Here’s is another great video drawing by Louise Barbour illustrating Noah. Click the picture below for the video.
If you attended any of the past several weeks of sermons by Dr. Fenton at Dawson you were treated to the amazing artistry of Louise Barbour. She teaches 3rd Grade Life Groups on Sunday and she often treats the class to drawing of their Bible Stories.
She even goes so far as to have them contribute scribbles to a blank pages and then she turns the scribbles into the story they’re learning. Amazing. This is not a skill that everyone can bring to their lessons, but we are able to share the videos from the sermons on lessons for kids. We will be posting these for the next couple of weeks for you to enjoy, and to maybe use to illustrate your lessons as they come up.
The first lesson is Jacob and Esau. Click the picture below to go to the video.
Have an amazing artist teaching in your classroom? Share them with us below!
Tic Tac Toe’s not just for Xs and Os. Why not have a TicTac Toe game going as an opening activity that helps set the stage for your lesson? Here, our own, Louise, used a paper plate as the game board with flower buttons verses seeds (or beans) in a garden version of the game helpful in setting the stage for a lesson of the Garden of Eden or Jesus’ Prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane.
You could use use other items to set your stage. You could use US pennies and a foreign coin (or plastic play money) before you discuss the money changers in the temple.
Or maybe you could cut some small shapes add glue and glitter to one set and sand to another set. You’d have grains of sand verses stars in the sky to illustrate a lesson on Abraham.
Feel free to share other ways you can shake up a game of Tic Tac Toe!
A great way to review the lesson near the end of your Life Group Sunday School Hour is to have a short pop quiz. Asking questions and having the class answer them can be fun, but occasionally is great to shake the exercise up with a game.
One way to do that is to list out your possible answers on colored (or not) paper. Maybe you could even throw in a few misleading cards. Then divide you class into two teams and let each team bring forward a representative to answer the question. Pictured above is the fly swatter option. This works well because you can tell whose fly swatter hit first. But don’t discount the potential fun of a soft bat or pool noodle.
This would be a great game for a unit review as well.
Having kids memorizing Bible Verses, Key Passages, or the Books of the Bible can be a fun task alone but continuing to practice these things are important in the following years. One way to make recitation fun is to race a clock. Variations are listed below.
- Hula Hoop while reciting a Key Passage, Memory Verse, or Books of the Bible (could be separated into OT and NT)
- Recite using a Yo-yo for each word or Book of the Bible
- Recite with a Paddle Ball
- Let the class compete! Assign points for speed and accuracy!
We will be posting may other ways to help learn verses, and Books of the Bible, but we would love to hear any other race-against-the-clock ideas you have.