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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, August 4,
2001

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

Date Completed: June 15, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, WORSHIPING IN GOD'S HOUSE
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Lesson Aim: God wants us to meet with Him in worship
every day.

Memory Verse: "I rejoiced with those who said to me,
'Let us go to the house of the Lord.'" Ps. 122:1, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - DAILY DOSE OF WORSHIP

Materials needed:
Dry macaroni alphabet letters
Empty pill bottle (preferably a vitamin bottle)
Saran wrap

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
For each child in the class pick out the letters W O R
S H I P from the dry macaroni letters.  Also for each
child pick out a T, V, and F.  Take each child's 10
letters and place them in a square of Saran Wrap.  Fold
up the Saran Wrap and drop it into the pill bottle.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children the medicine bottle.  Sometimes
people take medicines because they're sick.  Sometimes
they take vitamins because they want to stay well. 
Some people take a pill everyday. We call that a daily
dose.  We need to spend time with Jesus every day.  I
am going to give each of you a daily dose of something. 
(Give each child a Saran Wrap of letters from the
bottle.) Instruct the children to turn around and dump
the letters out of the bag onto their chair.  Ask
them to remove the T and the V.  Often the TV keeps us
from spending time with Jesus.  Ask them to remove the
F from their pile.  Sometimes being busy playing with
our friends keeps us from spending time with Jesus. 
Sometimes we're just too busy having fun.  Have the
children put their letters that are left in order to
spell the word, WORSHIP.  When we spend time with Jesus
we call it worship.  In our Bible story today God shows
the children of Israel how to worship Him.  GO STRAIGHT
INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - TABERNACLE TOUR

Materials needed:
Appliance boxes (2 fairly large)
Flashlight
Paint (gold, brown)
Incense
White material (Enough to hang inside to divide the
appliance boxes in half to represent the Holy and Most
Holy rooms)
Purple, blue and red markers

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Take the flaps off one end of each appliance box. 
Color red, blue and purple stripes onto the white cloth
with the markers.  Tape or fasten with large-headed
pins the curtain in-between the boxes to represent the
separation between the Holy Place and the Most Holy
Place.  On the walls of the first box paint the golden
lamp stand with seven branches and seven oil lamps with
gold paint; the table of shew bread with the 12 pieces
of bread on it; the laver; and the golden altar. 
Poke a small hole through the box at the golden altar
and stick an incense stick through it.  Light
the incense right before the children begin going
through the boxes.  In the second box paint the
ark with the angels over the mercy seat.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give the children a flashlight and have them take turns
going through the "makeshift" sanctuary.  Tell them to
use the flashlight to look on the walls.  Tell them to
notice everything in the box so they can give you a
report when they come out.  When all the children have
completed their tour of the sanctuary, talk about what
they saw and why God placed each thing in the
sanctuary.  Each thing in the sanctuary was created to
help people worship God.  


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - CANDLE-LIGHTER'S

Materials needed:
The golden lamp stand drawn on a piece of white paper
and xeroxed so each child has a copy      
Yellow construction paper (enough to cut out seven
flames for each child)
Scissors
Bibles

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Xerox a picture of the golden lamp stand for each
child.  The lamp stand should be without flames.  Cut
seven flames out for each child.   

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
their Bibles.  Give them each a lamp stand picture and
seven flames.  Starting at the flame all the way to the
left follow the pattern below on teaching the children
to say parts of the memory verse as they add flames to
their lamp stands.

Flame 1 - I rejoiced
Flame 2 - with those
Flame 3 - who said to me
Flame 4 - Let us go
Flame 5 - to the house
Flame 6 - of the Lord
Flame 7 - Ps. 122:1

The object of the activity is to get all the branches
lit while committing the memory verse to memory.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE -LEARNING TO WORSHIP GAME
Materials needed:
Poster board
Marker
Game board playing pieces or tokens 
 (one for each child playing)
Dice or spinner

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Prepare the poster board with a winding path like a
regular game board.  Divide the path into squares.  On
every 2nd or 3rd  square draw a piece of furniture from
the lesson.  Since there are only five pieces, you will
be re-drawing the items over and over several times.  
Whenever a child's token lands on a square with one of
these pieces of furniture they have to tell how it
helps us to worship Jesus today.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children gather in a circle around the playing
board and choose a token.  Before beginning the game
tell them that all the furniture in the sanctuary
teaches us something about how to worship Jesus today.

Lamp stand -   Whenever I worship Jesus He shines in me
and others see it. 
Table of shew bread - I need to worship Jesus as much
as I need to eat every day.
Incense altar - When I worship I must pray.
Laver - When I worship I must always confess my sins or
naughties.
Ark - When I worship I remember who Jesus is and
everything He has done for me.

The children take turns throwing the dice and advancing
around the board.  When they land on one of the pieces
of furniture, they must recall with you how that
furniture teaches them about worshiping Jesus today
before they can move on.  (They will need considerable
help, but will get the hang of it as they go)