Wash Your Feet

Gather some newspaper or other type of non-slip paper (I am using leftover packing paper), shaving cream, a towel, and a bathtub/tub of water nearby!

Lay the paper down on the floor and spray shaving cream on it.

Let your child walk in the shaving cream, getting their feet dirty!

Now take them to the tub and wash their feet.

While you dry their feet, talk about how when we wash our feet, it can be really fun.

When we wash someone else’s feet, it helps them and shows how much we love them.

Jesus washed His friends’ feet to show them how much He loved them.

Pig Food

Gather a plastic bowl or Ziploc® type bag and food items to make a snack mix with that your child would love to eat. These ideally are any snacks you already have at home. I am making mine with Cheerios®, Goldfish®, and Craisins®. NOTE: Make sure the food items are not choking hazards.

Place all of the food items in the bowl or bag and mix it really well.

Your “pig food” is complete! You and your child can munch on the pig food while reading the prodigal son story in the children’s Bible. Talk about how the pigs would eat whatever food was left over, which reminds you of your “pig food.” (Left over items from your home.)

Coin Rubbings

Gather a piece of white paper cut into quarters, coins, and crayons.

Lay several coins down under the paper. NOTE: You should never leave your child alone with the coins as they are a choking hazard!

 Color on the piece of paper, over the coin, with the crayons. It will leave a coin rubbing on your page!

You can do this over and over again, until each sheet of paper is filled with coin rubbings.

Now you can go through each coin and name them. Coins are money. We can buy things with them. Sometimes there are people that don’t have many coins and we can share ours with them.

Stack Your Cereal

Gather Play-Doh®, spaghetti noodles, a paper plate, and Cheerios® or another type of circular cereal, poured in a bowl.

Make two small mounds of Play-Doh on the plate.

 Take two strands of the spaghetti noodles and break them into different heights, a tall one and a short one, and stick them in a mound of Play-Doh standing up.

Let your child put pieces of cereal on each of the spaghetti noodles until they are almost filled to the top.

Talk about how this stack has a little and this stack has a lot. We can share when we have a little or a lot. Ask if they will share some of the cereal from the big stack and give it to the little stack. Now, share some of the cereal from the little stack to the big stack.

Wrap It Up

Gather an empty toilet paper or paper towel tube, a dark crayon or marker, glue, and strips of toilet paper.

Using the crayon or marker, draw eyes and a mouth on the empty tube.

Put some glue on the tube below the eyes and mouth.

Take the strips of toilet paper and wrap them around the tube.

Continue wrapping until the lower half of the tube is completely covered.

Talk about how the wrapped tube reminds you of the story of the Good Samaritan. He helped the hurt man by putting bandages on him and we can help others too.

Heart Hunt

Gather scissors, different colors of construction paper, clear tape, and a small basket.

Cut out a bunch of hearts from the construction paper.

Put a piece of tape on the back of each heart and hang them around the house. (You may want to stick to 1-2 rooms to make it easier to find them.)

Give your child a small basket and send them off on a heart hunt! They can put the hearts in their basket as they find them.

Talk about how hearts remind us of love, and who loves us no matter what? Jesus!!!

Heart Snack

Gather a mini heart cookie cutter (Click HERE for an option), a platter, and several different types of food that your child would eat and is easy to cut with the cookie cutter. I am using cheese, salami, watermelon and an apple. 

 Using the cookie cutter, cut out heart shapes of each type of food.

Lay them all on the platter.

Enjoy! As you sit with your preschooler eating your heart filled snack, talk about all the times that Jesus loves us. He loves us when we’re happy and when we’re sad. He loves us when we’re at home and at school .