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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, April 10,
1999

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

Date Completed: March 15, 1999

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, GOD TURNED BACK TIME
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Lesson Aim: Jesus answers our prayers as He knows is
best.

Memory Verse: "Whoever trusts in the Lord is kept
safe."  Prov. 29:25, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - TIME CLOCKS (A multi-sensory
activity)

Materials needed:
Small paper plate for each child
1 sheet of card stock or other heavy weight paper
1 brass fastener for each child
Permanent marker

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Make a paper plate clock for each child in the group by
printing the numbers on the paper plate. Cut out an
hour hand and a minute hand for each child from the
card stock paper.  With the end of a sharp pencil,
punch a hole in the middle of the clocks and on the
ends of both the hour and minute hands.  Make a sample
clock for your use.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give each child a clock face, an hour and minute hand
and a brass fastener.  Show them how to attach the
hands of the clock to the clock face.  When all clocks
are ready, ask the following questions and show by
example how they should manipulate the hands on their
clock.
1.  Which way do the clock hands always turn?  (To the
right)
2.  When it's time to get up your clock might look
something like this.  (Make a 7:00 or 8:00)
3.  When it's time to eat lunch your clock might look
like this.  (Make a 12:00)
4.  When it is time for bed your clock might look like
this.  (Make a 8:00)
5.  If you looked up at a clock and you saw the hands
moving this way, (turn hands to the left) what would
that mean?  (Time is moving backwards instead of
forwards.)
Instead of being almost lunch time (show 12:00) you
might find yourself eating breakfast again.
(Show 8:00)
Instead of being time to get up (Show 7:00) you might
find yourself going straight back to bed.  (Show 8:00)
Do you think we would get mixed up if time went
backwards instead of forwards? In our Bible story today
God does a miracle and makes time go backwards.  Let's
find out why.
GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE REVIEW (A
multi-sensory activity)

Materials needed:
1 large brown paper grocery sack for each child
Markers
1 piece of bright colored paper
Masking tape

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Cut a circle out of the bright colored paper
approximately 3" X 3" or 4" X 4".  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have children stand in a circle, as wide as possible,
holding hands.  Drop hands.  Give each child a large
brown paper grocery sack.  Choose a spot where one of
the children is standing. With the masking tape, secure
the bright colored circle to the floor right under that
child's feet.  Show the children in the Bible where the
memory verse is found.  Read it to them and have them
repeat it with you several times.  Ask the children to
put the bag over their head. (There is plenty of room
to breathe, but the bag makes a quick and handy
blindfold.)  Have the children take one another's hands
and begin walking around in the circle.  When you call,
"stop", they all stop and remove their bag.  Whoever is
standing on the colored circle repeats the memory
verse.  The game resumes and continues until everyone
has had an opportunity to repeat the verse. After the
activity explain that the word trust means believing
something is going to happen even when you can't see it
happening.  They couldn't see, but they believed
someone would land on the colored circle.  We can't
always see or understand everything God is doing, but
we can trust Him to do the right things.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - MIRACLES IN NATURE (A visual &
auditory activity)

Materials needed:
Plain sheet of watercolor paper (1 for each child + a
few spares for mistakes)
Watercolors for each child
Paintbrush for each child
Small cup of water for each child
Apron, smock or old T-shirt for each child

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
At the top of each sheet of watercolor paper, print the
words, GOD'S MIRACLES.
Provide a covered flat work surface for each child to
work on complete with watercolors, brush and cup of
water.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give each child their sheet of watercolor paper and an
apron or smock to wear.  Ask them to listen to your
clues and guess what thing in nature is a miracle from
God.  Then following your example, they paint that item
into their picture. 
1.  It's a miracle that I keep you warm and make things
bright every day.  SUN  (Explain to the children that
even when they can't see the sun on a cloudy day it is
still there doing its job.)
2.  It's a miracle that we keep growing even after
people walk all over us and cut us down over and over. 
GRASS  
3.  It's a miracle that I provide you with good clean
air to breathe every day.  SKY
4.  It's a miracle that I can undress in the fall and
put my clothes back on in the spring again.  TREE
5.  It's a miracle that I can climb up in a tree, spin
a cocoon and crawl back out a different creature. 
CATERPILLAR

Thank God together for all his wonderful miracles we
can see every day.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - PLANT A MIRACLE (A visual &
kinesthetic activity)

Materials needed:
1 clear plastic tumbler for each child
Potting soil
Spoons
Some type of early fast-growing vegetable seeds
Newspapers
Apron or smock
White sticky-back labels

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Talk to the children about the miracle of life in a
seed.  God made it so that seeds can grow into plants. 
We can watch a miracle happen when we watch a new plant
grow. Help each child plant a seed in their tumbler. 
Write how often it should be watered and how much sun
it needs on a sticky label and adhere it to the
tumbler.  Encourage the children to care for their
plants and watch for the miracle to happen before their
very eyes.  Ask for a progress report each week.