Kids Ministry is excited to offer Preschool and Children’s Ministry Sunday mornings (by registration only). Please use the separate registrations – one for your Preschooler & one for your 1st-5th Grader.
Preschool (Babies-Kinder)
Children will have fun learning about Jesus while building, exploring, and playing in their life groups!
Kids Ministry is excited to offer Preschool and Children’s Ministry Sunday evenings (by registration only). Please use the separate registrations – one for your Preschooler & one for your 1st-5th Grader.
Preschool (Babies-Kinder)
Children will have fun learning about Jesus while building, exploring, and playing in their life groups!
We hope you had a memorable and Happy Thanksgiving!
Countdown to Christmas (a family advent calendar) begins Tuesday, December 1, and follows along with the Daily Bible Reading calendar you are already familiar with.
Every day read a Bible verse, talk about what you read, and choose a fun activity to do together as a family.
If you’ve been following along with our Sunday Life Group Lessons at home, the daily activities provided with Countdown to Christmas will replace the weekly life group lesson activities. Life Group lesson videos will continue to be available on our YouTube page!
Christmas ADVENTure is an interactive worship experience for families and is designed to help celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will share a child-friendly Christmas message in the Worship Center, December 20th at 10am. Carol singing and participation by the kids will be included as elements of worship.
Registration is now open and required to participate in activities including a live nativity, a Christmas craft, family mission project, and a Christmas snack.
Please Note: Beginning in December, an online “Countdown to Christmas” family advent calendar will be available and will replace the activities here on the KidLife Group lesson pages. Be on the look out for more information on our website and be sure to follow along with us. KidLife Group lesson videos will continue to be available on our YourTube page.
Priscilla and Aquila
Parents, today your child learned that families can worship and tell about God. Priscilla and Aquila learned more about Jesus from Paul. They passed on that knowledge to Apollos and others. How does your family worship God? Involve your child in planning a family worship time at home. Let him take the lead in choosing songs and other ways to worship God as a family.
Use these simple steps to guide your family during today’s Life Group time.
Step 1: Print Activity Pages
Print one for each child. This is a great tool to have as you go through the videos. Each download includes the Activity Page for your child and a One Conversation page for you to use with the Bible reference and story.
Before you press play, sit together and pray. Thank God for this special day to worship and learn about Him. Then, watch the Bible story video together.
Preschool Bible Story
1st-5th Grade Bible Story
3. Read & Discuss The Bible Story Together
Use the Activity Page and One Conversation Page you printed to read and discuss the Bible Story together. Select an activity and talk about how it goes along with the story.
Activities
Babies-Kinder
One’s & Two’s Read In A Tent Gather: Kids Activity Page, books about Jesus, bedsheets or blankets, toy animals and/or dolls.
Make a tent using the bedsheets and/or blankets. Place the toy animals and/or baby dolls, and books in the tent.
Climb into the tent and invite your child to join you.
Help your child complete the Kids Activity Page and talk about the Bible story. Mention that Paul made tents.
Read the books to your child.
Suggest that your child picture-read to the dolls and animals.
Say: “Families can worship and tell about God.” Review the Weekly Bible Verse, Joshua 24:15, “My family will worship God.”
Three’s – PreK Make Paper Tents Gather: Kids Activity Page, crayons, markers, stickers, and large index cards.
Assist your child in completing the Kids Activity Page. Point out the Bible story picture on the Activity Page. Talk about the Bible story.
Demonstrate how to fold the index cards in half. Guide your child to use the crayons and markers to decorate the index cards. Suggest he/she puts stickers on the cards. Then, he/she can stand them on the table to make tents.
Remind them that Paul helped his friends Aquila and Priscilla sew tents. They told people about Jesus. Families can worship and tell about God.
Help your child write “Worship God” inside his/her tents. Review the Weekly Verse- Joshua 24:15, “My family will worship God.
Kindergarten Make A Church Gather: Kids Activity Page, envelopes with pointed closing flaps, wood craft sticks (large work better), glue stick, blue heavyweight paper, and markers.
