Tots Church (0-2) Autumn term 1 - God Made Me

Autumn 1 Week 1 - God Made Light & Dark

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Bear cave with soft bears
	Craft Table: Black paper, chunky silver, gold crayons and stickers
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star was looking out of his bedroom window last night at bedtime and he could see some shiny things up in the sky – does anyone know what they could have been? Yes, the moon and stars. His mummy read him a bedtime story from his Bible which told him all about how the stars got up in the sky. (open/show Bible) It was very dark before God made the world. He wanted the world to look beautiful, but it needed some light to see (because when it is dark you can’t see anything can you? – put your hands over your eyes) So God made lots and lots of stars and threw them up into space (make throwing actions) and He made the moon to light up the sky. He decided to call this time NIGHT. Then God made the sun to light up and warm up the daytime. ‘I love this’ God said, ‘I am going to call this DAY’. God was very pleased with what he had made. It’s beautiful isn’t it the world that God had made for us. Do you like looking at the stars and the moon at night?  Do you like the warmth of the sun on your skin in the summer? Father God, thank you for the light, it helps us to see all the beautiful things that you have made. Sing twinkle, twinkle little star.
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Autumn 1 Week 2 - God Made Land, Sky & Water

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Sand and Water play
	Craft Table: Blue paper, blue, green, white crayons and sea life stickers
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star’s mummy opened his Bible and read him a story from the very beginning of the Bible, when God made the world.  Right at the beginning of time God made the world. God made the earth and then he made water and the sky. (Use the musical instruments to make a really gentle, quite tinkling sound) God made the water lots of different colours – blue, green, silver, grey, turquoise. God made water for us to use to drink, wash (actions for drinking and washing) God made water for animals and plants too (Use the musical instruments to make a really gentle, quite tinkling sound) But after God had made the water he needed something to make it stay in one place. So he decided to make some dry areas, which he called ‘land’ and then he called the water around the land the ‘sea’. Has anyone ever been to the beach?  Have you stood on the land and put your feet in the sea?  Has anyone been swimming in the sea? God made all types of land, flat land and high, mountain land. Hilly land and bumpy land.  God had made the earth, He had made the water, He had made the sun, the moon, the stars, and then he looked up at the big blue thing above him (look up) what could he call that, He had names for everything else – what could he call that big blue thing? Do you know? That’s right He called it the sky and in the sky he put some clouds and the sun in the daytime and the moon and the stars at night time. God was really pleased. His world was beginning to look amazing. Thank God for the land, sky and sea using actions. Lift hands up high for the sky, flat for the land and create waves for the sea. Each leader pray a blessing for each of the children as they sit.
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Autumn 1 Week 3 - God Made Plants

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Soft gardening equipment
	Craft Table: Seed pictures, planting cress
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star was doing some painting yesterday, he loves bright colours – his favourite colour is red. What’s your favourite colour? God loves bright colours. Mr Star’s daddy read him a story from his Bible last night at bedtime about when God made all the plants on the earth and the fun he had choosing the colours for them. First of all God decided to make some tall trees (stand up pretend to be trees) big, solid brown trunks, with brown branches and bright green leaves (sit down again). Then He made some bushes and grass (wiggle fingers like blades of grass). Then he decided that He wanted more colour so he decided to make some beautiful flowers in lots and lots of different colours. What colours can you think of? God was really pleased with his world, He loved all the colours. Thank God for all the beautiful flowers and plants in our world (children can sign -Thank you see blog video).Ask the children to make themselves as small as a tiny seed. Pray for each child that they will grow up knowing and loving the Lord throughout their life.
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Autumn 1 Week 4 - God Made Big Animals

