Lesson 19

Lesson 19

“ I can be happy!”

Scripture: Proverbs 15:13

“ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.”

Song: If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!

Throw in crazy things like “blow a kiss”, “scrunch your nose”, “wiggle your knees”.

Activity: “What makes me happy?”

Create a large circle that has a smiley face on one side and a frown on the other for each child. Hold up pictures of different things OR bring a bag full of different items. Ex: toy food, blanket, picture of Jesus, plastic spider, etc. Let them show you what things make them happy and what makes them sad.

Craft:

Color me happy

Let the kids color their smiley faces from the activity.

http://www.archjrc.com/childsplace/images/happy-sad.gif

Smiles Cookies

Using sugar cookies, let the kids decorate a cookie to look like a face with chocolate chips, frosting, etc!:)

Lesson 3 & 4

Lesson 3

I can Pray

Scripture: 3 Nephi 18:19

“Therefore ye must always pray unto the Father in my name;”

Song:

“Roll your hands” -reinforcing the action of folding their arms-

Activity:

Story of Daniel in the lion's den. Use this link to print off pictures OR use electronic device.

Craft:

Lion Mask

Glue teeth into a lion ½ face mask that is attached to a popsicle stick. KEEP these masks with you to use next week.

Lion's Den Game

Instead of a craft this week, play a game. Give each child their mask they created last week. You are Daniel. They are the lions. When you are walking around the room, they chase you and roar. When you kneel down, everyone says “Shhhhhh” and they lay down on the floor. Have your assistant be the example lion in this group. They will copy her.

**** For a snack today, you could do big pretzels as they look like folding arms.

Lesson 4

Heavenly Father and Jesus love me

Scripture:Isaiah 49:16
"Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands."

Song:

“ I feel my Savior's Love” ---First two lines and last 2 lines only------

Activity:

Show movie: “My joy is full”. Afterward, hold up a picture of Jesus and Heavenly Father and tell the children that "Heavenly Father & Jesus love____ (say child's name)".

Craft:

Lips Finger puppets

Using the lip clipart provided, make a small finger puppet by gluing it on a strip of paper (to wrap around their finger. Let the children color their lips red/pink. If you're daring, you can bring crushed pink/red chalk and let the kids dip q-tips into it and put “lipstick” on the lips. Then they can put it on their fingers (after you tape the strip into a small circle (like a ring) and “kiss” people.

(Side view so that you can see how to attach it to the strip of paper to make it look like a ring)

(SMMMMMOOOOOOCCCHHH!)

Frosting Heart Cookie

Make heart shaped sugar cookies. Also, pink frosting. Give the children a popsicle stick and a small cup of frosting that they can spread onto their cookie.

Lips Clipart

Lesson 17-18

Lesson 17

I Will Share

Scripture: 4th Nephi 1:3
"And they had all things common amoung them; therefore there were not rich and poor, bond and free, but they were all made free, and partakers of the heavenly gift."

Song:

Fun to Do

Sit in a circle (around a hoola hoop, feet in the middle) Add in “Sharing with you is fun to do” while you pass around a toy.

Activity:

Tell the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 using this picture from lds.org.
https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/miracle-loaves-fishes-james-tissot-82990?lang=eng

Craft:

Goldfish/bread sorting

Sorting goldfish and croutons into 2 columns on a page.

Painting

Watercolor included picture.

Lesson 18

I will love others

Scripture:John 13:34

“ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

Song:

Jesus said love everyone

Activity:

Tell the story of the Good Samaritan using clothespins OR sticks. Follow this link:

https://discoveringsundayschool.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/the-good-samaritan/

Craft:

Teddy Bear Care

Bring q-tips, combs, toothbrushes, tissues, etc to class with a few teddy bears (or any stuffy). Demonstrate to the children how they can take care of their bears.

***Sing "Brushing the teeth is fun to do", re-inforcing your song from the last lesson. ***

Bandaid cotton art

Bring cotton balls & Elmer's glue (small amount in a cup and a q-tip to spread it) and have the children glue the cotton onto the middle of each bandaid.

Lesson 1 & 2

Lesson 1

I am a child of God

Scripture:Psalms 82:6

“ I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”

Song:

I am a child of God -first two lines only-

Activity:

Previous to class, gather pictures of each of the children from their parents. ONE PER CHILD. Before you start the lesson, tape these pictures around the room. When you start, tell the kids that you have a picture of each of them somewhere in the room that they have to find. --You may have to show them how first--- As you find each child, give that child their picture to hold while you sing, “I am a child of God” (that phrase only).

Craft:

Crowns

Make crowns for them to wear that say “I am a child of God” on the front. Let them do stickers on it, glitter (if you're daring), color, etc.

