016 JESUS WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND FOREVER can do that? Editor in Chief: Kathy Hill Copy Editor: Dana Wilkerson Curriculum Writer: Ashley Hiers Illustrator: Jodi Blackwell Graphic Designers: Sharon van Rossum, David Hill FL Creative Team: Sue Miller, Lois Pallansch, Kathy Hill, Kendra Fleming, Autumn Ward, Ashley Hiers, Donna High, Danielle Schneller, Mary Beth Brannan Chief Executive Officer: Reggie Joiner Chief Operating Officer: Reggie Goodin Executive Director: Sue Miller Technical and Web Support: Hadley Brandt Partner Support: Deb Springer Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. These resources are intended to be downloaded and printed for use by the subscribing entity only and may not be electronically transferred to or duplicated by other non-subscribing entities. Any unauthorized reproduction of this material or incorporation into a new work is a direct violation of US copyright laws. 015 Orange. All rights reserved. First Look and the First Look logo are trademarks of Orange. STATEMENT OF FAITH USER AGREEMENT Orange gladly grants permission to churches, schools, and other licensees to tailor First Look materials to fit their unique leadership requirements, locale and format preferences, and physical environment needs. However, if you wish to edit the content substantively, including Bible stories, learning activities, scripts, and any other content in which biblical principles and concepts are presented, you are obligated to do so within the doctrinal guidelines we ve expressed in our Statement of Faith.
016 MAKE IT FUN Prepare to offer one or more of the following activities as your preschoolers arrive. Let one or two teachers lead small groups of children in activities throughout the room while another teacher greets parents and kids at the door. Food Sort and 5 Making Bread and Fish MAKE IT TRUE (LARGE GROUP) Worship Bible Story Matthew 19:6, NIV These activities are designed to help preschoolers understand and remember today s Bible story and Bottom Line. Offer as many of the following activities as your time, facilities, resources, and leadership allow. You may want to lead one activity at a time. Or, offer two activities at once and allow half the kids to participate in each, then switch groups and repeat the activities. With God Feeding 5,000 Toss It in the Basket Food for All Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE
016 MAKE IT FUN Activities designed to draw children into the classroom and introduce vocabulary and concepts needed for the Bible story. MOVEMENT An activity that uses a preschooler s natural desire to move to help them learn and grow. FOOD SORT Food Sort is an activity that introduces this week s Bible story while children use cognitive and gross motor skills. WHAT YOU NEED: Plastic toy food, blocks, toy cars, and large plastic containers Before the Activity: Place all the items in the large container and mix them up. During the Activity: Have kids pull out the food items and place them in the basket across the room. After the Activity: Sit down around the food basket and introduce the Bible story. Before the Activity: Hello, boys and girls! Look at this container! It has a whole bunch of things in it and our job is to separate it! I need you to pick out the food and put it in that container (point to the other container), but you can only take one piece at a time. Are you ready? Matthew 19:6, NIV During the Activity: OK, find the food! (Pause.) What did you find? Yum! Keep going! Make sure only the food gets into the other container. Did you get all the food? Great job! Come sit with me at the food container. After the Activity: That was so much fun! If you had to feed a whole bunch of people, could you feed them cards or blocks? (Pause.) No! That s silly, isn t it? You need food to feed people! Well, in our Bible story today we are going to hear how Jesus fed 5,000 people! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 3
016 MAKE IT FUN Activities designed to draw children into the classroom and introduce vocabulary and concepts needed for the Bible story. GAME An activity that encourages preschoolers to follow guidelines while having fun and learning new concepts. AND 5 and 5 is an activity that introduces this week s Bible story while encouraging kids to use their hand-eye coordination, counting, and fine motor skills to count out two blue pompoms and five brown pompoms. WHAT YOU NEED: Blue and brown pompoms (Optional: Little cups or baskets) Before the Activity: Place pompoms in a pile on the table. If using cups or baskets, place those on the table at each seat. During the Activity: Encourage kids to count out two blue and five brown pompoms. Count aloud with them. Have kids put the pompoms in the baskets/cups if using them. After the Activity: Introduce the Bible story. Before the Activity: Hey, friends! Look at all these pompoms. What colors do you see? (Pause.) Blue and brown. Very good! Matthew 19:6, NIV During the Activity: Let s pick up only the blue ones. Pick up two blue pompoms. One, two. (If using the cups or baskets, instruct kids to drop the pompoms in.) Super duper! Now this time pick up only the brown ones. Pick up five brown pompoms. Let s count as you pick them up. One, two, three, four, five. (Pause.) Great job! After the Activity: You guys did a terrific job picking up the right number of blue pompoms and brown pompoms! In our Bible story today we ll hear about how Jesus helped feed a whole bunch of people with just five (count out five brown pompoms) loaves of bread and two (count out two blue pompoms) fish! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 4
