God's Word Is For Toddlers- Toddler Tuesday

Toddler's can start to have an awe and reverence for God's Word.  God uses some great tangible examples (honey, light, flowers) to explain how wonderful His Word is.  Here are 5 simple and short teachings for toddlers to learn about the Bible.  From the "God's Word is..." teaching series I took one activity and a Bible verse for each point.  Since toddlers learn best from lots of repetition, each one of these activities could be done for multiple days. 

Day 1:  The Bible is God's Word
Parent Preparation: 1 Peter 1:20-21
Supplies: a Bible

• Where is the Bible? (have your child point to the Bible)
• The Bible is God's Word.
• Men wrote down words as God told them what to write down. 
• Tell me a word and I will write it down.  I wrote (child’s name) words.  When men wrote down what God said they wrote down God’s words.  The Bible is God’s Word.  God spoke them and men wrote them down.

"Paul and Silas Sang Praises to God" Teaching Ideas

Theme Verse: “Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God” Acts 16:25 ESV

Song: Praise Him
Praise Him, praise Him
Praise Him in the morning, praise Him at noontime
Praise Him, praise Him
Praise Him when the sun goes down.
Here is a video of some motions.

3 Bible Verses To Help You Speak Pleasant Words - A Parent's Heart

1.  Teach Your Mouth.

“The heart of the wise instructs his mouth

And adds persuasiveness to his lips.” Proverbs 16:23 NASB

2. Think About What You Say.

“The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.” Proverbs 15:28 ESV

3.  Desire to Please God.

“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 ESV

Related Posts:

Pleasant Words Proverbs 16:24 Part 1
Pleasant Words Start With Me 
3 Bible Verses To Help You Speak Pleasant Words 
Put On The New Man

"We Pray For Each other" Teaching Ideas

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Theme Verse:
“So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.” Acts 12:5 BBE

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In August I will be starting a new teaching series.  This will use a children's Bible while teaching about man's need for a savior, the life of Jesus Christ, the Church in Acts speaking the Gospel concerning Jesus Christ, and eventually people in the Old Testament looking for the Messiah.

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Jesus Christ Prayed To God - Teaching Ideas

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Theme Verse: “he (Jesus) went up on the mountain by himself to pray” Matthew 14:23 ESV 
Song: Watch video of Psalm 55:22 from Seeds Family Worship
Parent Preparation: Luke 6:12-13, Matt 26:36, Mark 1:35, Mark 14:23, Luke 11:1-9, Hebrews 5:7-8, John 11:40-42
Supplies: Bible, printout of teaching

June 2014 Newsletter

 

I'm excited this month to start a once a month newsletter.  This will give me a place to communicate about whats happenings on the website, point to past content that might apply for your family this month, and have a place to share a little bit about what's happening in my family.   

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Daniel Prayed To God - Teaching Ideas

Theme Verse: “Three times a day he (Daniel) got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.” Daniel 6:10b NIV

Song: "Daniel Was A Man Of Prayer", listen here

Parent Preparation: Daniel 6:1-28

Supplies: Bible, print out of teaching, puppet (see note below on the puppet)

Day 1 
• (Read theme Bible verse.) 
• Daniel prayed 3 times every day (count together to 3). 
• Daniel prayed to God. 
• Puppet: “Is prayer when you talk to yourself?” 
• No! When you pray you are speaking to God. 
• Puppet: “I can’t pray to God right now, I don’t see Him here.”
• God is Holy Spirit. We can’t see spirit. God is here, and  He hears our prayers even though he doesn’t have ears. 
• Daniel thanked God. What are things that we can thank God for? 
• (Pray together.)

Day 2 
• Bad men saw Daniel praying to God. 
• They made a rule that if you prayed to God you would be thrown into a den full of lions! 
• Puppet: “That’s okay, lions are cats, my neighbors have cats, they are nice. They say “meow”” 
• Lions are dangerous. They have sharp teeth and claws! They make sounds like “Roar!” 
• Puppet: “Don’t go in there Daniel!” 
• Do you think he stopped praying? (read theme verse).  No! He went in front of His window and prayed to God. 
• So the bad men went and got Daniel, and threw him into the lion's den! 
• God sent an angel to shut the lion’s mouth! 
• (Pray together.)

Day 3 
• (Read them verse. Have child pretend to be Daniel and act out the verse.) 
• (Act out together putting Daniel in the lions den, an angel shutting the lion’s mouth, and Daniel coming out of the lion’s den.) 
• (Read Daniel 6:23) Daniel believed and trusted that God would take care of him. When we pray we can trust God to take care of us. 
• Puppet: “Can I only pray 3 times a day? 
• We can pray anywhere we go, at any time of day. 
• (Pray together.)

Note About The Puppet 
• If you don’t have a puppet you can make one out of a sock, or a paper bag, or a popsicle stick. 
• When using puppets when teaching the Bible, I have the puppet's character be really excited about the Bible.  At the same time I still maintain that I am the one teaching about the Bible and not the puppet. 
• It can be fun to give the puppet a name, personality, and 
even its own voice (though I have a hard time maintaining the voice!)


Prayer Teaching Series:

• "Hannah Prayed To God"
• "Daniel Prayed To God"
• "Jesus Christ Prayed To God"
• "We Pray For Each Other" 
• "The Name of Jesus Christ" Teaching Ideas  

  © Brigette Hill, 2014