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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, November
24, 2001

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

Date Completed: November 1, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, JESUS SPEAKS TO A LITTLE BOY
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Lesson Aim: A child can do God's work.

Memory Verse: "Do not say, 'I am only a child.'  You
must go to everyone I send you to."  Jer. 1:7, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - JOB HUNT

Materials needed:
Large box or bag to put the following items in so
they're hidden from view:
   Toy broom or sweeper
   Dustcloth
   Play dish or plastic plate (anything unbreakable)
   Ball
   Garden tool
   Baby doll
   Small rug
   Trash can
   Poster board and marker

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Place all the items in the box or bag.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Explain to the children that we're going to talk about
some jobs they may have in their homes.  Have them
close their eyes.  Draw an item from the box and have
them take turns feeling it to guess what it is.  Nobody
speaks the answer out loud until everyone has had a
chance to feel the object.  Write down their ideas on
the poster board and add any extras they come up with.
Example: Baby - babysitting; small rug - shake rugs;
trash can - empty trash etc.  When you get your jobs
done, do you cross them off the list or put a sticker
or mark beside them?

Give each child a star sticker to place beside all the
job ideas that have been written down.
Say, "You know, boys and girls, jobs aren't always fun
to do.  It doesn't matter whether they are home jobs,
or school jobs or even church jobs.  Sometimes they
just seem too hard or too boring or they stop us from
doing something we'd rather be doing.  Little Samuel in
our story today had jobs to do in the temple.  He must
have learned a special secret about doing jobs because
he did his very well.  Let's find out what it was."  GO
STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.  

(At the end of the lesson make sure and bring out the
point that Samuel learned to do everything as though he
were doing it for Jesus.  All work can become Jesus
work when we do it for Him.)


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BIBLE DRAMATIZATION

Materials needed:
Towels (one for each child in the class)

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Explain to the children that they will all be little
"Samuel's".  As you narrate the story they are to do
whatever you say Samuel is doing.  Place them in
different areas in the room and give them each a towel
to be used as a bedroll later in the story.
1.  When you talk about how Hannah trained and taught
    Samuel to love God, have the children hold their
    hands in front of them like an open book, and fold
    their hands together in prayer.
2.  When Samuel goes to live in the temple, have the
    children wave good-bye to their mother.
3.  When you talk about how Samuel helped in the
    temple, have the children pretend to do various
    things like dust, pull curtains back, light candles
    etc.
4.  When the story talks about Samuel going to bed and
    arising three times to what he thought was Eli's
    call, have the children unroll their bedrolls, lie
    down and respond to the voice calling, "Samuel"
    three times.  (You can be Priest Eli.)
5.  Have the children speak the words, "Speak; for Thy
    servant heareth." when you call the fourth time.



GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE FOOTPRINT

Materials needed:
Neon colored paper (1-2 sheets per child)
Pencils
Scissors
Bible

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  Have them each remove a shoe and set their
stocking foot on a piece of neon colored paper.  Trace
around the foot shape.  Have them cut their foot shape
out.  On the foot shape, use the following pictures or
symbols to illustrate the memory verse.  The memory
verse words are in all caps.

DO NOT SAY 
   Draw a face with an open round "O" mouth. 
   Then draw an "X" through the mouth
I  Draw an eye
AM Draw an "M"
ONLY A CHILD 
   Draw a small stick child
YOU
   Draw a "U"
MUST GO 
   Draw a couple small footprints
TO Draw the number 2
EVERYONE 
   Draw a lot of little stick figures
I  Draw an "I"
SEND 
   Draw a square postcard
YOU 
   Draw a "U"
TO Draw the number 2


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - HOW I WORK FOR JESUS

Materials needed:
Piano player or cassette recorder
Tune of "So early in the morning"

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Say, "Any work we do is God's work when we include
Jesus in it and honor Him by the way we do it.
Home jobs are God's work.  School jobs are God's work. 
Neighborhood jobs are God's work.  You don't have to
wait until your grownup to do work for Jesus."  Teach
the children the following song and have them add
motions to represent what job is being done.
For example: (Pretend to sweep the floor together)

This is the way I sweep the floor
sweep the floor
sweep the floor
This is the way I sweep the floor
It's how I work for Jesus

(Pretend to feed the pets together)
This is the way I feed my pets
feed my pets
feed my pets
This is the way I feed my pets
It's how I work for Jesus

Encourage the children to sing this little song
whenever they are asked to do a job.  It will help them
remember who they are really working for.