1s & 2s—Taste Vegetables
Bible Story: Daniel Chose to Obey Daniel 1:1-20
Life Point: The Bible helps people.
Weekly Verse: God’s ways are always best. Isaiah 55:8
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, “Allergy Alert” (Printables), carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, small plates, napkins, knife (teacher’s use)
- Post the allergy sign where parents can see it and inform teachers of any allergies. Cut the vegetables into bite-size pieces. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.
- Give an interested preschooler several bites of the vegetables. Point to the Teaching Picture and talk about the Bible story. Comment that the Bible helped Daniel know what to do.
3–Pre-K— Make Fork Prints
Bible Story: Daniel Chose to Obey Daniel 1:1-20
Life Point: The Bible helps people.
Weekly Verse: God’s ways are always best. Isaiah 55:8
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, plastic forks, paint in shallow containers, paper, painting smocks, marker
- Display the Teaching Picture with the art supplies. Help children put on smocks before painting.
- Offer to print the Weekly Verse on each child’s paper. Guide children to press the tines of a fork in the paint and onto their paper.
- Talk about the Bible story. Emphasize that the Bible helped Daniel know how to obey God.
Kindergarten— Graph Vegetables
Bible Story: Daniel Chose to Obey Daniel 1:1-20
Life Point: The Bible helps people.
Weekly Verse: God’s ways are always best. Isaiah 55:8
Materials: Teaching Picture 12, vegetable stickers, 12-by-18-inch paper, ruler, marker
- Use the marker and ruler to draw a chart on the paper. Make enough rows for the number of kids in your class. Make enough columns for the number of different vegetable stickers. Put a different vegetable sticker at the top of each column.
- Invite a child to print his name on the graph. Then he can look at each sticker and make a mark in the column of each vegetable he likes to eat.
- Point to the Teaching Picture and talk about the Bible story. Comment that the Bible helped Daniel know how to obey God.
Love. Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio. The real kind. The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres. The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish. The kind that can forgive. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed. The real kind of love. It’s rare and we have it..