Hello junior-aged children and your adults,
We hope you have been enjoying our 'Nile to Nebo’ series. Don’t forget to send us photos for our gallery of any craft you do in response to the teaching. The person to send them to is Adam, who has taken over from Heather in helping to teach children at Cornerstone. Adam’s email is: adam.heaton@cornerstonechurch.org.uk
Over the Summer, instead of separate children’s work (such as Sparks Praise and Nile to Nebo) our online services will be All-Age. Beginning on Sunday 19th July, we will be doing a series called Power and Prophets looking at Elijah and Elisha.
Each service will contain a kids’ slot and there will also be suggested activities for children of different ages to do during the sermon time. The activity ideas will be up on the website in advance so do take a look here before the Sunday.
We are missing you and hope to see each of your faces before too long!
Amanda
We hope you have been enjoying our 'Nile to Nebo’ series. Don’t forget to send us photos for our gallery of any craft you do in response to the teaching. The person to send them to is Adam, who has taken over from Heather in helping to teach children at Cornerstone. Adam’s email is: adam.heaton@cornerstonechurch.org.uk
Over the Summer, instead of separate children’s work (such as Sparks Praise and Nile to Nebo) our online services will be All-Age. Beginning on Sunday 19th July, we will be doing a series called Power and Prophets looking at Elijah and Elisha.
Each service will contain a kids’ slot and there will also be suggested activities for children of different ages to do during the sermon time. The activity ideas will be up on the website in advance so do take a look here before the Sunday.
We are missing you and hope to see each of your faces before too long!
Amanda
Bible Workshop - 19/07/20
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Grape Structures! Using grapes and cocktail sticks you could create an artistic, architectural structure. Maybe you could try and make it as tall as possible or as strong and secure as possible or as creative as possible. You could do this to help you remember our story and remember the amazing fruit that the spies brought back from the land of Canaan. |
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Moses Storyboard
To remember all the we have been learning about in the past seven weeks you could create a storyboard. Can you remember some of the key things that have happened in our story of Moses?
Learn
1 Thessalonians 5:24 “The one who calls you is faithful…”
Talk
Throughout our story of Moses, how have you seen God’s faithfulness in his rescue plan for the Israelites?
What is God’s even greater rescue plan for you and me today?
What are some of the things that you have learnt about God as we’ve looked at the story of Moses?
To remember all the we have been learning about in the past seven weeks you could create a storyboard. Can you remember some of the key things that have happened in our story of Moses?
Learn
1 Thessalonians 5:24 “The one who calls you is faithful…”
Talk
Throughout our story of Moses, how have you seen God’s faithfulness in his rescue plan for the Israelites?
What is God’s even greater rescue plan for you and me today?
What are some of the things that you have learnt about God as we’ve looked at the story of Moses?
Bible Workshop - 12/07/20
Do
Glowing Face Painting!
To help you remember how holy God is you could do some face painting to make your face glow like Moses’s face did after being in the presence of a Holy God.
Tabernacle Tents
You might even like to put up a tent or den in your house or outdoors to remind you of the special tent that God's people made for Him to live in among them. Or you could build a model out of Lego.
Glowing Face Painting!
To help you remember how holy God is you could do some face painting to make your face glow like Moses’s face did after being in the presence of a Holy God.
Tabernacle Tents
You might even like to put up a tent or den in your house or outdoors to remind you of the special tent that God's people made for Him to live in among them. Or you could build a model out of Lego.
Learn
John 14:6 "Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Talk
How are we different from God? And how does this affect our relationship with Him?
What does our memory verse say about how we can have a relationship with God, our Father?
John 14:6 "Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Talk
How are we different from God? And how does this affect our relationship with Him?
What does our memory verse say about how we can have a relationship with God, our Father?
Bible Workshop - 05/07/20
Do
Ten Commandments Craft. You could create your own stone slabs and write on them these ten commandments:
– worship only God
– don’t make any idols
– don’t dishonour God’s name
– keep one day of the week holy
– honour your parents
– do not murder
– do not commit adultery
– do not steal
– don’t tell lies about anyone
– don’t crave after things belonging to other people
Ten Commandments Craft. You could create your own stone slabs and write on them these ten commandments:
– worship only God
– don’t make any idols
– don’t dishonour God’s name
– keep one day of the week holy
– honour your parents
– do not murder
– do not commit adultery
– do not steal
– don’t tell lies about anyone
– don’t crave after things belonging to other people
Learn
Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”
Talk
What have you learnt about God today that will be helpful to remember when you mess up and fail to obey him?
Can you think of times where you have found it difficult to forgive someone or when you might find it difficult to forgive others?
When you are finding it difficult to be forgiving, how might remembering what Jesus has done for you be a help?
Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”
Talk
What have you learnt about God today that will be helpful to remember when you mess up and fail to obey him?
Can you think of times where you have found it difficult to forgive someone or when you might find it difficult to forgive others?
When you are finding it difficult to be forgiving, how might remembering what Jesus has done for you be a help?
Bible Workshop - 28/06/20
Do
Manna Challenges
These Manna challenges will hopefully remind you of the manna that God provided for his people. Both of these challenges involve popcorn which resembles the Manna.
Manna Catching
Ask another member of your household to throw individual pieces of popcorn at you. Try to catch the popcorn in your mouth. See how many pieces you can catch in a row without dropping any.
Manna Collecting
Spread a table cloth or sheet on the floor. Then sprinkle popcorn or cereal all over it. Try to pick up all of the popcorn or cereal without eating any of it. Can you do this? How quickly can you do this?
