Children can help with clean-up days, dinners, visits to homebound members, special mission projects and more. If we want to nurture children in an understanding of stewardship, we need to find ways to help them experience stewardship and the joy of giving of oneself.
We must take the gifts our children can give seriously and let them know how much such gifts are appreciated! Wife, mother, grandmother, and author, she enjoys connecting people with each other and the resources they need for growing in the knowledge and love of Jesus. Did you enjoy this article? Consider subscribing to Building Faith and get every new post by email. Subscribe to Building Faith.
Known for her knowledge of the variety of published curricula across the Church, she has also had her hand in the birthing of numerous books, including the best-seller, Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People and the 6-book series of Faithful Celebrations: Making Time for God. A graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and a lifelong Episcopalian, she lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband John, a They have two adult children both teachers and a 5-year-old granddaughter who is a budding environmental activist.
Follow her at www. Then say: Orange! Grab your orange balloon and hold it high. Say: Now follow me as we go back to our lesson! Give each child a paper plate, then have the children skip around the room while holding onto their plates.
Repeat the activity three or four times. Have children take their plates back to your lesson area to place neatly on the floor or table before you continue with the lesson. Place a jelly bean in front of each child. Allow kids several minutes to roll their jelly beans. Play four or five rounds. Toss a blindfold to each person. Say: Here, catch! Ask children to spread out around the room, then blindfold them. However, children can yell for help and find other children in the blizzard by following the sounds of their voices.
Help hesitant children find the others. When all the children have linked up together, say: We all found each other! If you have a lot of children, give several children the same word. Have the children mix themselves up and crouch down. As you read the verse, children should each jump up when they hear their word.
Have them record how they spend time during the week. Review the records together to see how they are using their time toward stewardship. Ask them to identify ways they can use their time more effectively. Students can share what they learned about stewardship by creating a skit, presentation or poster. This not only allows the children to show their understanding, it also raises awareness and encourages stewardship throughout the organization.
Based in the Midwest, Shelley Frost has been writing parenting and education articles since Her experience comes from teaching, tutoring and managing educational after school programs. Frost worked in insurance and software testing before becoming a writer.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education with a reading endorsement. Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages.
Based on the Word Net lexical database for the English Language. See disclaimer. You Want to Give to God?
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