Trigger
Craft
Game
Creative Snack
Object Lesson
Prayer

TRIGGER

Balloon Banter

Material
  • Balloons
 
Steps
  • The children must keep the balloons in the air.
  • When the leader shouts “Balloon Banter”
  • The children must freeze and answer a question or an “exercise” like jumping jack.

CRAFT

Jacob and Esau colouring wheel
Use the colouring wheel to tell the story of twin brothers. (Genesis 25, 27)

Material
  • Markers / crayons
  • Scissors
  • Cardboard ( 2 circles)
  • Hole punch & Pencil
  • Fastener (1 per child)

Steps
  • Cut out two circles.
  • You download pictures or ask the children to draw the pictures of Jacob and Esau story.

Suggestions:
  • Isaac and Rebekah (pregnant) Parents
  • Jacob and Esau - babies
  • Esau sold his firstborn birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red lentil stew
  • Rebekah helped Jacob put animal skins on his arms to deceive his father, Isaac into giving him the blessing.
  • Esau furious over his lost birthright and blessing.
  • After many years Jacob and Esau reconciliation

Color the pictures
  • Place the top wheel (the one with a “window” cut out) over the bottom wheel.
  • Fasten the metal brad (split pin) in the centre to allow the wheels to spin.

GAME

Stew Relay
Team race to “cook” a meal by collecting ingredients tied to Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of stew.

Material
  • A bowl per team
  • Utensils
  • Find several pictures or empty containers of ingredients to make a stew. 
  • Mix in pictures of animals, toys etc)
 
Steps
  • Mix all the pictures and placed them upside down on a table or on the floor.
  • Put a bowl at the end of the room.
  • Divide the children into teams. Ask them to form a line.
  • First team done their stew.

CREATIVE SNACK

Material
  • Banana
  • Kiwi
  • Grapes

Steps
  • Body: Peel a banana and place it on a plate
  • Arms/legs: Slice a kiwi lengthwise into four canoe-shaped pieces to create fuzzy limbs, placing them around the banana body
  • Head: Place a green grape at the top of the banana for the head.
  • You can also use halved grapes for feet.
  • For the eyes, small raisons, chocolate chips or tiny kiwi seeds.

OR..
Jacob’s ladder in his dream

Material
  • Long pretzels
  • Small pretzels
  • Small Twisted pretzels
  • Bugle (snack)
  • Small marshmallows
  • Icing

Steps
  • Place a Bugle on its wide end to serve as the angel’s gown.
  • Take one small marshmallow and use a small dab of icing as ‘’glue’’ to attach it to to the pointed top of the Bugle.
  • Apply icing to the mini twist style pretzel and press against it until it sticks.
  • Optional: For an Halo you can use cheerios cereals

OBJECT LESSON

Deception Game : What’s in the Cup?

Material
  • 3 opaque cups

Steps
  • Use three opaque cups.
  • Hide a candy under one cup.
  • Switch the cups rapidly.
  • Ask the children to guess where is the candy.

Switching them rapidly to represent how deceived his blind father, Isaac, for the blessing.
Thank you Father help us trust you. You are good and want the best us. In Jesus' name, amen.