Sea Horse Art Project After Reading Eric Carle's Book

After reading Eric Carle's book, MR. SEAHORSE, cut a sea horse from a coffee filter in the shape of a seahorse. Children color it with magic markers and then spray with water. Let dry. It will look similar to the book cover.

Samson Puppet

Each child cuts out 2 circles and glues long pieces of yarn between to make a Samson puppet to use during the Bible story. They can be given a pair of child-safe scissors to pretend to be Delilah during the telling of the story.

Reindeer Art Project

Trace child's foot for the reindeer body. Trace the hands for the antlers and glue to body. Decorate as desired.

Snowman Art Project

Materials Needed: Elmer's Glue, black construction paper, white sand.

Peppermint Candies Photo Wreath

Bake in 250 oven for 10-15 minutes. Watch closely. Glue picture to back side. Attach ribbon for hanging on Christmas tree.

"The Sun Stood Still" Bible Story Visuals - Joshua 10

Have the children make 5 stand ups to represent the five armies who were attacking Gibeon and 1 standup to represent Joshua's army. Use Trix to represent the hail stones which God sent down from the sky against the enemy armies. The children can rain down the hail the the 5 enemy armies. Attach a round sun to a craft stick to reinforce about God stopping the sun in the sky so the daylight would last longer. God can do anything!

Building Geometric Structures

Colored miniature marshmallows and spaghetti are the ingredients needed to build geometric structures.

The Oak Inside the Acorn

Max Lucado's book, The Oak Inside the Acorn, is perfect to read when studying about acrons.

Joshua and Walls of Jericho Falling - Art Project

Turkey Craft Project

 
Items Needed:  Paper plate, big wiggle eyes, construction paper, glue.  Let the children use their imaginations in creating their turkeys!

Balaam's Donkey Craft Project

Use the donkey pattern. Children can draw their own Balaam.

The perfect song to accompany this project is "Balaam's Donkey" found on the DVD: "Mary Rice Hopkins & Puppets with a Heart."

Bible Verse Memorization Fun Using Little People Figures

Deuteronomy 5:32 - "Walk in the way the Lord God has commanded you" can be learned by your child lining up the Little People figures. Then play "Take Away" where one person is removed at a time and the verse is repeated aloud. By the end of the game, the verse will have been memorized!

Paper Clip Alphabet Letters

Allow children to form the letters of the alphabet using paper clips.

Critters Cooking Project

The High Five Highlights magazine, issue November 2011, had this idea for making critters. Roll biscuits into critter shapes and roll in a mixture of 3 tablespoons sugar with 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Add mini chocolate chips or raisins for eyes. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until they are golden brown.

Israelites Grumbling in Desert Art Project & Music - Exodus 16:1-35

This art project can go with the story found in Exodus 16:1-35 of the Israelites grumbling in the desert. The children create a face of a person grumbling.

Materials Needed: Construction paper, scissors and glue.

The perfect song to accompany this lesson is Mary Rice Hopkins "Grumble" on her new CD entitled DANCING IN THE DESERT. This album has lots of great songs on the life of Moses!

Fall Tree Art Project

Materials Needed: Colored craft sticks, heavy paper, glue.

Making Rainbows - Science Project

Gently blow bubbles to land on a plastic outdoor picnic table on a day when the sun is brightly shining to make rainbows.

God Performs Miracles - Exodus 4:1-9 Bible Story Craft

Needed for Each Child: Two 12” brown craft wires, two wiggle eyes, glue, two sheets white construction paper, white packing peanuts which have been sliced thin, glue, scissors, crayons.

Activity: The children form the craft wires into a staff and snake. Eyes are glued to the snake. The boys and girls trace their hand twice and cut out. On one hand, the packing peanuts are glued to represent leprosy.

DANCING IN THE DESERT is a new digital curriculum on the life of Moses with 18 interactive lessons. Each lesson has an object lesson, Bible story, question/answer time, art activity, craft activity, song lyrics, large or small group activities, snack and prayer. Extended activities and snacks clearly relate to the lesson purpose. These sessions are perfect for Sunday School, mid-week programming, VBS, and/or homeschool.

Moses Called By God At Burning Bush 3-D Art Project

Children make a 3-D art project using construction paper and glue.

Bumblebee Art Project

Materials Needed: 6" paper plate, 2 coffee filtars, 1 black chenille wire, yellow construction paper, markers, scissors, scotch tape.

Sorting Data & Making Graph

God Protected Baby Moses Bible Story

The visuals in the picture can be used when studying the story of how God protected baby Moses.

“Mother,” Miriam said with a frightened look on her face. “Have you heard that the king signed a law to kill all the Hebrew baby boys?”

“Yes,” Jocabed replied. The king is afraid that if we Hebrews have too many children, we will try to fight him. I have come up with a idea to protect baby Moses. Miriam, I will need your help as Moses’ big sister.

“I will do anything to help,” Miriam responded. I love my little brother SO much. What is your plan?”

Jocabed put baby Moses in a little basket which she had fixed so no water would seep inside. She said to Miriam, “Come with me. I‘ll show you what we‘re going to do.”

They walked to the Nile river. Moses’ mother hid the basket in the tall grass by the river’s edge. Miriam found a hiding place and watched to see what would happen to baby Moses.

Soon a princess and her maids came walking by. Miriam thought, “Oh, no! This princess is Pharaoh’s daughter -- the daughter of the mean king.”

The princess saw the basket and said to a maid: “Go get that basket.”

Inside, the princess found baby Moses. She felt sad. The princess said: “This must be one of the Hebrew babies that a mother is trying to protect. I would like to keep him. But I will need someone to help take care of him for me.”

Miriam left her hiding place and went to the princess: “I know someone who can help you take care of this baby. Do you want me to go and get a Hebrew mother for you?”

The princes said to Miriam: “Yes, go.”

Miriam found her mother. The princes said to Jocabed, “Please take care of this baby for me. I will pay you.”

So the princess gave baby Moses back to his OWN mother to take care of him while he was little! Now baby Moses was safe. God had protected him.

FOR MORE LESSONS ON THE LIFE OF MOSES, CHECK OUT "DANCING IN THE DESERT" DIGITAL CURRICULUM FROM MaryRiceHopkins.com.

Green Sculpture Art Project

Provide a supply of green strips of paper for the children to make paper sculptures. The sample which is pictured was titled "Animal Playground" by the child.

Comparisons Sorting Acitivity

Children sort buttons by Fancy and Not Fancy.

Chinese Lantern - China Social Studies Project

Fold a colored rectangle sheet of paper in half, making a long, thin rectangle.
Or use a white sheet of paper and let the children decorate with crayons or makers.
Make 12-15 cuts along the fold line. (Don't cut all the way to the edge of the paper.) Unfold the paper. Staple or glue the short edges together. Use a strip of paper (6" x 1/2") for the handle and glue or staple on. Can be decorated with stickers.

Kindergarten Homeschool Rules

Daily Prayer

I Will Do My Best

Keeping this on the wall is a constant remember!

Bible Verse Chart

Laminate the "Remember Verse" background and tape on the weekly verse.

Weather Graph

Land Form Craft Project

Have the children build a land form using brown play dough and adding to it a few small pieces at a time. Add blue coloring to water and pour slowly into styrofoam tray.

Word Wall

Seven Days of Creation Art

Seven Continents Song