Mini Church summer term - who is Jesus and parables

   Talk time :   Palm  Sunday so we will have had a donkey outside.   This might bring up a  whole conversation in itself!!!  If  not  then.......What did everyone do yesterday?   Chat about the weekend and then pray giving thanks for whatever comes up or praying about anything the children want to pray for.  Lesson ;  Show the kids an easter egg.  ( make sure that if you have any wee ones who cant have chocolate that you have something else as a treat as well - or maybe have a lactose free egg in case of intolerances)   Let them talk about what it is and ask them if they know what Easter is.   Tell them they can have some chocolate if they sit very quietly and listen really well (!) You know that over the last few weeks we have been learning about Jesus and who He is?  He is a shepherd and a door and the way and the truth.  today we are going to learn about the most important thing ...

 Talk time.    Today is Mothers day - that means its a day when we say thank you to God for our Mummy.  And we are especially kind and nice to our Mums today. We give them hugs and kisses and tell them that we love them.   We can do that every single day of course, but Church wants to make sure that all Mums know how special they are so today we think about and pray for our Mums especially hard. What does your Mummy do for you?  Mummies work awfully hard for us and they love us very much so we are going to pray and ask God to be really good to our Mums.  Lets pray that God gives them a big hug and a kiss today and makes them smile and be very happy.    Pray Lesson ; Do you remember what Jesus's Mummy was called? Jesus loved her very much.  She is a special lady so today we are going to find out all about her. Use pictures ( I will provide) of Mary,  Mary with angel ,Mary with wise men, Mary with children, Mary with worried emoj...

Talk time :  We are going to play a game to see how clever you all are.   Im going to say the name of an animal and I want you to tell me what the baby animal is called.  ( If I can find a book of baby animals Ill bring it) What do you call a baby dog?  Cat ?  Horse  Cow, Sheep, Duck  Goat ( getting harder now ) Lion  Pig  Deer ( fawn)  Swan ( cygnet) This is the time of year when lots of animals are having babies.  Has anyone seen any lambs out in the fields?  I have.  They are so cute arent they?  This is also the time when the leaves are going to start growing on the trees.  All winter the trees have been asleep.  Most of them dont have any leaves on them but in the spring time the leaves start to grow and the trees start to look green.  Not many flowers grow in the winter time but in the spring the weather is warmer, the sun starts to shine more and things like flowers can grow.  Spring is...

  Talk time  Does anyone know what our senses are?  We have five of them.  They are things our bodies can do which are really amazing.  Our senses are sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste.  Show me what you use to see.  What do we use to hear with?  What do we use to smell with?  What do you use to feel things with ( they will say hands but point out that we can feel with all areas of our bodies)   What do we use to taste things with?  Isnt it wonderful that God has made us with ears and eyes and noses and mouths so that we can experience things in the world around us.  Lets pray and thank Him for our bodies and pray for anyone who isnt feeling well.   Pray. Lesson time    Over the last few weeks we have been learning about Jesus and who He says He is.  Today we are going to hear another thing He said.  Jesus said that He is light.  Can you point to the light in this room?  Is the ...

 ( This is going to be hard as pre-school kids cant really grasp abstract concepts too much yet) Talk time - lets talk about our families.  Hands up if you have a brother. Hands up if you have a sister. Hands up if you have grandparents.  Hands up if you have cousins.   Its nice to be part of a family isnt it?  Families come in all shapes and sizes.  Some families are really big ( any volunteers or helpers have a big family?) Some are small.  But we all need people to look after us and have fun with us and help us - even when we are grown ups!   Lets pray and thank Jesus for our families. Lesson -   Ive got a pack of cards with animals on them which are designed to be a pair matching game for tiny kids.  They can play matching the pairs at the end.    Show a picture and then say - This is a......   and say the wrong thing.  Make it a game so the kids can have fun correcting you.  Look confused that...

 Talking time :  What has everyone been up to this week?  Pray for anyone we know who isnt well or needs some help Lesson - use car play mats - there should be three available. Who knows what this is?  Its called a map - and it is a picture of a place.  This map is of (a town, a farm , whatever it is.).  It shows us where all the different places  are and how we can get to them.  These are the roads.  And we can see the shops and the fire station and the hospital ....... or whatever......- ( spend some time looking at the map).   If we want to go anywhere in the whole world we can look at a map and it will show us how to get there.  It will show us the way. And if we ever get lost and we need to know how to get home a map can help us. Jesus says He is the Way.  He is a bit like a map. Everywhere we go Jesus is with us and He knows where we are and where we are going and how to get there.    Does anyone know what ...

 Talk time  - what sort of house do you live in?  Show pictures of different types of houses ( I'll bring these in ) Did you know there are some people who dont have a house?  A house costs alot of money and some people dont have enough to be able to buy or rent somewhere to live.  Some people have to live in a caravan or a tent.   Some even have to sleep outside even if it is very cold or raining.  Lets say thank you to Jesus for our houses and all the things in them.  And lets pray for the people who dont have a house.  Lets ask Jesus to give everyone a safe warm home to live in. Lesson  We have been learning about some of the things Jesus says He is.  Can you remember?  He says He is a shepherd who looks after His sheep  ( that's us)  He says He is a vine that grows lovely branches ( that's us) and those branches bear fruit.  And last week we learned that Jesus is bread.  He feeds our hearts and He c...