Rock of Love

What you will need: 

two colors of paint, heart stickers, paint brush, and a rock.

Paint the rock one color.

Place the heart sticker in the middle of the rock.

Paint the other color on top.

Peel off the heart sticker to create your own rock of love. 

Let your child keep his rock to remind him that 

Jesus loves him because 

Jesus loves everyone!

A Tree for Zacchaeus

What you need: 

A paper bag, red and orange tissue paper, scissors, and glue.

Cut the top of the bag into a fringe.

Twist the strands into branches and a trunk.

Glue red and orange tissue paper to be leaves on your finished tree.

Talk about how Zacchaeus climbed a tree to see Jesus.  Which

branch to you think he would sit on? Use your fingers or small toy figures 

to be Zacchaeus!

A Letter of Love

What you will need- Scissors and paper.

Cut the piece of paper into a heart.

Fold in the two rounded pieces of the heart.

Flip the heart and fold it up.

Fold down the top and you have your envelope!

Draw a picture inside then give this envelope 

to someone and remind them that Jesus loves everyone!

Calming the Sea Snacks

What you will need: apples, bananas, toothpicks, and fruit leather.

Cut the fruit into boat shapes.

Stick in the toothpick and fruit leather to make a sail. 

Now you have your own boats, just like the ones that rode into the storm. But then Jesus told the storm to stop, and it did!

Walking on Water

What you need: 1 cup of water, 1.5 cups of corn starch, a small tray, small toys.

Combine the water and cornstarch. Stir it together, this is difficult.

Pour the mixture into your tray.

When the little people “run” or “hop” across the mixture quickly, they seem to be walking.

Talk about the time that Jesus walked on water!

Fish and Loaves Story Snack

What you need: Cheese, a plate, crackers.

Take your cheese and cut out two circles and two triangles.

Form your two fish.

Add the five crackers and you have your own snack to replicate the lunch in the story!

While you enjoy your snack, let your child tell the story to you! Imagine what 

it would be like to share your lunch with a crowd.

Catching Fish!

Gather your supplies:  

Painters tape and aluminum foil.

Criss-cross painters tape on a doorframe to create a net formation.

Let your child shape the foil into a fish shape 

(or just a wad, if that's easier for him)

Have your preschoolers throw the aluminum foil “fish” into the net.

See how many "fish" your child can catch! Talk about

how many fish Jesus' friends caught in their nets!