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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, June 16,
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, HOW GOD HELPED HIS PEOPLE
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Lesson Aim: God helps and protects you.

Memory Verse: "No harm will befall you, no disaster
will come near your tent."  Ps. 91:10, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - DISASTER CONNECTION

Materials needed:
Play telephone

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children sit in a circle on the floor.  Ask
them if they know what a disaster is.  It is a very
sad event or happening that hurts or causes damage or
even kills large numbers of people without warning.
Tell the children you're going to think of a disaster. 
You're going to call for help on the phone then whisper
the name of the disaster in the person's ear to your
right.  They quickly whisper it to the person on their
right and so on and so on until the word gets all the
way back around to you. 

Tell the children they need to whisper it as quickly as
possible.  Help for the disaster cannot come until word
of it gets all the way back around to you.  You, the
teacher, do not always have to be the starter.  Any
child who has an idea can begin the disaster
connection.  It would then end with whoever starts it. 
(Ideas: hurricane, flood, fire, tornado, famine,
sickness or disease etc.)

In our story today many disasters hit the Egyptians. 
Those same disasters did not bother the Israelites,
God's people, even though they lived very close to the
Egyptians.  Let's find out why. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE
BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - DISASTER DAYS

Materials needed:
5 sheets of poster board
Crayons or markers
Nature magazines with pictures of the following: frogs;
flies; cattle or cows; locusts or grasshoppers
Glue sticks
Scissors

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Cut the poster boards in half, so you have 10 halves. 
With a pencil number the poster boards on one side,
#1-9, one number to each poster board half.  (The
children will trace over the large number with a marker
or crayon)

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Before reviewing the story assign each child or pair of
children a plague poster board to make.  Assign the
children places to work where they cannot see what each
other is drawing.

1.  Plague 1 - body of water colored red like blood
2.  Plague 2 - cut-outs of frogs glued to poster board
3.  Plague 3 - Make round dots with marker all over
    board.  Add tiny legs and antennae to make lice.
4.  Plague 4 - cut-outs of flies glued to poster board
5.  Plague 5 - cut-outs of cattle or cows glued to
    poster board
6.  Plague 6 - Make stick people for Egyptians.  Put
    red sores all over them with red marker
7.  Plague 7 - Draw clouds and snowflakes falling from
    them.  
8.  Plague 8 - cut-outs of locusts or grasshoppers
    glued to poster board
9.  Plague 9 - Make a large sunshine with yellow rays
    but color the inside circle black

Turn the poster boards around so the numbers show.  Mix
them up and tape them to the wall.  As you review the
story have the pairs turn their board over to reveal
the plagues at the appropriate time.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE ROPE WALK

***THE AUTHOR OF THIS SUPPLEMENT IS SUGGESTING A CHANGE
OF MEMORY VERSE BECAUSE A KINDERGARTEN CHILD IS NOT
ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS VERSE WHEN IT IS NOT USED IN
CONTEXT WITH THE REST OF THE WORD.  THOSE WHO WANT TO
USE THE TEXT FROM THE QUARTERLY CAN STILL USE THE SAME
IDEA.

Materials needed:
Long piece of rope (at least 15')
4 clothes pins
Bibles
Blindfold

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Tie one end of the rope to something at one end of the
room and the other end to something at the other end of
the room.  Clip the four clothes pins onto the rope
spaced as evenly apart as possible.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  (Ps. 138:7 1st half)  Repeat it several
times together.  Blindfold a child and place him/her at
the end of the rope.  They are to feel along the rope
until they come to the first clothes pin.  They then
repeat this portion of the memory verse after you,
"Though I walk".  The proceed on until they come to the
next clothes pin.  They then say the words they said at
the previous clothes pin plus they add the new words,
"in the midst of trouble".  They then proceed onto the
3rd clothes pin, say the words said up to that point
and add, "you preserve"  When they get to the 4th
clothes pin they complete the verse by saying the whole
thing. ("Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you
preserve my life......")

ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - ADRA BANK

Materials needed:
Shoe box
Glue
Magazines and Newspapers 
Scissors

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Any information or pictures about ADRA that you can get
ahead of time would be an asset to this activity. 
Anyone who has worked or helped on an ADRA project can
be invited to share their experience very briefly
before making the bank.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give the children magazines, newspapers and scissors. 
Help them locate pictures that depict disasters. 
Explain to them that in the Adventist church there are
a group of people who work together to help people who
have been in disasters.  They bring food, clothes,
medicines and supplies and other help to people who are
hurting from a disaster.  This group of people are
called ADRA.  It stands for the name Adventist
Development and Relief Agency.  We cannot go and do
the work that they do, but we can send them money to
help with their work. 


Help the children glue the pictures around the shoe box
and lid.  Cut a slit in the top of the box for money to
go through.  Encourage the children to bring in extra
monies above what they bring for missions for the next
couple of months to fill up the bank to send to ADRA. 
Remind the children each week.