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Title: Kindergarten Sabbath School Program, December 1,
2001

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

Date Completed: Nov. 1, 2001

Abstract: Activities to use in place of program helps
to teach the lesson, GOD TAKES CARE OF THE ARK
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Lesson Aim: To teach the child to respect God and those
around them.

Memory Verse: "I will not give my glory to another or
my praise to idols."  Isa. 42:8, NIV


GETTING THEIR ATTENTION - RESPECT ROUND-UP

Materials needed:  
woman's purse
eyeglasses
keys
model (airplane, car etc.)
Pocketknife or other man's tool
perfume
markers
watch
Bible
Plain white paper
pens

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Draw each item from above on one piece of plain white
paper.  Xerox so each child has a copy.  Hide the items
above in the materials list around the room.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Give each child a xeroxed paper and a pen.  Ask them to
search throughout the room for things that belong to
other people.  They are to look for the items on their
paper and circle them when they find them.  Come back
together.  Say, "Everything belongs to someone. 
Besides taking care of our own things we must learn how
to respect other people's things, including God..  This
is a lesson the Israelites had to learn in our Bible
story this week.  GO STRAIGHT INTO THE BIBLE STORY.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - JOURNEY OF THE ARK MAZE

Materials needed:
A reproducible maze from another activity book
Pens
Crayons

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Enlarge the maze so you can add several pictures as you
follow through it.  Draw the following pictures or
symbols and add them to the maze so that the children
will come to them as they journey through the maze. 
Draw a picture of the ark at the start of the maze and
the tabernacle at the end.  Throughout the maze add: A
shield and spear to represent a battle; an idol to
represent Dagon; Little buildings to represent the ark
being moved to another city; more little buildings at
another spot in the maze to represent the ark being
moved to still another city; more little buildings to
represent a third city the ark was taken to; two cows. 
Xerox a copy of this lesson maze for each child.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
As you narrate the story the children follow the ark's
journey through the maze with their pen stopping at
each picture to color it.


GETTING INTO SCRIPTURE - MEMORY VERSE MAGNET

Materials needed:
Plain white paper (one sheet per child)
Colored paper (one sheet per child)
Magnetic tape
2-3" piece of ribbon 
   (approximately «" in width) one for each child
Glue
Picture of Bible on p. 32 in Kindergarten quarterly

WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
Trace over the Bible on p. 32 in the quarterly with a
black pen.  Under the words, Holy Bible, print the
memory verse words using dots the children can trace
over.  Xerox and cut out one for each child.  Cut each
child a piece of colored paper to fit the front cover
of the Bible.  

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Trace over all the dotted words inside the Bible.  Glue
the colored cover to the front and add the piece of
real ribbon where the marker is shown.  Add a piece of
magnetic tape to the back to send project home as a
memory verse refrigerator reminder.


ACTING ON SCRIPTURE - 

Materials needed:
Same items from Getting Their Attention Activity
WHAT THE TEACHER DOES: (To prepare ahead)
There are no advance preparations necessary.

WHAT THE CHILDREN DO:
Have the children sit in a circle.  You, the teacher,
choose one of the items (for example: the woman's
purse).  Circle behind the children several times then
lay the article behind of the children.  The child
picks up the article walks around the circle then
before sitting down tells the rest of the group how
they would show respect for that particular item.  Some
suggestions would be: (They need to come up with one
idea not all)
1.  Don't get into it without asking.
2.  Put it back right where you found it.
3.  Replace it if something does happen to it.
4.  Don't give it or loan it to anyone else

The child then puts that article into the middle of the
circle and selects another one to circle around the
group of children with.  This continues until all items
are used up.