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K-Gr.6 Class
This past Sunday we learned to Persist!

“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.”  Luke 11:9

Here is an activity that you can do as a family.

As a family set a goal and follow this criteria.

1. Set a goal – what is one thing as a family that you want to accomplish?

2. Make a plan – How can you make it happen?

3. Get to work – Get started, get supplies if needed.

4. Stick to it – if it gets hard, discouraging or you haven’t seen any results yet, keep going , persist!

5. Reach the goal – Keep going until you finished the goal as a family, talk about the accomplishments and if there were any hard times; how as a family did you persist?

Examples: collect food for the food bank, or clothing, renovation in your house, save money etc..

Junior / Preschool Class
Sandpaper Castle

What you’ll need:

• Sheets of sandpaper
• Sandpaper Sandcastle Craft Template
  http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/detail.asp?fil=/crafts/summer/templates/sand-castle-template.gif&cat=Summer&nam=Sand-Castle-Template
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue

How to make your sand paper castle craft:

1. Print our template and cut the pieces out. Trace the pieces onto the backside of a piece of sandpaper (tracing onto the back side is much easier) or onto construction paper (the flag and door pieces).

2. Cut these pieces out.

3. Glue the sandpaper pieces onto a piece of blue construction paper to construct your sand castle using our completed photo as a guide.

4. Glue the construction paper door and flags onto the castle and glue the sun in the sky.

5. Cut an extra squiggly piece of sandpaper for either side of the sandcastle to look like the beach if you’d like.

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K-6 Class
Hope everyone had a great Fathers Day! This past Sunday we heard about the story about the sheep or the goat from Matthew 25:31-46 and what is the right choice to make.  It’s a decision of your will. What that means is that sometimes you may not “feel” like caring for others, but when you do, it’s a good choice!
Here is an activity to do together and show your Dad that you love him.

Supplies:
Plain white T-shirt
Felt markers
Toy Cars

Directions:
With help draw roads, buildings, trees and parks on the back of the shirt. Once the picture dry’s, and when your Dad comes home from a long day at work; ask him to put this shirt on and lay on the floor on his stomach.
While he relaxes, get your cars out and drive them all around the roads that you made.
This will be relaxing for Dad and fun for you!

Junior / Preschool Class

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K-6 Class

This past Sunday the class learned about sowing our seed in the good soil to get healthy roots and grow. Growing means we need to spend time with God and reading the bible and talking with God. Here is an activity about representing the seed in the good soil that gets good “fruit”.

Make a plan to make a garden together as a family. Here are a few fun options that you can do.

Grow a pizza garden: Kids can grow the fresh ingredients for pizza sauce – a couple of tomato plants, one each of basil, rosemary and oregano, plus half a dozen onions (use onion sets, which are small onion bulbs) and one green and one red pepper plant. Buy plants in spring, but don’t transplant them into the garden until all danger of frost is past. Help kids prepare the soil. For fun, make the bed round or wedge shaped, and edge it with orange or yellow marigolds to resemble crust. At harvest time, buy plain pizza crust or pizza dough, and help kids cook up a sauce using garden fresh ingredients. Top the pizza crust with sauce, diced peppers and the usual pepperoni and cheese. How proud they will be to have grown their own pizza sauce!

Here are some examples of “kid friendly” plants.

Great plants for kids: When starting plants from seed, choose big, easy to handle and quick-to-germinate seeds such as beans, radishes, sunflowers, dwarf nasturtiums and zinnia. Kids also love the tiny and the giant, so plant miniature vegetables like grape tomatoes and dwarf sunflowers like ‘Teddy Bear’ or big plants like tall Russian sunflowers or pumpkins (one rambling pumpkin plant needs a six-foot-square area of ground). Also try unusual veggies – like purple carrots and beans, rainbow chard, heirloom tomatoes, or yellow scallop squash. Uniquely shaped flowers like snapdragons and bleeding hearts are fun to manipulate and dissect. Textured plants like soft lambs’ ears, woolly thyme and plumed annual celosia beg to be touched, and strawflowers and purple coneflowers are cool customers because they’re so prickly.

Junior/Preschool Class Click on the link below and print the template to make a crown. Have your kids decorate it and then with an adults help staple or tape it together so it fits their heads. Crown template for princess craft

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K-6
On sunday the kids heard the story about the lost sheep and how heaven celebrates when the lost sheep is found. Luke 15:3-7

Here is an activity that you can do individually or as a family.

Materials

• 4 black pony beads
• 2 10-inch lengths of black yarn
• Masking tape or duct tape
• New 3-inch paint trim roller refill (available at paint and home stores)
• Craft glue or hot glue
• Black felt
• 2 googly eyes
• A mini pink pom-pom
• A 2-inch white pom-pom

1. Begin by threading 2 of the beads onto one of the yarn pieces and tying knots at both ends so they don’t slip off.
2. Tape the center of the yarn to the inside of the roller refill, draping the ends over the top to resemble front legs, as shown. Repeat this step with the second piece of yarn to create the hind legs, taping them in place at the other end of the roller.
3. Next, cut a 11/2-inch triangle and 2 small teardrop shapes (for ears)   from the felt.
4. Glue the googly eyes and the mini pom-pom to the triangle to create a face, then glue the face and the ears to the white pom-pom. Finally, glue the pom-pom atop the roller.

