Missionary story time

My favorite part of Good News Club is the missionary story.

It's been my privilege to get to tell it the past few weeks.

One problem I have with the visuals is, 

the story is separate and it is hard to wrangle 

the visuals and the  story pages.

So this is my simple fix.

I photocopied  the  story pages, cut the section for each visual, 

taped them to strip of card stock and  

paper clipped them to the spine of the visual book.

Now I just flip the card stock as I turn the visual  page.

The story is 'No Darkness at all' an adaptation of 

Patricia March St John's   'Star of Light '.

Put out by biblevisuals.org

Who Love You Good News Party Club

Lots of fun planned for today's Party Club.
'Who Loves You? is our theme.

A song we always sing in the fall, (because the visual is very fall themed)
is 'Who Loves You?'
I made a new visual to fit our theme better.

'Who, who, who loves you?
Jesus, He's the One.
Who, who died for you?
Jesus, God's own Son.
who, who will take you
to His home above?
Jesus Christ my Lord and King
He's the one I love!'

Cassia made Chocolate  cupcakes with berry buttercream frosting

 

I made loads of heart pizzas.
Oops I missed a heart. LOL

Our Brazillian missionary friends Marcos and Telma and their 4 precious boys will join us.
And we have 40 'Who Loves You' owl craft kits.

God loves us soooooooo much!!
I'm sooo happy to share that love!!

Colored Light memory verse game

We came up with a fun way to work on our

memory verse for December Party Club 2014.

I printed out light bulb shapes, 

colored the tops and wrote one word 

of the verse on each bulb in white crayon.
I taped them to a foam core poster board and 

painted a wire running through and a cord.

I have bowls with a small amount of watered 

down craft paint and a piece of sponge in each.

The idea is to have kids rub the paint onto the bulb

 to 'magically' uncover a word from our verse.
Then we will recite the verse together. 

I will post a follow-up photo of the painted bulbs.

Here are the printable bulbs:

It was a hit!!

Only problem I had was,
there are only 14 'bulbs' and about 

30 kids that wanted to help 'turn on the lights! 

club photo by Julianna Dunning

We sang:

'and they shall call his name Emmanuel x3
which means God with us!',

to the tune of 'Happy Birthday'.

 So everyone picked up the verse easily.

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, 

and shall bring forth a son, 

and and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 

which being interpreted,  God with us.

 ~Matthew 1:23

Wordless Book Tree Ornament

I was assigned to come up with a craft for our
Christmas Party Club at Good News Club.
In prayer, I asked God to show me what we should do

 and then did not think of it for a few days.
Then, as I was dropping my girls off for a club in Centralia, 

sweet Patti from the CEF board there showed me this fun craft.

 It is not only cute but has the wordless book colors
so it tells the gospel story.

                                                                                                                                               Thank you to Bob Ward Images for photo

So, with some gold metallic craft stems and felt,

we'll be making some great trees.
You take the stem and make 5 bends to start the star,
 then twist the end down and wrap around
just past the last bend, twist and then shape star.
Cut out felt using this printable guide.
Order them similar to what is shown.
A couple greens, white, green, red, couple greens, black etc.

Punch hole in center of each square using a hole punch
 with a small punch, not notepaper size.
If you don't have a punch a small thin awl
could be used to bore the stack.

 Here is the star ready for sliding felt pieces on.

Now just slide the stack on!

Finish with a twisted loop so they don't slide off.

And lay the loop flat.

Voila! A fun decoration that tells a story.

Well, here is one kit, just 39 more to make!

And I will have these Wordless Book tracts to go with them.

And Jesus said unto them, 

                                 Go ye into all the world,                                   
and preach the gospel to every creature.

                                           Mark 16:15

Update:
I cut out over 1500 squares and punched holes in each,
stacked 'em and bagged 'em!
If any kids say they don't like the craft they will be
sweeping the gym floor in its entirety! LOL

Post Party Club update:

The kids all loved this craft.
Several wanted to give them to their teachers 

that do not know Jesus.
One boy took an extra so he could make it with 

a young relative to tell her about Jesus.

Precious times!
May God's word go forth unhindered!!

Build-A-Frog review game

It was great fun and a huge blessing to have 

Shelley Fietkau over from Tri-Cities to help lead 

Good News Club training.
She has soooo many great ideas to help

make learning a fun, engaging experience.

Our club has acquired 2 new games from her idea stash,

 'Football Toss' and 'Build-A-Frog'.

After trying out 'Build-A-Frog' on my kids, 

I changed it up a bit to make it easier.
The original game had the choice of tossing either 

little rubbery sticky frogs or 'jumping' tiddlywink frogs. 

