A Church

I bought the TeamKid Preschool Book as Abigail's birthday gift. Yesterday I started lesson 1 with her.

Lesson 1 is taken from Luke 2:41-52 about Jesus at the temple when he was twelve years old.

The Boy Jesus at the Temple
Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you."

"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

After sharing the story with Abigail, I guide her to do a craft - build a church. This craft is to help her to remember that when Jesus was 12 years old, he went to a church and he stayed on and listen to the teachers.

Craft:
Material: six ice-cream stick, button, poster colour, (optional - windows, door and cross).
1. First, I get her to trace her name and write down the date.
2. Then stick those ice-cream sticks on the paper. (I left 4 long ice-cream sticks and 2 magnum ice-cream sticks, so I just make do)
3. After sticking all the sticks, then get her to paste the cross, windows and door which I've prepared for her. (you can draw them if you want too)
4. After all the sticking job is done, then we start colouring. We use two different green for the trees and bush. Optional: get child to choose a colour for the fruits on the tree and flower on the bush.
5. Abigail dip her finger tip into the poster colour and then dip on the paper. She chose red for the tree (she said apple tree) and her favourite pink as flower for the bush.
6. Then colour the three fingers into different green and print on the paper as grass.
7. Finally, stick a button as sun.

The Church