===================================================================== Title: Primary Sabbath School Program, June 19, 1999 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Cyndi Long) Date: April 22, 1999 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, WHEN EVERYONE HELPED ===================================================================== Lesson Aim: We are happier and get more done when we help each other work for God. Memory Verse: "We are God's fellow workers." I Corinthians 3:9, NIV. GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - HAPPY HELPERS COFFEE CAKE Materials needed: 2 c. Bisquick mix 2/3 c. milk or water 2 Tbsp. sugar 1 egg 1/3 c. Bisquick mix 1/3 c. packed brown sugar « tsp. cinnamon 2 Tbsp. butter Measuring spoons and cups Spatula Wire wisk Cooking spray 9" round baking pan Lg. bowl Sm. bowl WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Copy the following directions onto eight 3 x 5 cards. If you have a small class, give them more than one card and ingredient. If your class is larger than eight children, pair them up together on a card or split them up into more than one group and make more than one recipe. Have the ingredients measured and ready in containers or baggies to make the activity go quicker. 1. Heat oven to 375. Pour 2 cups of Bisquick mix into the large bowl 2. Add 2/3 c. milk or water and 2 Tbsp. sugar. 3. Add 1 egg, and stir until blended. 4. Spray pan with cooking spray and pour the batter into it. 5. Pour 1/3 c. Bisquick mix and 1/3 c. packed brown sugar into the small bowl. 6. Add « tsp. cinnamon and 2 Tbsp. butter and mix together in small bowl. 7. Sprinkle streusel topping over the top of the batter. Place in the oven. 8. Bake for 18 - 22 min. or until golden brown. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Give each child the ingredients and the 3 x 5 card with the directions to go with those ingredients. Explain that they are going to work together to create something. Each child will be adding at least one ingredient from their recipe direction card. Other children who don't have ingredients listed on their recipe card will have an opportunity to add an ingredient from someone else's card. The cards are for them to know when they are to add their ingredient. They can only look at their own card and are not allowed to look at any others. The cards are numbered in order. Let them know exactly what and how much they have. ( Some ingredients used more than once.) Remember to remove the coffee cake from the oven once it's done and let it cool. Put a piece in a baggie for each child to take home with them afterwards. Ask them what would have happened if someone decided he/she wasn't going to do it. Would the recipe have turned out right? Did they all have to work together to get the job done? In our story today someone else had to organize many people to work together to get a very big job done in a short amount of time. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - LESSON STORY WALL Materials needed: Copies of sentences below onto paper 7 - 14 paper grocery sacks Newspaper Tape WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Print up the sentences below onto pieces of paper. If you have a larger group than 7, you can split the sentences in half and print one half onto each paper to make 14, or split your group up and do more than one. Fill the paper bags half full of crumpled newspaper and fold down the tops. Tape shut. Make one paper bag for each printed sentence. Tape or glue the papers onto the front of the bags. 1. King Cyrus, of Persia, told the Jews they could leave Persia, and 42,000 went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. 2. The King paid for Ezra and more Jews to go back to Jerusalem. 3. Jerusalem's walls were torn down in a fight and Nehemiah was very sad about it. 4. The King sent Nehemiah and the supplies he would need to fix the walls. 5. Some people in Jerusalem didn't want to help and tried to cause trouble. 6. Nehemiah organized the people who wanted to build the walls and had them always ready for any trouble. 7. The people built the walls in 52 days, because they all worked together. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Give each student a bag and have them each read aloud their sentence or portion of sentence. Explain that they are going to figure out the order of the story and place them on the floor in order. They are to all work together. The wall should stack like this, the first four across the bottom, from left to right, and the next three across the top, from left to right. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE RELAY Materials needed: 6 shoe boxes (with lids) or card board bricks WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Pair the children up into groups of two.. Line them up on one side of the room and explain that they are to stack their "bricks" on the other side of the room. If your class is smaller than 12, then have them return to the back of the line until all six "bricks" are stacked on the other side of the room. The students are to say one word of the memory verse all together as each "brick" is set down. Example: Pair #1 carries the first brick across the room and sets it down. The whole class says, "We" and the pair comes back. They are to both carry the brick, one on one side, one on the other. Do not make this a race against other students. It may be made into a race against the clock once they know the memory verse. Try seeing how many times they can stack all six "bricks" in 5 min.? Or, how long does it take to stack all six "bricks" with out any falling down? ACTING ON SCRIPTURE- WORKERS FOR GOD I.D.'S Materials needed: Posterboard, enough to cut out one 2 x 3" square per child Pencils Crayons or markers Ink pad (opt) Clear contact paper Cheap wallets (opt) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut out 2 x 3" squares from the posterboard, one per child. Cut 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 squares of contact paper, two per each child. WHAT THE STUDENTS DO: Pass out the posterboard squares to each student. Talk to them about how we can help each other and how it makes us feel to help someone with a job they have. Tell them they are going to make "Workers for God I.D.'s". They are to draw a upper torso picture of themselves in the upper right hand corner of their card. Then, they are to write their name, address and any extra info they wish to add, birthday, eye color, height, sex, etc., on the middle left of the card. You may wish to help them put their finger print onto the back of the card, using the ink pad. Be sure to have some wipes handy. Have them write their memory verse onto the back of the card. Cover the cards with the contact squares. If you wish, give them a wallet to put their I.D. card into.