May 15, 2016 Week 3. Here s an overview of what you ll be teaching this week. Make It Fun Partner Tasks. Make It True Worship Bible Story

May 15, 2016 Week 3 Basic Truth: God made me. Key Question: Who gives you good friends? Bottom Line: God gives me good friends. Memory Verse: Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do. Ecclesiastes 4:9, NIrV Bible Story Focus: God wants friends to help each other. David Helps Mephibosheth 1 Samuel 20:14-17; 2 Samuel 9:1-13 Make It Fun (Introductory Activities, 10 minutes) Prepare to offer the following activity as Your children arrive. Let one or two teachers lead activities in different areas of the room while another teacher greets parents and kids at the door. Welcome Time- Partner Tasks Partner Tasks is an activity that uses gross motor and cooperation skills to introduce the Bottom Line. What You Need: Items already in your classroom What You Do: During the Activity: Pair kids up with partners. Instruct them to lock arms with their partners. Once in pairs, assign each pairing a simple task, using items you have on hand. Tasks: Turn a chair around. Pick up a chair and move it to another table. Pick up a crumpled piece of paper. Carry a doll to designated location. Roll a car across the room. Each of you hop on your left foot from point A to point B (select two spots about three feet apart in your classroom). What You Say: 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 5

During the Activity: Today, I want you to work together to complete some simple tasks. Please lock arms with your partner. You must stay with your arms locked together as you complete these tasks. Are you ready? Okay, let s go! (Do the tasks listed above.) After the activity: Great job, everyone! You can unlock your arms and have a seat. Let me ask you a question. Did you have to work together to complete these tasks? Absolutely! Good friends help each other, just like you helped your partner get your job done. We ll learn more about how good friends work together during our Bible story today. Make It True (Large Group, 15 minutes) Worship What You Need: CD player and this month s worship song, Better Together, and Together which you will need to download from the Website. WORSHIP LEADER: Yay! I m so glad to see you today! It s so much fun to sing with you. We ve got another great story today about our good friends. Who gives you good friends? CHILDREN and WORSHIP LEADER: [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends! WORSHIP LEADER: Yes, He does! Let s sing about it. Lead children in singing Better Together, this month s worship song. Great singing, my friends. Remember, [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends! Who gives you good friends? CHILDREN and WORSHIP LEADER: [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends! WORSHIP LEADER: Exactly. [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends! Let s review our memory verse. Two (hold up two fingers) people (touch your shoulders) are better (raise your arms overhead to form a circle) than one (hold up one finger). They can help (pound one fist on top of the other) each other (touch the person next to you on the shoulder) in everything they do (raise your hands overhead and jump up), Ecclesiastes 4:9. (Open your hands like a book.) Do that with me. CHILDREN and WORSHIP LEADER: Two (hold up two fingers) people (touch your shoulders) are better (raise your arms overhead to form a circle) than one (hold up one finger). They can help (pound one fist on top of the other) each other (touch the person next to you on 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 6

the shoulder) in everything they do (raise your hands overhead and jump up), Ecclesiastes 4:9. (Open your hands like a book.) (Repeat several times.) WORSHIP LEADER: You are all AMAZING at that verse! Have you shown your parents yet? How about your brother and sister? How about all your good friends? Make sure you show them today! Are you ready to sing another song with me? (Pause.) You are? Let s sing. Lead children in singing Together. Awesome singing, friends. Now, remind me: Who gives you good friends? CHILDREN and WORSHIP LEADER: [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends! Bible Story What You Need: Bible STORYTELLER: (Enter and walk to table.) Hey, friends! It s great to see you today! Let me ask you a question. When you sit down to dinner with your family, do you have a special seat you know, a place where you always sit? (Pause.) Raise your hands if you do! (Pause as kids respond.) At my house, we all have certain places we sit too. I sit here (point out your place at the table) and my (wife/husband/child/parent) sits here, and my (tailor to your own family). Today, I want to talk to you about a special seat at a very special table. Does anyone remember the two friends we ve been talking about this month? (Pause.) I ll give you a big hint. One was named Jonathan and his best friend was named? CHILDREN: David! STORYTELLER: That s right. David and Jonathan were best friends. And who was Jonathan s dad? (Pause.) Jonathan s dad was King Saul. Was King Saul a nice guy or a big meanie? (Pause.) CHILDREN: A big meanie! STORYTELLER: You are right. King Saul wasn t very nice and he didn t like David very much. In fact, David had to leave and run away from King Saul. But before he left, David promised Jonathan that they would always be friends. And David promised that he would help Jonathan s family for the rest of his life. 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 7

