Elementary Curriculum

January 3, 2021 | Unit 3, Session 1

Quick Links: Printable Lesson Plan | Younger Kids Activity Page | Older Kids Activity Page

Happy new year, kidcity families!

We wanted to offer a few directions as you navigate leading your grade-schooler through today’s lesson and activities. Below you will find our Bible passage for the day, a lesson plan for the day, and several other tips that can help you and your child as you study and worship this morning.

Here are the materials you will need for our lesson today:

  • Coloring Supplies

  • Box or Bag

  • Various Items

  • Blindfold

1. Read the Bible Passage | Genesis 27-28

2. Ask the Big Picture Question:

Does God keep His promises?

3. Watch the Bible Story

4. Review the Key Verse

Genesis 28:15, “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

5. Answer the Big Picture Question

God always keeps His promises because He is faithful.

6. Interact with the “Questions from kids” Video

7. Pray together

8. Do one or both of the Activities

Activity #1: Blind Touch

Directions 

Place various items into a box or bag so your kids cannot see what is inside. Blindfold one of your children and ask them to put their hand into the box or bag to feel the item. Lead him to describe to your family what the item feels like. Challenge your family to guess the item. The first person to guess correctly gets to be blindfolded and describe the next item. 

Use various items that represent parts of the Bible story: a cooking pot, rock, bottle of oil, and faux fur.

Say 

When you are not able to see, you have to use your other senses—such as touch—to know what is around you. In today’s Bible story, Isaac was old and had lost his sense of sight. He relied on his senses of touch and sound to figure out who was around him. 

Activity #2: Who Are You?

Directions 

Ask for a volunteer in your family who is willing to be blindfolded. Explain that the other family members will stand in a line behind the volunteer. As you silently point to a family member, he or she should say, “I am Esau, your firstborn.” 

The volunteer will try to guess who spoke. Encourage everyone to disguise their voices to make it more fun and challenging. If the volunteer does not guess correctly, point to another person to speak. 

Continue until the volunteer guesses correctly. Then choose a new volunteer. Play more rounds as time allows. 

Say 

Did you know the voices of others, or did they trick you? Today we will learn how Jacob used his voice to trick his father Isaac. 

EXTRA TIPS

  • If your grade-schooler is in First or Second Grade, start the morning working on the coloring sheet and activity page.

  • As time permits, do one activity before the Bible Story Video and one activity afterward, to help reinforce the message.

  • If your grade-schooler is in Third, Fourth, or Fifth Grade, download and print the Older Kid Journal Page for them to work on at the end of the lesson