10 May 2020 | God created me in my MUM!
Welcome Harvest Kids to your
HARVEST AT HOME!
This is a super fun space for with some great activities to keep you occupied while at home for the next few weeks.
Mum, Me and mud?
It’s MOTHERS DAY! Wow! So what does that mean? It’s a special day where we choose to do something to acknowledge our Mum’s! Why would we do this?!? Because our Mum’s are pretty special! Yip that’s right. Today we are going to learn about MUD…. CLAY…. ME…. MUM and GOD!
You will find NEW links of BIBLE STORIES, MeMoRy VeRsEs, PRAISE & WORSHIP, OBJECT LESSONS & MUCH MORE!!! Enjoy this week’s spiritual food for YOU! YuM, SLURP, CrUnCh!
Parents, check out the blurb ‘just for you’ at the bottom! We hope this blesses, supports and encourages you as a family and during this time in New Zealand.
Love the Harvest Kids Team x
>>>>>>> Scroll down and ‘push play’ >>>>>>>
‘click’ on your class
Ages 1 to 3
Ages 3 to Year 2
Year 3 to Year 6
Year 7 to Year 8
here is a sneak peek at what you may find…
Worship
JOY! Praise & worship bring JOY! And we all can do with a dose of joy. Praise and worship should be light hearted. As parents we can lead by example. Have fun with your kids. Jesus loves us having a praise party!
Object Lesson
A fun and practical way to understand truths or harder concepts. These will be video form.
Activity
These will be a range of different things. They may include colouring in pages, or we might put something up that provokes thought and great discussion as a family. We want to promote our children telling us their deep thoughts. And we want to give them that safe space to do so.
Tag Lines
A simple truth that is important for us to remember. Presented in a fun way!
Story
Bibles stories don’t get old. We will provide age appropriate Bible Stories, that will be presented in a range of different ways.
Memory Verses
A selection of different ways to learn a memory verse. We will provided either a song, actions, or puzzle.
ages 1 – 3
Hi Babies, Toddlers and Parents!
Baby Lullabies
The Lullabies this week are to speak peace over your children and to declare God’s blessing over your family.
Wonderfully Made (Scripture Lullabies)
Lullabies for Babies – Psalm 118:1, 28-29
Precious Life (Scripture Lullabies)
Singing Time!
Are you ready?…
Have you got everything you need?…
Are your lungs ready to get nice and noisy?!!…
Are your feet ready for Dancing or Marching?…
Is Your heart and mind ready to encounter God?
Did you want Jesus to ask Jesus to dance and sing with you?
AWESOME! Let’s get ready, get set, GO!…..
Jump Around Preschool Worship
Kids! Sing Along! God made me and you!
God Made me
Memory Verse
Activities - Mother's Day
This week I’ve found some super cool videos that you might like! hmmm… yes I’m talking to you parents! LOL You are the ones that will need to do all the hard work alongside your little one!
Hopefully there is something there that you might like to give a try or… it might inspire a different idea that you can do with your toddlers or babies for their Mum, Grandma or a special ‘mum’ person in their life. Remember the goal isn’t to do it because you have to, but rather the goal is to make their mum feel extra loved today. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
ps. You know they will like anything you make… because YOU made it!
ps. If you can’t give it to them today, take a photo and text it to them, or send them a video of it completed.
IDEAS:
This video shows you lots of easy ways you could make something. My favorite is the hands with the paper spring that says, “I love you this much.” Which one is your favorite?
ages 3 & 4 and year 1 & 2
Start here: Worship
Have you got everything you need?…
Are your lungs ready to get nice and noisy?!!…
Are your feet ready for Dancing or Marching?…
Did you want Jesus to ask Jesus to dance and sing with you?
AWESOME! Let’s get ready, get set, GO!…..
Chat Time
The Potter and the Clay
Memory Verse
Ephesians 2:10 English Standard Version (ESV)
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)
10 We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!
Me, Mum, God & Mud?!
Activities - Mother's Day
This week I’ve found some super cool videos that you might like! Hopefully there is something there that you might like to give a try or… it might inspire a different idea that you can do for your Mum, Grandma or a special ‘mum’ person in your life. Remember the goal isn’t to do it because you have to, but rather the goal is to make your mum feel extra loved today. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
ps. You know they will like anything you make… because YOU made it!
ps. If you can’t give it to them today, take a photo and text it to them, or send them a video of it completed.
