Ice Cream Scoop Kids Worship Food for the Hungry

(Food related Bible Lessons)

Materials: You will need fish crackers, fish cut-outs for bible game, icecream, chocolate chip cookies, apple juice, fishing pole and fake worm for drama, gummy worms or gummy fish Scripture Reading for preparation: John 6 Prayer: Pray the Lords Prayer. Provide a poster for the kids to read it as some may not know this prayer. It would be good to teach this prayer for them and explain what the verses mean throughout the prayer. Allow one of the children to lead in the prayer today. Offering contest: Cut out two large cones and use different colors for the dips of ice-cream. Add a dip of ice-cream for each $1.00 the kids give. Have a contest between the boys and the girls. At the end of the theme, allow only the winners to burst a piata. However, give all the kids candy. Music: Use DVDs that your kids enjoy singing. Add the two songs below for some fun. For the first song, sing the first line and have the kids copy you with a response. You can sing any tune in tune or out of tune is not s big issue. The kids will copy whatever you do.

Call & Response Song Teacher: Do you like fried fish? Kids: Yes, I like fried fish. Teacher: Do you like baked fish? Kids: (Will respond either) Yes or No, I like baked fish Teacher: Do you like gummy fish? Kids: Yes, I like gummy fish. Teacher: Do you like fish crackers? Kids: Yes, I like fish crackers. Teacher: Do you have a goldfish? Kids: Yes, I have goldfish. Teacher: Do you swim like a fish? Kids: Yes, I swim like a fish.

Song: Feed the Hungry (Tune Jesus Loves Me) 1. Jesus loves the whole wide world. He wants us to love them, too. If we love them we will feed Hungry kids who have a need. Yes, Jesus loves them Yes, Jesus loves them Yes, Jesus loves them He loves the whole wide world.

The Fishing Trip

Josiah: Cool! Look at this one? (Holding up a worm) Jenny: Yuck! I hate those things! Josiah: This is the biggest one I have seen. (Wiggles it) Jenny: Dont get that thing near me. Josiah: How come? (Shakes in front of her) Jenny: They are wiggly and yucky and slimy. Josiah: You got the slimy right. I am having a hard time getting this one on the hook (attempting to hook fish) Jenny: Does the bigger the worm - get you a bigger catch? Josiah: Just depends if they are biting, and you get in a good location where they are at. Jenny: I dont even care for fish. My mom buys those fish sandwiches at McDonalds. I hate the smell of them! Josiah: I like the fish my mom makes in the oven. She bakes it and it is soooo good! Jenny: Maybe your mom should show my mom how to make fish. Josiah: Hmmmm. Shhh! (Fishing pole outstretched as if fishing) Jenny: What is it? Josiah: I feel a bite. Jenny: Where? I dont see any fish biting you. Josiah: No..not that. I felt a fish biting my bait. Jenny: Whew! You had me worried. I was afraid Id need to call 911 or something. Josiah: Naw..look at this one. Wow! (Pulls up large paper fish)

Jenny: Is it dead? Josiah: Does it look dead? Jenny: Dont kill it! I hate to see things die. Josiah: Well, how on earth will you ever eat fish if you dont kill them? Jenny: I dont care if I ever eat fish. Josiah: All those people that Jesus fed sure liked it. Jenny: What people? Josiah: He fed thousands of people fish and bread all from a small kids lunch one day. Jenny: How could his mom get that much fish in one bag? Josiah: I dont know, but Jesus can do anythingANYTHING! Jenny: How does he do it? Josiah: He just speaks the words and things happen. Jenny: Like magic? Josiah: Yes..but its Gospel Magic - the Bible Kind. Come on, lets go get my mom to cook us some fish. Jenny: Yuck! Get that thing away from me! (EXIT)

