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Why to reinvent the wheel? Good, never out of date, 22 ideas for activities. |
Age from 3 to 9 yrs old.
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1. Make a flannel board. Make figures out of felt or by cutting pictures out of magazines or flash cards and pasting felt on the back to use while telling a story. You can ask for help from parents and older siblings and keep all your figures (and big words cut out of felt) in a box to keep and expending year after year. Make the use of the flannel board interactive, letting children use it as well. 2. Have them color a picture having to do with the lesson or draw a picture relating with the lesson. 3. Have them cut out a series of pictures and put them in the correct order to tell the story. 6. Memorize a verse by writing each word on separate small pieces of paper, put it on the table for everyone to see and take out one piece (starting by the last one) and make the children say the verse again. Repeat the process until the children can tell the verse without reading it on paper. Then mixing all the pieces of paper and by team make them put the verse together in the shorter time as possible. 7. Each child draw a different picture about the story. Put them together into a book and read it to the class for review. (the Sunday after). 8. Make a puzzle. Let them make a picture on paper and glue it on poster board and on the back side draw the shape for puzzle and cut the piece to be assemble. It could be done as a giant puzzle made on the full poster board and keep for next year group. 9. Drama. Act out the story after telling it or have them pantomime it while you are reading or telling it. 10. For review, have a picture (could be flash card of main bible character) for each story and let them chose a picture and retell the story. It's a good way to know about how much your new students know and understood those stories. 11. Have them make masks of a character they want to be and let them talk about some topic (pehaps moral values). 12. Puppets can serve the same purpose. You can make them simple felt puppets (just the basic form) and make them decorate them according to the story. 13. Tell a story as if the puppets are talking instead of yourself. It gets their attention. Review with puppets, let the puppets ask them questions. 14. When teaching about 3 stages of growth, have them each plant a seed, such as a bean, to observe every week or let them take it home to observe. 15. Before teaching about the Fall, put a dish of something they love (candy) in the center of the table and then tell them they can touch anything else except that. Leave the room. When you return, see if they resisted temptation. Whichever they did can be used to begin the discussion about temptation. 16. Play "baseball". One team is up to bat. The teacher is the pitcher and "pitches" a question. Each question is worth a certain amount, according to difficulty. If he gets it right, he may go to 1st (easy question), 2nd (more difficult), 3rd (more difficult), or hit a home run (very difficult). If he doesn't know the answer, he's out, (He gets only one strike.) After 3 outs, the other team is up. The game is over when you run out of questions. 17. Make a TV out of a cardboard box, and have them stand behind it to tell the news. It could be biblical news, holiday coming up, testimonies. 18. Whole class makes a mural. 19. Go for a nature scavenger. 20. Go for a clean up walk, picking up trash to help take responsibility for making God's world more beaufiful. 21. Play charades. 22. When teaching moral values, they could act the wrong way and then the right way to do something. |