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    • Today's Theme:
    God helps us to do what's right.

     

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    Today's Story:

    		Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abenego become 
    important helpers in Babylon.
    Daniel 1
    Optional Memory verse: Ezekiel 36:27
    "I will put my Spirit inside you.  
    And I will help you live by my rules."
    International Children's Bible, New Century Version
    • Materials Needed:
    		Promised Land Mat
    Babylon mat that the kids made last week
    Pharaoh figure from Moses lessons to be used as the Babylonian king
    Figure to represent a Babylonian official
    Daniel figure
    3 Fisher Price or similar type boy figures to be Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
    5 or 6 Fisher Price or similar type people to be God's people
    Lego's or blocks 
    Optional Snack: vegetables and dip

     

    • Intro Activity: Lego palace 
    		Prior to the story have the kids build Nebuchadnezzar's palace from Lego's 
    or: 
    Place the Babylon mat in the area of the room where you plan to tell the story and have them build a palace from blocks right onto the Babylon mat.

     

    • Closing Discussion

    • Close in Prayer asking God to help us do what's right and to be brave and speak up for what's right when we should.

    Telling the Story:
    		Let's put the Babylon mat that you made right here and the Promised Land way over there.
    		Direct the kids to put the Promised Land on the other side of the room from Babylon.
    Let's put the palace that you made right here.
    		Put the Lego palace that the kids made in Babylon.
    The king of Babylon was named King Nebuchadnezzar.
    Let's put him here in the palace.
    		Use the Pharaoh figure from the Egypt unit to represent Nebuchadnezzar and place him in the palace.
    This is one of the king's helpers.
    		Place a figure in front of the palace to represent his helper.
    Last week we learned about 4 young men who were forced to leave the Promised Land and move to Babylon.
    They were named Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
    		Place the Daniel figure and 3 other figures to represent Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego on the Babylon mat.
    Who remembers why they were forced to leave the Promised Land?
    		Because God's people would not stop making and worshipping gods of wood and stone.
    God let their enemies take over the Promised Land. 
    King Nebuchadnezzar decided that he wanted the princes from the Promised Land to have special training.
    They were to be taught to speak the same language as the king and to learn all about Babylon.
    After their training was over he wanted them to be his special helpers in his palace. 
    Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were chosen to get this special training. 
    		Place their figures in front of the palace near the king's, helper.
    Part of their training required them to eat the king's food.
    Now back in the Promised Land God's people had special laws about cleaning and cooking the foods they ate.
    But the people in Babylon didn't follow those laws.
    This worried Daniel and his friends because they wanted to obey God's food laws.  
    So Daniel asked one of the king's helpers to feed them only  vegetables and water so they wouldn't break God's laws by eating foods that hadn't been cleaned and cooked the way God wanted. 
    		Walk Daniel figure to king's helper.
    The king's helper was afraid to feed Daniel and his friends only vegetables and water.
    If Daniel and his friends got sick, he was afraid the king would kill him for not taking good enough care of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 
    So Daniel suggested to the king's helper that he do an experiment and give them vegetables and water for 10 days.
    At the end of 10 days he should check them to see if they stayed healthy.
    If they were not healthy then Daniel and his friends would eat the king's food.
    But if they were healthy, then Daniel and his friends would not have to eat the kings food.
    It would be okay for them to eat only vegetables and water.
    The king's helper agreed to this.
    God kept them healthy and at the end of 10 days Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were healthier than all the young men who ate the king's food.
    So God helped Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to follow his laws about food even in the far away land of Babylon.
    At the end of their training Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were brought before the king.
    		Walk the figures to the king. 
    King Nebuchadnezzar was very pleased with them.
    They were smarter than all his helpers from Babylon.
    He picked them to work as his special helpers.
    If you had been Daniel, would you have been scared to ask the king's helper to not make you eat the king's food?
    Do you think Daniel was scared to ask the king's helper to not make them eat the king's food?
    God helped Daniel to not be afraid to talk to the king's helper.
    God helped Daniel to do what was right.
    Discuss times or situations when the kids might have been afraid to do what was right.

     

    • Action Game:  "Into the soup"
    		Set up a circle of chairs and tell the kids this is a pot of soup.
    Designate most of the children to be 'vegetables' and a few to be gardeners.
    Have the vegetables line up at one end of the room.
    Have the gardeners stand in the middle of the room.
    When you say "Into the soup!"  
    		The vegetables have to run across the room to the opposite wall without getting tagged by a gardener,
    The gardeners have to try to tag them before they make it to the other side of the room.
    Tagged children have to go into the "pot of soup".
    Repeat switching roles.

    Optional Snack: Cut up vegetables and dip

    Supplemental Bible Readings:
    (Suggested daily readings)

    • Materials Needed for Next Week:
    		Promised Land Mat
    Paper Babylon mat from today's lesson
    Pharaoh figure from Moses lessons
    Daniel figure
    2 or 3 Figures to represent evil officials of the king
    Blocks
    stones to make a "lion's den"
    toy lion figures if you have them
    Optional Snack: American cheese slices and round crackers (Ritz or similar). 
    • Figures Needed for Upcoming Lessons:
    		In mid December you will need the figures from a childproof Nativity set.
    In January you will need a Christ figure

     

    © 1999 Linda Lawler.  
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