Have your child complete the Kids Activity Page. Discuss the Bible story together.
Give your child a piece of blue paper, envelope, and a glue stick.
Instruct your child to glue the envelope to the blue paper with the open side up, and the flap opened to the top of the paper (it should look like the shape of a house or church building).
Guide your child to write the Weekly Verse on the paper (Joshua 24:15, My family will worship God).
Encourage your child to decorate his/her church shape.
Give your child several craft sticks. Invite him/her to decorate the craft sticks to look like members of your family. Place the completed craft sticks inside the envelope.
Say the Life Point, “Families can worship and tell about God.” Discuss that going to church together is one way a family can worship God. Ask your child to think of people he/she can tell about God. Pray for those people together.
1st-5th Grade
The Bible Says
Look us the following verses: Psalm 18:1, Psalm 119:97, Psalm 100:2, Luke 18:1
Have your child look for ways to worship God in the verses.
Challenge your children to notice the ways your family worships God.
Jesus Truths
Get a sheet of paper and pen. And set timer for 2 minutes.
Have family write down as many facts about Jesus as they can.
After 2 minutes are up, gently correct any inaccurate facts.
Tell your kids that today we will learn about a man who worshiped Jesus, but he had some of his facts wrong. And his family lovingly corrected what was wrong.
Family Worship
Talk about ways your family can worship God.
Have you family come up with a specific way to worship.
Sing- Sing a simple worship song
Listen- Play the “quiet game”
Pray- Pray for people who live and work at places you drive by
Talk-Have a conversation about God
Read-–Keep a Bible in your car and read it aloud
Play – Create a round-robin car game, such as by each person saying one attribute of God or each person expressing love to Jesus
Remind your family there is always time to worship God.
Thanksgiving is less than a week away and we’d like to say how thankful we are for YOU! We are so thankful that we get to gather together and see your families every week (online or in person). YOU are very special to us!
We pray your week will be filled with thankfulness, hugs, giggles, and special moments with family and friends. Use some of the activities below to make Thanksgiving memories this year.
Alphabet Thanks // Work together as a family to name something you are thankful for that starts with each letter of the alphabet.
Nighttime Thanks // Snuggle up outside in a blanket with a flashlight. Point the flashlight to things you see. Thank God for all you see in the dark.
Guessing Thanks // Take turns describing what you’re thankful for without saying the actual word. Can your family guess your thankful thought?
Acting Thanks // Each family member takes a turn acting out things they are thankful for (without making a sound) while others try to guess.
We love you & are for you!
Happy Thanksgiving, Stephanie & Becky
See below for this week’s Kids Ministry News and Info.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, registration for Sunday, November 29th will close at noon on Monday, November 23.So, be sure to signup up THIS SUNDAY as soon as registration opens after church.
Christmas ADVENTure is an interactive worship experience for families and is designed to help celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will share a child-friendly Christmas message in the Worship Center, December 20th at 10am. Carol singing and participation by the kids will be included as elements of worship.
Registration opens Thanksgiving Day and is required to participate in activities including a live nativity, a Christmas craft, family mission project, and a Christmas snack.
Countdown to Christmas (a family advent calendar) will begin in December and follow along with the Daily Bible Reading calendar you are already familiar with.
This online Advent calendar will include fun activities and games for the whole family each day and will replace the activities provided each week on the Sunday Life Group lesson page.
Don’t worry, at home families, we will still continue to provide you with the videos that go along with the Sunday Life Group lesson on our YouTube page!
Please Note: Beginning in December, an online “Countdown to Christmas” family advent calendar will be available and will replace the activities here on the KidLife Group lesson pages. Be on the look out for more information on our website and be sure to follow along with us. KidLife Group lesson videos will continue to be available on our YourTube page.
