********************************************************* Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, April 8, 2000 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: March 15, 2000 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, A LOVE GIFT FOR JESUS ********************************************************* Lesson Aim: We show our love for Jesus by bringing offerings to Him. Memory Verse: "God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Cor. 9:7, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - WEIGHT OF GOLD Materials needed: 5 dark colored socks 25 pennies 2 quarters 6 dimes 1 dollar bill 8 nickels WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Place the 25 pennies in one sock, the 2 quarters in the second sock, the 6 dimes in a third sock, the 8 nickels in a fourth sock and the one dollar bill in the fifth sock. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children the five socks. Explain that each sock contains an offering. Each sock will be passed around from child to child. The object is for the group to decide which sock has the largest offering in it. When the first sock has been held by each child, bring it to the front and place it in plain view. When the second sock has been all the way around the circle of children have them decide whether the offering inside is larger or smaller by the way it feels. Place it in front of the first offering if the children say larger and behind the first offering if they say smaller. Continue in this manner until all the socks are lined up from largest to smallest offering. Open each sock and show the children how much money is in each sock. Help them to understand that the value of the offering did not lie in the fact of how heavy or full it felt, but in the worth of the coins. In our Bible story today, Jesus said the amount of coins or the value of the coins is not important when you bring an offering. Let's find out what kind of offerings Jesus wants. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE MONEY MATCH-UP Materials needed: Bibles Draw a one dollar bill, a five dollar bill, a ten dollar bill, a twenty dollar bill and a fifty dollar bill onto a piece of paper. Leave the center hole where the president's picture is found blank WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Xerox the money paper so each child in the class has one paper with each of the five increments of money on it. Cut the money out. On all the one dollar bills, print the memory verse word, "God" in the blank middle circle. On all the five dollar bills, print the memory verse word, "loves" in the blank middle circle. On the ten dollar bills, print the word, "a". On the twenty dollar bills print the word, "cheerful" and on the fifty dollar bills, print the word, "giver". Mix all the bills up and spread them out on the floor face down. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children where the memory verse is found in the Bible. Tell each child there are five bills on the floor for each one of them. They will each take home a one dollar, five dollar, ten dollar, twenty dollar and fifty dollar pretend bill. The first child turns two bills over. If he does not have those bills, he keeps them. If both of the bills are the same amount, he obviously only keeps one. Any time he turns over a bill he already has, he turns it back over. Each child only gets one turn at a time. When all children have successfully found all five bills, the activity is over. Ask the children to hold up the first word of the memory verse. Have them repeat it with you. Ask for the second, third, fourth and fifth consecutively. Now ask for the memory verse words in random order. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - OFFERING HOLDER Materials needed: 4 small toilet paper tubes for each child Scissors Tape (1) 6 « X 2 « piece of cardboard for each child Stickers Markers WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut a toilet paper roll all the way up the side. Lay a quarter on a table and re-roll the tube so it fits around the quarter. Tape it at that dimension. Cut a second toilet paper roll and re-wrap it around a nickel. Tape it also. Do the same for a dime and for a penny. Repeat this procedure with each child's toilet paper rolls. The finished product will be each child having four toilet paper rolls that will hold the four different coin increments. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Give each child a cardboard base and their four toilet paper rolls. Have them hold each roll while you tape it to the cardboard base. They decorate the tubes with stickers and write the memory verse on the front of the cardboard base. Encourage them to take their "banks" home and save their quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies in them for offerings, OR keep the banks at Sabbath school to use for them to put their individual offering in each week. (Make sure they understand which monies go in which tube.) ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - LOVE GIFTS FOR JESUS Materials needed: (3) of the socks of money used in the Getting Their Attention Activity Music source (piano or tape player) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Have the children sit in a circle. Explain that an offering is anything presented to another person. It can be other things besides money. When the Bible says, "God loves a cheerful giver." it is talking about all the love gifts we give Jesus. Everything we do for Jesus is an offering to Him. Distribute the 3 socks of money to three different children in the circle. As the music plays the children pass the socks of money around the circle counter-clockwise. When the music stops, whoever is holding a sock, repeats the memory verse and tell something they can offer Jesus with a cheerful heart. Some suggestions follow for prompting. Continue the activity until all children have had a turn or as time allows. (When you pray, is it with a cheerful heart or are you made to pray?) (When you sing, is it with a cheerful heart or do you just mouth the words?) (When you read your Bible or lesson story, is it with a cheerful heart or do you grumble because you have to quit watching TV to do it?) (Do you go to Sabbath school with a cheerful heart or does someone have to drag you through the door?)