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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, May 29,
1999

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

Date Completed: May 1, 1999

Abstract: Activities to use as a supplement to help
teach the lesson, A NIGHT AMONG LIONS
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Lesson Aim: Jesus gives us a guardian angel to protect
us.

Memory Verse: "The angel of the Lord delivers them." 
Psalm 34:7, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - DARK DEN (An auditory &
kinesthetic activity)

Materials needed:
A large appliance box OR closet OR dark blankets to
make a make-shift fort
Small flashlight

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
There are no advance preparations necessary unless you
need to construct a make-shift fort out of the
blankets.  Make sure the room is as dark as possible.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Take as many children as can comfortably fit into the
appliance box, closet or fort with you.  Take a small
flashlight to turn on as needed to reassure them of
your presence.  Ask the following questions:
1.  Can you see anything?  Can you imagine a place
darker than this?
2.  How long would you like to have to sit in here?
3.  When you are scared, what things can you do to help
yourself feel better?

In our Bible story today someone had to stay in a
pitch-dark den overnight.  Not only that but there were
wild animals in there with him.  Do you think he did
any of the things we talked about to keep himself from
feeling too scared?  Go out of the box and GO STRAIGHT
INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


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

Materials needed:
Large pieces of plain white butcher block paper or
newsprint pad paper (NOT HEAVY POSTER BOARD)
Box of safety pins
Several crowns
Bathrobes
Several spears (Use long sticks with pointed tips made
from black construction paper)
Poly fiber fill (sheets of cotton used to stuff
pillows)
Masking tape
Several paper grocery sacks
Gold or brown yarn
Black permanent marker
Scissors

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Make several sets of angel wings using the butcher
block or newsprint paper.  (They need to be light
because they will be pinned on the children's clothing)
Assemble the rest of the materials into a box.  Make
several lion masks.  Cut the grocery sacks down until
they're small enough for the opening to rest on a
child's shoulders and the bottom of the sack to rest on
top their head when they put it over their head.
Cut out two small circles for eye openings and one for
a mouth opening.  Mark whiskers on the sack and glue
strands of yarn for a mane. Make pointed "cones" from
construction paper to tape on top the stick "spears".

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give children the option of choosing to be the king,
Daniel, the jealous princes, an angel a lion or a
soldier.  It does not matter how many children choose
to be each character as long as you have at least one
of each.

Give the following props to the characters:
King - crown
Daniel - Use the fiber fill to lay on top their head
and use a TINY amount of masking tape to hold a fiber
fill beard on each side of their face.
Princes - bathrobes
Angel - Pin two paper wings on the back of each angel
Lion - Masks
Soldier - Spear

Group the children together who are representing the
same character.  As you narrate the story direct the
children at the right time in dramatizing the
appropriate action for their character.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE SEWING CARDS (A
multi-sensory activity)

Materials needed:
P. 35 in Kindergarten quarterly (each child needs one
xeroxed copy)
Crayons
Hole puncher
Hair bow yarn (Find in hair accessory section of drug
stores; thick colored yarn)
Masking tape
Bibles
Card stock paper (1/2 piece for each child)
Glue sticks

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Before xeroxing the page in the quarterly underneath
the title, "God saved Daniel from the lions' den,"
print the words, "and he'll save me from Satan, the
lion." Underneath that line, print the memory verse. 
Xerox one of these pictures for each child.  Glue the
picture onto the half sheet of card stock to make it
sturdier.  With the hole puncher, punch five evenly
spaced holes on the left and right hand side of
the picture.  Punch 5-6 holes across the bottom of the
picture.  Wrap a piece of tape around the end of each
hair bow yarn to make them easier to thread through the
holes.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:  
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  Also read the text, I Peter 5:8 to the
children.  Explain to the children that they may never
be thrown into a lion's den, but the Bible says Satan
is like a lion prowling about seeing who he can trap in
sins. Give each child a lion card and a hair yarn. 
Read the words on the card to them.  Have them color
the lion.  Beginning at the left-hand side of the
card, have them sew the yarn in and out of the holes
going down the side, around the bottom and up the
right-hand side.  Tie a knot or bow at the end.  Say
the memory verse together several times to commit it to
memory.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - CIRCLE SONG

Materials needed:
Music to Row, Row  Row Your Boat
Alternate words (found below)

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children form a circle and hold hands.  As
they walk around in a circle going clockwise or
counterclockwise sing the following words to the tune
of Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

Pray, pray each day
Morning, noon and night
When we talk to our friend, Jesus
Everything's all right

At the end of the song they can fall down (like in Ring
Around the Rosie) if desired.