016 MAKE IT FUN Activities designed to draw children into the classroom and introduce vocabulary and concepts needed for the Bible story. INVESTIGATION/ROLE PLAY An activity that channels either a preschooler s innate curiosity or desire to play dress up into a discussion of concepts crucial to the lesson. MAKING BREAD AND FISH Making Bread and Fish is an activity that introduces this week s Bible story while encouraging kids to use their fine motor skills to make bread and fish out of Play- Doh. WHAT YOU NEED: Brown and blue Play-Doh Before the Activity: Divide the Play-Doh into small balls and place them on the table. During the Activity: Have kids make fish shapes with the blue dough and bread loaves with the brown dough. After the Activity: Introduce the Bible story. Before the Activity: Let s make something with this Play-Doh. Hmm, we have blue and brown let s make a fish and some bread! Matthew 19:6, NIV During the Activity: I m going flatten my blue Play-Doh and then squish it at the back to make a tail. Watch me. (Demonstrate.) How do you make your fish? (Pause.) Look at that! Your fish are so cute! Let s make bread with the brown Play-Doh. Sometimes bread looks like a flattened ball and other times it looks like a rectangle. (Pause.) Look at your loaves of bread! Great job! (Kids can continue to make fish and bread or make some other masterpieces.) After the Activity: Today we are going to hear a Bible story about how five loaves of bread (count out five fingers or five dough breads) and two fish (count out two fingers or two dough fish) fed a whole bunch of people. Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 5
016 Activities designed to reinforce the Bible story and bottom line. REVIEW An activity that encourages preschoolers to learn the monthly memory verse. WITH GOD With God is an activity that helps kids recite this month s Memory Verse while stepping back and forth from bread to fish cutouts. WHAT YOU NEED: Bread and Fish from the Activity Pages, cardstock, laminate, scissors, and painter s tape Before the Activity: Copy Bread on cardstock five times, laminate, and cut out. Copy Fish on cardstock two times, laminate, and cut out. Place on the floor in a bread, bread, fish, bread, fish, bread, bread pattern. Tape to secure. During the Activity: Say this month s Memory Verse as you go from picture to picture. Repeat as many times as desired. After the Activity: Say the Bottom Line together. Before the Activity: Come stand with me. (Pause.) We are going to walk on the bread and fish as we say our Memory Verse today! Matthew 19:6, NIV During the Activity: Every time we step on a picture, we ll say a word in our verse. (Step with every word.) With God all things are possible, Matthew 19:6. Let s do it again. (Repeat as many times as desired.) Super job! Sit down on the floor right where you are. After the Activity: Today we heard a story from the Bible about how Jesus blessed the two fish and the five loaves of bread the disciples had and it fed 5,000 people! Only Jesus can do that! Who can do that? Only Jesus can do that! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 6
016 Activities designed to reinforce the Bible story and bottom line. B I B L E S T O R Y R E V I E W BIBLE STORY REVIEW An activity that reviews the entire Bible story in a fun and interactive way allowing preschoolers that repetition they crave. Matthew 19:6, NIV FEEDING 5,000 Feeding 5,000 is an activity that retells the Bible story while the children add fish and bread to their paper. WHAT YOU NEED: Feeding 5,000 from the Activity Pages found on the Website, copy paper, fish stickers, brown construction paper, scissors, glue sticks, and a marker Before the Activity: Copy Feeding 5,000 on copy paper, one per child. Cut construction paper into about one-inch squares, five per child. During the Activity: Retell the Bible story as kids point out Jesus and add fish and bread to their papers. Write their names on the back. After the Activity: Say the Bottom Line. Before the Activity: In our Bible story today, Jesus was teaching all these people about how much God loves them and how Jesus wants to be their friend forever, and He taught for hours and hours until it was almost dinner time! During the Activity: Jesus was teaching 5,000 people! That s a whole big bunch of people, and they were getting hungry! How do you feed 5,000 people?! You see, there were no stores around for any food no pantries with gold fish to eat. So one of Jesus disciples went up to Him and told Jesus to send the people home. He said, They re hungry, Jesus, and we can t feed them all! And Jesus said, Sure, we can! The disciple told Jesus, We don t have enough food or money, it s too hard! Now, friends, is ANYTHING too hard for Jesus? NO way! So Jesus told the disciples to gather whatever food they could find. And they came back with bread and fish, but it wasn t a lot. These brown paper pieces will be our bread. Let s count how many loaves of bread. (Count out five brown squares of paper.) Five loaves of bread! I m going to give you some to glue to your papers. (Give each child five paper squares and help them glue.) Well, that s not very much. There s still 5,000 people. Hmmmm, well, now let s count the fish. One, Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 7