Junior / Preschool Class

On Sunday your child learned that God is always with us. The children heard how God protected baby Moses and his family. They thanked God for always being with them. Here is a coloring page they can do while you talk to them about Baby Moses. The story is found in Exodus 1:22-2:10.

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K-6
This past Sunday we learned that we want to be like the builder who built his house on the rocks. This week make a choice to obey God in an area where it has been really hard to obey Him. Here is a great activity to do as a family to help everyone remember that it’s best to be like the builder.

1. Find enough smooth rocks for each member of your family.
2. Supply everyone with enough paint to make a huge mess…’cause you know it is going to happen
3.You can use sponges, paint brushes fingers, whatever you would like!
4. Paint until you have no more rock to paint.
5. Leave rocks to dry overnight.
6. After rocks are completely dried, use a permanent marker to personalize each rock.
8. Place outside or in your house as decor and a reminder.

Preschool Class

Materials

• Store-bought or homemade bubble solution (see Step 2 for homemade recipe)
• Copier paper or light-colored construction paper
• Plastic drinking straws
• Newspaper or plastic tablecloth
• Several shallow disposable containers, such as aluminum pie tins

Instructions

1. Cover your work surface with a thick layer of newspaper or a plastic tablecloth.
2. Gather several shallow disposable containers, such as aluminum pie tins. In each, blend 1 cup of store-bought or homemade bubble solution with 1/2 cup of tempera paint. (To make your own bubble solution, mix 3 cups of water, 1 cup of dish soap, and 1/4 cup of corn syrup.)
3. Set out your paper (try copier paper or light-colored construction paper) and several plastic drinking straws. For younger children, pierce a small hole halfway up the straw with a pin; this will help prevent accidental swallowing of the paint but won’t interfere with the bubble-blowing process.

Now for the fun. With one end of the straw submerged in the bubble solution, the kids blow until bubbles mound up in the container. The best time to take a print is just as the bubbles begin to overflow.
4. Gently touch the paper to the bubbles and then lift to see your print, repeating until the paper is sufficiently covered. Blow more bubbles as needed. For a different effect, try printing one color over another.
5. Blow more bubbles as needed. For a different  effect, try printing one color over another.

Junior Class

Materials:                                    
black construction paper (or grey)
glue
white pencil crayon or a silver marker
cotton balls
Optional: scissors
Optional: wiggly eyes

Instructions:
Place your hand on the black (or grey) construction paper.
Your fingers should be slightly spread but the thumb should be out as far as possible.
Fingers are legs and thumb is head.
Trace your handprint.
Optional: Cut out your handprint
Glue cotton balls all over the handprint but leave the tips of the fingers and thumb cotton free.
Glue small wiggly eyes onto the head (tip of thumb) or use pencil crayon.
Use a white pencil crayon or silver marker to add a smile.

 

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K-6
This past Sunday we learned about Forgiving.
“Peter came to Him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times? No! Jesus replied, Seventy times seven!” Matthew 18:21-22
We wouldn’t count how many seeds there is in a bird feeder, that would seem silly, just like we shouldn’t count how many times we forgive.

This activity is great to do as a whole family, it makes enough to give them out as gifts to your neighbours if you wanted!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Makes approximately 21 two-inch hearts, or any shape you choose)

• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 envelope unflavored gelatin (2.5 teaspoons)
• 3 tbsp corn syrup
• 4 cups birdseed

You will also need:

• large mixing bowl
• cookie cutters
• nonstick spray
• chopstick or bamboo skewer for making a hole in the ornament
• parchment paper
• cookie sheet
• string

1. Mix flour, water, gelatin and corn syrup. Add birdseed and stir well.
2. Spray the inside of a cookie cutter with vegetable cooking spray. (You could also wipe it down with veg. oil.)
3. Place cookie cutter on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Spoon mixture inside of cookie cutter, pressing mixture firmly with greased fingers. (The more you press it down, the less shedding of seeds you will have.)
4. Using a chopstick or bamboo skewer, make a hole near the top of the shape and then remove.
5. Carefully pull cookie cutter away from birdseed. Repeat until all the mixture is used up. (You should spray the cookie cutter after every six times or so, that way it won’t stick.)
6. Let dry 6-8 hours. Cut 10-12 inches of string for each shape. String through the shape. Tie the string in a knot. (You can tuck the knot inside the hole so it doesn’t show.) You can hang these from branches outside for the birds to enjoy and to remember to forgive!

Preschool Class
My first Mono Prints
Enjoy sometime with being creative and what kind of designs you can make!

In printing, mono means “one of a kind,” which is a perfect description of this easy introduction to color mixing, texture, and spontaneity.
The only rule here is to have plenty of paper on hand — because printmaking can be habit-forming.

