R38217 I Can Help God

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I Can Help God Mary J. Davis

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Dedication To my role model as a mother for many years, Mrs. Swinderman, and to her daughters, Diana and Rita, who have been lifelong friends.

To Jeff and Pam, my role models as parents in today’s busy and frightening world.

To Larry, my husband and partner … together we’ve survived over 45 years of marriage, my cancer, your heart surgeries, raising children, and now enjoying our grandchildren.

Instant Bible Lessons for Toddlers: I Can Help God ©2014 by Mary J. Davis ISBN 10: 1-58411-125-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-58411-125-2 RoseKidz® reorder# R38217 RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Children

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Cover Illustrator: Stacey Lamb Interior Illustrator: Darren McKee Scriptures are from the Holy Bible: New International Version (North American Edition), ©1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

Permission is granted to the buyer of this book to photocopy student materials for use with Sunday school or Bible teaching classes.

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Contents ■ ● ■

Introduction...................................... 5

How to Use This Book........................................... 5

Chapter 1: I Can Help God by Helping My Family..............................7 Story.......................................................................... 7 In the Bulrushes...................................................... 8 Bulletin Board Poster.........................................9-10 Baby in a Basket.................................................... 11 Helping My Family Song..................................... 12 Helper Wash Cloth................................................ 13 Rory Helps............................................................. 14 Snack Time Helpers.............................................. 15 Where is the Baby?............................................... 16

Chapter 2: I Can Help God by Taking Care of Others...................17 Story........................................................................ 17 Turnabout Scene...............................................18-19 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................20-21 Showing Kindness Song...................................... 22 Kindness Bug......................................................... 23 I Can Be Kind Necklace....................................... 24 Even Moms Need Kindness................................ 25 Matching Game..................................................... 26

Chapter 3: I Can Help God by Being Wise...................................... 27 Story........................................................................ 27 Stick-on Story....................................................28-29 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................30-31 A Wise Choice ...................................................... 32 See Who Helps God by Being Wise................... 33 I Can Help by Being Wise.................................... 34 Only to the Tree..................................................... 35 Wise Owls............................................................... 36

Chapter 4: I Can Help God by Being Brave..................................... 37

Story Crowns....................................................38-39 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................40-41 I Can Be Brave Song............................................. 42 Crown Potpourri Cup.......................................... 43 Crown Toss Game................................................. 44 Brave Brian............................................................. 45

Chapter 5: I Can Help God by Sharing God’s Word with Others.. 47

Story........................................................................ 47 Chariot Story.....................................................48-49 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................50-51 Sticker Rhyme Story............................................. 52 No-read Storybook to Share God’s Word.......... 53 I Can Share God’s Word...................................... 54 Sharing with Great-grandma’s Friends............. 55 Favorite Bible Stories............................................ 56 Look What I Made Fridge Magnets................... 57

Chapter 6: I Can Help God by Helping My Friends...................... 59

Story........................................................................ 59 Lazarus..............................................................60-61 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................62-63 Three Easy Songs ................................................. 64 Friends Help Classroom Activity....................... 65 I Went Outdoors.................................................... 66 Colorful Memory Verse........................................ 67 Mr. Helper.............................................................. 68

Chapter 7: I Can Help God by Helping Missionaries.................... 69 Story........................................................................ 69 Tent Stories............................................................. 70 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................71-72 Missionary Song.................................................... 73 Helping God Far Away........................................ 74 Helping Paul Game.............................................. 75 A Letter from Far Away....................................... 76

Story........................................................................ 37

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Chapter 8: I Can Help God by Praying for Others........................77 Story........................................................................ 77 Paul Prays.............................................................. 78 Bulletin Board Poster.......................................79-80 Uncle Mike’s Prayer............................................. 81 Prayer Chain.......................................................... 82 Pray for Each Other Song.................................... 83 Prayer Bubbles....................................................... 84

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Chapter 9: More Activities............. 85

Helping by Sharing ............................................. 85 I Can Help God................................................86-87 Book Cover............................................................. 88 Easy Story Shapes............................................89-90 Helping God Chalkboard ................................... 91 Using My Body to Help God.............................. 92 Edible Lesson Review.......................................... 93 Bee a Helper of God........................................94-95

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Introduction ■ ● ■

Do your toddlers know that they can help God?

