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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, March 6,
1999

From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders)

Date Completed: January 31, 1999

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, KINDNESS REPAID
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Lesson Aim: When we love Jesus we will look for ways to
be kind.

Memory Verse: "Dear children, let us love with actions
and in truth."  I John 3:18, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - BUBBLING KINDNESS (A visual &
auditory activity)

Materials needed:
Bottle of bubbles

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
There are no advance preparations necessary.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Bring out the bottle of bubbles. (Blow one single
bubble.) Say, "When Susie woke up she noticed her
mother was still in bed. She played extra quietly so
mother could sleep some more." (Blow another bubble.)
Say, "When mother woke up she felt so good she fixed
Susie an extra nice breakfast." (Blow another bubble.)
Say, "When Susie was done eating she cleaned up
the dishes for mother."

Kindnesses are like bubbles, they just keep coming.
When you do a kind thing, someone else does something
kind because of what you did. Then someone else does
and so on and so on. Ask the children to help you
continue thinking of kind things Susie and her mother
might do throughout the day. For each thing they
mention blow a bubble or let them blow a bubble. At
the end of the activity blow many bubbles at once. Say,
"This is how many kindnesses Jesus
wants us to do each day for one another."

In our Bible story today kindness seems to be
everywhere. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - DRAMATIZATION (A multi-sensory
activity)

Materials needed:
Measuring cup
Water
Baby food jars OR canning jars (Enough for each child
to fill 2-3)
Play money
Sleeping bag
Pillow
Small bedside lamp
Table
Chair

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Place the jars in one area of the room. (Have towels
handy for spills). Keep the water,
measuring cup and money with you.

Place the remaining materials from the list in another
area of the room, but do not set them up.


WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
As you narrate the story direct the children to the
corner of the room with the jars. Let them
pretend to be the sons in the story who go out and
retrieve jars for mother. As they bring you
jars help them fill them with water using the measuring
cup. Explain how after filling the
jars with oil the widow sold the oil and received
money. Give each child some play money in
exchange for their jars of water.

At the beginning of the second story, lead the children
to the area of the room containing the
sleeping bag, pillow, lamp, table and chair. Have them
help you set up a "special room" for
Prophet Elisha. Have one child pretend to be the boy.
After he dies he lays on the sleeping
bag until Elisha comes. Conclude the stories showing
the children how kindness has a way of
coming back.



GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE -KINDNESS  BOOK (A multi-sensory
activity)

Materials needed:
Magazines with the following pictures in them:
Animals 
Adult women and men 
Babies
Boys and girls of various ages
Glue sticks
Scissors
Construction paper
Hole punch
Brass fasteners
Pencils

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Prepare one sample sheet on 8 1/2 X 11 paper as shown
and xerox enough copies so that each
child in the class has 4-5.



"Dear children (_________________________)

          Leave this space blank for a picture

Let us love with actions and in truth."    1 John 3:18,
NIV

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Look up the memory verse together in the Bible. Give
each child a sample xeroxed sheet. Show them how they
can write their own name on the line because the Bible
text is meant for them too. Help them point to each
word and say the verse with you. Talk about ways they
can show kindness to mother or grandmother this week.
Pass out the magazines. Have children find a picture to
represent their mother or grandmother. It is cut out
and glued in the middle of the page that has been left
blank. Continue talking about various members of the
family. Give each child new sheets for each person they
think of who they can do a kindness for. Repeat
the memory verse together each time before completing
each new sheet. (Be sensitive to children with
different family set-ups and living conditions.) When
the children have completed as many pages as desired,
make a cover for the book. Each child chooses two
pieces of colored construction paper, lays the white
pages between, hole punches the sides and fastens
together with brass fasteners. Encourage the children
to take their books home and place them where they can
remember to actually do what their books show.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - KINDNESS BALL (A multi-sensory
activity)

Materials needed:
Large ball (one that can be written on with permanent
marker)

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
On the ball write the words KINDNESS BOUNCES BACK.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Review the memory verse with the children. Remind them
that it means, not just having feelings of kindness and
love in your heart but doing kind and loving things for
others. Have the children stand in a circle. Ask them
what they like to do with a ball. When they answer
throw it, say," Do you like someone you throw it to, to
keep it or throw it back?" (Most likely they'll answer
throw it back.) That's the way it is with kindness.
When someone does something kind to you, it's fun to
think of something kind to do back. It may be to the
same person or it may be to someone else who comes
along. If their answer was that they like to bounce a
ball, say,"Do you like the ball to come right back up
in your hands or roll away?" (Most likely they'll
answer come back in my hands.) That's the way it is
with kindness. Lots of times when you do something kind
for someone, someone will do something kind for you.

Throw the ball gently to a child in the circle. Tell
him/her something kind you would like to do for someone
this week. Have them throw the ball to another child in
the circle and think of something kind they would like
to do. Continue in this manner making sure all children
who want to participate get a turn. Guide them in
thinking of others besides family members to be kind
to.