Both were difficult for my 7-11 years kids to get into the 'pond'. 

So I found this flannel print in my stash and made 

wee froggy bean bags. 

So here is the game. 2 laminated frog sheets, 

a Dollar Tree 'pond', 3 frogs and a dry erase marker or 2.

Another change I made to Shelley's original was to remove the 

Right and Left specifications from the arm and leg labels.

 It was to hard to finish the game in a 

timely manner the original way. 

And I added question marks to the middle since you 

get to pick whatever you want when landing in that hole. 

So here is the purple team landing their frog in 

'arm' and choosing an arm.

And blue team landing in the center,

 picking the body to fill out. 

The directions.

This was fun to practice, 

I hope it will be just as fun in club in the upcoming weeks. 

~The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;

and he that winneth souls is wise.~

Proverbs 11:30

Memory Match Game

With just over a week 'til Good News Club starts, I am getting games ready.

 Review games and Bible verse memorization games.
I've been looking for books to make a large memory match game and finally found some suitable at $ Tree.

So here are my 2 Bible Readers and 2 packages of plastic plates. 

The bottom of the pkg. says 8 plates so I decided to make 8 matches for my game.

Tore out the desired pages.

Used a funnel to get a perfect circle.

                                               Cut them out. 

(My kids are offended by the lame depiction of the ark 

God had Noah build but it'll work for the game-lol)

And what do ya know, I got ripped off by 2 plates!
I'll just have 7 matches!
I laminated each picture, cut them out again and 

used double stick tape to fasten them to the plates.

Now to play, I'll just mix them all up and

lay them out upside-down on the floor.

When a review question is answered correctly, 

students will be able to try finding a match!

Verse Token holders for backpacks

At Good News Club training,
I was introduced to a great idea for 

backpack clip to hold verse tokens.

At the end of club, kids can slide their verse token into it 

and they will have it

 on the packs all week to work on, and NOT lose. 

I wanted to make it as cheap as possible since 
our budget for club is pretty much whatever

 we come up with from our own coffers.

So I used old clearview sheets which were surplus to our needs, 

duct tape from my girls' crafty supplies 

and some book rings I purchased at Wal*Mart, 8 for $1.88.
 

One could use old transparency sheets or the 

by-the-yard plastic table cover, 

whatever can be salvaged to make this affordable. 

The following shows how I made them, 
a bit overdone for a simple project 
but hopefully enough detail to cover 
all learning styles if you'd like to make them for your club. 

Measure  5 inches over from the edge

 that does not have holes punched.

And 9 inches up.

Cut out and fold up.

Measure and cut just over 5 inches of fun duct tape. 

If you have to purchase this, Wal*Mart has it $3 a roll.
My girls have rolls 'n' rolls of the stuff, so I asked 

them to donate to the cause. 

Cut the strip in half lengthwise.

Carefully fold each strip over each end...

...like this.

 Trim excess tape on edges.

Cut another strip, this time just over 4 1/2 inches.

Fold over each side.

Trim excess taking care to not slice into the plastic.

(warning from experience)

Punch a hole in the corner.

Voila!!
A nifty verse token holder for clipping on a backpack!

32 waiting their turn on a backpack!

A way of doing this in even greater economy would be to use rubber bands.

Just slip a band through the hole and pull it through itself.

Then pull the holder through the band wrapped around the strap of backpack or to a clip on pack.

Works for Calloway!

I like the clips better!

And I especially like my lovely models Cassia and Cherish!

~All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness...~

2 Timothy 3:16

Memory Verse Game -Voices

The Spinner Game last week was popular but one drawback was, the spinner keeps landing on the same thing so the spinner had to be forced to have more variety.

My daughter and I made these cards with some fresh ways of saying our memory verse:

All things work together for good 

to them that love God.

Romans 8:28

This was a fun way to work on our verse, we will use this again!

Fly Swatter Review Game

One last 'Shelley' game, we tried this one at Good News Club and it was great.

Directions:

I was concerned it would get wild but it was the best game ever.  We have about 20 kids and there is always 10 questions. With 2 swatters for each question, everyone gets to play!

Fishing Review Game

This is a fun review game, also furnished by the amazing Shelley Fietkau. The other games I've posted of hers are here and here.

Get ready for kids to crowd around and get right in on this one!

It was assembled with a plastic tub, foam fishy stickers, a small bamboo type reed, string, buzz magnet and lots of fish made from twisted metallic pipe cleaners. The string is tied to the reed and magnet and then hot glued in place.

The Directions:

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 

Matthew 4:18-20

Thanks to Cherish Ward for modeling how to use this fun review game.