Preschool: I Can Choose: Session 2—King Saul’s Choice (March 13)

1s & 2s— Make a Handprint Mural

Bible Story: King Saul’s Choice 1 Samuel 10:17-25; 13:1-14
Life Point: I can make right or wrong choices.
Weekly Verse: Love God and always do what He says. Deuteronomy 30:20

Materials: long sheet of paper, paint in shallow pans, tape, painting smocks, marker

• Tape the sheet of paper to a wall at the children’s eye level. Print the Life Point across the top of the paper.
• Help each child put on a smock before painting. Guide her to press each hand into the paint and then onto the paper. Print her name above her handprints.
• Read the words of the Life Point. Comment that she can use her hands to make right and wrong choices.

3–Pre-K— Play with Cars and Traffic Signs

Bible Story: King Saul’s Choice 1 Samuel 10:17-25; 13:1-14
Life Point: I can make right or wrong choices.
Weekly Verse: Love God and always do what He says. Deuteronomy 30:20

Materials: Teaching Picture 2, heavyweight paper, permanent marker, scissors, tape, toy cars, wooden blocks

• Use the heavyweight paper and markers to create simple traffic signs that would be familiar to kids. Cut out the signs and tape them to small blocks. Arrange the signs with the cars and wooden blocks. Prop the Teaching Picture nearby.
• Invite kids to make roads with the blocks and to add the traffic signs. Comment that signs help people know rules to follow to be safe when driving. Say that sometimes people make wrong choices and do not follow the signs
• Talk about the Bible story as kids play. Ask God to help the children make right choices.

Kindergarten—Make a Right Choices Banner

Bible Story: King Saul’s Choice 1 Samuel 10:17-25; 13:1-14
Life Point: I can make right or wrong choices.
Weekly Verse: Love God and always do what He says. Deuteronomy 30:20

Materials: large sheet of paper, permanent marker, tape, several colors of paint in cups, paintbrushes, painting smocks

• Tape the paper to a table. Print on the paper the Life Point and the Weekly Verse.
• Invite boys and girls to paint on the banner around the words. Read the Life Point and the verse. Explain that remembering this verse will help them make right choices, because doing what God says is always the right choice. 
• Talk about the Bible story as kids paint. Remind kids that God was not happy with Saul because he made a wrong choice.