God is Great

Starting in December, we will be talking about the coming of Jesus and His life in the kindergarten Sunday School class. We were going to do a series on Joshua that would highlight the prophecies of the coming of Jesus. However, that curriculum is geared towards older kids and would be hard to bring down to the kindergartener’s level.

So I was praying about what to teach, and a thought came to me to do a series that would highlight how big and vast and old and smart God is, to provide a background so that the kids can really appreciate how significant it is that such a great God that created the universe would send his Son to save us.

God is Vast

• Earth 16 inches (size of basketball) moon is 4 inches (softball). How far away is moon from earth? 40 feet.
• Mars is ? far away
• Nearest star is ?
• Nearest galaxy is?

Craft: Draw the solar system

God is Big

• Size of sun compared to earth
• Hubble dark sky picture
  • Nothing visible
  • Picture the size the grain of sand
  • About 10,000 galaxies
  • Each galaxie has millions? of stars

Craft: Cover a picture of the sky with colored grains of rice

God is Old

• Timeline for how long a 5 year old has lived
• Timeline for the Bible
• Bible story of creation
  • Sun made in the 4th day
  • Can’t see the stars because of cloud cover
• Universe is ? billion years old

Craft: Timeline of your life

God is Everywhere

• Demo: Picture through a moving slit
• Demo: Turn rubber band inside out on a piece of paper
• Universe had 10 dimensions at the beginning
• Jesus walked through a wall
• God can hear everyone at all times

Craft: Draw a 3 dimensional picture

God is Smart

• How hard is it to create life?
• Scientist have tried for 50 years to create life in the laboratory, haven’t succeeded
• God invented DNA
• Life sprang up about the same time
• Lots of different animals and plants
• No new species since then

Craft: Create a new animal

God is Love

• How would aliens contact us?
  • TV message
  • Spaceship
  • Oblisk (Movie 2001)
• God talked to us
• God sent his Son

Craft: Draw a picture that you would send as an important message to someone who lived far away.