Knowing how they can help God is a first step in growing in the Lord. After they participate in the activities in I Can Help God, toddlers will begin to understand that they, too, can help God in many ways.

Each of the first eight chapters includes a Bible story, memory verse, and a variety of activities to help reinforce the truth in the lesson. An additional chapter contains miscellaneous projects that can be used anytime throughout the study, or at the end to review the lessons.

The most exciting aspect of Instant Bible Lessons for Toddlers, which includes My Amazing God, Jesus Teaches Me, I Can Help God, and I Believe in Jesus, is its flexibility. You can easily adapt these lessons to a Sunday school hour, a children’s church service, a Wednesday night Bible study or family home use. And, because there is a variety of reproducible ideas from which to choose (see below), you will enjoy creating a class session that is best for your group of students, whether large or small, beginning or advanced, active or studious. The intriguing topics will keep your kids coming back for more, week after week.

* How to Use This Book *

Each chapter begins with a Bible story which you may read to your class in one of two levels, followed by discussion questions. Following each story page is a story visual for you to make and use as you tell the story. Every story chapter also includes a bulletin board poster with the memory verse and suggestions for using the poster as an activity. All the activities are tagged with one of the icons below, so you can quickly flip through the chapter and select the projects you need. Simply cut off the teacher instructions on the pages and duplicate!

story to share

story Visual

bulletin Board

simple craft

activity

easy puzzle

coloring

song/verse

game

snack

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Chapter 1

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I Can Help God By Helping My Family Memory Verse

Serve one another in love.

– Galatians 5:13

Story to Share * *

2’s and 3’s

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God’s people were in the land of Egypt.

Their families grew and grew.

The Pharaoh said, “We must do something to keep these people from becoming so strong that they can rule over us.” So, the king made God’s people become their slaves. Then, he said that all baby boys must be killed so there would be no more generations of God’s people.

Moses’ mother put Baby Moses in a basket on the Nile River. Moses’ sister Miriam watched to make sure the baby was safe. Pharaoh’s daughter found the basket. Miriam asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Would you like me to get someone to feed the baby for you?”

When Pharaoh’s daughter said, “yes,” Miriam went and got her mother. Moses’ mommy got to help take care of him, and he was safe.

Miriam helped God by helping her family. She helped keep her baby brother safe.

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The people of Egypt did not want there to be so many of God’s people. They made God’s people be slaves in Egypt. And, the Pharaoh didn’t want the baby boys to live. Baby Moses’ mother put him in a basket and set the basket near the bank of the river. When the daughter of the Pharaoh found the baby, Moses’ sister Miriam asked if she needed a helper. Miriam brought Moses’ own Based on Exodus 1:8-2:10 mother to take care of Moses.

Questions for Discussion

1. What was in the basket that Miriam’s mother put in the river? Baby Moses.

2.Who did Miriam find to help Pharaoh’s daughter take care of baby Moses?

Moses’ mother.

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• In the Bulrushes • story visual What You Need

• duplicated page • construction paper, brown or green • scissors • pencil

What to Do

1. Before class, cut the

three pictures from the page. Prepare the bulrushes: fold a sheet of brown or green construction paper in half, then fold it in half again.

Use scissors to cut strips down from the open side (not the folded sides), down to about 1 inch from the bottom. Use a pencil to curl the strips outward to look like grass or bulrushes.

2. To tell the story, hold the bulrushes piece upright. Slip the baby Moses figure between the folds. Then, as the story progresses, slip the Pharaoh’s daughter figure, then the Miriam figure between the folds of the bulrushes piece.

Another Idea Use the Moses-in-the-basket figure from the pattern page. Cut out the figure and cover it with clear, self-stick plastic. Place some plastic greenery, such as used in a fish tank, in a shallow pan or plastic container. Pour a little water in the container. Let children put Moses in the bulrushes while you retell the story.

