Today we did the following object lesson to teach the boys about thankfulness.
1. Thanksgiving Eye Spy to go along with the theme of looking for clues.
2. Listen to the song "Evidence" by Josh Baldwin. Explain evidence is finding clues that prove something is true. Every time they hear the word "evidence" in the song, we had them pretend they were looking through a magnify glass for clues.
3. We showed the boys 2 of their jackets and asked how someone would know which jacket belongs to which boy. Sometimes it's easy to find evidence. For instance, if a jacket has a name tag on it, then we know whose jacket it is. But sometimes, we have to look hard for that evidence. We looked in the pocket of one jacket and found Jonah's favorite blankie. We told the boys this was evidence that showed this jacket was Jonah's and not Ben's.
4. Then we talked about sometimes we have very good days, and so it's easy to be thankful and find "evidence of God's goodness". But on hard days, we might have to look or try harder to find that evidence because we might be upset or sad. But Psalm 68:19 teaches us that every day God blesses us with things to be thankful for even if we are having a bad day. Then we made this craft that shows things we can be thankful for each day. After the boys had placed the pictures on the paper, I cut out the middle of the magnifying glass to remind them we have to look for things to be thankful for each day: Evidence of God's goodness.
Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up.
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