G is for Grow Garden

 

 

 

G is for Grow Garden

We used Green for Grow - like in the wordless books

Then I used potpourri that I had on hand
The kids picked out what they wanted to glue down,
though I had to keep removing the pine cones and nuts
which were much too heavy for the construction paper.

We left them on the window to dry.

First we discussed the wordless book ...

When we reached the color GREEN,
we spent quite a while talking about how to GROW
once you ask Jesus into your heart and let his blood wash away your sins.

Read the Bible
Pray
Sing Praise Songs
Go to church
Obey Parents and Teacher

We also talked about the Garden of Eden,
and how SIN had entered the world.

Finally,
we talked about the New Heaven and the New Earth,
and how God will make the whole earth brand new again.

E is for Eternal

We chose ETERNAL or ETERNITY
for our E word.

We discussed that God was eternal,
that he didn't have parents or a beginning,
and that he would never die.

We also discussed heaven and living for eternity.
We briefly mentioned hell as well for balance,
but as the preschool/kindergarten age are sensitive
to "scary details" - I chose to not elaborate.

We talked about some symbols for eternal,
such a a line that could go on forever,
or counting forever,
or a circle that just goes around and around.

We chose YELLOW for our letter E
to remind the kids of the color of GOLD and Heaven.

We did "5 Golden Rings" ...
bet you can guess why?
LOL

 

 

 

 

D is for Dove

D is for Dove


We looked at several stories about Doves,
and other significant factors in the Bible.

1.  God Created the Dove

2.  It was one of the clean animals that Noah took 7 of into the ark.

3.  We reviewed the story of Noah,
and the part the Dove played in the story.

4.  We talked about how God allowed a dove to substitute for a lamb
for a sacrifice if the people were too poor to bring a lamb.

5.  Mary brought Doves when she brought Baby Jesus to the temple.

6.  We reviewed the story of Jesus' baptism,
especially the part where the Holy Spirit descended as a dove.

7.  Briefly mentioned that the Dove is often a symbol of peace.

 

We used their hands to form the wings.
And I haphazardly drew a bird head,
and was impressed with the results.
(I can't draw).

 

 

Sunshine's Dove was unique.

A couple of the bigger girls were quite elaborate with their decorations.

I encouraged them to draw the stories and pictures from our discussions,
onto the D part of their Doves.

 

This is suppose to be John and Jesus at the baptism.

The kids erased most of the blackboard before I remembered to take a picture.

C is for Creation

 

C is for Creation

We used Green for the idea of God creating a Green world,
full of plants.

As I was sick this day,
I put everything together and sent off
Story and  Song
to teach the class.

I'm pretty sure that they said something along the lines of ...

God had a big idea,
He decided to create man.
He knew that man would need a lot of special things to live.

First God spoke and there was light,
and he separated the day and night into ONE DAY.
And God said that Day was very good.

On the second day,
God spoke again and created water.
Some of the water went into a special covering of clouds around the earth,
and some of it went into a wet covering right on top of the earth.
And God said that what he created that Day was Very Good.

But God knew that man could not swim forever in the water,
because that was not part of God's plan.
So on the morning of the 3rd day,
God scooped up the land on top of itself so that some land
was under the water, and some land was higher than the water.
Then he spoke and green plants began to grow -
grasses, flowers, trees, bushes ...
everything that you have ever seen for food or beauty grew on that day.
And that was a day and a night on that day,
And God said that what he created that Day was Very Good.

God knew that the plants would need special food to grow,
and God knew that man would need to see during the dark hours,
so God spoke and the sun, moon, and stars appeared in the sky.
The sun, moon, and stars would help man tell time and plan his seasons.

And that was a day and a night on that day,
And God said that what he created that Day was Very Good.

On the Fifth day,
God had something very special planned.
The whole world was silent,
only the sound of the waves from the changing tides was heard as the sun rose in the morning.
God spoke and life appeared the seas,
all manner of fish and sea creatures,
lobsters and shrimp, octopus and sharks, big fish and little fish.
God spoke and life appeared in the air and in the trees.
A male and female of every species of bird and flying creature.
God smiled thinking of how much man would enjoy
listening the songs of the birds
and watching the splash of the fish.

