"GOSPEL IN COLORS" CURRICULUM: YELLOW (Gold)

Click HERE for explanation of the 5 gospel colors.

I made these flashcards to use each week.

This is the picture bible we use with the boys.  We love it because of the way it is written and the cute and colorful illustrations.  

Plus it offers a Bible story videos also. 

Click HERE for The Beginners Bible information.

WEEK FOUR: YELLOW

1. Bible Story- 
Heaven, Revelation 21:2-4 and Revelation 21:21b

2. Songs-

Wordless Book song- use each week

Heaven is Real song

Heaven is a Wonderful Place song

When I Get to Heaven song

3. Gospel Color Worksheet- 

Color yellow space for this week

I made this worksheet to fill in each week.

4. Heaven worksheet-

Click HERE for What You Can Do in Heaven worksheet

5. Craft-

Click HERE for Heaven craft

6. Academics-

a. Online Lesson

Click HERE for Starfall color yellow lesson

Note: I am a member of Starfall.  Best $35/year I could spend for the boys!

b. Song: 

I chose this series of color songs because it also works on learning how to spell color name

c. Choose which object is yellow activity.  

You could make up your own activity using objects around the house.  However, I use "Circle Time Activity Center" software.  I did not buy this, it was given to me as a gift.  Very nice to use and looks like it only costs $19.99?

Click HERE for information on this Circle Time software

d. Color Yellow worksheet

Click HERE for worksheet

7. Object lesson- I showed boys a wrapped gift.  We talked about how exciting it is to see this present because if it from someone who loves us, then we can be assured it will be nice gift.  But I didn't let the boys open the gift.  I explained heaven is like this unopened gift.  We can believe it is a wonderful place that we want to go to someday because we know God loves us.  But we can't really completely imagine how wonderful it will be until we actually see it.

8. Book-

Click HERE for I Promise book

9. Prayer. 

Boys pray if they want to, and then I close in prayer.  

"GOSPEL IN COLORS" CURRICULUM: WHITE

Click HERE for explanation of the 5 gospel colors.

I made these flashcards to use each week.

This is the picture bible we use with the boys.  We love it because of the way it is written and the cute and colorful illustrations.  

Plus it offers a Bible story videos also. 

Click HERE for The Beginners Bible information.

WEEK THREE: WHITE

1. Bible Story- 
Jesus Forgives Peter, John 21:1-14 and Psalm 51:7

2. Songs-

Wordless Book song- use each week

You Forgive Me song

Jesus Paid It All song

Lord I Lift Your Name on High song

3. Gospel Color Worksheet- 

Show white space for this week

I made this worksheet to fill in each week.

4. Craft-

I made a snowman out of black circles (sin).  Boys glued a red heart on the middle snowman circle (Jesus dying for us) and then we glued white cotton balls (forgiveness) on the snowman.

5. Academics-

a. Online Lesson

Click HERE for Starfall color white lesson

Note: I am a member of Starfall.  Best $35/year I could spend for the boys!

b. Song: 

I chose this series of color songs because it also works on learning how to spell color name

c. Choose which object is white activity.  

You could make up your own activity using objects around the house.  However, I use "Circle Time Activity Center" software.  I did not buy this, it was given to me as a gift.  Very nice to use and looks like it only costs $19.99?

Click HERE for information on this Circle Time software

d. Color White Game

Click HERE for snowflake matching game

Since white is hard to color, 

I found this matching game instead.

6. Object lesson- We redid last week's object lesson (I let the boys color red and black markers on a hard-boiled egg to show the problem and sin and the solution of Jesus).  Then we peeled the dark shell away to the boys the white egg beneath.  

NOTE: start with a new egg and not egg from last week.  On the old egg, the marker colors bleed through over the week so you wouldn't have a white egg- kind of ruins the object of the lesson :)

7. Book-

Click HERE for Snow Day book

8. Prayer. 

Boys pray if they want to, and then I close in prayer.  