016 Activities designed to reinforce the Bible story and bottom line. B I B L E S T O R Y R E V I E W BIBLE STORY REVIEW An activity that reviews the entire Bible story in a fun and interactive way allowing preschoolers that repetition they crave. two two fish! Put these two fish stickers on your paper with the bread. (Give each child two fish stickers.) Soooo, do you guys think five loaves of bread and two fish could feed 5,000 people?!! (Pause.) Well, friends, it would be too hard for us to make five loaves of bread and two fish feed 5,000 people, BUT not for (point to silhouette of Jesus) JESUS! Jesus took the bread and the fish and He prayed and thanked God for it and then told the crowd to break into groups to eat. So Jesus told the disciples to break up the bread and the fish and pass some to each person. EVERYONE got enough food to eat. They ate until they were all full. (Write names on papers and put aside.) After the Activity: Nothing is too hard for Jesus, and because the disciples obeyed and gave out the food, they got to see Jesus feed 5,000 people and do something ONLY He could do! Who can do that? Only Jesus can do that! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 8
016 Activities designed to reinforce the Bible story and bottom line. MOVEMENT An activity that uses a preschooler s natural desire to move to help them learn and grow. TOSS IT IN THE BASKET Toss It in the Basket is an activity that encourages kids to use their gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination. WHAT YOU NEED: Basket and blue and brown pompoms Before the Activity: Place the basket on the floor in an open area. Give each child a pompom. During the Activity: Sing the song below as kids walk around the basket. At the end of the song, kids should toss their pompoms into the basket. Repeat as many times as desired. After the Activity: Sit down around the basket and talk about how Jesus fed 5,000 people. Ask the Key Question and answer with the Bottom Line. Matthew 19:6, NIV Before the Activity: Hey friends, come over here and stand around this basket. (Help kids spread out if needed.) Super! Now here is a pompom. This one is brown. Let s pretend it s a loaf of bread. (Go to the next child.) Here is a pompom for you. This one is blue. We ll pretend the blue ones are fish. (Repeat until each child has a pompom.) We are going to walk around the basket as I sing a little song and at the end we ll toss the pompoms into the basket. During the Activity: Here we go. (Start walking and singing.) A tisket, a tasket, we have some bread, we have some fish, now throw them in the basket! (Toss pompoms in.) Great job! Let s do it again! (Give each child another pompom and repeat.) After the Activity: That was fun! Come sit with me around the basket. (Pause.) In our story today we heard how Jesus fed 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish and only Jesus could do that! Jesus can do anything. Who can do that? Only Jesus can do that! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 9
016 Activities designed to reinforce the Bible story and bottom line. CRAFT An activity that allows preschoolers to review the Bible story, bottom line or memory verse by creating a fun craft to take home. FOOD FOR ALL Food for All is an activity that reintroduces the Bible story while children use their fine motor skills to fill the basket with bread and fish. WHAT YOU NEED: Basket and Food from the Activity Pages found on the Website, cardstock, copy paper, glue sticks, and a marker Before the Activity: Copy Basket onto cardstock, one per child. Copy Food on copy paper and cut out, one set per child. During the Activity: Talk about the Bible story as kids glue the fish and bread to the basket. Write their names on their papers. Matthew 19:6, NIV After the Activity: Say the Bottom Line together and put papers aside to dry. Before the Activity: What a great Bible story we heard today about how Jesus helped the disciples feed all those people! We learned that nothing is too hard for Jesus. He helped the disciples when they didn t know how. During the Activity: Look on your paper. What do you see? (Pause.) A basket an empty one! Jesus told the disciples to go and see how much bread there was. Do you remember how many loaves of bread there were? (Pause.) Five. That s right! (Count out five loaves of bread for each child.) Glue these five loaves of bread to your basket. (Pause.) Super! And how many fish did they have? (Pause.) Two. That s right! (Count out two fish for each child.) Glue the fish to your paper. (Pause.) The disciples took the five loaves of bread and two fish and prayed and Jesus made enough food for all 5,000 people to eat until they were not hungry and there were leftovers! Only Jesus can do that! Awesome job! Remember, nothing is too hard for Jesus. (Write names on papers and set them aside.) After the Activity: With Jesus, the disciples were able to feed a whole bunch of people with only five loaves of bread and two fish! Who can do that? Only Jesus can do that! Say it again. Only Jesus can do that! Curriculum Materials for -year-olds 015 Orange. All rights reserved. www.whatisorange.org PAGE 10