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DD12 will be leading a Bible Study for 2nd Grade Girls – Ideas?
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I received a call today from an acquaintance/neighbor. She asked if my dd12 would be interested in leading a Bible study for a group of 8-10 2nd grade girls, two times per month. Both my husband and I like the idea as does she. We feel it will be a great opportunity for her. She has asked a friend to help her, so they will do it together.
We are talking about ideas and plans and I wondered what suggestions you wonderful ladies and fellows might offer.
Details:
- 10 second grade girls
- 16 total sessions Sept – May
- ~ 1.5 hours, but 30 minutes will be walking with them from school (new to her) to the home where the study will be and having a snack, so about 1 hour
- the moms would like a craft time. I LOATHE throw-away paper crafts, so we are brainstorming ideas here.
- Scripture Memory System boxes for all – cards inside prelabeled, they get to decorate box somehow
- Mini Gratitude Journals – pretty, mini-composition notebooks with a gratitude journal sticker printed for front. Slight concern about them writing in something so small so may opt for full size.
- Service Project of some kind for Christmas and Easter maybe
- Need more ideas!!!
- What to study? This is a first for dd, so I think something preplanned a bit will be nice. Ideas welcome. These were some ideas we had off the top of our heads. We enjoy the Sally Michael books and they do have some activities for each section.
- God’s Names by Sally Michael
- God’s Providence by Sally Michael
- A Virtuous Girl from Queen’s
Also, would you pray for my dd and her friend. Pray that God will use them in sharing His love with the little girls. I do not know any of the little girls’ families well, so it’s all a bit of an unknown. Pray that dd and her friend will grow in their faith and their witness for Christ, that they will love on and encourage the “younger women”
Thank you,
Christie
What an awesome opportunity! I think the Sally Michael books would be a good choice. We are currently reading God’s Names, and I really like it, and think it might ba a neat intro for a bigger view of who God is for kids who may not have much exposure.
A couple of craft ideas: paint, or use paint pens, to decorate rocks with God’s names.
Also, get alphabet beads, and have girls make bracelets with one or more of God’s names, scripture, etc.
I will be praying for her and her friend. Please keep us posted. 🙂
Building on the bead idea from Katrina, how about making salvation bracelets? Or making wordless books with each page a different color to represent the plan of salvation–black is for sin, red is for Jesus’ blood, white is for our new heart, gold is for heaven.
They could make homemade toys/bracelets for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.
They could make prayer jars – Decorate a jar and fill it with the names of people or concerns they’d like to pray for, words of praise or thanksgiving to add to their prayer time. We do something like this at meal time — everyone picks from a jar and we pray around the circle. It was a great way to get my shy son to pray aloud, because he already knew what to pray about when it was his turn.
Book marks for their Bibles
Cards of encouragement for the elderly.
When we were younger we used to make little items for the people at the nursing home at holiday time — usually just little treats that were distributed on their meal trays. We’d make plastic canvass “squeezums” and put mints or Hershey kisses in them, or lapel pins, etc.
I’m not sure about a study. My kids really liked Veggie Tales when they were 7. The youngest attended a small group for boys at that age and it was quickly apparent that it wasn’t going to work out. Most of them only saw each other once or twice a week, so when they got together all they wanted to do was play(they are a hard bunch to settle Kidz in Church class, too).
The girls at our church are much more settled and attentive, but they are also seriously out-numbered. In my classroom (last year grades 1/2/3) I had two regularly attending girls, and nine boys. There was only one regularly attending girl in the 4/5/6 class and eight boys. Even the dozen or more semi-regular and occasional attendees are mostly boys.
I’ve just started doing a little study with my own girls from Doorposts – it is the Proverbs 31 study for girls. You can break it into various lengths to fit the timeframe, and it has a nice balance of looking at scripture and making notes in a workbook, etc. To go along with it, they have kits to make a little pocket-size doll family, that includes the “woman of virtue”, her husband and children, which my girls really enjoyed (my younger one – age 6 was content just to make the mother, while my older one – age 9 loved making the whole family). This, of course, is entirely optional, and an additional purchase.
Hope your study is a great experience for all!
Jennifer
I agree with you about take home crafts – my girls bring things home from Sunday school and are in tears when they find them in the trash! But they are so cluttery! And often times are a far stretch from what they actually learned in class.
With that age – I wonder if a lapbook would be good? I did that with my Sunday School class and found it to be a good way to reinforce what we were learning and then they took ONE thing home at the end of the year that they could be proud of and use to share all that they had learned – it’s still cut and pasting, but shouldn’t take up tons of time.
Tomorrow is the first session of “Bright Lights”. DD12 and her friend are teaching the story of the fishes and loaves and how the Lord multiplied the food. They are using ribbons to weave through clear plastic baskets for a keepsake craft. They will use the remainder of the time just getting to know the younger girls.
We’ve made each girl a Scripture Memory System box of their own with their name and “Bright Lights” on it in silver sharpie. They will keep these at home and hopefully put them to good use.
Please pray for DD12, her friend, and the younger girls. I’m asking that the Lord grow all of them in their knowledge of His word and His presence in their day to day lives.
Thanks,
Christie
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