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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, May 5, 2001

From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders)

Date Completed: March 15, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, THREE YEARS IN PRISON
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Lesson Aim: To help the child choose to be kind,
cheerful and diligent wherever he is.

Memory Verse: "He knows the way that I take."  Job
23:10, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - DRAWING DREAMS

Materials needed:
1 sheet of plain white paper for each child
Pencils
Crayons
An ear of corn
A picture or felt cow
A loaf of homemade bread
A bunch of grapes
4 shoeboxes

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Stand each shoebox up in its lid so it will remain
upright.  Inside each shoebox place the following: the
ear of corn, the picture or felt piece cow, the loaf of
homemade bread and the bunch of grapes.  Stick the
shoeboxes in different corners of the room.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give each child a piece of white paper, a pencil and
some crayons.  Assign them a shoebox to go look in. 
(Assign children to the shoeboxes so there are equal
numbers at each box as far as possible.)  After they
look in their shoebox, they find a place to themselves
away from the other children and draw hat they saw in
their box.  They can return to the box as often as
necessary, but they must not look in any of the other
boxes.  After they have drawn what they saw, they color
it, then turn it over and place it under their chair. 
These will be used in the next Getting Into Scripture
Activity.





GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BEAN BAG BIBLE STORY

Materials needed:
Pictures drawn from previous activity
Sheets of white paper 
  (Enough for each child to have 3 or more)
One bean bag for each child 
  (knee-high socks filled with rice or beans and tied
  in a knot work as easy bean bags)

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Make each child a bean bag.  On three sheets of the 
white paper draw the following pictures: a prison cell
window, a Pharaoh and the number 7.  Xerox the sheets
so each child has one.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Collect the pictures from the children that they drew
during the previous activity.  Spread all the pictures
out on the floor in a circular pattern leaving the
central middle circle free where the children can
stand.  Give each child a bean bag.  As you narrate the
story they are to listen for parts of the story that
are illustrated on the papers.  When you talk about
Pharaoh, they toss their bean bag onto any Pharaoh
picture.  You collect the bags and hand them back. 
When you talk about Joseph being sent to prison, they
toss their bag onto any prison cell window.  This
activity continues until the story is complete.  The
only time more than one bean bag can occupy a picture
is when you're talking about the dreams they drew. 
There will not be enough pictures unless they double or
triple up on them.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BAKER'S BALANCE GAME

Materials needed:
7 pint baskets (the kind like strawberries come in)
Bibles
Masking tape

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Run a line of masking tape across the floor from one
end of the room to the other. 

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  Repeat it several times together.  Choose a
volunteer to begin at the end of the masking tape.  For
each word of the memory verse that they can repeat put
a pint basket on top of their head.  That's how many
baskets they may carry across the masking tape to the
other end of the room.  As they listen to one another
repeating the verse, they will be able to carry more
and more baskets at one time across.  The game is over
when everyone can carry all seven baskets across the
tape to the other side. 



ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - RHYME TIME

Materials needed:
None

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
There are no advance preparations necessary.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Say the following verses encouraging the children to
supply the missing rhyming word. 

When Joseph was taken from home
He was sad, all alone and afraid
But before he arrived in Egypt land
A promise to God he had __________________(made)

He asked God to help him be brave
To be cheerful and do his work well
But then one day when his boss was away
His wife, oh the lie she did __________________(tell)

Into prison poor Joseph did go
But God had a job for him there
Two men had been dreaming, 
and they didn't know the meaning
So with Joseph their dreams they did
____________(share)

When Joseph was taken from prison
He helped the king with his dreams too
God was able to use him in a land not his own
Because Joseph had stayed strong and ____________(true)

You can make a decision like Joseph
You can choose to be cheerful and kind
With a smile on your face you can do your work well
God will help you leave grumpies be________(hind)