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Additional Activities |
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1. Let each child make an illustration
of the lesson each week. Collect the pages weekly and make individual
books by stapling together or tying edges with a string for the child
to take home when the concept is completed. |
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2. Let each child make a journal.
After each lesson on a particular concept, the child should write a
paragraph about what he learned. You may want them to illustrate as
well. The journal pages can be made into a book at the completion of
the concept. |
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3. After the lesson, let each
child illustrate one part of the lesson. Then let each child show and
explain his illustration to the class in the correct order to retell
the story. |
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4. Let the class make a mural.
Write the title of the lesson in the center of a large piece of paper
or a strip of butcher paper. Let each child illustrate one part of the
lesson around the table. |
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5. After the lesson, let the
children help you compile a list of concepts that they learned from
the story on the chalkboard. |
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6. Let the children role-play the
story. |
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7. Write true/false statements
from the lesson on strips of paper. Turn them face down on the table.
Let each child pick one and tell whether it is true or false. |
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8. Make a yellow circle of paper
for each child with a smiley face on the front and a frowning face on
the back. Tell the children a situation in which a child is behaving
as God would like Him to or as God would not like in relation to the
lesson concept. Let the children show whether God would approve or not
by showing you the smiley or frowning side. |
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9. Let the children play a game
to review the lesson. Make a simple board game. Or draw the center of
a flower. Each time a child answers a question correctly, draw a petal
on the flower. You can do the same with a tree trunk and leaves. When
the flower or tree is complete, give a small candy to each child. |
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10. Give each child a Bible. Call
out a book of the Bible or specific verse. Let the children race to
find it first. Be sure to help each child locate it after the winner
has been declared. |
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11. Play Bible Who-Am-I. Give
clues to a character that has been studied in the past 6 months. Give
one clue at a time until children can guess. |
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12. Play 20 Questions. You pick a
character, place or event from previous lessons. The children ask you
yes or no questions to try to find out the answer. They have to guess
using less than 20 questions. |
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13. Play Hangman with characters,
places or other words or phrases that relate to the lesson. Instead of
drawing a man hanging, you might want to draw parts of a snowman or
some other seasonal item. |
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14. Make flash cards of the books
of the Old and New Testament. Mix them up and have the children put
them in order. In the beginning they can use a chart, but later must
work from memory. |
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15. Provide Bible times costumes-
simple pullover robe and piece of cloth to put over head and tie with
a string- and let children retell story from the perspective of a
particular character. Or have the child pretend to be the character
and you interview him or her. |
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16. Let the children make puppets
of lesson characters. |
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17. Make cards to play
concentration using character names, Bible book names, simple pictures
of stories, etc. |