Give
each child a piece of black construction paper. Then give each child a small amount of paper stars. (I just printed some colored stars out on my computer using card stock paper.) Allow them to glue their stars to the black paper, leaving some space between the stars. Next give each child a piece of chalk (any color)and have him or her connect the stars and count the stars. Glue the memory verse to the bottom of the page. "Look up into the heavens and count the stars if you can. Your descendants will be like that " too many to count!" Gen.15:5 - This idea comes from Belinda Boardman
This lesson is
about Joseph in Egypt after his brothers sold him into slavery. Children learn that God kept his promise to Abraham and to Joseph and his family. And that
God can take bad things and make good things happen.
1. Star Picture Activity Sheet - - Give the children black construction
paper and star stickers. Tell them that Jacob brought over 70 family members with him to Egypt to escape the famine. Help the children
count the number of stickers on their papers.
2. Children can also make a picture of Joseph and all his brothers using the printouts available on The Resource Room. Children cut out faces and glue them onto different face shapes.
3. Make a star man puppet to remind your children that God keeps his promises. The pattern for this craft is available to members only on the Joseph and God's Promise Bible lesson.
4. Make a Family Tree picture
What you will need: White typing paper, shades of green
paper, glue, markers, and crayons.
What to do:
1. Before class print out the Family Tree pattern (Available to members only on The Resource Room) and cut out small
leaf shapes about 2” long from green paper.
2. In class have your children color the tree trunks and write their family member's names on the leaves. Younger children will not know very many of their relatives, but they can just glue the leaves on the tree and have their parents help them write the names on the leaves later. Don’t worry about putting the names in any kind of order like a real family tree. The idea is to just help the children think about how many people are related to them.
3. Talk about Jacob’s family and how Joseph was used to fulfill God’s promise to Abraham who was the father of Isaac and Jacob. Genesis 26:4 “And I will multiply your descendants as the stars
of heaven . . .”
4. Talk to the children about Jacob’s 70 family members who where
in Egypt during the famine. Genesis 46:8-22 tells how many children
each of his sons had. Challenge the children to come up with 70 relatives.
5. I challenged the children to take their trees home with them and have their parents help them write in the names of their relatives. I offered a prize to the child that brings back the tree with the most names.
Activities:
1. Play a "Doggy, Doggy, Where's Your Bone?" type game - Pick one child
to be Jacob. Jacob sits in front of the room with his back to the
other children and closes his eyes. Place "Joseph" (a
doll, bean bag, or paper doll) behind Jacob. Pick one child to sneak
up and take "Joseph" and then go back and sit down hiding
Joseph behind their back. All the children then say, "Jacob, Jacob, where's your son? Somebody took him, but who's the one?"Jacob tries to guess who took Joseph. If he is right, he takes another turn. If he is wrong, he takes the place of the child who took Joseph.
2. Play a memory verse game - Cut out star shapes and write the memory verse on the stars using one word per star. I used "He keeps his promises." Joel 2:13, five stars per child. Spread out the stars on the floor. Have the children sit on the floor around the stars. Take turns going around the circle letting each child pick a star. He must pick up the stars in order starting with "He". If a child doesn't pick up "He" the first time, he turns the star back over and tries again next time. Once he picks up the word "He", he will then try to find the word "keeps" and so on. The child that picks up all the stars in order first wins. You can then have the child glue the stars onto a strip of paper to take home and study. To make this game longer, you can ask questions about the story and then have the children pick up a star.
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