This week...

We talked about Samuel this morning. We read The Giving Tree and talked about how we all have a purposed, no matter how big or how small! We sang two new Samuel songs and learned the story of Samuel on the sticky board. We learned that God had a plan for Samuel even as small as he was, he was grooming him to be a great leader and that we have great leaders in our church right now as well. We acted it out using, eli, samuel, and God. We played "simon says" to practice our listening skills and make sure that we were good listeners like Samuel and could hear God's plan for us in our lives too. We also talked about the light on the darkside of the mountain and how Hannahs trouble was not being able to have a baby and that she prayed to God to help her and he was her light. We colored a picture of Samuel in bed, hearing God's call and glued blankets on him. Had a great Sunday! Thanks to all my helpers! (not as many pictures as usual...forgot my good camera :)

This Week...

We will be talking about Rahab on Sunday. Be on the lookout for rahab coloring pages and wordsearches on the front tables for worship service for the big kids. This should tie in nicely with Phil's lesson and help them stay focused! Shana is supposed to be putting crayons out for the kids to do my sheets. We will tell the story of Rahab using the sticky board..and then act it out with our "house, window, and stone wall, made out of a cardtable cottage and a block wall." We will do a craft where the kids will glue stone onto rahabs house and then have a scarlet rope that allows the spies to come down the stone wall, and sing the songs: R-a-h-a-b, and The Lords Army. Please encourage your kids to sing loud and praise God. We are focusing on that these next few weeks and will have a Praise God board where we can add stickers for our wonderful singing....(we have some sleepyheads who like to sing adn plug their ears while we sing, making others self-conscious!) Will show pictures of our lesson on here Sunday so check back to see your kiddos learning and praising God!

Homemade Playdough Recipe

A few people asked me for the recipe to the dough we used this morning....
this is super cheap, takes two seconds,and you can make it whatever color you want by adding food coloring. If you store it in the fridge it will last months and months!

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
1 T oil
3 T cream of tartar

mix in a pot and heat on medium, stirring constantly until it turns into a big blob. It might look lumpy but once its done and you mush it itll be smooth and perfect! Takes about 5 minutes on medium heat. But I quadrupled for class and took longer.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE PERKINS AND PATTESONS FOR HELPING!!! You were a huge help!

This Week...

Phil is talking about deacons/leaders but also about the widow of zarephath in 1 kings 17 and how God cared for her and elijah in the dark times. This goes right along with "light on the dark side of the mountain" that your kids have been learning about. We are teaching them that no matter what hard times or troubles we have in life, God will take care of us and we have to trust him.
**We are also doing handouts for church kids that are too big for kids praise that directly correlate to phils lesson! This week i am having cassie printout an Elijah crossword puzzle and wordsearch for the big kids to do during phils lesson! Be on the lookout for them on the tables on sunday!

We will be acting out the story of elijah and the widow with our sticky board and the pictures shown. We will talk about how elijah trusted God to take care of him and he had a never ending supply of FLOUR and OIL.

We will read Charlie and Lola I can do it all by myself....and talk about how in the end she realized she couldnt do it all by herself. We cant do it all alone either...we need Gods help to find the light on the darkside of the mountain and to help us with our troubles. (How we use Gods help becomes our God story!)

We will use FLOUR and OIL to make playdough and try to make jars for carrying water, etc, out of them. The kids will get to bring home their playdough.

Last Week

Last week they made mountains with snowcaps and a bright sun representing Gods light on the dark side of the mountain. They glued struggles and troubles that they have along the way as they climbed the mountain. Some kids chose picky eating, time outs, fighting, worrying, not sharing, etc. We talked about no matter how big the problem, God is in control! They saw a power point about this concept and we read about Jonah not trusting God and hiding from him and the consequences from that. Then we read a book called: Wemberly Worries, about a little mouse who doesnt know that God is in control.