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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, October 13,
2001

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

Date Completed: September 15, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, THE DAY THE SUN STOOD STILL
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Lesson Aim: God can bring good out of bad experiences.

Memory Verse: "If we ask anything according to his
will, he hears us."  1 John 5:14, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - NATURE PASSWORD

Materials needed:
None

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

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children stand in front of their chairs.  Tell
them you are going to give them words that talk about
things in nature that obey God.  Give the first child
in line the first word clue.  If they guess the answer,
they sit down..  If they guess wrong or don't guess at
all, they remain standing.  Continue giving clues on
down the line until the password is guessed.  Once the
password is guessed the child who guesses it sits down. 
Start on the clues for the next password.

PASSWORDS           CLUES
Rain                Wet, drops, water, falls, sky
Snow                Cold, falls, flakes, drifts, plowed
Wind                Invisible, blows, howls
Waves               Crash, spray, foam, roll, spread
                    over the sand
Hail                Ice, hard, balls, stones, damage
Sun                 Burns, heats, lights, ball, sky

In our story today God uses hail and the sun to help
the Israelites win a battle.  What a powerful God He
is!  GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - BIBLE STORY CARD REVIEW

Materials needed:
3 X 5 cards (5 for each child)
Markers

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
On each child's set of (5) 3 X 5 cards draw the
following pictures, one picture per card.

PICTURES
5
spear & shield
mountains
hailstones
sun
Mix the cards well and place in one big deck.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children sit in a circle around the card deck. 
Beginning with one designated child, have each child
around the circle draw a card.  Explain to them that
there are five different cards each of them has to have
in order to win.  Keep going around the circle taking
turns drawing a card.  If a card is drawn that they
already have, they immediately discard it to the bottom
of the draw pile.  If they draw a card they need, they
add it to their hand and the play continues around the
circle.  The game is over when everyone has a full set
of five cards.  Look at the cards.  Talk with the
children about how each card relates to the Bible
story.  

5 - represents the five kings in Canaan who wanted to
war against the Gibeonites

Spear & shield - represents the weapons of war the
Israelites prepared for battle with.

Mountains - represent where the enemy soldiers hid from
the Israelites

Hailstones - represents what God reigned down on the
enemy armies to help the Israelites.

Sun - represents how God delayed time for one whole
day, so the Israelite army could win the battle.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE REVIEW

Materials needed:
Paper plate
Yellow markers
Strips of yellow construction paper (11 for each child)
Scissors
Stapler
Pen
Bibles
     
WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
On each child's 11 strips of yellow construction paper
write one word of the memory verse with the pen.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Show the children where the memory verse is found in
the Bible.  Give each child a paper plate and a yellow
marker.  Have them color all one side yellow.  Show
them how to arrange the "rays of the sun" (yellow
strips of construction paper) around the sun so that
the memory verse can be read in the correct order. 
Give them some glue to glue each ray to the back of the
plate.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - 

Materials needed:
Water-color paints
Plain white paper
Pencils
Wet paper towels or wipes

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Across the top of all the plain white paper write the
words, JESUS CAN MAKE BEAUTIFUL THINGS COME FROM MY
MISTAKES.  There should be 1-2 papers for each child.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Tell the children, "I once heard a story about a man
who was eating at a very fancy restaurant.  He was
telling a story and waving his arms all around while he
was talking.  He knocked his cup of brown soda off the
table and a big brown stain splatted on the wallpaper
and began spreading.  He felt very bad.  The owner of
the restaurant was called.  He came out and grabbing a
pen out of his pocket he drew a magnificent set of deer
antlers around the stain.  After he had added the face
and done some shading and excellent picture of an elk
remained on the wall forever erasing from people's
minds the ugly brown stain.  That reminds me of what
Jesus wants to do for you and me.  We make mistakes. 
Our mistakes are like ugly brown stains.  When we are
sorry and ask Jesus to forgive us, He can make good
things happen in spite of our mistakes just like the
owner of the restaurant did."

Give each child a sheet of white paper.  Add water to
the watercolor paints.  Have the children select a
color and dip their thumb into the paint then press it
onto their paper.  Comment on the fact that all we have
are stains or blobs of paint on the paper.  Help the
children add features to their blobs to create little
creatures.  (Mouse, cat, snowman, bunny etc.)  Make as
many creatures as time allows.