Idea 1: Origami Pull Tab Envelope Card
Follow the tutorial in the video below. Then write your own special message to your mum on it. eg. I thank God that you are my Mum…. or…. You are super special to me Mum, I love you… or… Did you know I love you? Yip! Sooooo much! To the moon and back! Remember to write Happy Mother’s Day on the front tab.
Idea 2: Create your own Paper heart origami
These origami hearts are easy to make. You just need paper cut into a circle. You might like to use paper bags from the supermarket if you don’t have paper in your house. Then colour it in with felt pens. You might like to put it on a card, or by your Mum’s coffee cup. It lets her know she’s special!
Idea 3: Puffy Heart Origami
You might like to make a handful of these and put them into an old jam jar. Then put a ribbon or string around the top to make it look pretty. Then write Happy Mothers Day on the front of the jar in a vivid or permanent marker.
Idea 4: LOTS of easy ideas
This video shows you lots of easy ways you could make something. My favorite is the hands with the paper spring that says, “I love you this much.” Which one is your favorite?
years 3 – 6
Worship
Are you ready?…
Have you got everything you need?…
Are your lungs ready to get nice and noisy?!!…
Are your feet ready for Dancing or Marching?…
Is Your heart and mind ready to encounter God?
Did you want Jesus to ask Jesus to dance and sing with you?
AWESOME! Let’s get ready, get set, GO!…..
Bible Facts
The Potter and the Clay
Chat Time!
Memory Verse
Ephesians 2:10 English Standard Version (ESV)
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)
10 We have become his poetry,[a] a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works[b] we would do to fulfill it!
Version with actions:
Me, Mum, God & Mud?
Activities - Mother's Day
This week I’ve found some super cool videos that you might like! Hopefully there is something there that you might like to give a try or… it might inspire a different idea that you can do for your Mum, Grandma or a special ‘mum’ person in your life. Remember the goal isn’t to do it because you have to, but rather the goal is to make your mum feel extra loved today. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
ps. You know they will like anything you make… because YOU made it!
ps. If you can’t give it to them today, take a photo and text it to them, or send them a video of it completed.
Idea 1: Origami Pull Tab Envelope Card
Follow the tutorial in the video below. Then write your own special message to your mum on it. eg. I thank God that you are my Mum…. or…. You are super special to me Mum, I love you… or… Did you know I love you? Yip! Sooooo much! To the moon and back! Remember to write Happy Mother’s Day on the front tab.
Idea 2: Create your own Paper heart origami
These origami hearts are easy to make. You just need paper cut into a circle. You might like to use paper bags from the supermarket if you don’t have paper in your house. Then colour it in with felt pens. You might like to put it on a card, or by your Mum’s coffee cup. It lets her know she’s special!
Idea 3: Puffy Heart Origami
You might like to make a handful of these and put them into an old jam jar. Then put a ribbon or string around the top to make it look pretty. Then write Happy Mothers Day on the front of the jar in a vivid or permanent marker.
Idea 4: LOTS of easy ideas
This video shows you lots of easy ways you could make something. My favorite is the hands with the paper spring that says, “I love you this much.” Which one is your favorite?
years 7 – 8
Worship
Are you ready?…
Have you got everything you need?…
Are your lungs ready to get nice and noisy?!!…
Are your feet ready for Dancing or Marching?…
Is Your heart and mind ready to encounter God?
Did you want Jesus to ask Jesus to dance and sing with you?
AWESOME! Let’s get ready, get set, GO!…..
Bible Facts
Object Lesson
Below is a video of a potter making a clay vase. But first read this:
The Bible has a few passages about the Potter and the Clay.
You might find it interesting to see what they say. Here are a few you might like to read.
1. Jeremiah 18 v 1 – 6
This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Jeremiah, go down to the potter’s house. I will give you my message there.”
3 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working with clay at the wheel. 4 He was making a pot from clay. But there was something wrong with the pot. So the potter used that clay to make another pot. With his hands he shaped the pot the way he wanted it to be.
5 Then this message from the Lord came to me: 6 “Family of Israel, you know that I can do the same thing with you. You are like the clay in the potter’s hands, and I am the potter.”
2. Isaiah 29:13-16
13 The Lord says, “These people come to honor me with words, but I am not really important to them. The worship they give me is nothing but human rules they have memorized. 14 So I will continue to amaze them by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Even the most intelligent among them will not be able to understand.”
15 Look at them! They try to hide things from the Lord. They think he will not understand. They do their evil things in darkness. They tell themselves: “No one can see us. No one will know who we are.”
16 You turn things upside down. You think the clay is equal to the potter. You think that something that is made can tell the one who made it, “You did not make me!” This is like a pot telling its maker, “You know nothing.”