So years and years went by and now there was a new king! Do you want to know who it was? (Pause.) You ll never guess. It was David. Now David was the king! And King David remembered the promise he had made to Jonathan that he would always take care of Jonathan s family. One day, King David told his servant to search everywhere to find someone from Jonathan s family. So that s what the servant did. He looked over here (move to the right side of the stage and look around) and he looked over there (move to the left side of the stage and look around). He searched high and low (move up and down) until he found someone! It was Jonathan s son named Mephibosheth. Wow. That s a crazy name. So let me break it down. Me-phi-bo-sheth. Can you say that with me? (Pause.) Really slow. Ready? CHILDREN and STORYTELLER: Me-phi-bo-sheth. STORYTELLER: Awesome. Now, Mephibosheth s legs didn t work very well. He couldn t walk. Mephibosheth definitely needed some help. King David knew that good friends help each other. So he brought Mephibosheth to the palace. Wouldn t it be REALLY cool to be invited to a palace? (Pause.) That s not all David did! He told Mephibosheth that he could live there. (Walk over the table and stand behind one of the chairs.) He even gave Mephibosheth his very own seat at the king s table. He wanted Mephibosheth to be a part of his family. Wasn t that an awesome thing for King David to do? (Pause.) David knew that God wants friends to help each other. And that s exactly what he did. What a good friend David was! Do you have good friends that help you? (Pause.) Raise your hands and show me if you have a good friend that helps you. (Pause.) That s really awesome. Who gives you good friends? ][Bottom Line] God gives me good friends. Let s say that together. Who give you good friends? CHILDREN AND STORYTELLER: [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends. STORYTELLER: He sure does. He gave David a good friend named Jonathan. And David made a promise to his good friend Jonathan that he would always take care of his family. Even when he became a king, he still kept his promise by giving Mephibosheth a home and a seat at his table. You can be a good friend too. You don t have to be a king with a fancy royal table. You can help and be a good friend right now at school and at home. Let s pray and thank God for our good friends that help us. God, thank You for this story about David and how he helped Mephibosheth. We know that You love it when we help each other. That s what good friends do! We want to be a good friend 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 8

just like David was. Thank You for giving us good friends, God. We love You. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Make It Stick (Application Activities, 35 minutes) This activity is designed to help preschoolers understand and remember today s Bible story and Bottom Line. Activity/Craft - The King s Table The King s Table is an activity that uses creativity and fine motor skills to review today s Bible story. What You Need: King David s Table found on the Activity Pages on the Website, food stickers(4 per child), white cardstock, and markers What You Do: Before the Activity: Copy the King David s Table Activity Page onto cardstock, 1 page per child. Place the stickers in the center of the table. ***Attention Craft Team No craft prep!!! During the Activity: Pass out the Activity Pages to the children. Point out the table and talk about how King David offered Mephibosheth a place at his table. Point out the stickers and encourage the children to put them on their pages. They can also use the markers to decorate their pages. What You Say: During the Activity: I love how David chose to help Mephibosheth and invite him to live with him and eat at his table. Today we re going to make our own king s table. I have these stickers that you can put on your pages and then you can decorate them any way you would like. After the Activity: David was such a good friend. He helped Mephibosheth. Good friends are helpers! Who gives you good friends? [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends. 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 9

Dismissal - Verse with Friends Verse with Friends is an activity that uses repetition and teamwork to learn the memory verse. What You Need: No supplies needed What You Do: Before the Activity: Have the children pick a partner. Practice saying the verse together as a class. During the Activity: Have the children hold hands with their partners and walk around the room as they say the memory verse. Repeat several times but instead of just walking encourage the children to hop, skip, and crawl. After the Activity: Say the Bottom Line together. What You Say: Before the Activity: Do you remember our memory verse for this month? (Pause.) Awesome! Let s say it together! Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do, Ecclesiastes 4:9. Great job! Now everyone pick a friend to help you say the memory verse. During the Activity: Hold your friend s hand. Perfect! Let s walk with our friends as we say the verse together. Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do, Ecclesiastes 4:9. Great job! Now let s hop with our friends as we say the verse together. (Hop while still holding hands.) Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do, Ecclesiastes 4:9. Now let s skip! (Continue with activity.) After the Activity: Great job! Our memory verse tells us that it is better to have a friend so that they can help you. God loves us so much that he gives us good friends! Who gives you good friends? [Bottom Line] God gives me good friends. 2011 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org 10