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Here is a suggested routine
This is to help set a rhythm for each day and provide alternatives to screen time. You can download other schedule options by clicking the button below.
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Learning Time
Character Focus for Today: Forgiveness
Forgiveness is: “Clearing the record of those who have wronged me and not holding a grudge.” This means letting go of being angry or upset with someone for something they did to you or to someone you love. It doesn’t mean that you always forget about what they did, but you are choosing not to stay upset or let what they did affect you in a bad way. You can show forgiveness by not getting back at those who have hurt you, forgiving them right away, speaking kindly to them, and asking for forgiveness when you’ve done something wrong. When you show forgiveness, it keeps you from being bitter and angry and helps you show kindness to those who have wronged you. Also, it can help you be an example to encourage others to forgive and do what is right.
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Forgiveness Activity
Forgiveness Activity: Bag of Bricks
Supplies Needed:
1 backpack per child
Bricks or large books
Tell your child to put the backpack on and then slowly start adding bricks (or large books) until it is heavy enough to be difficult for your child to carry, but not too heavy. Have them walk around the room with the backpack on. Then let them take the backpack off and walk around the room again. Ask them if it was easier with or without the backpack.
Talk About It: When we don’t forgive, we might not have an actual backpack that we carry around, but we do carry around hurt, anger, bitterness, and grudges. Every time we don’t forgive, it’s like we’re adding to that load. When someone does something wrong to someone close to us, it might hurt us as well. But it’s impor tant that we choose to forgive rather than carry that hurt around with us, which lets it get worse. When someone says or does something mean to somebody you love, don’t hold on to that hurt or anger. Instead, choose to let go and forgive.
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Hands-On Activities
First Activity: Patriotic Cupcakes
Supplies needed:
Red and blue food coloring
See recipes for ingredients
Use your own cupcake recipe, or use the link below. To make red, white, and blue cupcakes, add the food coloring to either the cake batter before you bake it, to the frosting, or to both!
Vanilla Cupcakes:
https://www.livewellbakeoften.com/vanilla-cupcakes/
Buttercream Frosting: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/174347/quick-and -almost-professional-buttercream-icing/
You can also make your own sprinkles with just sugar and food coloring: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24421/colored-sugar/
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Second Activity: Personal Play Time (30 min.)
This is a happy time when children get to be in their room and play something of their choosing by themselves. Siblings who share a room can be together. The children might greatly oppose this idea at first, but after several days (up to a week) they may be begging you for more time. Keep it positive! Be excited about it! After the time is up, they must clean up what they were playing with and "Personal Play Time" is over. After this, they must come out of their room. Changing up locations throughout the day keeps things interesting and creates anticipation for the next activity
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Creative Play
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Older Child Activity: Red, White, and Blue Name It
Have your children sit in a circle. The first person names something that is red, the next person names something that is white, the next person names something that is blue, and so on. Each person only has five seconds to name their item. (For younger children, you can give them a longer time limit.) If they can’t think of something within the time limit, or if they repeat something that has already been said, they are out for that round.
Idea from: toysinthedryer.com, http://toysinthedryer.com/7-childrens-games-for-your-memorial-day-party/
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Quiet Time Ideas: reading books or listening to audio adventures.
Audio Adventure Idea: Focus on the Family Streaming
Check out Focus on the Family’s audio books and audio adventures! In Little Women, join the March family as they learn and grow together through good times and hard times.
https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/focus-at-home/little-women-part-1-of-4-811663.html
See the link below for other options offered by Focus on the Family:
https://www.lightsource.com/ministry/focus-at-home
You can listen to a free episode from Lamp Lighter Theater every week.
https://www.lamplightertheatre.com/listen-online
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As the afternoon is starting to come to a close, have your children update their journal. Encourage them to write or draw something that happened today and also something for which they are grateful. (If they don’t have a journal they can decorate a notebook or make a journal from scratch using paper, a stapler, stickers and/or markers.)
After the devotional tonight, have your child write down in their journal one thing they learned from the lesson along with their action step.
Here are two review questions from last week’s devotional:
What was the man focused on in the story?
What should he have been focused on?
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Family Devotional Idea
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Click the button below to download today's devotional!
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In The Gap Kid's Forgiveness Video
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Join Bobby and his friends as they learn about forgiveness!
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