"GOSPEL IN COLORS" CURRICULUM: RED

Click HERE for explanation of the 5 gospel colors.

I made these flashcards to use each week.

This is the picture bible we use with the boys.  We love it because of the way it is written and the cute and colorful illustrations.  

Plus it offers a Bible story videos also. 

Click HERE for The Beginners Bible information.

WEEK TWO: RED

1. Bible Story- 
Jesus Dies for Us, Matthew 23-27 and John 3:16

2. Songs-

Wordless Book song- use each week

Have You Heard song

John 3:16 song

Jesus Loves Me song

3. Gospel Color Worksheet- 

color Red space for this week

I made this worksheet to fill in each week.

4. Craft-

I made a black cross (sin) and then cut out red hearts (Jesus dying for us)

 and had the boys cover the cross with them.

5. Academics-

a. Online Lesson

Click HERE for Starfall color red lesson

Note: I am a member of Starfall.  Best $35/year I could spend for the boys!

b. Song: 

I chose this series of color songs because it also works on learning how to spell color name

c. Choose which object is red activity.  

You could make up your own activity using objects around the house.  However, I use "Circle Time Activity Center" software.  I did not buy this, it was given to me as a gift.  Very nice to use and looks like it only costs $19.99?

Click HERE for information on this Circle Time software

d. Color Red worksheet

Click HERE for worksheet

6. Object lesson- I let the boys color red and black markers on a hard-boiled egg to show the problem and sin and the solution of Jesus.

7. Book-

Click HERE for Guess How Much I Love You book

8. Prayer. 

Boys pray if they want to, and then I close in prayer.  

"GOSPEL IN COLORS" CURRICULUM: BLACK

Click HERE for explanation of the 5 gospel colors.

I made these flashcards to use each week.

This is the picture bible we use with the boys.  We love it because of the way it is written and the cute and colorful illustrations.  

Plus it offers a Bible story videos also. 

Click HERE for The Beginners Bible information.

WEEK ONE: BLACK

1. Bible Story- 
Fall of Man, Genesis 3 and Romans 3:23

2. Songs-

Wordless Book song- use each week

Romans 3:23 song

Adam and Eve and the Tree song

3. Gospel Color Worksheet- 

color Black space for this week

I made this worksheet to fill in each week.

4. Sin Worksheet-

I made up this worksheet where boys had to find the bad choice in each illustration.

5. Craft-

Click HERE for paper chain snake craft

We made ours all black to represent the evil serpent in the Garden who tempted Adam and Eve.

6. Academics-

a. Online Lesson

Click HERE for Starfall color black lesson

Note: I am a member of Starfall.  Best $35/year I could spend for the boys!

b. Song: 

I chose this series of color songs because it also works on learning how to spell color name

c. Choose which object is black activity.  

You could make up your own activity using objects around the house.  However, I use "Circle Time Activity Center" software.  I did not buy this, it was given to me as a gift.  Very nice to use and looks like it only costs $19.99?

Click HERE for information on this Circle Time software

d. Color Black worksheet

Click HERE for worksheet

7. Object lesson- I showed boys white coffee filter and then let them put drops of food coloring (all colors) to make the filter turn black and yukky.  Showing how sin/bad choices ruins things.

8. Book-

Click HERE for No David book

9. Prayer. 

Boys pray if they want to, and then I close in prayer.  

TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO...

We do Sunday School at home for the boys.  

The boys have many opportunities at church to participate with typical children: Wednesday Night activities, Children's Church, and special events like VBS.  However, for their weekly Sunday School, we felt it was more important for them to learn about the Bible each week with lessons that are adapted just for their needs.  Participating in weekly Sunday School at our church means the boys are just really learning how to sit and be quiet while teaching is happening that is not at their level or adapted to their needs.  

I am not saying this to be critical of our church's Sunday School.  We totally understand that not everything offered can be adapted to our 2 boys.  

We are perfectly happy to do Sunday School on our own and then plug the boys into the other church activities I mentioned above.

