It’s an easy lesson – until your children get to the thinking part. Pack up some household items which aren’t entirely useful. Sit with kids and try to think up five reasons to be thankful for that item. Materials Five objects from your house, possibly including a photograph of someone, an old kitchen utensil that […]
Happy Pumpkin Faces (& Our Partnership w/God) – A Pumpkin Object Lesson
Pumpkin painting can be a little messy, but it’s also a lot of fun! Lay down newspapers and have a ball teaching kids about our partnership with God – using paints – in this pumpkin object lesson. (He gives us our bodies; we decide whether we will have a smile or a scowl on our […]
“Different but Equal” Object Lesson Activity
Children will actually get to see how equality works in this object lesson where they make a scale and see how different things are needed to make all things equal. Materials: • Two plastic coat hangers • Yarn • Scissors • Two plastic buckets, the same size • Objects of various weights and sizes (they […]
Dark Cupcakes In The Light
We’re talking about being lights in the dark in this New Year! Keeping the room dark, put out a plate of chocolate cupcakes, you can barely see them! Put a glass filled with a glow-stick bouquet and ice water in the middle, and it lights up the snack… like we light up a dark world! […]
How Mom is Like Clay (A Mother’s Day Object Lesson)
Materials Ball of play dough (Use play dough instead of clay because it is more porous and will flex more.) A dozen children’s hardback books, about the same size and shape of a Dr. Seuss book Marker Cutting knife Bible One other big, heavy book Preparation 1. Roll the play dough into a ball. Make […]
Colorful Possibilities for 2018 – A New Year Science Experiment
Here is a great lesson that uses a rainbow to focus on God’s great attributes-which should bring peace to anyone who hears them, regardless of what circumstances bring. Materials Skittles, 25 for the activity (five of each of the five colors) and enough for your students to have five or six each Clear or white […]
New Year’s Object Lesson: Committing Ourselves to God’s Hands This Year
If you are still exhausted from the Holidays, this is a great time to step back and let imaginations fly. This easy New Year’s Object Lesson using Play-Doh will have kids making promises to God for the New Year. But instead of promising to strive alone for perfection, which is stressful and based on our […]