Katie and I are teaching the 2/3 yr. olds on Sunday mornings this summer (Mary Claire's class). We came up with a neat idea, and I'm so excited about it I am going to share it with you! Each week, we are going to read a Dr. Seuss book and talk about what we can learn from it about being Christians. I downloaded some "Dr. Suess font" and put the following up on the wall in big letters:
Follow God when you're in a box
Follow God when you're with a fox
He's your master here or there...
God is sovereign everywhere!
He's our God, our precious lamb;
The King of kings, the great I AM!
What we did this Sunday:
Story: We read The Sneetches, which introduces us to Sneetches with stars on their bellies and Sneetches without stars on their bellies. The Sneetches with stars won’t play with the Sneetches without stars until they learn a valuable lesson that they are all the same inside, where it counts.
Lesson: The moral we brought it back to was that no matter how different each of us are, everyone special to God.
Bible Verse: Psalm 139:14 "I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well." We colored a picture of the Sneetches with the verse on it.
Take Home: I made and cut out little circles to help them remember what we learned and pinned them on their shirts (see picture).
3 comments:
Cute idea, I bet the kids loved it! :)
I love this...it's important to see God everywhere in everyday, not just in church!
So is The Cat in the Hat really the Christ who arrives with a "BUMP" and turns the world upside down for God's children?
Is the mother in the story a symbol of the old religious law?
Are the fish in the bowl representative of churches that adhere to a restricting version of the Gospel?
Found on Wiki (not that you'll discuss with 3 year olds!!):
Although Geisel (Suess was his middle name) never made any explicit or implicit mention of the abortion debate in his books, the line "A person's a person, no matter how small!!" from Horton Hears a Who! has grown, over the objections of his widow (2nd wife, tho), into widespread use on the pro-life side of the issue
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