Lesson Learned: God wants us to speak to Him with respect.Materials Needed: pictures of child’s familyBible Verse:Ecclesiastes 5:2-32 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God.God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.3 A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words…
Think Before You Speak
Lesson Learned: Think before you speak.Materials Needed: construction paper, scissors, markers, glueBible Verse:James 1:19-21 19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Proverbs 29:20 20 Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There…
Powerful Words
Lesson Learned: Words are powerful.Materials Needed: empty toilet paper roll, straw, tape, paper, scissors, pencilBible Verse:Proverbs 18:2121 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.James 3:55 Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set…
Painted Skies
Lesson Learned: We can see God everywhere.Materials Needed: noneBible Verse:Psalm 19:1-4 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the…
Kind Words
Lesson Learned: God wants us to speak kindly to others.Materials Needed: 2 or 3 stuffed animalsBible Verse:Ephesians 4:29 29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.Talking Points: God does not want us to be…
Praise the Lord
Lesson Learned: Praise the Lord morning and night.Materials Needed: clean glass jar, paint, paint brush, tapeBible Verse: Psalm 113:1-31 Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, you his servants; praise the name of the LORD.2 Let the name of the LORD be praised, both now and forevermore.3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD…
Zacchaeus
Lesson Learned: Zacchaeus was a small man but had a big heart for God.Materials Needed: piece of paper, markerBible Verse:Luke 19:1-9 1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short…
The Good Shepherd
Lesson Learned: Jesus is our sheepherder.Materials Needed: paper plate, black construction paper, scissors, cotton balls, glueBible Verse: John 10:11-18 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep…
Walking through Fire
Lesson Learned: God protects us.Materials Needed: construction paper, large box, scissors, glueBible Verse:Daniel 3 (You may want to paraphrase the story for your child) 1 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 He then summoned the satraps, prefects,…
Withering Away
Lesson Learned: God’s love lasts forever.Materials Needed: green construction paper, scissors, stapler, markerBible Verses: 1 Peter 1:23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;the grass withers and the…