Kids Message Food for the Hungry (Based on John 6:1-14) Had you ever heard about the Passover Feast? This was a celebration when the Israelites remembered their escape from the Egypt as slaves. God sent Moses to lead them out of Egypt to a land that He had promised

them. When Pharaoh set them free, they hurriedly left Egypt not having time to let their bread rise. So it was flat rather than fluffy and light. This is why many churches use unleavened bread today when we celebrate communion. Just as the Jews celebrate the Passover Feast to remind them of their freedom, we celebrate Jesus death and resurrection with communion. It was nearing time for the Jewish Passover and Jesus had crossed the Sea of Galilee to get away from the people. A great crowed followed him because Jesus had healed so many sick. When Jesus saw so many people, he knew they must be hungry. So he asked his disciple where they could buy some food to feed them. His disciples thought that was a crazy idea to feed so many people because there was no place to go and buy food for so many you see there was a hugh crowed. Can you imagine inviting your whole class over to eat dinner with you one evening? What would your mom or dad say about that? But Jesus always has a plan. There was a little boy whose mother had sent him a nice lunch for the day. She must have known he would get hungry. This little boy offered his lunch to feed the people. Andrew, a disciple, did not think that was a good idea at all. However Jesus did not agree. He told them to sit down in small groups and then he took the little boys lunch, prayed and began distributing what was in the sack. The disciples helped Jesus with this enormous task. Soon all the people were fed and fully and satisfied. Can you believe that there were even leftovers? The disciples collected 12 baskets full of leftovers. What do you do with your leftovers at your home? Do you throw them away, or put them in containers to eat for another meal. Jesus did a miracle that day and the people were amazed.

Bible Game (Good to verify comprehension and listening skills) Draw a large pond. Cut out blue and red fish. Divide the kids in two teams blue team and red team. As they answer the questions, they place a fish in the pond. See which team gets the most fish in the pond. Give the whole team who wins a gummy worm. You can also just give them a round of applause, or allow them to go first for snacks.

1. What was the name of the feast in the story today? 2. Answer: Passover Feast 3. What people celebrated the Passover Feast? 4. Answer: Jews 5. Where did the Israelites come from? 6. Answer: Egypt 7. What were they doing in Egypt? 8. Answer: They were slaves 9. Who led them into the wilderness away from the Egyptians? 10. Answer: Moses 11. When they left Egypt what was different about the bread? 12. Answer: They hurried and left and it did not have time to rise. 13. Why do the Jews celebrate the Passover Feast? 14. Answer: It reminds them of their freedom from slavery. 15. What is communion? 16. Answer: Where we celebrate Jesus death and resurrection to remind us of what He has done for us. 17. What do we eat in communion? 18. Answer: Grape juice and bread or crackers 19. What sea did Jesus cross in the story? 20. Answer: Sea of Galilee 21. Who followed Jesus? 22. Answers: The people 23. What did Jesus notice about them? 24. Answers: They were hungry 25. What did Jesus tell the disciples to do? 26. Answer: Get them some good. 27. Did the disciples like that idea? 28. Answer: No 29. Where did they get food to feed the people? 30. Answer: A boys lunch. 31. How much was left over after they had all eaten? 32. Answer: 12 baskets

New Memory Verse Game: Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty (John 6:35). Write 1-2 words on fish cut-outs. Make two sets for two team (one for girls and one for boys). Place in an envelope or a basket. When you say go one boy and one girl will come up and put the verse in the correct order. Use a long table or place magnets on the back and use a magnetic dry erase board. The first one who completes the verse gets 5 points added in the fish drawn on a chalkboard or a poster board. A new group comes up next time. The winners all receive a fish sticker (Use whatever you decide). You can even give them one fish or worm gummy to eat.

Snack Suggestions: Ice Cream sandwiches (two large chocolate chip cookies with ice cream between them). Fish crackers and apple juice.

Craft Suggestion: Draw a fish on a sheet of dark paper and make enough copies for each child. Give them goldfish to glue around the edges. Alternative: Cut out small squares of colored construction paper or tissue paper and have them glue them inside the fish to make a collage. They can use a white crayon to write their name on the construction paper.

Ice Cream Facts: 1. The largest ice cream sundae weighed 54,914 pounds. It was made by Palm Daries Ltd. in Alberta, Canada in 1988. 2. Chocolate syrup is the most popular ice cream topping! 3. More men (13%) admit to licking their ice cream bowl clean than women (8%)!

Resources for ice cream facts: http://www.serving-ice-cream.com/funfacts-about-ice-cream.html Rev. Jeanne McIntosh June 22, 2011. All rights reserved.