Creativity and The Creator-Week 8
Week Eight
The Parable of the Talents
Goal
Dive into the Parable of the Talents, exploring the importance of using and developing the creative gifts and talents that God has given us.
Craftivity
Provide a blank illustration of a bag; with different talent objects symbols; color each one that they are good at and put them in the bag.
Our Focus verse was
Matthew 25:29 – “For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”
Lesson: Kids will understand that creativity is a gift from God and learn to embrace and nurture their creative abilities to glorify Him.
This might have been one of my favorites so far. This is such a powerful parable and one, I believe, that most children can relate to well. I took some time to share about my talent and that we all have talents. And we really don’t know how “good” we are at something until we try it a lot! I explained the difference between the “talents” (money) Jesus taught about and the “talent” that we may have and/or develop.
I went around the room and asked each child to name one thing they are good at. The answers were insightful, of course. Some kids have never thought about this; others feel as if they are good at nothing, which breaks my heart. This was a moment to encourage and uplift them with affirmation. Especially if they “didn’t have a talent.”
Tonight, due to our gym being used for an upcoming community clothing giveaway, we played desk-style games in the room.
Here’s the content I used for this week:
Here’s the breakdown/timeline of the evening:
6:15-6:35 GYM FREEPLAY
6:30 COUNTDOWN SLIDE
6:35 OPEN w/ SPACE WARM UP SLIDE (GAME)
6:37 OPENING C&C SLIDE
6:39 REVIEW VERSES (back to the beginning)
6:40 INTRO TOPIC: PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
6:41 TEACHING PRESENTATION; TALENTS
6:45 NEW VERSE REVIEW & DISCUSSION/TEACHING
7:00 RESTROOM/SNACK BREAK (ALL THINGS BRIGHT)
7:15 CRAFTIVITY: Provide an outline of a drawstring-type bag; with images of “talents” around it. Color & Cut their talent tokens and put them in the bag.
7:45 GAMES
8:00 DISMISSAL
Sharing his Wonder,
