For a very long time, since sometime in the last millenium, I've put myself in front of lots of young children on a Sunday morning, and tried to keep them entertained and educated... sometimes it's worked well, sometimes it hasn't,.
This blog is just to capture things that I've done, in the hope that I can recall just what did happen.
The Sunday School material used varies, some is based on published programs, much is improvised (or should that be 'inspired') during the planning of lessons.
14 November 2013
Creative Prayer with M&Ms
This was created by my youngest son at his 11-14 year old group; still useful for future Sunday School Creative Prayer ideas....
1 Timothy 2v1-5
I urge you first of all to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; Intercede
on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who
are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by Godliness
and dignity. This is good and pleases God our saviour who wants everyone to be
saved and to understand the truth. (NLT)
Questions to Discuss
·How can we act on that reading?
·Why should you pray for people you don’t like?
·Should we pray for people that don’t pray for
us?
·Why do we pray for people that don’t believe in
God?
M&M Prayer
Orange:Pray for a national leader (Barack Obama, David
Cameron, and The Royal Family, the UN etc.)
Red:Pray for a teacher
Yellow: Pray for a
church leader (Youth worker, minister etc.)
The first child begins
by saying, "I went to the North Pole and I took a (sleeping bag)."
The second child says,
"I went to the North Pole and I took a (sleeping bag) and a (can of
tuna)." The next child continues, "I went to the north Pole and I
took a (sleeping bag), a (can of tuna) and a(teddy)." etc
We did this twice,
raised many laughs, the kids remembered everything very well. For the record,
things starts good, eg taking “pen, pencil, paper”… then towards the end
changed to “toilet, hairy man”
Lots of fun.
2Strongest Product Comparison
We talked about what we would be doing today, looking at
Gods power, then suggesting we could test various products to see which is more
powerful….
Kids split to 2 teams
Each team had a sheet of plastic to use, each time they had
something to clean up, with a suitable (or not ) implement.
Task1: dry up a puddle of water, team 1 had toilet roll,
team 2 had kitchen roll
Task2: scrub some felt tip that was on the plastic sheet,
team 1 had J Cloth, team 2 had Scrubby Pad (which resulted in the plastic
ripping!)
Task 3: lump of Jam to clean up. Team 1 had a hand brush;
team 2 had a kitchen broom (note, had to was the brushes under water to clean
out the jam!)
We spoke about what power was, and how we measured it.
3Video – Aladdin Genii
Showed the video here, we spoke about how the
Genii was like God, typical questions were
· How powerful is the genii?
· What does Aladdin have to do to
"earn" his three wishes?
· Why does the genii so badly want to use/share
his power?
· Do you think the genii is like God in any way?
· In what ways is God's power like that of the
genii?
· If God is all-powerful, why doesn't He always
use his power to change circumstances for us?
One of the kids ended
up by saying “Aladdin’s Genii is like the Holy Spirit, just that you can see
him” <nugget>
4Power Discussion
The kids were tasked with drawing pictures of
something powerful, examples given were
¨River
¨Sea
¨Wind
¨Power Stations
¨Fire
These were drawn, together with God, Superman, Stars…