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• Bulletin Board Poster • bulletin board What You Need

• pattern on page 10 • construction paper or card stock • glue • brown and green construction paper

What to Do

1. Depending on

Poster Pointer Board Learning: Duplicate all eight posters in this book, a different color for each. Fasten all eight posters to a bulletin board. Have a safe stool nearby, so that the children may stand on the stool and touch the posters. Say, “Can you find the blue picture? Touch the blue picture while I tell you the Bible story.”

how you want to use the poster (see ideas below), enlarge, reduce, or simply copy page 10 to fit your bulletin board space.

2. To use poster as an in-class activity, cut simple cattail shapes from brown paper.

Also, cut ½ x 2 inch strips of brown and green paper. Help children glue the cattail shapes on the page to look like bulrushes.

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Serve one another in love. – Galatians 5:13

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• Baby in a Basket • simple craft What You Need

• duplicated page for each child • empty plastic dish liquid soap bottles • scissors • white facial tissue • tape or glue • crayons

What to Do

1. Cut the picture

and verse rectangles from the pattern page for each child. Cut a soap bottle for each child. Cut from the bottom of the bottle to about 3 inches up.

Discard the top portion of the bottles 2. Help children tape or glue the rectangles, one to the front and one to the back sides of the soap bottle basket.

3. Fold a tissue to fit in the ‘basket.’

4. Place the baby in the ‘basket’ over the tissue.

Serve one another in love.

– Galatians 5:13

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• Helping My Family Song • song/verse What You Need

• duplicated page

What to Do

1. Learn the words

and actions to the song, “Helping God,” sung to the tune of “Brother John.”

2. Help children learn the actions while you sing the song together.

3. Say the verse, “I Can Help,” with the children. If using the verse for a one-on-one activity, say the names of family members that best fit each child’s family situation.

Helping God Where is Miriam [hide hands behind back] Where is Miriam Here I am [bring one hand out] Here I am [bring second hand out] I’m watching my brother [cup hands above eyes] I’m watching my brother I can help God [point to self, then point to God] I can help God

I am helping [hold up hands and wiggle fingers] I am helping Every day [point and shake index finger] Every day I can help my family [pat hands together as though making something] I can help my family I can help God [point to self, then point to God] I can help God

I Can Help

•Family•

I can help God by helping my mom I can help God by helping my dad I can help God by helping brother I can help God by helping sister I can help God by helping my family.

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• Helper Wash Cloth • Dear Mom and Dad In our class, we learned that Miriam served God by helping her family.

I can help my family, too.

I can use my ‘helper wash cloth’ to wash dishes or clean the table.

My ‘helper wash cloth’ can help me do many things.

Please find some things around the house that I can do to help my family.

I can help God by helping my family.

Lots of love,

simple craft What You Need

• duplicated page for each child • wash cloth, light color, for each child • acrylic paint • shallow pan for paint • water and cloths for hand clean-up • scissors • crayons

What to Do

1. Give each child a

duplicated ‘letter to parents’ and a wash cloth.

2. Help the children carefully dip one hand into a shallow pan of paint, then press their handprints onto a wash cloth.

3. Wash, rinse and dry the child’s hand.

4. While the paint is drying on the wash cloths, children may color the pictures on their letters to take home.

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• Rory Helps • coloring What You Need

• duplicated page for each child • crayons

What to Do

1. Hold up a copy of

the picture so all the children can see it as you tell the story.

2. Give each child a copy of the page to color.

3. While the children color their pictures, read the story. When the story is over, ask children to find the Bible, shoes and keys in the picture.

•Family•

"We’re late for church,” Mom said. “Is everyone dressed? Did

someone help Rory get dressed for church?”

“I can’t find my shoes,” Brian said.

Rory found Brian’s shoes behind the couch. “Here are your shoes,” she said.

“Where is my Bible?” Sheri asked. “I can’t find my Bible.”

Rory pointed to the table. “It’s on the table, right there,” she said.

Mom hurried through the kitchen. “I can’t find my car keys.”

