******************************************************* Title: Kindergarten Program Helps for the Sabbath School Lesson, September 8, 2001 From: NAD Children's Ministries (author: Lisa Seeders) Date Completed: August 15, 2001 Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps to teach the lesson, THE MAN WHO LOVED MONEY ******************************************************* Lesson Aim: Obeying God is more important than anything else. Memory Verse: "A good name is more desirable than great riches." Prov. 22:1, NIV GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - WHO'S IN THE BARN? Materials needed: Cassette recorder WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Put the cassette recorder in another room where the children cannot hear what is being recorded. Tell the children you want them to think of an animal that lives in a barn. You will take them out one at a time to the tape recorder. Have them make the noise of the animal and record it. After all the children have had an opportunity to record at least one animal sound, you speak the following words into the recorder. "Why are you hitting me?" Bring the recorder back into the room. Ask the children to help you identify who is in the barn. After each sound, pause the recorder and guess the animal and which child made the sound. When you get to the last recording that you made ask the children, "What animal says that?" Talk about what kind of animal could possibly talk? In our story today an animal did actually say that. GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY. GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BIBLE STORY DRAMATIZATION Materials needed: None WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) There are no advance preparations necessary. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Have the children act out the story. Use the following suggestions as guidelines throughout the narration of the story. You, the teacher, must be very familiar with the story. It cannot be read and directed successfully. Choose a Junior or Earliteen boy to play the part of the donkey in the story. Assign one child the role of Balaam, one the role of King Balak, one the role of the angel and the rest are Balak's messengers. 1. Place Balaam in a separate corner of the room. Direct him to act in a worshipful manner. 2. Place King Balak in another corner of the room. Direct him to act as if he is thinking then comes upon an idea. Have him summon some of the children, his messengers and send them over to Balaam. 3. Direct the messengers to pretend they are asking Balaam to come and curse Israel. Have them offer Balaam money. 4. Have Balaam retreat to his corner and get in a praying position then return to the messengers and shake his head no. 5. Direct the messengers to return to King Balak. 6. Add more children to the role of messengers and direct them to go back to Balaam and offer him even more money. 7. Direct Balaam to get in a praying position again and then get on his donkey. 8. Direct the donkey and Balaam to make their way slowly to Balak. Periodically as the story advances have the donkey turn aside and try to go another way. Direct Balaam to beat the donkey. Direct the donkey to walk beside something and pretend to crush Balaam's foot. Direct Balaam to beat the donkey. Direct the donkey to fall down. Direct Balaam to beat the donkey a third time. 9. Direct the angel to appear in the path before the donkey. 10. Direct the donkey to speak to Balaam and say, "What have I done to you to make you hit me?" 11. Direct Balaam to get off the donkey and bow down low to the ground. Direct Balaam and the donkey to proceed on to King Balak's. 12. Direct King Balak, Balaam and the king's messengers to another corner of the room to represent the high mountain overlooking Israel's camp. 13. Direct Balaam to open his mouth to curse Israel. Direct him to look confounded and confused. Direct Balak to look angry. 14. Direct the same participants to move to the last corner of the room and repeat step. #13. 15. Direct everyone to return to their seats. Bring out the point that obeying God is more important than anything. No matter what someone may offer you, doing things God's way is best! GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE HOPSCOTCH ***THE AUTHOR OF THIS SUPPLEMENT IS FOCUSING ON A DIFFERENT SCRIPTURE: Joshua 24:24 "........we will serve the Lord our God and obey him." Materials needed: 10 rocks Masking tape OR sidewalk chalk Small bibles made from construction paper (not black) Permanent marker Bibles Pennies (one for each child) WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Make a hopscotch board on the floor with the masking tape or use sidewalk chalk and do it outside. Write the memory verse on each construction paper Bible. Lay a rock in the middle of each hopscotch square. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Show the children where the memory verse is found in the Bible. Show them the hopscotch board. Point out the rocks or obstacles that are in the way of getting from one end of the path to the other. In order to get rid of the rocks, they must be replaced with Bibles. (Show the children the Bibles with the memory verse words written on them.) Have the children take turns throwing their penny onto a square of the hopscotch board. They hop to that square remove the rock and replace it with a memory verse bible, saying the verse as they lay it down. The object of the activity is to replace all the rocks or obstacles with Bibles. When we serve God and obey Him He will show us the right way to go. ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - Materials needed: Small wooden plaques Clear shellac or varnish Foam brushes Sand paper Small thin decorative ribbon Cream-colored paper WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead) Print the following poem on the cream-colored paper for each child. Print it in special handwriting such as calligraphy or do it on the computer. Xerox a copy for each child. Cut them to size so that they fit on the size wooden plaque you have purchased. When someone tells me no, I must not whine or pout; Though I am disappointed I must not beg or shout. For I must learn to give in When things don't go my way, For everyday I'm learning What it means to obey. WHAT THE CHILDREN DO: Give each child a plaque and a piece of sandpaper. Have them sand the plaque and wipe it off with a rag. Give each child a copy of the poem. Read it together and talk about it. Give each child a foam brush with some clear shellac on it. Have them lay the poem on the plaque (right-side-up) and shellac over it. Allow the plaques to dry completely before taking them home. Role-play several scenarios where children may be tempted to whine or pout. Help them learn the poem and repeat it after each scenario.