First Look TM Curriculum for Preschoolers - Room I (3 s) July 30, 2017 Basic Truth: God made me. Memory Verse: God made us to do good works. Ephesians 2:10, NCV Bible Story Focus: I can do what God wants me to do. Kids Rock Review 1 Timothy 4:12 Make It Fun (8:45-9:15/ 10:40-11:00) Prepare to offer one or more of the following activities as your children arrive. Let one teacher lead children in activities throughout the room while another teacher greets parents and kids at the door. At this age not all children will participate, but most will want to be part of the fun. 1. Muscles Muscles is an activity that allows the children to demonstrate that they ROCK when they do what God wants them to do! What You Need: No supplies needed Before the Activity: Kids ROCK! During the Activity: Show me your muscles. (Demonstrate.) WOW! You guys are super-duper strong! Let s see how fast you can run in place! (Demonstrate.) You re super fast! Can you show me how to do a pushup and a situp? (Demonstrate.) WOW, you ROCK! After the Activity: You are really strong! Kids rock! We have heard many stories this summer about kids who ROCK when they do what God wants them to do! Let s get ready to remember them and what they did! 2. Big and Little Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 1
Big and Little is an activity that teaches sorting and size differentiation. What You Need: Size Cards Activity cards Before the Activity: I have cards with pictures on them. (Point.) Some of the pictures are of BIG things and some of the pictures are of LITTLE things. During the Activity: Look at all of the pictures. Can you find the cards that have BIG things on them? (Pause.) Great job! Now find the cards that have LITTLE things on them. (Finish activity.) After the Activity: Nice work! You rocked at that activity. We have heard Bible stories all summer about BIG and LITTLE. We heard about LITTLE people who do BIG things! Bible Story/ Rug Time (9:15-9:25/ 11:00-11:10) After children have participated in Make It Fun, gather them on a rug or in the corner of a room to hear the Bible story. You may lead them in a simple song or two if you would like..jesus Loves Me, He s Got the Whole World, etc! Then settle them for the memory verse and Bible story. What You Need: Paperclip Memory Verse Card (from the Week One Activity Pages on the Website) in your Bible at Ephesians 2:10. LEADER: Yay! I m so glad we get one more week together to talk about how Kids Rock when they do what God wants them to do. Yes! (Point to children.) You rock and you rock and you rock and you rock. Kids rock! Who can do what God wants you to do? CHILDREN and LEADER: [Bible Story Focus] I can do what God wants me to do. LEADER: Exactly. [Bottom Line] I can do what God wants me to do. It s time to practice our memory verse. Are you ready? God made (point both hands up) us to do (point to self and others) good works (thumbs up), Ephesians 2:10. (Open your hands like a book.) Do that with me. CHILDREN and LEADER: God made (point both hands up) us to do (point to self and others) good works (thumbs up), Ephesians 2:10. (Open your hands like a book.) (Repeat several times.) Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 2
LEADER: Wow! You have done an AWESOME job with that verse. I am so proud of you! Sit with me so we can talk about our Bible story today! Can you believe it s already the end of July? Whoa! We ve had one fun summer, haven t we? (Pause.) Today I thought it would be fun to talk about ALL the things we ve learned this summer because, well, we ve talked about some pretty amazing stuff. Now, I want to ask you some questions about what we learned from the Bible (hold up Bible) that kids can do. And you choose the answer you think is right by raising your hand. Are you ready? Here s question number one! We heard a story about when Jesus was a kid and his mom and dad couldn t find him. Where was Jesus; do you remember? Was He eating lunch? If you think He was eating lunch, raise your hand now. Or was Jesus taking a nap? If you think that s the answer, hold up your hand now. Or was Jesus at the temple teaching grownups about God? If you think that s the right answer, raise your hand now. What s the right answer? (Pause.) Jesus was teaching grownups at church. Great job. Put your hands down. Jesus showed us that even kids can tell others about God. Okay, here we go. Question number two: Young David had to be really brave to fight an epic battle against who? Was it the giant Goliath? Raise your hand if that s correct. Or a big dragon? Hold up your hand now if you think that s the answer. Or was it a tiny kitty cat? Raise your hand now if you think that s right. Which one do you think is right? If you guessed the giant Goliath, then you re right! David was really brave and fought the big giant, which means we can be brave too. Okay, here we go. Question three: Young Daniel was put to the test when the king offered him food that God didn t want him to eat. So Daniel suggested he and his friends eat what? Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 3
