards upside down in the center of your group. 3. One at a time, let kids select a Movement Card. 4. Have your whole group make the motion selected with the body part listed on their card. (Example: Motion: Shake. Body Part: Head. That child would Shake their Head.) 5. After everyone has a turn, mix up the body part cards, hand them out and play again! Keep playing until everyone is picked up.

2 March 9-11: Wk 2 Ages 3-5 Side 1 Side 2 Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and how do you help your family? Say: I loved learning that God Made Me special. He made each of you very special, too. Dear God, thank you for making us special. We love you so much! Amen. Read it: The Beginning: Page 7 Make it Stick: Whenever you hear a number, hold up that many fingers! Say: God gave us a lot of WORDS to understand who he is and how he made us. These WORDS are in the Bible! God made us smart. Let s learn some of the WORDS from the Bible now. Put the Memory Verse Motion Sheet in the center of the group. Practice it together a few times. Then, practice it in different voices. (Ex: monster, mouse, laughing, crying, slow, or fast) Keep playing until LARGE Group. Say: God was so creative when he made you. God made us creative too. Let s get creative and make some music! Stand in a circle. Make a sequence of rhythms. You can clap your hands, stomp your feet, slap your thighs. Have your group repeat your rhythm. You can even incorporate some WORDS God says about you. You can say, God made me, or, I am smart and creative! Let everyone take turns making rhythms for the group to repeat. Keep playing until everyone is picked up.

3 March 16-18: Wk 3 Ages 3-5 Side 1 Side 2 Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and how many hairs do you think are on your head? Read it: Jesus Teaches On A Mountain: Page 318 Make it Stick: Whenever you hear Jesus name, give each other a high five! Say: God made Jesus to be our friend forever. God made you too. Let s play a game and tell each other these WORDS, God made you! 1. Have everyone sit in a circle. 2. Instruct them to make a circle by spreading their feet wide and touch the feet of the kids on either side of them. 3. Take out the snowball and have everyone roll the ball to each other. 4. As they roll to another kid, they should say these WORDS to them, God made you." Keep playing until LARGE Group. Say: I am so happy God made Jesus to be my friend forever. God knows us so well, and he knew that we would need a friend like Jesus. Dear God, thank you for sending us Jesus to be our friend forever. Amen. Say: You are so important to God. He gave WORDS to the people who wrote the Bible. These WORDS tell us how important God thinks we are. Let s play a game with some of the WORDS in the Bible. 1. Place the Memory Verse Motion Sheet in the center of your group and practice a few times. 2. Take out the blocks and spread them out in a line, leaving space so they can jump over each block. Practice saying the Memory Verse out loud while they jump over each block. 3. They can keep playing with different actions like skipping over the blocks or putting their hands in the air while they wiggle over. Keep playing until everyone is picked up.

4 March 23-25: Wk 4 Ages 3-5 Side 1 Side 2 Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and your favorite food? Say: God made us so special, and it is important to take care of our bodies! Dear God, thank you for how you made us. We want to take care of our bodies. Amen. Say: God made you so special! God wrote some WORDS in the Bible encouraging us to take care of our bodies. When we take care of our bodies, we become strong.. Give everyone a Jenga Block. Ask: Is brushing your teeth a healthy choice? If it is healthy, let them use their Jenga Blocks to build a tower. After they build, have them collect their blocks. List another scenario, and if it is healthy, let them build another tower. If it is not healthy, list another scenario. Start with these: You skipped your nap. You ate all your vegetables. You forgot to wash your hands after the bathroom. You cleaned your boo-boo and put on a bandaid. Keep listing examples of your own until LARGE Group. Say: God made us so special and one way we can take care of our body is by eating healthy food. Let s play a game about healthy eating! 1. Place the the frisbee in the center of the group and pretend it is a big mouth. 2. Have the first kid name a food that is healthy. Ask everyone to give a thumbs up or down if they like or don t like that food. 3. Have them throw the bean bag into the mouth pretending to feed the frisbee that food. 4. Have the next kid pick up the bean bag and name a food and repeat the process until everyone gets a turn. Keep playing until everyone gets picked up.

5 March 30-April 1: Wk 5 Ages 3-5 Side 1 Side 2 Pass a beanbag and Ask: What is your name and who is your best friend? Say: We should treat everyone special because that s how God made us. Dear God, help us love everyone you made. Amen. Read it: Best Friends: Page 181 Make it Stick: Let s hold hands, as we listen to this story, because we are friends! Say: God s WORDS tell us that he made you and he loves you. He thinks you are wonderfully made! Let s make a drawing of what we would look like if we were made to be Lego people! Give everyone a coloring sheet. As your group colors, discuss how God made everyone different and special. Keep playing until LARGE Group. Take out your Emoji Card Set and the sticky hand. Place the cards, face side down, in the center of your group. Pass the sticky hand around and when a card is picked up, Ask: What feeling is on the card? Can you make that face? What can we do when our friend is feeling that way? If you have extra time, let kids draw on the back of their coloring sheet until everyone gets picked up.