Preschool: Making Choices: Session 2—Rahab Helped the Israelites (July 12)

1s & 2s—Trace and Decorate Hands

Bible Story: Rahab Helped the Israelites Joshua 2; 6
Life Point: People can choose to do what is good.
Weekly Verse: Do good to everyone. Galatians 6:10

Materials: Teaching Picture 6, paper, pencil, crayons

• Before the session, write Do good to everyone across the top of each paper.
• Trace around a preschooler’s hands onto a paper. Encourage her to decorate her hands with the crayons. 
• Show the teaching picture and talk about the Bible story as preschoolers draw. Point to and say the Bible verse. Comment that people can choose to do what is good.

3–Pre-K—Paint a Resist

Bible Story: Rahab Helped the Israelites Joshua 2; 6
Life Point: People can choose to do what is good.
Weekly Verse: Do good to everyone. Galatians 6:10

Materials: Teaching Picture 6, white construction paper, white crayons, thinned blue paint, paintbrushes, painting smocks

• Before the session, use a white crayon to print the Life Point across the top of each paper. Print the words with heavy lines.
• Help a child put on a smock before painting. Tell him you have written a secret message across the top of his paper. Encourage him to use a white crayon to add a design to the bottom part of his paper. Tell him to make the lines heavy.
• After a child is finished drawing, he can paint over his whole paper with the thin paint to reveal the message and his drawing.
• Show the teaching picture and talk about the Bible story as children draw and paint. Read the message at the top of the page. Say the Weekly Verse together.

Kindergarten—Make Verse Puzzles

Bible Story: Rahab Helped the Israelites Joshua 2; 6
Life Point: People can choose to do what is good.
Weekly Verse: Do good to everyone. Galatians 6:10

Materials: Teaching Picture 6, sheet of paper, paper plates, markers, scissors, sandwich-size ziplock bags

• Write the Weekly Verse on the sheet of paper. Display the teaching picture and the verse on the table with the other materials. 
• Tell the Bible story as kids come to the center. Point to Rahab in the picture. Say that Rahab chose to do what is good by helping the spies..
• Invite kids to write the Bible verse onto a paper plate. They can decorate around the words with the markers, then cut their plates into pieces to make a puzzle. 
• Encourage kids to take turns working each other’s puzzles. 
• After working her puzzle, a child can store it in a ziplock bag to take home.