Was it Goldfish crackers and fruit? Raise your hand if you think this is what they wanted to eat. Vegetables and water? Put your hand up now if it was these foods. Or was it slushies and sprinkle donuts? Raise your hand if this is your answer. What food did Daniel eat? Okay, if you chose vegetables and water you re right! Daniel showed us how great it turns out when we do things God s way. And we can do what God wants us to do too, right? (Pause.) You can do a lot. You can help people, you can be brave, you can teach others about God, and you can follow God. So don t let anyone look down on you because you re young. LEADER: Tell me: Who can do what God wants you to do? CHILDREN: [Bible Story Focus] I can do what God wants me to do! LEADER: That s the truth, friends! Just like the Bible tells us, we can ALL do what God wants us to do, no matter how young you are. Let s pray. Dear God, thank You for the Bible and for stories about REAL people like Daniel and David who chose to do what You wanted them to do. Help us to do what You want us to do, even as kids. We love You. In Jesus name we pray, amen. Make It Stick (9:25-9:45/ 11:10-11:30) Choose two or more of the following activities to help make the Bible Story Focus stick. When you have completed selected activities, children may play in the room and have a snack. There are additional toys/ activities in the cabinet in the room to use if needed towards the end of the service! Encourage children to play on their own if they do not wish to take part in an activity. 1. Red Carpet Red Carpet is an activity that shows the children that they are important while they practice the memory verse. Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 4
What You Need: Long piece of butcher paper (red, if possible) and floor tape Before the Activity: Tape the butcher paper to the floor in the activity area. Sometimes important people get to walk on a red carpet. We ll pretend this strip of paper is really a red carpet. (Point.) You are all super important, because God made you to do good things. During the Activity: Our memory verse tells us that God made you to do good things. So let s all walk on the red carpet and say our memory verse! (Walk on the carpet and say, God made us to do good works. Ephesians 2:10.) After the Activity: God made you to do great things! You are all super special! Who can do what God wants you to do? [Bible Story Focus] I can do what God wants me to do! 2. Star Star is an activity that retells all of this month s Bible stories and reiterates that kids can do great things too. What You Need: Star stickers, picture of each Bible story Before the Activity: All of our Bible stories this summer were about kids who did what God wanted them to do. During the Activity: We talked about Jesus at the temple. Jesus was just a small boy, but did what God wanted him to do. He taught grownups about God. Then our next story was about Samuel. Samuel was a young boy that listened to God and did what God wanted him to do. Our next story was about David becoming king. God wanted Samuel to choose a new king. Even though David s brothers were bigger and stronger than he was, Samuel knew that God wanted David to be king. Then we talked about David and Goliath. Goliath was a HUGE giant and everyone was afraid of him. David was brave and beat Goliath by hitting him with five stones. David did what God wanted him to do. Then we had Daniel. Daniel could have eaten anything he wanted to, but he knew that God wanted him to be healthy and to only eat good food. So Daniel did what God wanted him to do. We also heard about Miriam. Miriam s little brother was in danger and she did what God wanted her to do by protecting her baby brother. She helped her Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 5
mother to be able to take care of him. Our next story was about Josiah. Josiah knew that God wanted him to do what was right, so he rebuilt a special temple where people could go to praise God. Our last story was about a boy who shared his lunch. There were a lot of people who were hungry and he wanted to help. His lunch of two fish and five loaves helped feed 5,000 people! After the Activity: All of the kids in our Bible stories did what God wanted them to do! (Give out stickers.) Even though you are kids, you can do what God wants you to do! Who can do what God wants you to do? [Bible Story Focus] I can do what God wants me to do! 3. Wristbands Wristbands is an activity that gives the children something to wear to remind them of this summer s Bible stories and that they ROCK when they do what God wants them to do! What You Need: Wristband Labels Activity Page, empty toilet paper tubes, musical instruments, and star stickers BINS: Cut the toilet paper tubes into four equal pieces. You will have four circle pieces from each tube. Make a cut in each circle so that it will slip onto a little wrist. Each child will need two of the circle pieces. (plan for 30 kids total, so 60 wrist bands) Before the Activity: You rock when you do what God wants you to do! During the Activity: We are going to make wristbands like rock stars wear! They can remind you that YOU ROCK when you do what God wants you to do! Give each child two of the wristbands and the labels. Help the children place a label onto each wristband. Allow the children to decorate the wristbands with the stickers. After the wristbands are decorated, children may play the instruments like Rock stars if they are interested. After the Activity: Your wristbands look AWESOME! Now you can wear them and show your family. You can tell them that KIDS ROCK! Who can do what God wants you to do? [Bible Story Focus] I can do what God wants me to do! Snack and Prayer Time Snacks (cheerios) in container on counter, small cups in drawer, ask the coach for a pitcher for water if kids are thirsty. Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 6
Prayer: Dear God, thank you for TRUE stories that remind us that kids can do what YOU want us to do. Help us to obey you! Thank you for this food. Amen. Curriculum Materials for 2-year-olds 2017 The rethink Group. All rights reserved. www.thinkorange.com 7