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Title: Kindergarten Program Helps for the Sabbath
School Lesson, July 7, 2001

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

Date Completed: June 15, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, WATER FLOWS FROM A ROCK
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Lesson Aim: To encourage the children to trust in Jesus
every day.

Memory Verse: "His bread will be supplied, and water
will not fail him."  Isa. 33:16, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - WATER WORKS

Materials needed:
Wash cloths (one for each child)
2 basins filled with water
A pitcher of water 
  (one that a Kindergarten child can pour with)
Sponge
Dish drainer
Towel
Play dishes and baby doll clothes
Plastic cups (one for each child)
Stuffed animals
Water dish (one like you'd use for giving pets a drink)

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Set-up three learning stations apart from each other. 
At the first station place a basin of water, a towel
with the dish drainer sitting on top, the sponge and
the dishes and doll clothes.  At the second station
place another basin of water and a pile of clean wash
cloths.  At the third station place the pitcher of
water, the cups, the stuffed animals and the water
dish. 

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Divide the children into three small groups.  At each
station explain what they will do.  At the first
station they are to select either a dish or a piece of
clothing to wash.  They scrub it in the water and lay
it in the dish drainer.  At the second station they are
to select a clean wash cloth, dip it in the water,
wring it out and wash their face.  (Provide a plastic
bag to dump the used cloths in.)  At the third station
they are to pour some water into the pet's dish and
some water into a cup for them to drink.  (Someone will
have to be at this station to empty the water from the
pet's dish and keep filling the pitcher.)  When each
child is done within the small group they move to the
next station.  Each group is to try the activity at
each station.  Then reassemble as a large group and
ask the following questions:

1.  What did you need at each station in order to be 
    able to do the activity?  (Water)
2.  What other things can you think of that we need
    water for?

In our Bible story today the Israelites need water. 
They are walking in a very hot dry place.  They need
water to be able to do all the things you did today
with water.  They forget that God has always taken care
of them and will keep doing that.  Let's see what
happens.  GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BIBLE STORY JOURNEY

Materials needed:
Saltine crackers
Bible times dress-up clothes 
  (substitute bathrobes, pillowcases and headbands,
   men's large shirts)
Pitcher of cold water
Drinking cups (one for each child)

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Dress each child up as an Israelite.  Give them all
several Saltine crackers to eat.  Tell them they
must prepare for a long journey.  The Israelites will
have to walk many miles today to get across the hot dry
desert as they head for Canaan.  After each child is
dressed and finished eating, take them outside and walk
around and around the church property as you narrate
the Bible story.  Throughout the story emphasize how
hot it is and how thirsty everyone is getting.  (The
Saltines should have helped  in that respect.)  When
the story is over return to the classroom for a
refreshing drink of water.  


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE ROUND-ROBIN

Materials needed:
Small loaf of raisin bread or homemade bread
A small bottled water
Bibles
Piano player or cassette recorder

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children sit in a circle in their chairs. 
Show them where the memory verse is found in their
Bible.  Repeat it together several times.  Place the
loaf of bread in one child's lap and the bottled water
across the circle in another child's lap.  When the
music begins playing they pass what they have in their
lap around to the right.  The passing continues until
the music stops. Whoever is holding the loaf of bread
when the music stops needs to repeat the first half of
the memory verse, "His bread will be supplied....." 
Whoever is holding the bottled water when the music
stops repeats the second half of the verse, "and water
will not fail him." as soon as the child holding the
loaf of bread is finished repeating the first half. 
(Cut the music so that each child gets a turn repeating
both halves of the verse.)


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - TUMBLER TRUST

Materials needed:
White plastic tumblers
Permanent markers

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Write the words, "I trust Jesus to give me what I
need." on each cup with a permanent black marker.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:  
Give each child a tumbler to decorate with permanent
markers.  Read the words to the children. As they
decorate discuss everyday things we can trust Jesus to
give us.  Encourage the children to take the cups home
and every time they use them, they are to remember how
God brought water from a rock.  He is just as eager to
do for us and care for us as He was back then.