PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM A stand-alone lesson BIBLE VERSE Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, Mark 12:30. Worship is a stand-alone lesson that s part of a collection of fun adventures designed to help preschoolers understand four key concepts for following Jesus: The Bible Worship Giving Prayer Use these stand-alone lessons one at a time, or as a multi-part series. LESSON OUTLINE Preschoolers will explore the concept of worship with the help of Jungle Joanna. Summit Creative Company. All rights reserved. summitcreativecompany.com 1
JUNGLE JOANNA Worship Preschool Stand-Alone LESSON CONCEPT Preschoolers will explore the concept of worship with the help of Jungle Joanna. BIBLE TRUTH Worship, Psalm 150 BIBLE VERSE Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, Mark 12:30. SUPPLIES Bible NOTES All yellow highlighted text are cues for audio and visual slides. Assign a volunteer to show slides. The intro and the Bible story will be on video. CIRCLE TIME Kids will color an Explorer s Club Card to help them remember what they learned about worship. Summit Creative Company. All rights reserved. summitcreativecompany.com 2
TEACHER DEVOTIONAL Read: Psalm 150 Worship is a word that is often limited to mean the musical portion of a weekend church service. But worship means so much more. No matter how great the music is; the instruments, the singing, the lyrics, our objective in this portion of the service isn t to enjoy great praise songs. The purpose of worship in its greater sense is to get to know the God who made us and to show our love for him. In this way we can begin to understand that worship is a movement of our hearts, our thoughts, and our will towards God s heart, his thoughts and his will. Ultimately, worship is our response to what we value most. It s about saying, This person, this thing, this experience (this whatever) is what matters most to me it s the thing of highest value in my life. Pastor Louie Giglio writes, So how do you know where and what you worship? It s easy; you simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you ll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what s of highest value to you. We only need to look at our credit card statements, our calendars, our check books, our web history, our facebook account, to find what the highest value is for us on any given day. That s worship. But God is saying: Everything you are is from ME. Everything you have is MINE. The life you live is MY life that I ve freely given to you. And I want worshipers who will constantly reflect MY goodness and grace with that life! How often do we miss what God has for us because we limit our worship to what takes place in the first 15 minutes of a weekend service? Could it be that you and I exist for more to reflect back to God his matchless glory? That s worship. What is it in your life that matters most? What do you worship? Really? Take some time to reflect on this. What needs to change so that your worship will reflect back to God his matchless glory? Summit Creative Company. All rights reserved. summitcreativecompany.com 3
WELCOME Welcome boys and girls. I m so glad you re here! Before we get started with today s lesson, let s go over our room rules so we can have a the most fun. (Go over room rules. Sample rules: join in, be a friend, be safe.) WORSHIP Ok, let s all join in right now and stand up for worship. Let s do our best singing so we can let God know how much we love him! (Play a few songs for kids to sing and dance to.) FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD (Share with kids how God asks us to love all his children through giving and praying. Talk about a global or local outreach program and encourage kids to give by collecting an offering.) INTRO Show Series Graphic: Jungle Joanna Boys and girls! Our friend Jungle Joanna is here today. She s a jungle explorer! She loves exploring new things about God. I wonder what she ll be exploring today. Maybe we can help her and learn something new about God, too! Let s say Jungle Joanna (Hold your hand up to your mouth to call and say the name in Tarzan fashion.) and welcome her! Ready? Here we go: Jungle Joanna! Jungle Joanna! BIBLE TRUTH Show Video: Worship Jungle Joanna APPLICATION Show Series Graphic: Jungle Joanna Silly Jungle Joanna! Good thing you were here to help her with her Explorer s Club Card. We learned a lot about worship, didn t we? We can sing songs, dance, play music, and thank God every day if we want to! That s worship. God loves when we worship him! Let s pray and thank God for being so good. PRAYER Dear God, we love you and thank you for all you ve done for us. Help us to love you with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength, amen. BIG GROUP I think we should sing another worship song to help us remember that God loves when we worship him. Everyone stand up and get ready to sing. Here we go! Summit Creative Company. All rights reserved. summitcreativecompany.com 4
Show Worship: I am Free Great job worshipping! CIRCLE TIME Ok kids are you ready? It s Circle Time! Use your walking feet to find a circle and sit right down. (Play a song to transition kids to Circle Time.) Summit Creative Company. All rights reserved. summitcreativecompany.com 5