Parable of the Sower, week 3

This week we changed things up in class a bit. Since our youngest class member typically sleeps through class, and the toddler wanders around, I tried to engage the lesson by acting out what the parable is.

Each of the older three children was a type of soil, as was I with the baby, the toddler was the "seed" that we passed around between us, and the preschooler was the sunshine and the birds. It was really cute to see how everyone creatively expressed the types of soil and what was happening. In fact, we enjoyed ourselves so much we changed roles and did it again. And then again.

Unlike the first two weeks, we now have our printer out of the box at home and we have internet, so I was able to print off some colouring and activity sheets. Our host home has crayons and markers, so that end was covered.

Here is what I used. A great maze from BibleWise.com, a color page from them as well, and a colouring sheet of the sower found here. (The toddler is very into colouring right now, so I made sure to have two sheets.)

We finished by doing a word code-breaker puzzle on the white board. Not everyone did everything, but I had enough materials to have at least one sheet that was interesting to each child (except the baby, of course) to fill the time.

Next week, new parable.