First Look 3- through 5-year-olds, July 31, Week 5 Small Group

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1 Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 1

2 Overview for the 3s 5s this week. 8:15am/10:15am Leaders arrive and pray together. Set up room. 8:30am/10:30am Children arrive/check in/free play time 8:50am/10:50am Make It Fun (10minutes) Party Hats 9:00am/11:00am Make It True (20 minutes) Worship Introductory Sketch Bible Story and Review 9:20am/11:20am Make It Stick (25minutes) Which Day? 9:45am/11:45am Make It Real (10minutes) 4-5 YEAR OLDS ONLY!!! Time/snack Prayer Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 2

3 July 31, 2016 Basic Truth: God made me. Key Question: Who made everything? Bottom Line: God made everything. Memory Verse: You made the world and everything in it. Psalm 89:11, NCV Bible Story: God made everything. Creation Celebration Genesis 1:1 2:3 Make It Fun (Introductory Activities, 10 minutes) Please do in your small groups prior to the large group lesson. 1. Party Hats Party Hats is an activity that uses fun and creativity to introduce today s Bible story. (Note: These hats will be worn during the Bible story.) What You Need: Solid-colored party hats and stickers of things God made (such as animals, food, stars, flowers, etc.) What You Do: During the Activity: The children will make a Creation celebration party hat! Give each child a party hat to decorate using the stickers provided. What You Say: Before the Activity: We are celebrating all the good things God makes today! Who made everything? [Bottom Line] God made everything. I think we need a party hat to help us celebrate! (Decorate hats.) After the Activity: Your hats look amazing! I can t wait to wear them to our Bible story today and celebrate all the amazing things God has made! Woo-hoo! Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 3

4 Make It Stick (Application Activities, 25 minutes) These activities are designed to help preschoolers understand and remember today s Bible story and Bottom Line. 1. Which Day? Which Day? is an activity that uses memory and fine motor skills to identify what God created on each day and introduce today s Bible story. What You Need: Train Cars 2 and Things God Made from the Activity Pages on the Website, and white cardstock What You Do: Before the Activity: Copy the Train Cars 2 and Things God Made Activity Pages onto white cardstock and cut apart. Stack each set of cards and shuffle them. During the Activity: Let children take turns turning over the train cars and putting them in order. Then let them match the thing that God made with the day it was created. What You Say: Before the Activity: What a fun day we are going to have today! We are going to CELEBRATE! Can you say that with me? CELEBRATE! Louder! CELEBRATE! Yay! During the Activity: Let s turn over these cards one at a time. What s on them? Yes, our Creation Station train cars. How fun! Let s put them in order. Great job! Now, let s turn over these cards one at a time. These cards have things that God made. Can you match them to their correct car? Good job! God made everything, and it is good. That s worth celebrating! After the Activity: We re going to celebrate all that God made today. Who made everything? [Bottom Line] God made everything! After everyone has had a turn, put the train cars in order and go over them one more time together. SGL: Day #1 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made the light and dark. SGL: Day #2 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made sky and water! Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 4

5 SGL: Day #3 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made the land and plants and sea! SGL: Day #4 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made the sun, moon, and stars. SGL: Day #5 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made fish and birds! SGL: Day #6 God Made? SGL AND CHILDREN: God made animals. And God made people! SGL: What did God do on Day Seven after He made everything? SGL AND CHILDREN: God rested. He stopped to look around at all the beautiful things He made and said, It is good. Say that with me: It is good! Make It Real (s, 5 minutes) Make It Real is designed to help preschoolers understand how the Bottom Line applies to them. They ll discuss real-life experiences and share prayer requests. Time What you Need: Paperclip Memory Verse Card (from the week one Activity Pages on the Website) in your Bible at Psalm 89:11. SMALL GROUP LEADER (SGL): Wow! What a day! I have had SO much fun making our Creation Station train AND having our Creation Celebration today! I hope you ve had as much fun as I have learning about how [Bottom Line] God made everything. Who made everything? CHILDREN and SGL: [Bottom Line] God made everything! SGL: Let s take one last look at all the things God made. SGL: Okay, here we go! Hold up your fingers for each day as we say them. Day One: light and dark. Day Two: sky and water. Day 3: land, plants, and sea. Day 4: sun, moon, and stars. Day 5: fish and birds. Day 6: animals AND God s favorite PEOPLE! Day Seven: God stopped (hold flat hand out) making things and He rested. You did it! You just went through all seven days of Creation! Yay! Now that we named all seven days of creation and what God made, it s time to say our memory verse for the last time. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 5

6 (Open the Bible to the memory verse card.) You have one more chance to get one of these awesome stickers to take home. (Hold up sheet of stickers.) First we ll say our verse together with the motions and then anyone who wants to say it by yourself gets a sticker! (Lay Bible down.) CHILDREN and SGL: You (point up) made (pound fists one on top of the other) the world (put your arms overhead to form a circle) and everything in it (spread your arms out wide), Psalm 89:11. (Open your hands like a book.) SGL: Perfect! God gave you a super duper smart brain because you learned that verse no problem! Now you can take turns saying it. (Give each child the opportunity to say the verse on his own. Have your stickers ready to give when they say it.) SGL: I am so proud of you! You have done such a great job listening and learning about how [Bottom Line] God made everything. You definitely deserve your fantastic stickers! When I call your name, I want you to tell me one of your favorite things. I know you ll have more than one because [Bottom Line] God made everything! God made so many wonderful things! Would anyone like to pray before I pray? (Give each child that wants to pray the opportunity to do so.) Okay, my turn to pray. Prayer SGL: Dear God, we believe You made the whole world and everything in it. When we look around at this great big world we see so much we want to thank You for making! We made a list of some of our favorite things. It s hard to choose because You made everything! (Name of child) wants to thank You for (favorite thing listed). (Repeat for each child.) We are so thankful You made such a wonderful world for us to live in, and that everything can remind us of how amazing You are! We love You so much, God! In Jesus name, amen. Curriculum Materials for 3- through 5-year-olds 2016 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. 6