These are suggestions only to help you help your 3 and under interact with the RCL this week
You may need:
Plain paper,
Brown, blue or white construction paper,
blue streamers
texta’s,
orange/lemon/lime net
Toys
fish age appropriately sized.
Building Blocks
iPad
Books or Downloads; The Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s Stories, Dr Suess Oh the places you’ll go
Bible Story Coloring Pages: Winter 2017-2018
Great catch of fish – Luke 5:1-11
Click to access fishers_of_men_coloring_page.pdf
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Old Testament Reading: Jonah 3:1-5,10
The selection of verses from Jonah concentrates on Ninevah’s listening to Jonah about God’s message and their repentance not on Jonah’s escape with the whale or his own fight.
READ: the Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s Stories or you can buy it as an ebook https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-beginners-bible-timeless-childrens-stories-my-first/9780310728726.jhtml p264.
COLOURING-IN: https://store.illustratedchildrensministry.com/products/bible-story-coloring-pages-winter-2017-2018
This is a handy resource so for $us10 (about $A 15) you can have colouring pages for a quarter of the year. It is easy to download the purchased files. Because it is an American production the Winter resources are for the current quarter.
DRAW: Draw a group of people listening, exaggerate their ears, to show they are concentrating on hearing the right messages.
PLAY: Find soft toys, animals, or dolls to gather a group of toys around a leader who is telling them something good.
PSALM 62:5-12
PLAY: Blocks Build a fort or castle.
CREATE: a paper mache rock. (easy version: brown paper scrunched together) Talk about why people might think of God as a rock.
PRAY: (echo prayer you say a line the child echo’s it)
Dear Lord,
You are my rock.
You are my rock!
Thank You
for Your strength,
for Your love,
for being with me everywhere.
Amen
From https://onthechancelsteps.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/rock/
NEW TESTAMENT READING: 1 CORINTHIANS 7:29-31
READ: DR SUESS’S OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO
Suggestion from http://storypath.upsem.edu/lectionary-links-rcl-january-21-2018/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa-0yJXFeKk
DRAW: Require plain paper: texta’s
Free response drawing.
PRAY:
Let me (point to me)
Live Life (hands up high)
Your way
God (fold hands in a prayer position)
Amen
GOSPEL READING: Mark 1:14-20
READ: the Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s Bible, or you can buy it as an ebook https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-beginners-bible-timeless-childrens-stories-my-first/9780310728726.jhtml pp.308-310
MAKE: though this was posted for another reading I think it would easily fit today’s reading
https://lettheirlightshine.com/2018/01/15/great-catch-of-fish-luke-51-11/?wref=tp
PLAY: Need orange/lemon/lime net bag. Packet of Fishes size depending on age of child.
Play at putting the fish in the net.
Explain that Jesus’s first disciples were fisherman, and they stopped their job to follow Jesus.
COLOUR-IN https://www.sermons4kids.com/fishers_of_men_coloring_page.pdf
The Cross in My Backyard 