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus (Kindergarten-5th Grade)
Today Kindergarteners and 1st-5th Graders learned that families can trust Jesus together. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were friends of Jesus. Mary and Martha showed they knew Jesus was God’s Son by trusting Him to raise Lazarus from the dead. If your child has not made the decision to follow Christ, share with her the plan of salvation. Explain to them that your job is to tell her about Jesus and His love, but she must make the decision to become a Christian
Jesus Visited Mary and Martha (Birth-PreK)
Families can show love for Jesus. Think about ways your family shows love for Jesus. Maybe you regularly read the Bible together. Perhaps you take food to local charities or support other caring ministries in your church or community. Families show love for Jesus by helping other families know about Jesus. Talk with your family members and choose another family to invite to church or to spend time with and talk about Jesus.
Use these simple steps to guide your family during today’s Life Group time.
Step 1: Print Activity Pages
Print one for each child. This is a great tool to have as you go through the videos. Each download includes the Activity Page for your child and a One Conversation page for you to use with the Bible reference and story.
Before you press play, sit together and pray. Thank God for this special day to worship and learn about Him. Then, watch the Bible story video together.
Preschool Bible Story
1st-5th Grade Bible Story
3. Read & Discuss The Bible Story Together
Use the Activity Page and One Conversation Page you printed to read and discuss the Bible Story together. Select an activity and talk about how it goes along with the story.
Activities
Babies-Kinder
One’s & Two’s Make Food Collages Gather: Kids Activity Page, paper plate, glue stick, scissors, marker, cut food pictures from magazines or grocery store ads.
Print the Life Point (Families can show love for Jesus) on the paper plate and read it aloud to your child.
Help your child complete the Kids Activity Page and discuss the Bible story.
Offer your child the paper plate and suggest that he/she glue pictures of food on the plate.
Talk about the Bible story and mention that Martha made a meal for Jesus and Mary listened to Jesus’ words. Review the Weekly Verse together (Jesus said, “You are My friends.” John 15:14).
Three’s – PreK Paint With Kitchen Utensils Gather: Kids Activity Page, crayons, paper, washable paint, paper plates, painting smocks, plastic kitchen utensils such as forks, spoons, plastic pizza wheels, spatulas, and so forth.
Place paint onto the paper plates.
Assist your child in completing the Kids Activity Page. Point out the Teaching Picture and tell the Bible story.
Demonstrate how to press a utensil in the paint and press it on the paper to make prints. Encourage your child to explore and discover different ways to make prints with the utensils.
Remind your child that Martha worked hard to get things ready for Jesus. Mary and Martha loved Jesus. Comment that families can show love for Jesus too.
Review the Weekly Verse together (Jesus said, “You are My friends.” John 15:14).
Kindergarten Spell and Pray Gather: Kids Activity Page, letter tiles, magnetic alphabet letters, or other manipulative with letters.
Have your child complete the Activity Page. Review the Bible story together.
Ask your child to tell the names of your family members. Provide the letters and encourage your child to spell the name of a family member. When names are spelled, stop and pray together for each name that is spelled. Ask God to help that family member trust Jesus.
Remind your child that God wants families to trust Jesus together, but each family member must make the choice himself to trust in Jesus. Discuss ways that families can trust Jesus together. One way is to worship God together. Families can worship God at church, at home, and everywhere they go.
Review the Weekly Verse together (“Jesus, I know You are the Son of God.” John 11:27
1st-5th Grade
Bible Skills- Women of the Bible
You will be researching a few women in the Bible, just like they are learning about Mary and Martha today.
Look up Exodus 2:1-10, Ruth 1:1-18, John 20:11-18
Read the verses and answer:
What is the woman’s/women’s name?
What happened to her?
How did she respond?
How was God involved?
Trust Acrostic
Write T-R-U-S-T vertically down on a sheet of paper.
Lead kids to think of ways families can trust Jesus together that include the letters in the word Trust.
Ex. Tell the truth. Remember God’s plan is perfect. Upward looking. Say a prayer.
Hand everyone a sheet of paper and have them create their own Trust Acrostic. They can use color or markers to decorate their masterpiece.
Family Cup Stacking
You will need 10 disposable cups.
Write a few words from the Romans 12:10 on each cup.
Have your child look up Roman 12:10 and read aloud.
