******************************************************* Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, March 10, 2001 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: January 31, 2001 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, SHOWING LOVE BY GIVING ******************************************************* Lesson Aim: Love will lead us to help others when they need it. Memory Verse: "A tithe of everything from the land...belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord." Lev. 27:30, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - CAPTURE, CAPTURE Materials needed: Sheets of plain white paper (one for each child in the group plus half that many more) Blindfold WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Lay the papers around a corner of the room on the floor within hopping distance of one another. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Designate one child as the captor. He wears the blindfold. The rest of the child choose a white paper to stand on. The captor moves around among the children trying to touch one. If he touches one, they are captured and must sit down. The children standing on the papers must follow these rules: 1. The only time you can move off a paper is to hop to another paper that is vacant. You can hop around to any vacant paper that you want to as often as you want to keep from being captured. Only one child on a paper at any given time. 2. You can duck, squat down or do any other movement to avoid being captured, but you cannot move off the paper unless you're hopping to another one. 3. If the captor touches any part of you, you are captured and sit out. 4. The only way to get back in the game is if another child works their way over to you on the papers and touches you. The activity is over when time runs out or all children are captured. In our Bible story today, Lot and his family are captured and taken away from their homes. Getting back home is not as easy as getting back into this game. Let's see how God uses Abraham to help him. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE TITHE BANK Materials needed: Short small Pringles potato chip canisters (one for each child) Pretty colored foil wrapping paper Scissors Glue Pretty Spring stickers 5 pennies for each child Bibles WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut slit holes in the top of each child's plastic lid, large enough for coins or a bill to pass through. Cut the foil wrapping paper to size so that the pieces will wrap around the Pringle can. Cut one for each child. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children where the memory verse is found in the Bible. Help each child make a tithe bank. Give each child a Pringle can and lid, a piece of foil and some stickers. 1. Place the plastic lid on the top of the can. 2. Wrap the foil around the can and glue at the seam. 3. Add pretty Spring stickers. 4. Give each child 5 pennies. Divide the memory verse into five sections. As each child repeats a section after you drop a penny into the bank. Remove the pennies and repeat the activity as many times as is necessary in order to learn the verse. A tithe.........of everything..........from the land..............belongs to the Lord ...............it is holy to the Lord. 5. Encourage the children to take their banks home and keep their tithe or Jesus money in it. Send a letter home explaining to the parents what the banks are for and enlisting their help. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - TITHE FEAST Materials needed: 1 Banana 1-2 Tangerines (or any sectional citrus that can be divided into 10 parts) Small bunch of grapes Small bag of Cheese-it crackers Small bag of box of raisins Small paper plates Plastic knife Napkins WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Clean and thoroughly wash any fruit that needs it. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children the picture in the Kindergarten quarterly on p. 36 that shows Abraham presenting the priest with a tithe. Give each child in the group a paper plate and some type of food to divide up into 10 pieces. (The banana will need to be peeled and cut; the orange will need to be peeled and sectioned, etc.) After they have the 10 pieces on their plate, ask them to remove what would be given to Jesus as a tithe. (Each child will remove 1 piece of food and place it on a separate paper plate that you pass around) Help the children understand that tithe is one thing out of every ten things for Jesus. Have the children share the rest of the treats with one another or put in bags to be taken home for later. Explain to the children what happens to the tithe money after we put it into the envelope and lay it in the offering plate at church. (You may want to ask your Pastor to visit the division to share briefly with the children the answer to this question.) ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE GAME Materials needed: Colored construction paper (a different color for each child; one sheet per child is plenty) Scissors Piano player or cassette recorder Music for the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It Paper bag WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut each child 10 strips of paper. (8" X 1/2") Put all the strips together on top of each other. With a pencil mark the top strip off into ten sections. (The children will hold the strips and cut them into ten pieces along the pencil marks. They will end up with 100 pieces of confetti.) If you do not have a piano player, record the tune, "If You're Happy and You Know It" onto a cassette tape. Practice singing the memory verse words to that tune. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Give each child their ten strips of paper and some scissors. Have them make confetti by snipping along their strip at all the pencil lines. Put all the confetti pieces into a paper bag. Shake the bag mixing them all up. Sprinkle the confetti on the floor. Teach the children the memory verse song. Hold hands and walk around the confetti in a circle singing the song. When the song is finished all the children drop down on their knees and collect 10 pieces of their special color of confetti. Then they keep nine pieces and put one piece back in the paper bag to represent tithe. Repeat the singing and the collecting of confetti as often as your time allows.