Use this activity when planning your [tag]Sunday school curriculum[/tag] to teach about Jacob and his persistence in pleasing God. (TEACHER WORDS IN BOLD)
Before your [tag]Sunday school[/tag] class starts, put a pint of heavy cream, a metal bowl, and a wisk in the church kitchen. First you’ll need the kids to make a road trip to the church kitchen, where they will find the items you have put there in the refrigerator.
“If you don’t give up on the little things, you won’t give up on the big things.” That is a famous saying and one we should all put in our hearts. Persistence Means to NOT GIVE UP. Every day we have to persist in little things.
Let’s practice. First, we’re going to take a trip together to the church kitchen and see what the Lord has in store for us. To get there, we’re going to practice patience, which is great to practice when combined with persistence.
Have the children line up. Tell them they’re going to walk by putting their heel of one foot to the toe of their other foot, and that way, take one step. Then, they repeat with the other foot, sort of as if they’re walking on a board and trying to keep their balance. The important thing is that their heel should meet their toe without any spaces with each foot and each step.
Depending on how far the kitchen is (and how big their feet are), try to keep them walking like that for three minutes. They may then “rest,” which is to walk normally, to complete the rest of the trip. When you get to the kitchen, have the children get the materials (pint, metal bowl, wisk) out of the refrigerator.
Now we’re going to practice patience and persistence again, only this time in another way. This time, we’re going to walk backwards”¦slowly, so we don’t bang into anything.
Make certain they understand not to skip or run backwards – one step at a time.
When Jacob was in love with Rachel, he took one step at time. He was patient and persistent for seven years. He didn’t always know where he was going, just as we don’t. He had to feel for God’s way. Let’s practice, and see how far we can get if we go slowly and try not to bang into each other.
Once back in the classroom, pour the heavy crème into the cold metal dish. Add three tablespoons of sugar.
If we’re very persistent in our whisking, we can turn this cream into whip cream! But it takes a lot of beating to make whip cream by hand. While we’re working on that, we’ll talk about persistence and us.
Let the children take turns whisking; Have the assistant hold the bowl so nobody spills it over. It takes about seven minutes to whip cream into cream by hand (and it must be cold first!). Hence, while kids take turn whisking. Ask questions about how they can apply persistence to their lives.
Prompts:
Who is trying to improve on a sport?
Who is trying to improve in school?
Who is trying to get along better with a sister, brother or friend?
Have they asked for [tag]God’s help[/tag] with their sport, their schoolwork, or to build that relationship?
Let’s ask him now: Say a prayer that the children will realize that God wants to be part of their lives too, and he will teach us patience and persistence.
By this point, if everyone has whisked hard, you ought to have whip crème.
Look what we did with our persistence”¦ Ta da!! Whip cream!
Top either a pie or pudding cups with the whip cream, and let everyone enjoy.
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