During circle time start a story with “Once upon a time…” Have the children take turns telling more of the story. Write it down and display it in your home or classroom! Once you wr ...
During circle time start a story with “Once upon a time…” Have the children take turns telling more of the story. Write it down and display it in your home or classroom! Once you write it down have the children draw a picture of their story using crayons, markers or colored pencils. They can draw multiple pictures if they’d like then you can put them together to make their own Fairy Tale book.
I thought it would be neat to add a bit of background information about Fairy Tales that you could talk about with children. I just found this information from Wikipedia so if you’d like to do a bit more research to share with the children feel free to do so.
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described)and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.
In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending)or "fairy tale romance" (though not all fairy tales end happily). Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any farfetched story or tall tale; it's used especially of any story that not only isn't true, but couldn't possibly be true.
Miss Cullen and Gator are going to show the uppercase and lowercase letter Oo in this video. Then review the sound of the Oo. Next look at three types of food that have the letter O with Gator and Mis ...
Miss Cullen and Gator are going to show the uppercase and lowercase letter Oo in this video. Then review the sound of the Oo. Next look at three types of food that have the letter O with Gator and Miss Cullen with this Food Series Video: Onion, Oreo, Olive. If you have these items at home you can try them with Miss Cullen and discuss what it feels like, tastes like, sounds like and smells like.
Remember, when trying the different foods, it has to go in your mouth but it doesn’t have to stay there. But it is always good to try something new.
Music and Movement: All Around the Castle
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Parables are a great way to teach about the words of Jesus because they are in the form of a story. Let’s take a look at wh ...
Thank you Ministry to Children for providing the content below.
Parables are a great way to teach about the words of Jesus because they are in the form of a story. Let’s take a look at why Jesus taught his disciples using parables. The children will learn what a parable is and why Jesus taught using parables. There are a lot of things below to read and use with your children. You can use what you’d like to learn about why Jesus taught in parables.
Ask: “Who loves to listen to stories? Why do you like to listen to stories?” Take some feedback from the children. “Did you know that Jesus told lots of stories when He was on earth as a way to teach us? Jesus’ stories are called parables. A parable is a simple story that tells a lesson.”
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“Why do you think Jesus taught us using parables? Let’s look at the reason Jesus himself gave when he was talking to his disciples.”
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Read from Matthew 13:10-17.
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“In these verses Jesus explains why he taught using parables.”
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Reread verse 11. “Jesus spoke in simple stories as a way of teaching his disciples lessons he wanted them to learn. Lessons learned in the form of a story are easy to remember and later share with others. His disciples could listen to the story and understand the lesson Jesus wanted them to learn. Those who were not his disciples heard the stories, but did not understand the lessons.”
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“Why do you think some people did not understand the lessons in Jesus’ stories?” Take input from the children. “They did not understand because they had hardened their hearts to hearing the truth Jesus was teaching.”
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I highly recommend you use the Salvation Object Lesson, to demonstrate to your children the difference between a hard heart and a soft heart. God’s truth cannot penetrate a hard egg shell covered in sin, but it can penetrate the soft skin of a hard-boiled egg white whose hard shell of sin has been removed. You can use a straight pin as “God’s Word” and show how the pin cannot push through or penetrate the hard shell, but once the hard shell is removed the straight pin easily enters through the soft egg white.
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Reread verse 12. “Those who believe in Jesus and understand the lesson of his parables will continue to learn even more because their hearts are soft toward learning truth. For those who do not believe in Jesus even the lessons they have learned they will soon forget because their hearts are hard.”
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Reread verse 13-16. “The eyes and ears Jesus is talking about are our spiritual eyes and ears. People who believe in Jesus have eyes to see his truth and ears to hear his truth because their hearts are soft. They are blessed by what they learn. The soft heart of a Christian wants to understand Jesus’ parables and learn more of the lessons Jesus has to teach. But, people with hard hearts have blind eyes and deaf ears to learning the meaning of God’s Word. They do not want to know the meaning of Jesus’ parables because their hearts are hard.”
- “Do you like to learn about Jesus through parables? When you come to church to learn about the Bible do you have a soft heart? Or do you have a hard heart that does not want to learn more about God’s Word?”
- “Jesus taught in parables for his followers to understand the truth he was teaching, but those with hard hearts could not understand. Are you a follower of Jesus or a person with a hard heart who does not want to know more about Jesus’ teaching?”
Provide the children with different measuring devices (beakers, measuring cups, measuring spoons, etc.). Use pitchers and fill them with different colors of water. Also, lay out trays with glitter, fo ...
Provide the children with different measuring devices (beakers, measuring cups, measuring spoons, etc.). Use pitchers and fill them with different colors of water. Also, lay out trays with glitter, foam letters, felt, paper cut outs etc. Have the children measure or spoon different amounts of their liking into a bowl and stir to make their own magic potion. When done, pour their potion into an empty bottle. Have them tell you about their “Potion”. What does it do? What does it smell like, feel like?