Sceptors

Using Popsicle sticks with a star at the top...like a wand. Decorate with water colors on the stick and markers for the star.

Lesson 2

Heavenly Father has a plan for me

Scripture:Abraham 3:25

“And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;”

Song:

I am a Child of God – rest of song--

Activity:

Do Craft first this week

Paste pictures or treasures (pictures of Jesus, family, earth, house, etc) around the hallway next to your room. Tell the children to look through their telescopes to see the “treasures”. Take them out for a treasure hunt.

Craft:

Paper Towel Rod Telescopes

Paper towel rods that they can paste on pieces of cut up tissue paper. USE GLUE STICKS!!! Elmer's is too crazy!

Footprint Mud art

Print out a picture of footprints and let the kids finger paint with brown paint on the feet. 

Itsy Bitsy Spider

As fun as this song is with just the hand motions, sometimes you need to spice things up a bit!:)

I am creating a Music Time Apron for myself with all of my props inside and this has definitely made the cut!

Itsy Bitsy Spider Puppets!

Tutorial Video:

https://goo.gl/photos/CzA5PyWQsfAJFTDU8

Attention Getter #5

I'm back from Girl's Camp and ready for Nursery once again!

This next week I will be pulling out something a little different. SOME of you may not be ecstatic about this one but I am feeling the need in our group.

You remember the little guy I told you about who is struggling to come and loves cars? Well, the race track caught his attention but he'd only come in if his Dad was in there....meh. 

I am going to try something else to catch his attention that hopefully he won't be able to resist!

READY??????

Race cars and shaving cream!

I will be bringing several old shirts/aprons (from the dollar store) for the kids to wear over their clothes. There will be a plastic tablecloth on the floor under the table to catch drips as well. 

Shaving cream will be put in dots all over the table as well as the cars. I will be closing the curtain to the toy area as well so that kids don't take the cars over to that side. The kids will just run the cars through the shaving cream and all over the table. 

Lesson 15-16

Lesson 15

“ I will be Thankful”

Scripture: “ D & C 59:7

“ Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things.”

Song: “ I am glad for many things”, 2nd verse ONLY

Sing this song while walking around in a circle as you do in Ring around the Rosie.

Activity:

10 lepers finger play

Draw faces on each of your finger. Tell the story of the 10 lepers using your fingers. Have a child hold up a picture of Jesus and have your fingers talk to him, coughing, making them seem sick to the kids. When Jesus says, “I will make you better!” wiggle your fingers as if they are running away, happily. Then curl them all up except for one, bringing it back to Jesus to tell him thank you.

“Boo Boo” Animals

Bring a few stuffed animals to class with band aids on their bodies. Explain the owies to the kids. Ex: Squishy the Hippo fell down and scraped his knee. Can Jesus make it better? Have the stuffed animal run over to the picture of Jesus. “Jesus says ALL BETTER!” and take off the band aid. Put them in a basket once they are healed. Have one of the animals come back saying THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Craft:

Jesus Heals Leperacy

Coloring page of hurt child. Let children put band aids on the child in their picture.

Story Hands

Trace their hands and draw faces on each as you did when you told the story. Let them color their hands. OR if you can find smiley face stickers at a store, let them put these on the fingertips.

Lesson 16

“ I will say I'm sorry”

Scripture:

3^rd Nephi 12:24

“Go thy way unto thy brother, and first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come unto me with full purpose of heart, and I will receive you.”

Song:

“I'm trying to be like Jesus”

ONLY that phrase!

Activity:

Story of Nephi and the ship

Pretend to be Nephi. Dress up as he did. Dramatize building the ship, hammering the nails, carrying the wood from one side of the room to the other, lifting the sails, etc. Let them walk and stand with you as you act out these things. Act out Laman and Lemuel teasing him saying “Neener Neener” while having both wide palms(fingers stretched out) to each cheek, the thumb touching the cheeck and wiggling hands back and forth in teasing motion. Pretend to cry. Nephi's brothers were being mean. Then they said “I'm so sorry Nephi! We'll help now!” Go back to working, humming and smiling.

Craft:

Popsicle stick boat

Bring glue, Popsicle sticks and paper and let them try to build an ark. Glue sticks will work for this! It doesn't matter if it doesn't look like a boat...they will be happy anyways! Imagination is a wonderful thing!

Decorate a hammer

Build a hammer with popsicle sticks and toilet paper tubes. Let them water-color them!

Boat picture for them to glue sticks on: 
Ship Coloring page

OR
Make hammers out of popsicle sticks and toilet paper tubes ahead of time. Let them water-color their hammers for the craft.

VIDEO to create them.