Ask the children what they think may be in a pirate’s treasure chest. You can show them pictures of a treasure chest and what is inside. Most of the time in a treasure chest you will find cold coins ...
Ask the children what they think may be in a pirate’s treasure chest. You can show them pictures of a treasure chest and what is inside. Most of the time in a treasure chest you will find cold coins and so we are going to work on counting, fine motor skills and number recognition with this gold coin activity. Provide the children with yellow construction paper and have the child cut out small circles. If you don’t have yellow construction paper you can have your children color the coins with a yellow crayon. Click here for the gold coin pattern. If your child has a difficult time cutting out the circles you may want to go ahead and do it for them or help them do it. Number the circles 1-20 or whatever number you think is appropriate for your children. You can write the numbers or have your child write the numbers on the coins. Using tape place a number line on the table have the children match the coins with the numbers on the line. You can put a strip of masking tape on the table and take a marker and write numbers 1-20 on the tape line. If you would like another idea to make a number line here is a video or you can watch to make a number line out of construction paper. Once all of the gold coins are made you can mix them up and have the children match the number on the coins to the number on the number line.
Paul’s Journey
Print out the Bible memory verse coloring sheet and have your children color the picture. Sit with your children while they are coloring and talk about what they see in the picture ( ...
Paul’s Journey
Print out the Bible memory verse coloring sheet and have your children color the picture. Sit with your children while they are coloring and talk about what they see in the picture (see questions below if you’d like some ideas). Your discussion will lead into the Paul’s Journey story you read together.
Questions to ask if you like:
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• How many people do you see in this picture? (Two)
• Where do you think they are? (In prison. Children my have different answers since they haven't heard the story yet, so you can accept all answers.)
• What emotion are they showing? Do they look happy, sad or scared? (Happy)
• What is attached to their body? (Chains on their hands and wooden shackles on ankles.)
• Why do you think they have chains on their body? (Accept all answers)
• Do you think God is taking care of Paul and Silas? (Yes)
• Did you know that God takes care of you? (Yes)
This is a perfect time to talk about the Bible and how to use it. You can show the children your Bible so they have a better understanding of what a book, chapter and verse are. You can say: "The Bible is one big book made up of many smaller books. Each book has a name. Today we are learning a Bible verse in the book of Acts. When you find Acts in the new testament look for the number 16 at the top left or right of the page, this is the chapter. You will see Acts 16:31. We are looking for verse 31, and that number is much smaller under the big 16."
After looking at the Bible show them "Acts 16:31" written out on their Memory Verse Coloring Sheet. To see and hear all the books that make up the Bible watch this fun, short video, Books Of The Bible, by Reader!
After they are done coloring they can hang their Memory Verse Coloring Sheet up in a special place. Then when your child walks by the sheet they can work on memorizing the Bible verse.
Today we are going to do a science activity finding Ice Treasures. Watch my video or read below to get started.
To make ice treasures use a container and have the children place different treasure i ...
Today we are going to do a science activity finding Ice Treasures. Watch my video or read below to get started.
To make ice treasures use a container and have the children place different treasure items from the classroom/home into the container. They will need to be small items that are okay to be in water and then frozen. Toy cars, dinosaurs, rocks, shells, buttons, beads etc. Fill the container with water and let it sit in the freezer. This is a fun activity for your children to help with preparing. Once the water is frozen you will need to provide your children with the tools (warm water, rock salt (or table salt if you don’t have rock salt), plastic syringes) to get the items out of the ice. I recommend doing this activity outside. This lady from Happy Hooligans has some awesome pictures for this activity that you may want to take a look at.
