******************************************************* Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, June 9, 2001 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: May 1, 2001 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, MOSES LEARNS HOW GOD HELPS ******************************************************* Lesson Aim: God will help you whatever you're doing Memory Verse: "I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." Ex. 4:12, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - PUPPET PLAY Materials needed: 2 Paper plates for each child (cheap paper, not styrofoam kind) Stapler Colored construction paper Scissors Glue WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Cut the colored construction paper into puppet face pieces such as eyes, nose, eyebrows, hair and mouth. Cut pieces for each child. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Give each child 2 paper plates. Help them staple them together leaving a 3-4" hole at the bottom that their hand and arm can slip up into to manipulate the puppet. The plates stapled together become the puppet's face. Their hand and arm is the manipulator. The children choose construction paper facial features to add to one side of the paper plate to form their puppet's face. Give the children time to talk briefly to you and to one another using their puppet. Ask the children if they know what a ventriloquist is. Puppet's have to have someone speak for them. They absolutely cannot speak on their own no matter how much it may look like they are doing it. In our Bible story today God asks Moses to speak for Him to Pharaoh. Moses feels just like a puppet. He knows he cannot do it without God doing it for him. Let's see what happens. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE -BIBLE STORY CASSETTE Materials needed: Cassette recorder/blank cassette tape WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Explain to the children that they are going to help you tell the Bible story on cassette. Whenever you come to a part for them to speak, you are going to pause the recorder, tell them what they are to say, and they will repeat it into the recorder as soon as you take the pause button off. Narrate the whole Bible story using the extra speaking parts below inserted in the appropriate places. When the recording is all finished play the tape back for the children to listen to. (Select a child for each speaking part unless it is a part said by more than one person.) SPEAKING PARTS THAT NEED TO BE HIGHLIGHTED OR INSERTED: "I don't think I can do it." (First sentence on top of p. 38) "I will help you speak, and will teach you what to say." (1st paragraph 4th sentence) "I will go." (1st paragraph 5th sentence) "Let the children of Israel go to worship their God." (Insert into 2nd paragraph) "I will not let the people go." (3rd paragraph last sentence) "Make them work even harder." (Insert into 4th paragraph 1st sentence) "They must find their own straw out in the field!" (4th paragraph last sentence) "I will not let the people go." (Insert into 5th paragraph 2nd sentence) "Look, Aaron's snake is eating up our snakes." (Insert into 6th paragraph 3rd sentence) REMEMBER TO PLAY BACK THE TAPE FOR THE CHILDREN TO LISTEN TO. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE SONG Materials needed: Cassette recorder OR piano player Music to the tune of "She'll be Comin' Around the Mountain" Masking tape WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Become familiar with singing the memory verse words to the tune of "She'll be Comin' Around the Mountain" I will help you speak and teach you what to say I will help you speak and teach you what to say I will help you speak and teach you I will help you speak and teach you I will help you speak and teach you what to say WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children where the memory verse is found in the Bible. Have the children stand in a circle with their arms around each other's shoulders. Place a piece of masking tape on the floor between each child's feet. Sing the song several times for the children. Have them move to the right onto the next piece of masking tape before each line of the song is sung. (Example: They all move as a unit to the right, the first line is sung. They quickly move as a unit to the right again, the second line is sung etc. until the song is completed.) ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - Materials needed: Ping pong balls (6) Ice-cream buckets or pails at least a « gallon size (6 of the same size) Permanent black marker WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Write the following words on the outside of the buckets, one word to a bucket. Write big and bold. Line the buckets up in a horizontal row across the front. KIND FORGIVING ENCOURAGING TRUTHFUL LOVING WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Explain to the children that we don't know exactly what words Jesus will have us to speak to others. But we do know that they will be kind words, forgiving words, encouraging words, truthful words and loving words. Give a child a ping pong ball. Have them stand back several feet from the buckets. Ask them which kind of words they want Jesus to help them speak. When they tell you, you point to the bucket that they aim their ball towards. The buckets are mouths. The object is to get the ball into the mouth. If they make it, they go again. If not, it is the next child's turn. Continue playing until all children get at least one ball in a mouth.