Materials

• Washable, nontoxic tempera paint
• Cookie sheet
• 2 large pieces of paper
• Cotton swabs, plastic utensils

Instructions

1. To start, ask your child to squeeze blobs of washable nontoxic tempera paint onto a cookie sheet.
2. Lay a large piece of paper on top of the paint and have her smooth it down with the palms of her hands. Lift off the paper, then lay the print flat to dry.
3. Next, encourage your tot to make designs with her fingers, a cotton swab, or a plastic utensil in the smooth surface of the paint that remains on the cookie sheet. Lift off additional prints on clean sheets of paper. You can add more paint as desired.

Junior Class
David & Goliath Game

This game is very similar to the game of Marbles.
Note:  Test the surface of the floor yourself to see how difficult it is to slide the rocks (some surfaces are easier than others) and adjust the size of the square accordingly (smaller squares for harder to slide surfaces).

Feel free to decorate some rocks to add to the game, or you can use 5 marbles instead.
Materials
– one large stone or three regular sized stones (the same size as in the bag) with the letter G printed on them with permanent marker — or use 1 large marble
– smooth floor (concrete sidewalk would work or cement/laminate/linoleum indoor floor )
– depending on your stones, it might scratch the floor
– you can cover the stones with a coat of spray on varnish to prevent scratching
– Or you glue a piece of felt to the bottom of each of your stones to prevent scratching (don’t forget Goliath)
– masking tape

Directions
– Use tape to mask off a large square on the floor with a small X in the center.
– Place the Goliath stone(s) or marble on the X in the center of the square
– Have the children sit at the edge of the square and TAKE TURNS SLIDING their David rocks (or marbles) to knock Goliath out of the square.
– don’t let everyone slide their rocks at one time or someone will end up getting hurt
– make sure you show the children how to slide their rocks (not throw them) before you get started.
– test the surface of the floor yourself to see how difficult it is to slide the rocks (some surfaces are easier than others) and adjust the size of the square accordingly (smaller squares for harder to slide surfaces)
– an adult with some coordination should be able to knock Goliath out with 5 stones
– Alternately, let one child try to knock Goliath out and count how many tries it takes him/her before letting the next child have a turn

Have fun learning about David and Goliath!

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K-6 Class
We hope Mothers Day was an amazing day! Sunday was a great morning learning about obeying and honoring our moms.
We know that you do so much for your family that we wanted to provide you with a project that you can do together. Enjoy a nice gift and a special memory afterwards with your child!

Start with a plain (cleaned) jar:
Take some paint (acrylic) and pour some into the jar.  Then, simply swirl it around so the entire inside is coated.  The kids loved doing this!

The next day, have the kids choose one color that they didn’t choose to coat their jar with, and  paint their hands with that paint.  Then, very carefully place their hands on the glass.

Once their handprint dried, it’s time to decorate!  You can have a  color ribbon that you can string a tag onto the ribbon

that says “Happy Mothers Day”.
Next you can choose a flower and put in your new vase!

Junior Class
Print these pages and have some fun coloring pages!

Preschool Class
Print these pages and have some fun coloring pages!

Creative Mode

K-6 Class

Take a moment to sit and watch this cartoon short film about the Prodigal Son. After you are done watching the video, have a quiz among your family members.
Whoever answers the most wins! You can even have prizes or awards (e.g. – a special treat or dessert or don’t have to do the dishes tonight)

http://vimeo.com/35595649

1 – How many sons were there?

2. What is a parable?

3. What job did the prodigal son work at when all of his money was gone?

4. Was the Prodigal son the oldest or youngest?

5. What did the dad do when he saw the prodigal son return?

6. How did the older son feel about the return of his brother?

7. do we act more like the prodigal son or the older son at times?

8. Does Jesus love us no matter what?

9. Where is the story found in the bible?

To continue along with the Prodigal Story, there is an activity below about making a “piggy” bank with items around your house.

• 1 empty 2-liter soda bottle
• Pink acrylic paint
• 1 empty paper towel roll
• Plastic Eyes
• Pink pipe cleaner
• Pink Foam
• Paintbrush
• Scissors

1. Cut a hole in the side of your bottle it should be big enough to fit all sizes of coins into it.
2. Paint the soda bottle pink. Don’t forget to paint the cap.
3. Cut your paper towel roll into 4 pieces about 2 inches long. Make sure all pieces are the same size.
4. Paint the paper towel roll pieces pink.
5. Wait for it to dry. Then glue the plastic eyes into place. Make sure that they are placed so that the money hole is on the top.
6. Cut out ears from the pink foam. Fold the bottom quarter of an inch over and glue them onto the soda bottle.
7. Tape the feet onto the bottom of the bottle. Use tape inside each roll to stick them on.
8. Wrap the pipe cleaner around a round bottle to make it curly, then glue it to the end of your bank.

Junior & Preschool Class
Print these pages and have some fun coloring pages!