===================================================== Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, March 11, 2000 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date: February 6, 2000 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, A BIG CHANGE FOR A LITTLE MAN ===================================================== Lesson Aim: Jesus came to earth to help sinful people like me be right with God. Memory Verse: "The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19:10, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - SILLY CHANGES IN NATURE Materials needed: 3 X 5 cards Drawing paper Pencils WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) On the 3 X 5 cards, print the following rhymes, one rhyme to a card: What good would an elephant be without a trunk And in place of his tail he had the tail of a skunk? If the whiskers were missing on the face of the cat What good would he be with the wings of the bat? How would it look for a waddling goose to wear the antlers of a furry brown moose? How silly would it sound to hear a squeal from a cow? Especially if its legs were as short as a sow? A fish eating nuts wouldn't be any more funny Than a squirrel taking dives in a pool warm and sunny WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Give each child a piece of drawing paper, a pencil and a 3 X 5 card. Ask them to illustrate or draw the silly animal that is the result of the change mentioned on the card. For larger groups, make up more silly rhymes or have several children illustrating the same ones. Share the results of the drawings together. Talk about how these kinds of changes are impossible and not even desirable. In our story today a man wants to make some big changes in his life. The kind of changes he wants to make are impossible without Jesus' help. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE -PIPE CLEANER STORY Materials needed: Pipe cleaners (4-5 large; 10-15 small) Styrofoam board (Doesn't need to be larger than 12" X 12") WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: As you narrate the story help the students make pipe cleaner figures to insert in the Styrofoam board to illustrate it. 1. Use a large pipe cleaner for the trunk of the Sycamore tree. Cut other large pipe cleaners in half and fix at various spots going different angles to represent branches. 2. Make a Zacchaeus figure using the small pipe cleaners. Sit or hang him on one of the branches in the tree. 3. Make a Jesus figure and numerous people figures from the small pipe cleaners to stick around the tree. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - PAY BACK TIME Materials needed: 13 large bold colored Solo disposable cups Masking tape 13 coins (any increments) Bibles WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Set the 13 large disposable cups about one foot apart on the floor in a horizontal row. Tape them to the floor, so they are not easily knocked over. Approximately 5 feet from the cups make a straight line with the masking tape. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Help the children find the memory verse in their Bibles. Repeat it and review it several times together. In the story today Zacchaeus wanted to pay back the money he had stolen. It was Jesus who helped him realize that what he had done was wrong. That's what the memory verse means. The Son of Man (Jesus) came to this earth for the very purpose of seeking out those who wanted to change and be saved. Each cup represents one word of the memory verse. Have the children stand behind the masking tape line and take turns tossing the coins towards the cups. Before each child takes a turn they must repeat the portion of the verse represented up to that point. (For example: If child #6 in line tosses toward cup #6 they must say, "The Son of Man came to" before they toss their coin.) A child can pick any cup to toss a coin into, but they must repeat the verse up to that point. The object of the activity is to get one coin into each cup "representing all the cheated money being payed back." ACTING ON SCRIPTURE -BUTTERFLY CHANGES MAGNETS Materials needed: Colored foam (several different colors) Pattern of a butterfly Scissors Permanent markers (thin-line) Small magnet pieces. WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Give each child a butterfly pattern and some colored foam to trace it onto. Have them cut it out and add details to the butterfly using other colors of foam. On the butterfly they print the words, Jesus can change me with a thin-lin permanent marker. Glue a magnet on the back so it can be kept on the refrigerator.