Manna Challenges
These Manna challenges will hopefully remind you of the manna that God provided for his people. Both of these challenges involve popcorn which resembles the Manna.
Manna Catching
Ask another member of your household to throw individual pieces of popcorn at you. Try to catch the popcorn in your mouth. See how many pieces you can catch in a row without dropping any.
Manna Collecting
Spread a table cloth or sheet on the floor. Then sprinkle popcorn or cereal all over it. Try to pick up all of the popcorn or cereal without eating any of it. Can you do this? How quickly can you do this?
Learn
1 Peter 3:18 “Christ died once for our sins. An innocent person died those who are guilty.” (CEV)
Talk
What is so amazing about what God did for the Israelites in our story of Moses?
What is so amazing about what God has done for us through Jesus?
1 Peter 3:18 “Christ died once for our sins. An innocent person died those who are guilty.” (CEV)
Talk
What is so amazing about what God did for the Israelites in our story of Moses?
What is so amazing about what God has done for us through Jesus?
Bible Workshop - 21/06/20
Do
You could do a Passover craft to remember how God rescued his people from the 10th plague.
Use a piece of paper or a piece of cardboard. Draw a door and using a red pen or red paint put red around the outside. Cut along the right side and the top of the door so that you can open and close it. Leave enough space for a box at the top of your craft. Write something in the box that you remember about the Passover or something that you have learnt today about God.
You could do a Passover craft to remember how God rescued his people from the 10th plague.
Use a piece of paper or a piece of cardboard. Draw a door and using a red pen or red paint put red around the outside. Cut along the right side and the top of the door so that you can open and close it. Leave enough space for a box at the top of your craft. Write something in the box that you remember about the Passover or something that you have learnt today about God.
Learn
John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
Talk
God has a rescue plan for you and me. What does today’s memory verse say about how God can save us? What does it say about the part that we have to play in this rescue plan?
John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
Talk
God has a rescue plan for you and me. What does today’s memory verse say about how God can save us? What does it say about the part that we have to play in this rescue plan?
Bible Workshop - 14/06/20
Do
Why don’t you recreate the burning bush. You could choose one of these three crafts to copy.
For the first, you will need paper, scissors, brown, red, orange and yellow paint. Draw around your hand and paint it in brown to create the base of the bush. Then cut around your hand and stick it onto a plain piece of white paper. Using red, orange and yellow paint use your fingertips to print leaves onto the bush. Do so until there are lots of burning bush leaves covering it.
For the second you will need a plastic cup, some orange and yellow tissue paper, some glue and a black marker pen. Cut around the top of the cup, removing the rim. Then cut the yellow and orange tissue paper into strips with a spikey flame shame cut into the end. Glue the strips of tissue paper to the inside of the cup so that the spikey ends come out of the top of the cup. Finish by writing "Here I am" or "I am who I am" on the cup to remember that God has always existed and that he will always exist.
For the third, you will need some paper, colouring pencils, red, orange and yellow tissue paper and some glue. Draw a tree without any leaves on a blank piece of white paper and colour it in brown. Once you have done this scrunch up small pieces of tissue paper and glue them to the tree to create the burning bush leaves. Do this until the bush us full of leaves.
Why don’t you recreate the burning bush. You could choose one of these three crafts to copy.
For the first, you will need paper, scissors, brown, red, orange and yellow paint. Draw around your hand and paint it in brown to create the base of the bush. Then cut around your hand and stick it onto a plain piece of white paper. Using red, orange and yellow paint use your fingertips to print leaves onto the bush. Do so until there are lots of burning bush leaves covering it.
For the second you will need a plastic cup, some orange and yellow tissue paper, some glue and a black marker pen. Cut around the top of the cup, removing the rim. Then cut the yellow and orange tissue paper into strips with a spikey flame shame cut into the end. Glue the strips of tissue paper to the inside of the cup so that the spikey ends come out of the top of the cup. Finish by writing "Here I am" or "I am who I am" on the cup to remember that God has always existed and that he will always exist.
For the third, you will need some paper, colouring pencils, red, orange and yellow tissue paper and some glue. Draw a tree without any leaves on a blank piece of white paper and colour it in brown. Once you have done this scrunch up small pieces of tissue paper and glue them to the tree to create the burning bush leaves. Do this until the bush us full of leaves.
Learn
1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you”
Talk
How might knowing that God exists, is powerful and cares for you make a difference when you are facing any sort of problem?
1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you”
Talk
How might knowing that God exists, is powerful and cares for you make a difference when you are facing any sort of problem?
Bible Workshop - 07/06/20
Do
You could do some 'Moses Basket Baking'. You will need some cereal (Rice Krispies, or Cornflakes work well), lots of chocolate and some sweets to make Moses (Jelly Babies or others).
Firstly melt the chocolate. Then, mix together the cereal with the melted chocolate. Once the cereal is covered in chocolate, evenly pour the mixture into cupcake cases creating a basket shape. Place sweets in the middle in the shape of a baby.
Learn
Colossians 1:17 “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Talk
How does it make you feel knowing that God is in control of everything? Think of times when it would be helpful to remember that God is in Control.
You could do some 'Moses Basket Baking'. You will need some cereal (Rice Krispies, or Cornflakes work well), lots of chocolate and some sweets to make Moses (Jelly Babies or others).
Firstly melt the chocolate. Then, mix together the cereal with the melted chocolate. Once the cereal is covered in chocolate, evenly pour the mixture into cupcake cases creating a basket shape. Place sweets in the middle in the shape of a baby.
Learn
Colossians 1:17 “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Talk
How does it make you feel knowing that God is in control of everything? Think of times when it would be helpful to remember that God is in Control.