Then have child/children stack cups in a pyramid in correct verse order. See if they can complete the task from memory, without using their Bibles
Remind your children that families can trust Jesus together but each person must decide for himself to trust Jesus as their Savior.
Join us for an outdoor family movie night, December 12! Gates open at 4pm. Come early for games, cookies, hot cocoa, and food trucks. Movie begins at 5:30pm.
Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and bug spray. Meet us on the front porch (Worship Center Courtyard, near Kids Building Parking Lot).
Christmas ADVENTure is an interactive worship experience for families and is designed to help celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will share a child-friendly Christmas message in the Worship Center, December 20th at 10am. Carol singing and participation by the kids will be included as elements of worship.
Registration opens Thanksgiving Day and is required to participate in activities including a live nativity, a Christmas craft, family mission project, and a Christmas snack.
Countdown to Christmas (a family advent calendar) will begin in December and follow along with the Daily Bible Reading calendar you are already familiar with.
The Advent calendar will include fun activities and games for the whole family each day and will replace the activities provided each week on the Sunday Life Group lesson page.
Don’t worry, at home families, we will still continue to provide you with the videos that go along with the Sunday Life Group lesson on our YouTube page!
We can’t wait to begin this online experience with you. Be on the lookout for more details coming soon!
Pre-Teen Winter Retreat
Save the date – February 12-13!
3rd – 5th Graders won’t want to miss this overnight retreat. More details and registration coming soon!
As a reminder, weekly registration is required to attend on Sundays. Registration closes at noon Thursday or when classes have reached their maximum registration limit. You can register beginning Sunday after church for the next week on our website, championforest.org/kids.
Please Note: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Sunday, November 29th, registration will close at noon on Monday, November 23.So, be sure to signup up as soon as registration opens after church on Sunday, November 22.
If you registered for this Sunday, be on the lookout for your email! If you didn’t get a chance to register, we still want to encourage you to worship together as a family at one of our in person services or online!
Please Note: Beginning in December, an online “Countdown to Christmas” family advent calendar will be available and will replace the activities here on the KidLife Group lesson pages. Be on the look out for more information on our website and be sure to follow along with us. KidLife Group lesson videos will continue to be available on our YourTube page.
Ruth and Boaz
Today your child learned that family members love and help one another. Ruth is an example of a devoted daughter-in-law to Naomi. God rewarded Ruth’s devotion.
Review the story of Ruth and how she helped her family. Encourage your child to think of a family member with a specific need. Help your child decide how to do something that shows God’s love.
Use these simple steps to guide your family during today’s Life Group time.
Step 1: Print Activity Pages
Print one for each child. This is a great tool to have as you go through the videos. Each download includes the Activity Page for your child and a One Conversation page for you to use with the Bible reference and story.
Before you press play, sit together and pray. Thank God for this special day to worship and learn about Him. Then, watch the Bible story video together.
Preschool Bible Story
1st-5th Grade Bible Story
3. Read & Discuss The Bible Story Together
Use the Activity Page and One Conversation Page you printed to read and discuss the Bible Story together. Select an activity and talk about how it goes along with the story.
Activities
Babies-Kinder
One’s & Two’s Pull Toys Through A Web Gather: Laundry basket, yarn, construction paper, marker, small toys, and scissors.
Cut several hearts from a sheet of construction paper. Print on each heart: FAMILY. Place the hearts and toys in the laundry basket. Create a web of yarn over the toys by crisscrossing the yarn through the holes in the sides of the basket.
Place the basket on the floor near your toddler.
Challenge your child to pull the toys and hearts through the web.
Comment that he/she is working hard just like Ruth worked hard to find food for Naomi. Review the Bible story.
Read aloud the word FAMILY on the heart when your child pulls one out. Comment that families love one another. Say the Weekly Verse a few times, “Show love to one another, Romans 12:10.”
Three’s – PreK Pick Up Grain Gather: Kids Activity Page, music, lunch sack, yellow and brown construction paper, and markers.
