This past
Sunday we focused on how God created us, and loves us. But first, we reviewed our memory verse (In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth) & each one who could
say it after review got their butterfly stamp.
Next, we took out the creation pictures we’d used last week and everyone
had to find one thing in the picture that God created. For each one, we sang our “God created…so we
thank Him” song.
Then we passed out worksheets
with five sets of four pictures, one in each set being something that God did not create: e.g. rabbit, fish, tree,
car. Most of the kids had to think at
least a little. I thought it was
interesting that everyone knew that God made a tree, but several were ready to
choose that God did not make an apple.
(The fact that there was a television in that set of pictures didn’t
give them pause.) Okay, so if God didn’t
create those things, who did?
People. And who created
people? God. (I need to clue in the helpers not to
volunteer the answers to the questions!)
We explained that the Bible says
God created people “in His own image.”
Does that mean everyone looks exactly alike? Not hardly!
Here we broke up into pairs, each pair with one adult helper. They were supposed to look together at what
they had in common (two eyes, one nose, etc.) vs. what were differences (shape
of ears, fingers, height, weight—hair and eye color didn’t work for our group,
ha!) Then each helper introduced one
special thing about their kids. As each
was shared, we put their names in the “God created” song—“God created…and God
loves him/her.”
We repeated the concept that
being created in God’s image didn’t mean we all look alike. But that one thing it means is that we can
create things, too! Everybody got a
small ball of playdough and were told they could make “anything they wanted.” I knew this was a stretch for our kids,
creative imagination not being their strong point in general. But they responded well to suggestions and/or
lots of help. When they were done, we
had one helper take them all out into the hallway for a minute while the rest
of us distributed their creations around on various chairs. Then they came back in and had to find their
own creation. We talked about how they
didn’t want to end up with anyone else’s; each wanted the one that he/she had
made because it was special to them.
Which is how God feels about us—because He made us, we are special to
Him and he wouldn’t trade us for anything!
The application for this was
that because we are special to Him, we can talk to Him about anything. We asked each kid whether they were happy or
sad. They all said happy and all gave
reasons. (Except the one boy who had
fallen fast asleep while I was talking to the first two kids in the row,
ha! Aren’t I the exciting teacher!) Then we offered a brief prayer with/for each
child, thanking God for the thing that made them happy.
We ended up the morning with
something I was so excited to be able to pass out to every kid (except two
newcomers, who were promised theirs for next week if they come back): I’d
discovered this wonderful website, coloringpagecreator.com, where you can
upload your photos and presto, they become coloring pages! So everyone got a picture of themselves to
color! (The two new kids got generic
creation coloring pages, but I have their pictures printed out and ready for
this Sunday!)
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