One of the best ways to teach Christian living to 2-5 year olds is through stories, songs and crafts. Use these Sunday school crafts to relate their activities to everyday life and how to be better Christians.
Story:
Today, rather than tell a story from the Bible, illustrate the theme by telling a story about a Minister’s role in his congregation. Use basic language that this age group can understand. At this point, just recount a week or a month in the life of the leader of your church, emphasizing the things that he/she does that show Christianity in action.
Discuss:
What is Christian? Helpful? Kind? Caring? Compassionate? Illustrate these words with examples things your minister does that fit into the words you use. After each word and your example, ask the children for examples of how they are this word – perhaps they help Momma fold laundry, or they keep quiet when the baby’s asleep, and so on.
Activity: Create a Class Chain of Christian Living:
You will need some construction paper in different colors cut into strips about 1.5 inches wide. A pen which is thick enough to write bold, easy to read letters, and some sticky tape.
Give each child two strips of paper. Then help them to write their name on the first strip, and then a Christian attribute on the second. Once all of the children have two completed paper strips, write God on another strip and then use the tape to stick the ends together. Have the children join their strips to the chain one at a time by threading the strip through the last loop created and then securing their strip into a loop with tape. Try to organize it so that the chain reads name+attribute+name+attribute and so on.
Hang the chain where it can be seen by the children when they enter the room.
Song: (To the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands)
If you’re a Christian and you know it
Praise the Lord
If you’re a Christian and you know
Praise the Lord
If you’re a Christian and you know
And you really want to show it
If you’re a Christian and you know it
Praise the Lord
If you’re a Christian and you know it
Thank the Lord
“¦..and so on
If you’re a Christian and you know it
Shout I am (I AM!)
“¦..and so on
Activity 2:
Supply each of the children with a piece of construction paper, and provide some crayons.
Tell the children about someone who is sick in your congregation, or about a old people’s home nearby, or a hospice for sick people, or somewhere that will appreciate having had the children thinking about them. Next tell the children that they are going to create a picture that you will to this person/place.
Ask the children to draw and color a picture with flowers on it. When they are done, make sure each child’s name is on the picture, along with their age, and then place them in an envelope. During the week, deliver the pictures as a gift from the class.
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