Prodigal son object lesson

Use party hats, graham crackers, and the Storybook Bible to teach children about the parable of the Prodigal son.

Help your students learn the meaning of the Parable of the Prodigal Son with this skit script.

VERSES: Luke 15:11-32 MEMORY VERSE: Luke 15:17 "And when he came to himself..." BOOK TO REMEMBER: 1 Kings Write "1 Kings" on small slips of paper, so the students may memorize another book of the Old Testament at home. PRAYER: Pray that we will stay in God's loving family and be protected and cared for. God loves us; let us show our love to Him by doing His commandments. SPECIAL SONG: Read, Read Every Day (see February 2014 - Songs We Sing In Bible Class #1 on this blog. Click on orange…

You can easily find object lessons on Faith, God's love, Salvation, Forgiveness...and many other subjects. However, when it comes to object lessons for parables, it's like searching for a sesame seed in a barrel of rice! So, I'm going to make things easier for you-- I've compiled 7 object lessons…

Lessons from the prodigal son that will change your life, keep you away from the wrong path of destruction and waste

The Return of the Prodigal Son - Do you know the Joker Tube / Stratosphere magic trick? It is a very easy trick, which enables you to tell many different Bible stories. It is so easy! In the video we demonstrate you how you can use the Joke Tube to tell the story of the prodigal son - We will also give a trustworthy link, where you can buy this trick for yourself. - Themes: The prodigal son, making decisions, asking forgiveness, making things right.

Theme: The "empty" tomb was "full" of God's love. Objects: Cut a big piece of brown poster board into a heart shape. Then, fold the heart together by kind of bending the round parts toward each other.. (how do I describe this....) so that it makes kind of a cone shape and, if you face it from the front, it almost looks like a teepee with an opening in front. (cut a heart shape from typing paper and practice, you'll see what I mean.) Staple the folded heart right in the front above the…

The students that were in class for this lesson were all at VBS this year when I taught The Prodigal Son. We used this lesson more as a review. They love filling in the lapbooks and seeing the goodies that I hand out for this lesson. Today's visual is The Prodigal Son feeding the pigs. I covered Ken up with brown fabric, painted 'dirt' on him and the pigs, and then cut the fabric edges to look ragged. Today's lesson is a parable that Jesus told the people. A parable is an earthly story with…

Learning to forgive - In the video below we will show you how you can use a Matryoshka doll to tell the story of the prodigal son and to teach forgiveness in a preach, in Sunday school, in a RE lesson, a children's moment in church, a school assembly, anywhere... - Themes: Forgiveness, the Lord's Prayer, opening our hearts for the one who has hurt us, the eldest brother in the story of the prodigal son, two brothers, the father heart of God

This post is for Day 2 of our Parables of Jesus VBS and The Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. We are making everything ourselves. I will try to post as many of the ideas as I can. This post just has my classroom. I will start with the decorations I did for my classroom. We will have grades 1-4 in our room, and with so many kids, we take out all the tables and sit on the floor. And it also makes room for our review activity. This is most of a wall, and I needed it to the floor so I can…