Nursery Lesson Plan 21: People at Church Help in Different Ways - 3 March 2013

Date: 3 March 2013

Time: 1-2.30pm

Concept Area: Church

Theme: People at church help in different ways

Key Bible verse: Galatians 5:13 Help One Another

 

Activity Centers

1. Food (Treasure) Hunt (Visual, Auditory & Kinesthetic)

Objective:  Helping others - ‘Kids, I have lost some fruits and vegetables in this room. Would you be able to help me find them?’ Search and find food such as fruits like apples, oranges (wrapped in sealer bags) around the classroom.

Materials:  Fruits, vegetables, etc.

Guidance: Talk with the children about how they can be helpful, for example at home, to find toys, things around their homes.

2. Book corner (Visual)

Objective: Read and see picture books with examples of how we can serve and help one another at church, family and friends.

Materials: Book Titles

a.        Church Helpers

b.        I Can Be A Helper, Too!

c.        How Can I Help?

d.        My Friends At Church

Guidance: Read and talk with the children about the picture books. How can they also serve and help one another?

 

3.        Bible Story (Visual & Auditory)

Source: Read to Me – Bible for Kids with Bible Pictures. Print pictures of Samuel helping Eli in the church as Bible bookmarks that the children can select and talk about them.

‘Samuel Helped At Church’

(1 Samuel 1:20-28; 2:11, 18-21, 26; 3:1-2, 15, 19)

Hannah had a baby boy and named him Samuel. When he was a little boy, Samuel went with his mother and father to the church.

Eli was a teacher at the church. Hannah wanted Samuel to be Eli’s helper at church. Eli could show Samuel what to do to help at church.

Samuel was a good helper for Eli. Every morning Samuel would open the doors for the church. Samuel listened to Eli and did those things Eli told him to do.

As Samuel grew, he kept helping Eli. Eli kept teaching Samuel about God. Samuel learned more and more about God.

 

4.        Picture Collage (Visual, Auditory & Kinesthetic)

Objective: Create a paper collage with picture examples of helping one another in our daily lives.

Materials:  Picture cut-outs

Guidance: Talk about the pictures. Helping at home, church and people who need help. Thank you, God, for helpers at church.

 

5.        Snack Time

 

6.        Music Time

There is a name I love to sing

O, how I love Jesus

If you are happy and you know it

Jesus loves me this I know

 

7.        Backup Activity

Memory Verse Puzzle with bean-bag

Galatians 5:13 Help One Another