Have your child complete the Kids Activity Page. While he/she is doing so, tear the construction paper into small pieces. Tell your child to pretend the paper is grain, like in the Bible story. Scatter the grain around the room/house.
Play music and lead your child to pick up the grain and put it in his/her bag.
Explain that Ruth and Naomi were hungry. Boaz let Ruth pick up grain from his fields so she and Naomi could have food. Family members love and help one another.
Offer to let your child decorate his/her grain bag. Print the Weekly Verse on the bag (“Show love to one another, Romans 12:10”).
Kindergarten Paint With Wheat Gather: Kids Activity Page, music, tempera paint, paper plates, white paper, sheaves of wheat or pieces of bread, painting smock. If using bread instead of wheat, use cookie cutters to create bread “stampers” in different shapes.
Have your child complete the Kids Activity Page while you pour various paint colors onto paper plates.
Ask child to put on painting smock. Give your child a piece of white paper, sheave of wheat or bread stamper, and paint. Invite your child to paint.
As your child paints, play music and recall the Bible story. Ask your child to tell the ways the family members from the story loved and helped one another.
Ask your child to name ways he/she can help and love family members. Explain that God wants family members to show love, respect, and kindness to one another.
Say the Life Point (“Family members can love and help one another”) and Weekly Verse (“Show love to one another, Romans 12:10”) together.
1st-5th Grade Would You Rather? (Chore Edition)
Ask kids what their favorite chores are.
After everyone has had a turn, gather kids in the middle of the room.
Explain to them, after you read a question, they will move to a side of the room to indicate their choice (you can point with your finger designating a choice to each wall). Then reset in the middle of the room after each question.
Begin each question with: “Which chore would you rather do?
Clean the table or vacuum the rug
Walk the dog or play with the baby
Load the dishwasher or clean the bathroom
Pick up all the dirty clothes or put away clean clothes
Take out the trash or rake leaves in the yard
Fold towels or put away groceries
Make your bed or pick up your toys
Tell the kids that they have many opportunities to love and help family. In today’s story, we will learn about a family who loved and helped each other.
Toss a Sandal Supplies: 1 Sandal
In Ruth 4:7-8, giving someone their sandal- was like sealing the deal. (signing a contract today)
Tell the kids that God’s plan is for family members to work together and help each other.
Toss the sandal to someone and ask a review question.
Review Questions: What was the name of Ruth’s mother-in-law? (Naomi)
What sad things happened to Naomi and Ruth? (Their husbands died.)
How did Ruth provide food for herself and Naomi in Bethlehem? (She gathered grain left in the field by the workers.)
Why was Boaz so kind to Ruth? (He knew she took good care of Naomi)
What did Boaz do to make Ruth’s work easier? (He told workers to leave extra grain for her)
Why was Naomi glad to hear that Boaz was kind to Ruth? (He was a relative and could take care of them)
Name 2 words that describe Ruth’s attitude to Naomi. (answer will vary)
Name 2 words that describe Ruth’s attitude to Boaz. (answer will vary)
Why was the story of Ruth and Boaz so important? (they were the great-grandparents of King David and ancestors of Jesus)
After the child answers correctly, they will toss the sandal to someone else to answer another question.
If the child does not know the answer, encourage him to ask a friend for help.
Feel free to use review questions from previous weeks (Paul Wrote about families & Baby Moses)
What’d Jesus Ever Do for me? Supplies: strip of paper Ask kids if we should only love and help people who have already loved and helped us?
Have them name some important things that Jesus has done and continues to do for us?
Let kids know that Jesus has done so much for us. We can honor Him by loving and serving others.
Give each kid 2 of strips of paper. Have them write a family member’s name on each of their cards. (Leaders may have to help younger ones write on their paper)
Pick up all the strips of paper and randomly pick a name.
Have the child who wrote the name- tell the class the best thing “that family member” ever did for them. If time allows- you can ask them to name a way they will show love and help “that family member” this month.
Show “Freddy’s Story” missions video, or review the missions story.