On a side note, I do wonder if the Lord is prompting me to offer a special needs Sunday school for the community ...seems like a big responsibility that makes me nervous to be in charge of, but I do feel a tug on my heart that this might a need for many families...praying about that...  

The boys have enough opportunities in life to learn good behavior in group settings.  We wanted to make sure they have a good opportunity to learn about God in a setting that is conducive to their learning style.  

So for the past few years, I have been preparing a Sunday School lesson each week.  I haven't purchased any curriculum.  I find what I need or get ideas online.  Everything I use is FREE!  Our Sunday School takes about 30 minutes.

Here is our format:
1. Read/Tell Bible story using their children's picture Bible
2. Watch YouTube short video of Bible story- there is an amazing selection out there- FREE!
3. 2-3 YouTube kid Bible/Sunday School songs- there is an amazing selection out there-FREE!
4. Worksheet/game about Bible story if I can find, or sometimes I make one of my own
5. Bible craft- one I find on the internet or I make one of my own
6. Academic portion: however I can, I try to do a YouTube video, game, and worksheet about a letter, number, or a learning concept that ties into our Bible story.  For instance, if we are studying "The Wall of Jericho", I might do some work on the number 7.
7. Object lesson if I can find online or make one up of my own
8. Online book that pertains to the concept we studied in Bible story.  For example, when studying about "Fall of Man", we listened to the book No David to talk about good/bad choices.  The reason I do online book reading is so I don't have to worry about finding/checking out library books in advance.  I can just easily access books on YouTube.
9. Prayer time- boys pray out loud and then I close in prayer.
10. The next day,  the boys show their work to Andrew so he can review the lesson with them.

This fall I noticed the boys retaining some of the concepts about God-Jesus-Salvation so I decided it was time to go through the gospel message with the boys.  

I decided to use the colors of the gospel- black, red, white, yellow and green-as our curriculum.  

I thought I would share this 6 week course on our blog.  Please enjoy the next 6 blog posts!

THANKSGIVING THOUGHT

I think this says all I want to say about Thanksgiving!

A STORY FROM HEAVEN

This narrative showed up in several of my Facebook posts this morning. I do not know who wrote this to give them credit, but I thought it was too precious not to share (It's been edited to add our boys names).

“We’ve got an issue here ”the quality control angel called out.

“What’s the problem?” asked God, in a voice that already seemed to calm the concern.

“It looks like an extra chromosome – one, two – yes, right here, an extra one.”

Now smiling, God answered, “That’s not a quality concern. It is a distinction. The manual addresses it. You’re new on the line, aren’t you?”

“Why yes, this is my first day,” apologized the angel – searching through the manual for any reference to this.

“I’ll talk you through it…there are just a few assembly modifications. First, locate the hug sensors. Do you see the dial?”

“Yes, right here. Oh, I think I tickled him.”

“Turn it up.”

“How much?”

“All the way.”

“Done.”

“Now locate the two smile triggers – they are located on either side of that cute little button nose.”

“I found them.”

“Adjust them a little closer to the surface. Closer, closer, perfect!”

“Is that it?” Asked the obedient angel.

“Almost,” answered God. Now, very gently, open his heart. That’s it. Measure two, no, make it three extra scoops of love.”

“Will it fit? He's so tiny!”

“Oh, these little hearts stretch incredibly. It will fit.”

“Done. Is that it?”

“One more thing. Move him from the random distribution belt to the select premium belt. These little ones aren’t given to just anyone.”

“There. He's done and ready to go,” announced the angel.

God stepped over, as if to inspect the handiwork of this new angel on the line. But that wasn’t His intent. Instead, He picked up this little one and held him close to His heart. Holding him for so long the angel became concerned.

“Is he alright? Did I do everything as you instructed?”

Still holding him close, God said, “He's perfect. I just find it hard to let these special ones go, for they are Heaven to hold.” And He gently kissed his cheek and sent BEN AND JONAH to our hearts.

 

Our little gifts from heaven!