God made me: Summery

Session overview planning format details.

God made everybody

Almost at the end of the God made me project. For God made everybody I was originally going to use a beautiful people lotto game however decided I needed another imaginative activity to complement the other activities that were available. The playmobil people we have includes a range of people from different ethnic groups and includes a wheel chair, enabling discussion and or acknowledgement of peoples similarities and differences.

God made my eyes

For God made my eyes, we used a range of things we needed to use our eyes for!
"Sensory blocks" transparent centred wooden blocks for building, also great for shinning a torch through, and looking through to turn things a different colour.
Interesting visual "experimenters" (the most popular, esspecially boys) colour paddles, torches, bug eye things (make you see billions of everything) mirrors, and magnifying glasses (turning everyone into detectives), the magnifying glass was good for putting up to your eye and saying "oh my what big eyes I have" drawing particular attention to the eye.
Interesting mirrors, for looking at self and interesting effects.

When I recapped at the begining of our circle time session, this station proved quite difficult to prompt children into what we were using when we were there.

God made my feet

A selection of tactile and non tactile "stepping stones" for children to walk on. We all took our shoes off- optional but chosen, and walked on and around. Choosing textures liked and disliked was extremely popular.

This book also provided a context for talking about how God made our feet and all the things they can do. This is a small selection of the pages, I can email you a pdf copy if you email me @ alljoinin1@googlemail.com

God made me!

Over at All join in I have been posting a series on "God made me" with a play activity for each sense/ body part

• God made me- intro
• God made my ears
• God made my hands
• God made my nose

For God made me activities, there were several, starting with play dough to make people

• Playdough people
• Playdough people 2

We then decorated gingerbread men, and boy did some get decorated! This is the poem sheet the gingerbread men were iced on, making it easier to transport and creating a great context for talking about how wonderful God made us, even if we made the best thing in the entire world we couldn't compare. If you would like a pdf version of this, email me or comment.

If you would like a pdf version of this, email or comment with your email address and I'll send you one.

This dressing doll provides a great context for talking about lots of things children may want to be, and how God has lots of plans for our lives and we could be anything He wants us to be. Lastly I drew their attention to the superhero costume said "What sort of things do super heros do?", answers: super powers, flies, help people etc. "Well God is more amazing than any super hero and even though we won't fly He can help us to do amazing things and help lots of people, can you think of ways God may help you to help people"

I then gave them the opportunity to draw/ decorate/ colour this made, which is exactly the same shape as the doll (After hours of tracing and the transferring to digital image). The poem (adapted from dltk-bible) provide an opportunity to remind us about God's plans for us- and continue the discussion at home? Again if you would like a pdf copy let me know.

I am NOT usually one for utilising colouring sheets in this context but I think that they do provide and optional format for some children who really need/ want this. If it is the context of other more open activities and it is truly considered WHY? do I want to use this and what purpose doe it serve then I think these can have their place. As it was a few children- boys (I think) did use them to make police/ fire men etc.