Share the meaning of a testimony. (when someone tells about his experience or about something he has seen or heard)
Explain that Freddy learned the difference between telling a story about Jesus and telling his own story about how he trusted Jesus as his Savior. When Freddy shares what God has done in his life, he is sharing his testimony.
Pray and thank God for Christians in Peru who tell their testimonies so that others will know about Jesus and how much He loves them
5. Pray
Remind kids that God planned for family members to love and help one another.
Challenge kids to offer to help at home this week before someone asks for help.
Pray, asking God to help kids love and help their family members
Kids Ministry is excited to offer Preschool and Children’s Ministry on Sunday mornings during adult life group and worship hours. Registration required weekly and closes at noon Thursday, or when classes have reached their maximum registration limit.
Kids Ministry se complace en ofrecer DOS HORAS de Prescolar y Ministerio de Niños los Domingos por la mañana durante las horas de los grupos de vida para adultos y servicios congregacionales. Se requiere inscripción semanal. Inscripciònes cierran los Jueves a medio dia o cuando las clases hayan alcanzado su límite máximo de inscripción.
Photo Release: By registering your child, you give CFBC permission to take and use photos/video which may include your child. Contact your campus Kids Ministry with questions or concerns.
COVID Safety Policies & Procedures
If your child is showing any of the following symptoms they may not participate – cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, loss of taste of smell, diarrhea, feeling feverish or temp greater than or equal to 100 degrees. Your child may not attend if they have been in close contact with someone who is lab confirmed tested positive for COVID19.
In case of emergency & unable to attend, email kids ministry 48 hours in advance so that people on the waiting list may attend.
Check in opens 15 mins before adult life group or worship services begin.
Temperature & symptoms will be checked before entering secured space.
If your child exhibits any symptoms please keep them home.
Parents please sanitize hands before entering secured space.
Only one parent/family member may enter secured space.
Parents may not enter classrooms.
Children will remain with the same group and hand washing will be part of our daily routine for the safety of your child.
Children May Bring:
Bibles
Diapers
Wipes
Formula and bottle with water
Pacifier
Change of Clothes
Medically Necessary Items i.e. Epi-Pens and if personal snacks necessary for health reasons.
Children May Not Bring:
Toys
Sippy Cups
Stuffed animals
Cloth Diapers
Burp Cloth
Blankets
Purses
Personal snacks
Car Seats & Strollers must be left outside secured space.
We have some exciting news for our at home and at church families! Countdown to Christmas (a family advent calendar) will begin in December and follow along with the Daily Bible Reading calendar you are already familiar with.
The Advent calendar will include fun activities and games for the whole family each day and will replace the activities provided each week on the Sunday Life Group lesson page.
Don’t worry, at home families, we will still continue to provide you with the videos that go along with the Sunday Life Group lesson on our YouTube page!
We can’t wait to begin this online experience with you. Be on the lookout for more details coming soon!
See below for this week’s Kids Ministry News and Info.
Christmas ADVENTure is an interactive worship experience for families and is designed to help celebrate the birth of Jesus. We will share a child-friendly Christmas message in the Worship Center. Carol singing and participation by the kids will be included as elements of worship.
Registration opens Thanksgiving Day and is required to participate in activities including a live nativity, a Christmas craft, family mission project, and a Christmas snack.
As a reminder, weekly registration is required to attend on Sundays. Registration closes at noon Thursday or when classes have reached their maximum registration limit. You can register beginning Sunday after church for the next week on our website, championforest.org/kids.
Please Note: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Sunday, November 29th, registration will close at noon on Monday, November 23.So, be sure to signup up as soon as registration opens after church on Sunday, November 22.
If you registered for this Sunday, be on the lookout for your email! If you didn’t get a chance to register, we still want to encourage you to worship together as a family at one of our in person services or online!
Please Note: Beginning in December, an online “Countdown to Christmas” family advent calendar will be available and will replace the activities here on the KidLife Group lesson pages. Be on the look out for more information on our website and be sure to follow along with us. KidLife Group lesson videos will continue to be available on our YourTube page.