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Big animal small world
	Craft Table: Animal cut outs
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star and his daddy sat and watched ‘The Lion King’ on television yesterday. It is Mr Star’s favourite film. He really likes the big lion in it called Simba.  Simba is really naughty when he is little. A bit like Mr Star sometimes. Mr Star’s daddy read him a story from his Bible at bedtime all about when God made all the big animals like Simba the lion. God had already made many amazing things for the earth, but He was still missing something. Just at that moment He had an amazing idea. ‘Animals’ he said, ‘wouldn’t it be wonderful to have some animals on this beautiful earth that I have made’ So God set about making some animals, some really big animals. He made some animals with long fur and some with short fur. He made some that were fierce and some that were gentle. He made some that were fast and some that were slow. He made some that were quiet and some that were very noisy.  (Act all of these out) He made lots and lots of animals, can you think of some really big animals? (Try and act out or make the noises for the suggestions) Aren’t they all amazing? God was so pleased with all his animals. Father God, we like the animals you have made, we like the (ask a child for an animal), we like the .....Thank you God.
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Autumn 1 Week 5 - God Made Little Animals

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Mini beast, domestic animal small world
	Craft table: Decorate butterflies
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star was watching a little bee buzzing around his garden yesterday. It was so tiny and so beautiful. It was yellow and black striped and looked a bit furry. It was sitting on one of his mummy’s flowers for a long time. Then it flew away really quickly buzzing as it went. (bbbuuzzzzzzzzzzzzz) He asked his mummy all about these little animals. His mummy read him a story from his Bible about when God made all the little animals in the world for us.   (open the Bible) God was just sooooo busy making the world, He had done so much yet he was sure there was still something missing. What could it be? He loved the animals He had made, but there was a problem, they were all sooo BIG. I know He thought, I will make some little animals. They will look wonderful in my world. So God thought about what small animals he might need and He made a little mouse (squeak, squeak), and a little bee (buzz, buzz) and a little cat (meowww) and a little frog (ribbit, ribbit). Can you think of any other small animals that he made? (make the noises) God made so many little animals, they were very beautiful, He was very pleased with them. Sit in a circle and place the pictures of all the little animals we have been learning about in the middle. Thank God for all the little animals, point and mention by name. Ask the children to make themselves small like a snail and pray blessing over each child.
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Autumn 1 Week 6 - God Made People

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Babies, dolls, push chairs
	Craft Table: Large people cut outs
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star’s mummy was tidying up the other day and found a book of photos of Mrs Stars family. Mr Star and his mum sat down and looked at all the people in the photos. There were so many. Mr Star has a big family. Lots and lots of people in it. Look around, can you see lots of people? Have you got photos at home of lots of people? Let’s look in the Bible to see the story of when God made the people with Mr Star (open the Bible) God still wasn’t finished making his world. He had made so much, yet there was still something missing. What could it be? Then God had this gigantic amazing thought PEOPLE, my world needs PEOPLE in it. People will be able to look after my world, making sure everything is how it should be. So God set about making some people, the first people on earth. He wanted people to be just like himself. Very soon he was finished. ‘Here they are’ said God, ‘Here are the first people on my earth, a man and a woman’ (ask two children to stand up – boy and girl) and they looked just like this. God was so happy he danced around with the biggest smile on his face. ‘I am so pleased with my world’ he said. Pray for our families, use family picture cards to help. Children can point/say out loud to who they would like to pray for. Pray a blessing for each child by name.
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Autumn 1 Week 7 (Extra Plan) - God Made Rest

Play	Core activities: Soft play, slide, baby toys, mat, blocks, books, puzzles etc
	Themed activity: Play Sleeping Bunnies, Tented area with sleeping bags
	Craft Table: Night time pictures, moon and star stickers, glitter glue
Praise	Suggested Worship(2): What a Great Creator, Special, I’m going to clap my hands, Big family of God, The wiggle song, The Statue Song, Let your light shine, The Lion’s Roar, Night Song
Listen	Mr Star was getting ready for bed, he had washed his face, brushed his teeth (actions) and was climbing in to bed ready for a story. His mummy read one of his favourite stories ‘Peace at last’ – Read story by Jill Murphy (use pictures to help). The bear in the story finally got to sleep! Our sleep is so important to us in fact God told us how important it is for us all to rest! God had been working very hard for 6 days creating the world. He had created the sun, moon, stars, sky, water, animals and people and he was so tired. So on the 7th day he decided to have a rest! God showed us how important it is for us to rest and he loves to rest with us. Let’s have a rest now and ask Jesus to come and rest with us. Put a duvet/blanket on the floor, ask all the children to lie down and ask Jesus to come and rest with us. Pray the peace of God over each child.
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