If your looking for discussion ideas or an activity for your weekly Sunday school lesson for the Parable of the Sower, try the ones below. Your 9-11 year olds will enjoy these and the ideas will create some thoughtful discussions in the class.
Bible Story:
Today’s bible reading is the Parable of the Sower:
Matthew 13: 1-9
Either read this to the class or ask for volunteers and divide the passage out between them to read aloud to the rest of the class.
Discussion 1:
What’s this parable about? Do they see that it has two meanings – the first one is the obvious one of a farmer sowing his seeds, and the other a more important one, of God’s word being the seed, and people being the soil. What kind of people are which kind of soil?
Activity 1:
Prepare in advance several different types of seed – fruit, vegetable, grain. Give each seed type a number. Then have a picture for each seed type and give each picture a letter. Have the students look at the seeds and the pictures and for each number, choose a letter of what they think that seed will grow into. Don’t forget to keep a master list with you so you can tell them which ones are which when the activity is done.
Discussion 2:
What do they think of parables as a way to get a message across? Do they think that they are easier to understand than if you just told them the same message without the parable.
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