Baby Moses
Today your child learned that family members should care for and protect one another. Moses’ mother hid her child to protect him from being killed. Moses’ sister cared for him when she offered to help Pharaoh’s daughter find someone to care for the baby.
Review how baby Moses’ mother protected him. Help your child think about ways adult family members protect him. If your child has siblings, help him think of ways he can help protect and care for younger and older siblings
Use these simple steps to guide your family during today’s Life Group time.
Step 1: Print Activity Pages
Print one for each child. This is a great tool to have as you go through the videos. Each download includes the Activity Page for your child and a One Conversation page for you to use with the Bible reference and story.
Before you press play, sit together and pray. Thank God for this special day to worship and learn about Him. Then, watch the Bible story video together.
Preschool Bible Story
1st-5th Grade Bible Story
3. Read & Discuss The Bible Story Together
Use the Activity Page and One Conversation Page you printed to read and discuss the Bible Story together. Select an activity and talk about how it goes along with the story.
Activities
Babies-Kinder
One’s & Two’s Make Looking Tubes Gather: Kids Activity Page, construction paper, tape, stickers, chunky crayons or markers.
Go over Kids Activity Page with your child. Say the Weekly Verse together, “Take care of your family. 1 Timothy 5:4.”
Invite your child to make a looking tube, he/she can decorate one side of the paper with crayons, markers, and stickers.
Help your child roll the paper into a tube and secure with tape.
Demonstrate how to look through the tube.
Explain that Moses’ sister watched baby Moses when he was in the basket in the water. Talk about how family members can care for and protect one another.
Three’s – PreK Weave A Basket Gather: Kids Activity Page, Bible, laundry basket, different colors of crepe paper streamers, blocks of some sort.
Tear streamers into 3-feet strips. Place a Bible marker at 1 Timothy 5:4. Invite your child to complete the Kids Activity Page. Discuss the Bible story.
Demonstrate how to weave the streamers in and out of the sides of a laundry basket.
Suggest that your child use different colors of streamers to make patterns on the basket. Guide him/her to fill the basket with blocks.
Mention that Moses’ mother hid him in a basket to protect him. God wants family members to love and help one another. Family members should care for and protect one another.
Ask your child to open the Bible at the marker. Read the verse together.
Talk about ways that family members can take care of one another.
Kindergarten Make Cards Gather: Kids Activity Page, music, colored paper, markers, crayons, pencils, and stickers.
Encourage your child to complete the Kids Activity Page. Discuss the Bible story together.
Ask your child to choose a colored sheet of paper to make a card for a family member who cares for him/her (could be a parent, a sibling, a grandparent, and so forth).
Guide your child to fold the paper in half to make a card. Direct your child to write the Weekly Verse (1 Timothy 5:4, Take care of your family) somewhere on his/her card. Invite your child to decorate the card as you play music in the background.
As your child is decorating, encourage him/her to think about and name the ways that the family member whom he/she is making the card for cares for them.
After completing the card, ask your child to say the Weekly Verse. Remind your child that God wants families to show love, respect, and kindness to one another.
1st-5th Grade
Bible Skills
You will need to get some strips of paper or index cards labeled Genesis- Esther
Explain to your child that Moses wrote the Old Testament books of Law: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Give them the scrambled set of Old Testament Cards and instruct them to place them on the floor facedown.
On “Go” they will turn over their cards put them in order.
After cards are in order, randomly call out one of the cards. Have your child find the book in the Bible.
Play until you have called out all cards.
Cornucopias
Have your child draw a cornucopia cone on a paper.
Instead of drawing fruits and veggies to fill it. Have them write ways to love and care for families.
Let them color and decorate their drawing.
Explain to them that these special cornucopias will be reminders for how God wants us to treat our family.
Charades Review
Read the Bible story of Baby Moses (Exodus 1:8-2:10)
On strips of paper write: Pharaoh, Moses, Princess, Miriam (Moses’ sister), Nile River, & basket
Have the pick a paper and act out the person, place, or thing on the paper without using any words.
Whoever guesses correctly, gets to go next.
Remind your family that God wants us to care for and protect our family