3. Isaiah 64:8
Yet still, Yahweh, you are our Father.
We are like clay and you are our Potter.
Each one of us is the creative, artistic work of your hands.
Memory Verse
Ephesians 2:10 English Standard Version (ESV)
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)
10 We have become his poetry,[a] a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works[b] we would do to fulfill it!
Version with actions:
Me, Mum, God & Mud!
Activities - Mother's Day
ps. You know they will like anything you make… because YOU made it!
ps. If you can’t give it to them today, take a photo and text it to them, or send them a video of it completed.
Idea 1: Origami Pull Tab Envelope Card
Follow the tutorial in the video below. Then write your own special message to your mum on it. eg. I thank God that you are my Mum…. or…. You are super special to me Mum, I love you… or… Did you know I love you? Yip! Sooooo much! To the moon and back! Remember to write Happy Mother’s Day on the front tab.
Idea 2: Create your own Paper heart origami
These origami hearts are easy to make. You just need paper cut into a circle. You might like to use paper bags from the supermarket if you don’t have paper in your house. Then colour it in with felt pens. You might like to put it on a card, or by your Mum’s coffee cup. It lets her know she’s special!
Idea 3: Puffy Heart Origami
You might like to make a handful of these and put them into an old jam jar. Then put a ribbon or string around the top to make it look pretty. Then write Happy Mothers Day on the front of the jar in a vivid or permanent marker.
Idea 4: LOTS of easy ideas
This video shows you lots of easy ways you could make something. My favorite is the hands with the paper spring that says, “I love you this much.” Which one is your favorite?
For the Parents
WORSHIP
Kids LOVE singing and yes, some do more than others but I’ve got a really BIG TIP for you parents out there… kids will follow you… What does that mean? Well, when you put on the Praise and Worship, do it with them. Go a LOT crazy and they will go a LITTLE crazy. If you want them to lift their hands, then show them how, talk about it with them. If you want them to sing, then I’m sorry, but chances are you’ll need to sing too! If you are the practical type, maybe make some streamers or ribbons to wave around. Or perhaps you have some bright scarves hiding in the cupboard or bright rags! Feel free to be creative with this. Children mirror us, so what are you mirroring to your kids?
BIBLE STORIES
Please check out the Bible Story’s before your kids… “Why?” you might ask… Because some stories can have sad elements (eg. Noah’s Ark, Easter) cause distress for some children. We try and source stories that are age appropriate. With our Bible Stories, there is always a positive learning element. We would recommend that you watch the story set for your child’s age and if you think it’s too young, go and check out what an older class is covering. Again, if it’s too advanced for your child, choose a younger class.
We recommend parents engage with their children as they watch these Bible stories in case they have questions. Please note: some Bible Stories look the same, but they are not, BUT they have been made by the same YouTube channel.
VALUABLE
We like our children to be inspired, encouraged and lets face it, if it helps them, it helps us! Your children are important to us and they SUPER important to God. We have put together this webpage so your children know that they are important, loved and that we have taken the time to invest in them!
They are VALUEABLE! We want them to feel: loved, joyful, inspired, excited, and equipped spiritually. Life is unpredictable, but God is sure and secure, we can always rely on Him.
FEELING HEARD?
We want to encourage our families to bring God into the conversations that we are having with our children. How are we feeling? What are we thinking? Can we share what we are thinking with Mum & Dad? We want our children feel safe when they share with us. So how do we do that? We listen and don’t react, but thoughtful process with the Holy Spirit how we can offer wise council to them. Maybe they just need us to listen… God sees us and our children, He wants us to share with Him and feel safe with Him.
SUPERVISING…!
PLEASE NOTE: that after watching our video links, youTube will pop up with suggestions for you to watch. We advise, having an adult in the room while your child watches these videos as we don’t know what content might show after our videos.
Also, we recommend an adult taking part in the activities. Especially with the younger children as they won’t be able to participate in the activities unless an adult helps them.
Memory Verses
Let’s be SLAP HAPPY with this one! The point of our Memory Verses is it gets into our kids spirits. To do that, we want it to be a fun experience. You don’t have to do what we have given you to do, instead you might like to make a Memory Verse Puzzle (written down and cut up into pieces or your kids to solve), or play Hide & Seek (hide it on pieces of paper for your kids to find). You could also make a song, rap or a dance, out of the memory verse. Perhaps you might light to say it to a hand game or say it to a beat. Have a go, it will be fun!
COVID-19
Here is a letter that that we put together that you can download that is very practical about how you can help your kids.
