Here is a great Good Samaritan Sunday School Lesson for your younger classes- ages 2-5.
Opening Prayer: To welcome the start of the class. For example:
“Dear God. As we once again come together, help us to learn more about your work and how we can be better Christians. Amen”
Set up your room once the children arrive. Ask them to help. Thank them for being a good neighbor when it’s done.
Bible Story:
The Good Samaritan. Find a picture book in the library or tell the story in language that the children in your class will understand.
Talk about what a good neighbor is. Ask them what they can do to help others – have a few ideas of your own that you know your age group is capable of doing to start them off. Write down each suggestion on a piece of paper that’s large enough for them to read, but will fit onto the paper you’re going to use for your activity. Make sure you have enough “suggestions” so that each child in the class will have a piece of paper.
Activity:
Draw an outline of a person (or just head/shoulders if you aren’t artistically inclined). Refer back to the discussion about what a good neighbor is, and ask them once again for suggestions. As each suggestion is remembered and called out, give the corresponding piece of paper to the first child to call out the answer and have them stick it around the outline drawing. When complete you should have a good example of the kind of things a good neighbor should be – hang this on the wall of your classroom so that you can refer back to it at a later date if you want too. OR
Refer back to the discussion you had earlier and have the children shout out suggestions for being a good neighbor. Write these down. Cut out simple people shapes that are big enough for little hands to color. Have them draw faces on one side. Turn them over and on the reverse; write one suggested answer on each “person”. Attach each “person” to a piece of ribbon, wool or string and then tie these to a coat hanger or thin wood stick to create a good neighbor hanging mobile for your classroom.
Song: To the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it”
If you’re a good neighbor clap your hands
If you’re a good neighbor clap your hands
If you’re a good neighbor, really a good neighbor,
If you’re a good neighbor clap your hands
Repeat with “stamp feet”, “nod head” “shout – WE ARE”
Closing Prayer: Asking God to help being a good neighbor, for example:
“Dear God, thank you for our class today. Help us to be like the good Samaritan in our story. Let us show your work by being a good neighbor to those around us. Amen”
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