And that was a day and a night on that day,
And God said that what he created that Day was Very Good.

Finally,
God reached the sixth day.
I'll bet he was pretty excited,
because today he would finish creating his world.

During the morning,
he spoke all of the land creatures into existence,
creatures as large as elephants and giraffes,
and as small as a tiny bacteria.
Then God reached down and scooped up some mud,
he carefully formed a man from the mud
and then he breathed his own life into the man.
He called the man Adam and placed him inside a beautiful garden.

God gave Adam work to do.
God told Adam that his first job was to name all of the animals.
Then he was told that his job was to take care of the plants and animals and
the whole world that God had created.
Adam only had ONE RULE ... only ONE.
Don't eat of the tree in the middle of the Garden.

Don't you think that would be easy to obey?

But Adam didn't find anyone special to be with him among the animals,
so God put Adam asleep,
and took out his rib and made a GORGEOUS GIRL.
I'm pretty sure Adam thought she was the most wonderful girl that he had ever seen!
And God had made her especially for HIM.

Then God gave the world another instruction ....
Go have lots of babies and fill up the earth.


And that was a day and a night on that day,
And God said that what he created that Day was Very Good.


On the seventh day,
God sat around and enjoyed the wonderful world that He had made.

And that was a day and a night on that day,
And God said that everything that he had created was Very Good.

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Here are some other resources that I found that you may be interested in using.
The bottom two feature numbers similar to the ones that I used,
which I cannot find the link for currently.

http://grhomeschooling.blogspot.com/2009/06/days-of-creation-craft.html

http://www.truthnet.org/creation/creationprocess/

http://www.lapbooklessons.com/CreationLapbook.html

http://www.clker.com/clipart-creation-day-7.html

http://sjogfaithformation.org/7_days_of_creation.html

B is for Bible

I had a rather Large group this Sunday ... so I forgot to take pictures.


Our B week .... B is for Bible

We talked about
WHO wrote the Bible - God did ... through men.
WHY God wrote the Bible -  to lead us to salvation
God's Word is ALWAYS true.

We talked about several Bible Verses ... especially the 4 we chose to put inside the little book that we made.



Would you believe that the ONLY picture I managed to take was of the one page that we didn't use that day?

For the craft,
we cut the page in half, and set one set of verses inside the other,
cut a piece of construction in half,
put the verses inside the construction paper,

By curling one side of their "Bible" over,
we stapled the middle of the book so that the staples
didn't interfere with closing the book.

We drew several pictures on the green board for the kids to copy,
pictures that went with the verses.

Such as a path,
a sword,
a heart,
a lamp,
a flashlight,
a teacher with a student,
a Bible,
and similar pictures.

We used glitter glue to write "BIBLE" on their books.

Jr. Church Craft: A is for Angel

In Jr. church (aimed at our 2 - 5 year old group),
we are going through the alphabet to teach some important
beliefs from the Bible.

I thought this would be a great way to tie together some aspects of the Bible,
as well as introduce and discuss topics that often are overlooked.


Our First Week,
we featured A is for Angels.

First we talked about what angels were ....

created beings that served God  - not dead humans.

We talked about what they looked like....

strong male like creatures, that may or may not have wings,
and often spoken of having fiery swords.
Every time anyone sees one in the Bible,
the angel has to tell them, "Do not be afraid."


We talked about

Satan as the angel Lucifer.
The angel in the Garden of Eden protecting the Tree of Life.
Angels talking to men in the Old Testament - like Abraham.
Angels rescuing Lot from Sodom.
Angels protecting Elisha ... and they couldn't be seen by the servant.
The Angel who visited Mary and Joseph,
and the Angels who visited the shepherds.


The kids decided that angels were pretty important to be talked about SO MUCH!



During Craft Time,

they had pictures of angels to color,


PLUS


We cut out white letter A's (and triangles and wrote A)

We placed a head on the top of the A

And glued feathers to the back.



 

 

Sunshine shows her Angel.
She loves drawing faces.

 

This is a picture of heaven.

 

 

Our friend Pinky comes to church with us.
She is really into the coloring part.

 

J showing me a letter A with his pencils.

 

I'm no great artist,
but the kids love this ...
because they can turn their papers over and copy what I draw.

Some of them are as good and will soon be better than I am!