Exegetical Aim: Understanding the cost of something before the commitment is made.
Key verse: 28.
Props: A toy in its original box, if possible, with a ten-dollar price tag and nine one-dollar bills. Obviously, you can change the original price tag with a sticker to suit this Children's Sermon. The toy could be a football or a Barbie. It does not matter. The prop could also be a candy bar for te...
Object: A calculator
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you know how to add? Subtract? Multiply? Divide? It is wonderful to learn new things, isn't? For simple numbers, some of us may have started out using our fingers. 1-2-3-4, etc. After we reach 10 though we would be in trouble, wouldn't we? Of course we could take off our shoes and socks and count on our toes. Later we learn to add fig...
Object: Bring various patterns. If possible, bring a house blue print. Bring coins for the children--token type coins that can be bought at a craft/supply store. If this isn't possible, bring real coins.
Lesson: Show one of your patterns or blue prints and discuss it. For example:
I have a pattern for a blouse with me today. Before I make the blouse, what do I need to do? I need to read the inst...
Object: A thermometer
Good morning, boys and girls. What do I have here? It's a thermometer. What do you do with a thermometer? That's right, you measure the temperature--whether it is hot or cold. This thermometer is for measuring the temperature of our bodies. Other thermometers might measure how hot or cold it is outside. We generally like to know how hot it is so we can dress accordingly. In ...
Object: A bank hook.
Lesson: For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Good morning, boys and girls. Do any of you ever go to the bank with your mother or father? (Let them answer.) What do they do at a bank? (Let them answer.) That's right, they put money in the bank and they take money out of the bank. The ban...
Object: A variety of projects that are half completed: a half-colored picture, a half-built building made of blocks, and so forth.
What would say to someone who always stopped doing something half way through? A person who, for some reason, just never got around to finishing whatever he or she had started. That sounds kind of foolish, doesn't it?
What if you came into the kitchen at your house a...
Object: A calendar for each child. (You may be able to get a supply from your local bank or some other business.)
Lesson: To use the beginning of a new year as a time to think about planning ahead.
This coming Tuesday (or whatever day it is) something special is going to happen. Who can tell me what it is? ... (The start of a new year.) We know it is a new year because the calendar tells us so. ...