Easter {Sunday School Unit}

Thanks to Pinterest, I had so many Easter ideas I wanted to incorporate!  Alas, you can only cram so many projects into one Sunday morning.  I know the order of the story is a little messed up but I really wanted the Palm Sunday lesson to fall on Palm Sunday... The printable story was found at DLTK.  I will also add a link to the song Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, in case you don't know the tune.  As always, I am not very good at keeping track of where I have found all my resources.  All images were copied from Google searched and I created the Take Home Sheets.  There aren't a lot of printable for this unit. On another note, if you are on Pinterest, I have a board that is dedicated to Sunday School Resources.

We split the story into 3 weeks:
Week one: The last supper and washing feet
Week two: Palm Sunday
Week three: Jesus is risen

Lessons:



The last supper
Palm Sunday
Jesus is risen













Crafts, Activities and Stories:

He is risen craft
Words for He is risen craft
Palm Sunday craft
Last supper story














Take home sheets:

Last supper
Palm Sunday
He is risen













I also wanted to include a couple super cool Easter projects that I really wanted to do but didn't get a chance:

Right now, we are working through a short unit on the life of Moses.  We completed 10 weeks of the 10 commandments and the children seemed to be quite interested in Moses.  I now wish that we had planned it so we did an overview of Moses' life and then a closer look at each commandment but this way should work too.

After Moses we are jumping into a pretty huge project.  We are going to do 3 months of "Bible Legends" with trading cards and all!

Each week we will do an overview of important people throughout the Bible.  We will print out these trading cards and each child will build a little collection of Bible Legends to take home! I am actually quite stoked about this one!

The only thing I have yet to figure out is how to store all these trading cards...
We have children that come and go and children that are regular attenders.  I am thinking of creating a little box or something for each child and it could stay in the Jr. Kid's Church Room but then they may loose some of the excitement...  I also haven't figured out exactly how we will "trade" cards.  I thought a "trading party" would be in order but not sure how that will look.  Any suggestions?

How Jesus Loves Me {Sunday School Unit}

This was a three week unit.  It can be difficult for a four year old to understand how to have a connection to a person they have never met.  This unit was a short intro to who Jesus is and how he loves us.  I am not very good a keeping track of where I find all our resources.  The only thing I made myself (for this unit) is the take home sheets.  I used a lot of ideas from Kids Sunday School for this lesson, too.

The three topics are:

• I am special to Jesus
• Jesus is my healer
• Jesus is our shepherd

Lessons:

I am special

Jesus is my healer

Jesus is our shepherd

Crafts, Activities and Stories:

A chair for a crown - game

I am special - craft

Jesus is our healer - story

Who is the lost sheep - game

Bible verse:

I found these printables from a website/blog called 1+1+1=1.  She has so many homeschooling and Sunday school resources!

Poster

Memory verse activity

Take home sheets:

I am special to Jesus

Jesus is my healer

Jesus is our Shepherd

Fruits of the Spirit {Sunday School Unit}

With the help of two fantastic volunteers, I teach Sunday School at Wentworth Baptist Church.
Last summer, we did a whole unit on the Fruits of the Spirit, and I thought I would try to share everything we came up with.  There are lesson plans with activities, crafts, worship songs and prayer/discussion topics.  Our class is made up of 3-5 year olds but this lesson could be adapted to a younger or older audience.  The lessons are created in order but they certainly don't need to be used in this way.  I have also included my "brainstorming" notes - no guaranties it make any sense!

Our routine:

The lessons:

Intro (I didn't create a lesson for the intro.  We coloured a colouring sheet and we read a little intro story.

Gentleness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Joy
Kindness
Love
Peace
Self-Control
Patience

Activities:

Each week, we decorated a "fruit" and added to our bulletin board.  Today I realized we didn't take a photo of the final result!

Fruits of the Spirit Colouring Page

Self control (game)

Photos for Bulletin Board

Labels for Bulletin Board

Kindness Song

Colour photos of fruit (I didn't create this one and I don't remember it's source)

Crafts:

There isn't a printable for every craft.  I hope the descriptions in each lesson plan will be clear so you can figure out how to create the art activity.

Dorcas

Lamb template

Self-Control tree

Peace craft (part 1)

Peace craft (part 2)

Love craft

Take Home Sheet:

Each week, we send home a little note that tells the parent what we talked about.  There is a little colouring picture and an idea how to incorporate that weeks lesson into the families week.  We started adding the Bible verse that we practice after this unit, so you will see that version in the future.  These are formatted to print on a legal size (8.5" x 14") but you can edit your printer settings and it will print on a letter size (8.5" x 11") quite fine. They are JPGs so they aren't able to be edited.

Intro

Faithfulness

Gentleness

Goodness

Joy

Kindness

Love

Patience

Peace

Self-Control