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Splinks for February 13th - February 19th
1
God Loves You!
Snack
Have a party to celebrate Valentine's Day and God's love for us. (It doesn't have to be on February 14; pick any day and celebrate together.)
Write "God Loves You" on each piece of construction paper. Cut the letters apart (into 11 pieces) and hide them around the room (while the kids aren't looking). Assign each child a color and invite him or her to find a special message. When all the letters have been found, unscramble the letters to decipher the message. (Older kids can help the younger ones.)
Ask:
How do you know God loves you? (He created you special; He watches over you; He answers your prayers; He sent Jesus to die for your sins; He's making a place for you in heaven; He shows us the way to live in the Bible, etc.)
Share a snack of cupcakes and milk. Make regular cupcakes into heart-shaped ones by wadding a piece of foil into a ball and putting it on one side of the cupcake before baking. Remove the ball when cooled to reveal a heart-shaped cupcake. Frost and let kids decorate with sprinkles or small candies.
2
Boss for a Day
Kids using the D6 curriculum learned that Jesus cleansed the temple of people who were robbing the people and misusing the temple. God's house was to be a place of prayer and worship, but instead dishonest people had ruined it. Jesus showed His authority by making the people leave.
Ask:
If you were the principal (in charge) of a school and could change any of the rules, what 3 things would you do?
How would these change things for the better at your school?
Talk about how being in authority brings responsibility to do what is right. Jesus used His authority to clean God's house of wrongdoing.
3
YourTemple 2.0
Items Needed: computer
Game to load onto the computer
Load the game onto the computer and play it with your kids. Talk about what is loaded onto the computer stays there. Our minds are like a computer. It stores what we put into it.
Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20—Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s (NKJV).
As Christ followers, we are now the temple of God.
Ask:
How can we keep the temple of God clean? Eat a bar of soap? (NO)
We must be careful what we allow into our bodies—what we listen to, watch, read, eat, or drink. (Garbage in--Garbage out) We must keep garbage out of our bodies to keep God's temple clean.
Ask the kids to come up with some guidelines. (We should allow ________; we should avoid ________________.)
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