===================================================================== Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, January 23, 1999 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date: December 15, 1998 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, DAVID'S PROUD SON ===================================================================== Lesson Aim: God will help me love and obey my parents. Memory Verse: "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." Exo. 20:12, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - H-O-N-O-R SONG Materials needed: Poster board or write-on-wipe-off board or blackboard Writing mediums to go with the board you selected WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Print the following words on the posterboard. Have someone pre-record the music for you onto a tape. The song is sung like "There is a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name". The verse is sung first as written. The second time around everything is sung except the "H" in the word, honor. Instead the children clap on that letter. The third time around everything is sung except the "H" and the "O" in the word honor. The children clap when both of those letters are sung. Continue singing the song six times until the children are only clapping on the H-O-N-O-R words. The tune for the music can be found in the book, Primary Praise. God tells us we may live long lives if we will but obey and H-O-N-O-R H-O-N-O-R H-O-N-O-R our father and our mother. Unfortunately King David was not always the best father. He made mistakes when he wasraising his children. In our story today one of his sons forgot the very word you were just clapping. Honor. Let's find out more about what that word means from our story today. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE HANGMAN Materials needed: Poster board, or write-on/wipe-off board or chalkboard Writing medium for use with the board WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Make a hangman game. Draw a gallows at one end of the board. Print the memory verse as follows at the other end of the board. Give each child a chance to guess an alphabet letter from the memory verse. Whenever they guess a letter, fill in all of the blanks pertaining to that particular letter in the verse. If they guess a letter that is not found in the verse you add a body part to the gallows to form a "hung man". If you get all of these body parts added before they guess the verse, they lose and are in as sorry shape as Absalom was hanging from the tree. (Body parts to add: head, stick body, stick left arm, stick right arm, stick left leg, stick right leg, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, fingers, toes.) "_o_o_ _ou_ _a__e_ a_ _ _ou_ _o_ _e_, _o _ _a_ _o u _a_ _i_e _o__ I_ _ _e _a_ _ _ _e _o_ _ _ou_ _o_ I_ _i_i_ _ _ou." Exo. 20:12, NIV ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - HAPPY, HAPPY HOME Materials needed: Poster board Red construction paper Permanent black markers Scraps of fabric Elmer's glue and glue sticks WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) On the poster board draw a large form of the exterior of a house. Include a door, and several windows. Cut the red construction paper into rectangular shapes to use as "bricks" to cover the outside of the house. (Make the bricks fairly large. You don't want more than two bricks per child in your class.) Cut the scraps of fabric into capital R's to make curtain shapes. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Explain to the children that this house can represent any home, yours, theirs or someone else's. Just like the outsides of homes can look very different, the insides of homes and who lives in a home can be very different. All homes have happy times and sad times, good times and bad times. Ask the children to each think of one happy or good thing about a home and a family and one sad or bad thing. Give each child two bricks. Print the happy thing on one brick and the sad or bad thing on the other one. The children then glue the bricks anywhere they want on the exterior of the poster board house. (Ideas: love, place to feel safe, divorce, abuse, sharing, fighting etc.) Glue the curtains in place at the windows. Ask the children to think of ways they can honor their parents or whoever their care giver is. Discuss how hard it is to love and respect people who sometimes hurt or disappoint us. God wanted Absalom to love and respect his father, David even though David had made some mistakes. God will help you love and show respect to your parents if you ask Him. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - PARENT DAY CARDS Materials needed: Construction paper Old greeting cards or pictures Xeroxed copies of poem (two for each child) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Xerox the following poem for each child in the class. They may want to make only one card, if both parents live together. They may want to make two separate cards, one for their father and one for their mother. I made this card to tell you that I'm glad we're family and I want to always love you and respectful try to be WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Each child makes his father and mother a card. They can draw their own pictures or use old ones cut from greeting cards or magazines. They may write their own message or glue a xeroxed copy of the one above onto their cards. Each family situation is unique so each card will be unique. Encourage the children to share their cards with their parents when they feel it is a good time.