******************************************************* Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, February 3, 2001 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: January 5, 2001 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, THE FIRST CHILDREN ******************************************************* Lesson Aim: Abel chose to accept Jesus' sacrifice for him. Memory Verse: "By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did." Heb. 11:4, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - MAKING SACRIFICES Materials needed: Shoe boxes or cardboard blocks the size of shoe boxes (8 - 10) Marker WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) On the shoe boxes print the following phrases, one phrase to a box. 1. Giving up your place in line 2. Giving your brother or sister special time with mom or dad 3. Letting your friend play with your favorite toy the whole time you're together 4. Giving your lunch to someone who doesn't have one 5. Using your TV time to do jobs for mother when she's sick in bed 6. Giving some of your new best clothes to children who lost theirs in a fire 7. Letting someone use your markers to color even if it means they use one up 8. Giving money to a special mission project that you have been saving to spend on yourself Toss the boxes into a corner in a pile. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Ask the children if they know what a sacrifice is. (It is when you give up something you really like or something that is valuable to you to another person) Some things that children may sacrifice are written on the boxes in the corner. Have the children bring the boxes to you one at a time and talk about what is written on each one. Have them build an altar with them, but don't necessarily mention that it is an altar until they are all finished. After the boxes are all in place explain that what they have made is an altar. Back in Bible times when people sacrificed or gave up things they laid them on altars and burned them. People were not suppose to lay just any old thing on the altars. God specifically told them what kind of sacrifice He wanted them to bring. Let's find out more about it in our story for today. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE -HAPPY/SAD STORY Materials needed: Neon-colored sticky dots (1 sheet for each child) A sheet of paper with an altar drawn on it for each child. (The front of the altar should have 10 stones big enough for a neon-colored sticky dot to be placed on each one.) Marker WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Make sad faces on 6 of the colored sticky dots. Make happy faces on 4 of the colored sticky dots. Do this on each child's page of sticky dots. Draw an altar on a sheet of white paper and xerox one for each child. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Tell the children that there are both sad and happy things happening in our story today. Give them each an altar and a sheet of colored sticky dot faces. When they hear you talk about something sad in the story, they put a sad face on one of the stones of the altar. When they hear you talk about something happy in the story, they put a happy face on one of the stones. Make sure and bring out the following points in the story. 1. Adam and Eve disobeyed God and had to leave the Garden of Eden. (Sad face) 2. Adam and Eve had to kill a little lamb as a sacrifice for their sins. (Sad face) 3. Sin brought sadness to Adam and Eve as they watched things die and as they worked hard in their home. (Sad face) 4. One day Adam and Eve had a baby boy and named him Cain. (Happy face) 5. Another baby joined the family and his name was Abel. (Happy face) 6. Abel loved God and was careful to offer the sacrifice that God had asked them to give, which was a lamb. (Happy face) 7. Cain decided he wanted to bring a different sacrifice to his altar. He thought God should be just as happy with vegetables as with a lamb. (Sad face) 8. Cain was so angry that God did not accept his sacrifice that he killed his brother, Abel. (Sad face) 9. Another son was born to Adam and Eve who loved and obeyed God. His name was Seth. (Happy face) 10. Another special baby was born to great grandpa Adam and his name was Enoch. He loved and obeyed God. (Happy face) Making sacrifices is hard. Sometimes we are not happy when we have to give something up or stop doing something. Only with Jesus' help can we make sacrifices cheerfully and happily. Have a prayer with the children. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE HOPSCOTCH Materials needed: Masking tape 10 lambs xeroxed from p. 19 in Kindergarten quarterly Marker Bibles Pennies (one for each child in the group) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Make a hopscotch board using the masking tape. Xerox 10 lambs and write a memory verse word on each lamb. (Combine the words "a better") Place the lambs in order as the verse is read in the hopscotch squares. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children where the memory verse is found in the Bible. Give each child a penny. They take turns tossing their penny onto the hopscotch board. Then they hop saying the verse as they go until they get to the square where their penny landed. They pick up the lamb and continue through the rest of the squares to the end of the board. The children watching repeat the verse along with them to help them. The object of the activity is to remove all the lambs from the board repeating the verse each time. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - SACRIFICE SONG Materials needed: Piano player or tape recorder and pre-prepared cassette Music to the tune of Jesus Loves Me WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Practice singing the song so you are familiar with how to fit the words with the tune. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Teach the children the new words to the familiar tune of Jesus Loves Me. Sing it standing, sitting, walking, marching, clapping etc. Jesus made a plan for me so from sin I could be free I'll love Jesus and obey That's my sacrifice today I'll love my Jesus I'll love my Jesus I'll love my Jesus He's done so much for me