Rory saw the keys on a chair. “Here, Mom,” she said.

“Did someone get Rory dressed for church?” Mom asked again.

“I got dressed by myself,” Rory said. “I don’t need help.” Rory saw Mom’s pocketbook under some newspapers. “Here is your pocketbook,” she said.

Mom patted Rory’s head. “I guess Rory doesn’t need help today.

Rory is being our helper instead.”

Rory liked to help her family.

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• Snack Time Helpers • snack What You Need

• duplicated page • napkins • crayons • glue • cookies • juice or water • cups

What to Do

1. Before class, cut the

helper children from the pattern page.

2. Give each child a napkin and a boy or girl helper child picture.

3. Have the children color the boy or girl. Glue the boy or girl picture onto a napkin.

4. Give each child a job to help serve the snack: ask them to give out cookies, hold cups while juice or water is poured, place a napkin at each person’s place at the table, say a prayer, etc.

5. Say, We can be like a family. We can help each other.

God wants us to help Him by helping each other.”

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• Where is the Baby? • easy puzzle What You Need

• duplicated page for each child • crayons

What to Do

1. Give each child a

puzzle page.

2. Say, Baby Moses is in the bulrushes. Miriam is serving God by watching her brother. Can you find Baby Moses?

3. Have the children color the shapes with a tiny basket in them to find baby Moses in a big basket.

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Chapter 2

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I Can Help God by Taking Care of Others Memory Verse I can show kindness.

– 2 Samuel 9:1

Story to Share * *

2’s and 3’s

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King David’s best friend was Jonathan, King Saul’s son. Jonathan and King Saul were killed in a battle against the Philistines. David missed his friend Jonathan. One day, David asked, “Is there anyone still living of Saul’s family?” A servant from Saul’s household told David that Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth who was crippled in both feet.

David had Mephibosheth brought to him. “I want to show you kindness,” David said. “I want you to eat at my table and let me take care of you.”

Mephibosheth stayed in Jerusalem. David sent servants to take care of the land that had belonged to Saul. David helped God by showing kindness to Mephibosheth.

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David’s best friend was Jonathan. After Jonathan died, King David wanted to find someone in Jonathan’s family to be kind to. A servant told David that Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth’s feet were crippled. David said, “I want to show you kindness.

I want you to stay here and eat at my table.” David helped God by showing kindness to Based on 2 Samuel Chapter 9 Mephibosheth.

Questions for Discussion 1.

Why did David want to find someone from Saul’s family? He wanted to show kindness, because Jonathan was his best friend.

2. What did David share with Mephibosheth?

He gave him all Saul’s land and let him eat

at his table.

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• Turnabout Scene • story visual What You Need

• duplicated pages 18 and 19 • scissors • craft sticks • tape

What to Do

1. Before class, cut the

five figures from the pattern page.

Tape a craft stick to the bottom end of each figure. Cut slits in the scene page where indicated. Fold the scene page in half.

Place a piece of tape along each side to hold the folded page in place.

2. To tell the story, place the numbered figures in the numbered slits as the story progresses. Turn the scene from David’s throne to the table, as you get to that part in the story.

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• Bulletin Board Poster • bulletin board What You Need

• pattern on page 21 • glue • magazine cutouts of food

What to Do

1. Depending on how

you want to use the poster (see ideas below), enlarge, reduce, or simply copy page 21 to fit your bulletin board space.

2. To use the poster as an in-class activity, provide magazine cutouts of food. Let the children glue pictures of food to the table in the poster.

Say, David shared his meals with Mephibosheth to be kind.

•Others•

Poster Pointer Story poster activity center: Place a box on a table each week.

Inside the box, have several copies of the poster and one or more of the items on the following list. Change the items around each week so that children have something different to do each class session with the posters.

• Colored chalks • Cotton swabs and water colors • Sticker dots to outline the posters • Cereal pieces to fill in the picture • Glue and yarn lengths to outline pictures or frame the poster • Colored sugars and glue.

Punch holes along edge of posters and provide lengths of plastic lacing for toddlers to lace through holes in poster.

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