Following on from where Jesus was born – Bethlehem – who took care of him? Mary and Joseph. In this story we concentrated on Joseph and the job he did.
With young children I sometimes like to have some objects in a bag – it keeps them interested and watching what is going on and objects help to explain words and concepts.
In the story bag
A knitted doll – Joseph
A toy saw and hammer
Pieces of wood
B is for Bethlehem where Jesus was born.
Although it isn’t Christmas it seemed a good idea to do the story of Jesus’ birth for B. In our craft we made pictures of Bethlehem and for the story we used visuals from a book called ‘A Saviour for you’. The pictures are fantastic. Available here http://cefresources.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=95_97_101&products_id=423
We kept the story very simple and used a couple of pictures. The main teaching point was that God had sent Jesus to be our saviour.
Last week we started a new term at Toddler Group. For the Bible stories we will take a letter of the alphabet each week and tell a story based on something or someone whose name begins with that letter.
A- Adam
B- Bethlehem.
For B the craft is a picture of Bethlehem. Parts of the picture are provided to add/match to the right part of the picture. for little children this is quite a tricky thing to do but mums/dads/carers usually help. Children can also colour the picture.
For the story? Come back later and find out!
Obviously this is the English alphabet – but as an idea you could adapt it to any language.
