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Welcome! Here are this week’s lesson plans. You can find the printable plans at the bottom of the post. If you’d like to know more about God’s Little Explorers Preschool Curriculum, head over here. Please feel free to share your ideas in the comments or send me an email! Also, if you find any errors, please feel free to let me know. This is a work-in-progress!!
God’s Little Explorers Week 19
- Theme: ”l” is for Love
- Bible Story: The Good Samaritan
- Bible Verse: “He answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27
- Letter: l
- Color: Yellow
Here are a few activities we did this week:
We painted some Simple Heart Art to remind us of God’s love (and to share with family).
We talked about different ways we can show love to others and made a heart chain to hang on the wall to remind us!
After we read about the Good Samaritan, we put a band-aid on one of my daughter’s dolls to help us remember the story. We also had fun acting out the story!
I made this simple number match game (H colored the hearts). To play, just match the correct numeral with the correct number of hearts. You can also adapt this to make it more difficult and play it like “Memory” by turning the pieces over and drawing two at a time until you make a match. Printing this on cardstock is preferable.
We attempted to make some fingerprint hearts for our “l” printable (included in the download) with an inkpad and our thumbs.
My youngest also practiced writing the lowercase l in her alphabet journal.
My middle daughter colored and cut-out the printable Bible verse hearts. Then, we hid them for my youngest. She found them, and we helped her put together the verse in order!
Finally, I taught the girls the hand gesture for “I love you” in sign language. I traced their hand and folded down two fingers to make the sign. They glued it onto a piece of cardstock and made a Valentine for dad!
Other ideas:
- Valentine-theme printable preschool packs
- Making Patterns with Valentine Stickers
- 25+ Non-Candy Valentine Ideas for Kids
- Heart-Shaped Egg & Toast Breakfast (or Lunch)
- Heart-Shaped Pizza
- Valentine Match Game (Using a Deck of Cards)
- Valentine’s Day Container (Homemade Chalkboard Paint)
- Heart Placemat, Coaster or Window Art
- Valentine’s Day: String Hearts (Messy)
- Valentine Holders from Recycled Cereal Boxes
Resources:
- Veggie Tales: Are You My Neighbor?
- Love You Forever
- Love Song for a Baby
- Heart stickers (we found ours inexpensively at Walgreens)
Download God’s Little Explorers Lesson 19.
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Tammy Jones says
Wonderful ideas! What printer do you use? Mine died and I am looking for one that prints on both sides and doesn’t cost a fortune for ink refills. Any thoughts?
Norma Vasquez says
Just want to say Thank You for your resource, I am a special education teacher that chose to leave the public school classroom to care for little ones in my home and teach them Gods Word. I searched for a curriculum for several months until I came upon yours, I can’t thank you enough. This is working wonderfully for me. I was trying to develop my own but it is very time consuming, you have done a remarkable job! May God continue to bless you for allowing us to use this resource for free.
A Hug and Blessings,
Norma
Stacie Nelson says
Thank you so much, Norma! I so appreciate your encouragement!!