===================================================================== Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, April 17, 1999 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date: March 15, 1999 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, THE YOUNG KING WHO LOVED GOD ===================================================================== Lesson Aim: God's Word teaches me what He wants me to do. Memory Verse: "If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - TUCK IT OR TOSS IT Materials needed: Old Magazines (Children's magazines, Reader's Digest, News magazines etc.) File Folder (one for each child) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut out articles and stories from the magazines. Include a variety of high-interest level to boring ones. Cut out 3-5 articles or stories for each child. Place them in a shoe box or other small container. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Tell the children you have found some written material that you would like them to help you decide what to do with. Some are worth keeping and some might as well be tossed. Give each child a file folder. Ask them to draw 3-5 stories (depending on the size of you class) from the box. If they cannot read the title or tell by the pictures what it is about they can ask you for help. They are to decide whether the story is important enough to keep or whether it should be tossed. Stories they decide to keep are placed in their folder. Stories they decide to toss are placed under their chair. When this activity is completed, quickly review what stories the children chose as worthy of keeping and which they decided to toss. Ask them how they decided. In our Bible story today there is a written record that should have been kept and read many times. Instead it was lost and no one knew about it for many years. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - SCROLL STORY Materials needed: Brown paper grocery sacks (5-6) Markers Scotch tape Scissors WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut open the brown paper grocery sacks. Cut and tape them together to you end up with a long section of brown paper measuring 12" wide by 96". With a pencil divide the paper into 12" sections. (Each child will draw in a 12" section, so if your Sabbath school is larger increase your length as necessary. If it is smaller, decrease the total length.) WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Lay the piece of brown paper on the floor. Assign each child a 12" section. All children need to face the same direction. Whisper one of the following scenes in each child's ear for them to illustrate on their 12" section of paper. 1. Draw a small boy with a crown on his head. 2. Draw a young king reading a scroll. 3. Draw the king busting up altars and idols 4. Draw a picture of a temple or church 5. Draw an open scroll with a Bible verse printed on it. 6. Draw a man reading the scroll to the King 7. Draw a woman holding scroll with open mouth speaking 8. Draw a sad king crying and a king praying When the drawings are all finished, roll up the paper sack like a scroll. Unwind the scroll as you review the story with the children. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE HOPSCOTCH Materials needed: Sidewalk chalk (If conducting the activity outside) Masking Tape (If conducting the activity inside) Pennies (One for each child) (10) 3 X 5 cards (If conducting the activity inside) Bibles WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Make a hopscotch board outside with the sidewalk chalk or inside with the masking tape. If you are using masking tape inside, print one word of the memory verse on each of the ten 3 X 5 cards. Instead of printing the numbers in the middle of the squares, print them in the lower right hand corner of each square. Leave the middle for writing the memory verse word. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Have the students look up the verse together in their Bibles. Review it several times together, then close the Bibles. Have children line up vertically behind the hopscotch game. They take turns throwing their penny. If the penny lands on a square, they write the memory verse word that belongs in that square. (For the inside game they lay the 3 X 5 card down in that square.) They then repeat the verse, hop up to that square, pick up their penny and complete the board. The second child in line repeats the same procedure. If a penny lands on a square that already has the verse word printed on it, the child simply says the verse, hops up to pick up his penny and completes the board. If a penny rolls away and does not land on any square, the turn is forfeited. Encourage the children to fill in all the words of the verse on the hopscotch board before time is up. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - GETTING TO KNOW THE BIBLE Materials needed: Plain white paper(one sheet for each child) Gift wrap curling ribbon Fruit roll-ups (one for each child) Bibles WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Wrap the fruit roll-ups (still in the package) in the plain white paper and tie with gift wrap ribbon to make "scrolls". Make a "scroll" for each child in the class. Place the "scrolls" in a basket or out on a table where the children can see them. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Explain to the children that even though they cannot read large portions of the scriptures right now at their age, it is important that they understand how to use their Bibles. They need to use them and become familiar with them, so that God's Word can teach them as they grow. Give the following Bible search questions. Once they have shown you that they have mastered each of the five questions, they may receive a "scroll" to take home. 1. Where is the table of contents in the Bible and how do you use it? 2. Where are the four gospels located that give an account of Christ's life on earth? 3. Where is the 10 commandments & the Lord's Prayer found?(Exo. 20 & Matt. 6) 4. Where is the book in the Bible that is a group of songs and prayers? (Psalms) 5. How do you use a concordance in the back of the Bible?