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    Follow God’s Plan for Your Life

    Needed: 3-legged unassembled night stand, old shirt For a long time, I have needed a night stand to go next to my bed so I bought one of these all purpose, easy-to-assemble tables. Here’s the top and here are the 3 legs. (Show top.) It’s just the right size because I needed space for a [...]

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    Tags: Children's Church, Children's Ministry, Object Lesson, sunday school

    How Many Clowns? Gospel Lesson

    Over a century ago, Sam Loyd designed one of the most popular and magical puzzles ever created-more than ten million copies were produced! This genuine puzzle masterpiece is called “Get Off the Earth” and features a posse of sword-wielding Chinese warriors. I was inspired to re-imagine Sam’s puzzle with an added gospel flavor and had [...]

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    Jesse Tree Extended

    I took the idea of using ornaments to make a “Jesse Tree” (Advent tree) further, and made 52 ornaments to use at the rate of 1 per week, to teach the kids lessons from the Bible. I began by at Genesis, using an world ornament, to talk about creation.

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    The Boy With the Bike – Story Object Lesson

    The Boy with the Bike This object lesson can be used to teach about temptation or being a witness. These are some scriptures that can be used depending on what you want to teach. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:13, Matthew 5:16, Philippians 2:5 SUPPIES: Take three clear glasses. and fill the first two glasses with water [...]

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    The Fake Fruit Christian

    Materials needed: *One or two pieces of fruit that is obviously fake from a distance *Several pieces of real fruit *One piece of fake fruit that looks as much like real fruit as possible One thing that I love to snack on is some fresh fruit. What’s your favorite kind? (if someone suggests the obviously [...]

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    The Eruption of God’s Spirit

    Need: Paper plate, disposable cup, aluminum foil, 2 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon baking soda, 2 tablespoons vinegar, and a pan. Preparation: Tape the bottom of the disposable cup to the middle of the plate. Cover the plate and cup with aluminum foil; poke a hole through the foil in the center of the cup; cut [...]

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    God’s Hand In Our Lives

    (Hold the puppet up, letting it hang limp) This is (puppets name). He doesn’t quite look like he usually does. He doesn’t have a hand right now to help him move. (Lay the puppet on a podium, or somewhere else visible) So does that mean he can go do whatever he wants now? No! That’s [...]

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