AGES 4-7 LESSON ACTIVITY/CRAFT. I AM A CHILD OF GOD heavenly family photo. Customize a child’s picture, glue their photo there, or use one of the girl/boy images to help a child know they are God’s spirit child in heaven, sent to earth. This heavenly family photo helps them know they are part of God’s kingdom that God the Father is their heavenly father and God’s Son Jesus is their brother.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVERS
I Am a Child of God heavenly family photo
OBJECTIVE: The lesson/activity helps children realize that Heavenly Father loves each of us because we are His children. Create a Heavenly Family photo to place the child’s photo or girl or boy image to color to look like the child in the picture.
ACTIVITY: Help children put themselves in a portrait with Heavenly Father and Jesus and other children to know they are part of a heavenly family. Tell them that we are all Heavenly Father’s children and that we are all brothers and sisters.
TO MAKE:
1. Using cardstock paper, print or copy, color, and cut out a heavenly family photo and frame for each child.
2. Cut out three 1/4″ squares of the egg carton for each photo and glue on silhouette squares.
3. Glue a girl or boy on a silhouette image on each photo (over the egg carton squares so the image will stand out).
4. Fold frame according to directions and glue corners.
5. Tape a string to the back of the framed photo so they can hang it on the wall.
THOUGHT TREAT: Gingerbread Girl or Boy Cookie. Remind children that they are created in the image of our Heavenly Father and Jesus.
DISCUSSION ON THE CREATION:
• Talk to children about why they are children of God. Read, “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:27).
MORE ACTIVITY IDEAS for This “I Am a Child of God” Lesson 3:
• Paper doll discussion –Make a paper doll chain.
• We Have Physical Bodies Discussion – Use the paper dolls with Heavenly and Earthly Home found in the Sunday Savers, Nursery-Age Children book. Click HERE to preview. Plastic spirit moves from heaven to earth over the body to teach “We Have Spirits” Discussion.
