1s & 2s—Arrange Flowers
Bible Story: People in God’s World Genesis 1:26-29; 2:7,13,18,21-24
Life Point: God made people to love Him.
Life Verse: I will do what God says. Psalm 119:34
Christ Focus: Jesus existed before the creation of the world.
Bible Focus: God made people and placed them in a garden.
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, nonbreakable vase, nonpoisonous flowers
- Display the Teaching Picture with the vase and flowers.
- Invite a preschooler to arrange the flowers in the vase. Comment that flowers grow in a garden. God made people and put them in a garden.
- Call attention to the Teaching Picture. Remark that God made people to love Him.
3–Pre-K—Make Leaf Prints
Bible Story: Adam and Eve Genesis 2:15−3:24
Life Point: God wants us to obey Him.
Life Verse: I will do what God says. Psalm 119:34
Christ Focus: Jesus wants us to do what is right.
Bible Focus: Adam and Eve lived in a garden.
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, washable paint, shallow bowls or pans, paper towels, painting smocks, paper, variety of leaves of different shapes and sizes
- Pour paint into the bowls. Add a folded paper towel to make a stamping surface. Display the Teaching Picture with the art materials.
- Help children put on smocks before painting. Write each child’s name on his paper. Demonstrate how to press a leaf into the paint and then onto the paper.
- Talk about the Bible story as children paint. Comment that God wants us to obey Him, but Adam and Eve made a choice to not obey. Emphasize that God loved them anyway.
- Offer to print the Life Verse onto a child’s paper when he is finished.
Kindergarten—Make Grass Terrariums
Bible Story: Adam and Eve Genesis 2:15−3:24
Life Point: God wants us to obey Him.
Life Verse: I will do what God says. Psalm 119:34
Christ Focus: Jesus wants us to do what is right.
Bible Focus: Adam and Eve lived in a garden.
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, sandwich-sized ziplock bags, cotton balls, spray bottle with water, grass seed, adhesive labels printed with the Life Verse
- Talk about the Bible story and the choice that Adam and Eve made. Display the Teaching Picture and talk about what part of the story is represented.
- Give each child a bag and instruct him to drop in a few cotton balls. He can sprinkle some grass seed on the cotton balls and spray it with water. Assist the children in securely sealing their bags. Give each child a Life Verse sticker for her bag.
- Explain that they can tape their bags to windows and grass will grow on the cotton. Pray and ask God to help us always do what God says.
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