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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, November
10, 2001

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

Date Completed: September 15, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, RUTH CHOSE TO LOVE GOD
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Lesson Aim: Showing love to others will help them to
love Jesus.

Memory Verse: "Your people will be my people and your
God my God."  Ruth 1:16, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - A PICTURE OF ME

Materials needed:
Shoe box
Scissors
Spool (with or without thread)
Yarn
Plain white paper
Crayons

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Make a camera out of the shoe box.  Cut a whole in the
front.  Attach a spool onto for the button you push. 
Attach yarn to the side for a camera strap.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children draw a picture of themselves the way
they think other people to see them.  Give them time to
add features.  Place them in work areas where no one
can see the other person's picture.  Tell them to make
it look as much like them as possible.  Collect all the
pictures and place them in your camera box.  Pretend
you are taking pictures of all the children.  Take one
of the colored pictures out of the box.  Have everyone
guess who it is.  Continue in this manner until all the
pictures are guessed.  People know us by the way we
look.  It is important that people know us by the way
we act also.  In our Bible story today everyone knew
Naomi was a kind, loving woman because that is the way
she treated people.  GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.






GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - SPOON PUPPET BIBLE STORY

Materials needed:
Wooden spoons
Scraps of material
Ribbons, yarn
Chenille stems (pipe cleaners)
Wiggly eyes
Scissors
Hot glue gun/glue sticks

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Place all the supplies in an area accessible to the
group.  You, the teacher, will work the hot glue gun.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DOL
Direct the children to the materials.  Assign each
child a specific character from the Bible story to make
as a puppet.  (Naomi, Elimelech, Mahlon, Chilion,
Orpah, Ruth, Boaz.  Other Israelites can be added for
bigger groups.)  Have them select eyes, materials for a
garment, color of yarn for hair, Pipe cleaners for arms
etc.  As they bring you the spoon and the pieces, show
them how to wrap the pipe cleaner around the spoon's
neck and stretch out both ends to create arms.  Hot
glue the remaining materials on.  When all puppets are
made, narrate the Bible story and have them use their
puppet as a visual when it's mentioned in the story.

GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE FOUR SQUARE

Materials needed:
Ball (Large one that bounces well)
Masking tape (if playing inside
Chalk (if playing outside)
Bibles

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
If you are playing outside, draw a four-square board on
the parking lot or sidewalk.  Make the squares large
enough for a child to stand in and the ball to bounce
in.  If you are playing inside, use the masking tape to
make a four-square game board.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  Divide the verse into four sections: 

Section one - Your people
Section two - will be my people
Section three - and your God
Section four - my God

Place four children in the four squares.  Designate
which child will go first.  Give them the ball.  They
say section one of the memory verse and bounce the ball
to another child in the square.  That child says
section two of the verse and bounces the ball to
another child.  That child says section three of the
verse and bounces the ball to the last child. He says
the last section of the verse.  Keep playing starting
with different children and adding different children
to the game.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - RHYTHM RHYME

Materials needed:
None

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Sit the chairs in an oval

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Teach the children the following rhythm rhyme.  

WHAT      I              SAY
(Feet stomp twice on ground while you say this whole
line)

AND            WHAT      I              DO
(Palms open, hands smack thighs twice while you say
this whole line)

IS             HOW            I              SHOW
(Hands clap together twice while you say this whole
line)

MY             LOVE      FOR            YOU
(Each child hugs himself then points in any direction)


WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children close their eyes.  Shuffle them
around and place each one in a chair in the oval.  With
eyes still shut have them say the rhythm rhyme with
you.  When they are finished, they open their eyes and
see who they are pointing to.  Have them shut their
eyes again.  Re-shuffle them in the oval.  Repeat
saying the rhythm rhyme again and pointing.  Keep
playing as time allows.