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What's fun for today?

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.

Forgiveness Activity



Forgiveness Activity: Gift Illustration

Supplies Needed:
A small gift box

Show your child the gift box. Ask them when there was a time that they received a gift. Then ask them if there was anything they had to do to earn that gift or if it was simply given to them. If they had to do something to earn it, explain that it wasn’t a gift. It was a reward.

Talk About It: Forgiveness is like a gift. There may be times when we feel like a person who has done something wrong doesn’t deserve to be forgiven, and we would be right. The truth is none of us deserve to be forgiven. Forgiveness isn’t something that is deserved or earned; it is something that is freely given. We can forgive others even though they don’t deserve it because, even when we didn’t deserve it, God made a way for all of us to be forgiven. Practice giving the gift of forgiveness to others by forgiving them even though they don’t deserve it.

Hands-On Activities



First Activity: Mad Libs

You can use the Mad Libs game you already have, or you can make your own by using a story and taking out some of the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Have one person read what words are needed (e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and write them down in the blanks while everyone else takes turns providing the words. For younger children, you can ask them for more specific things like colors, animals, or people. When you’re done filling in all the blanks, enjoy reading your silly stories.
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

Creative Play

Older Child Activity: Comic Strip

Your child can make up their own character and draw a comic strip about them. They can have their comic strip be whatever story they want.

Younger Child Activity: Magnets on a Cookie Sheet

Give your child a large cookie sheet and magnets. Let them have fun playing with the magnets by sticking them to the cookie sheet.

Quiet Time Activities 

Quiet Time Ideas: reading books or listening to audio adventures.

Audio Adventure Idea: Lamp Lighter
You can listen to a free episode from Lamp Lighter Theater every week.
https://www.lamplightertheatre.com/listen-online

Your Story Hour Listen to Your Story Hour for a new story every day about historical figures, Bible characters, and other adventures!
https://www.yourstoryhour.org/

Journal

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 yesterday’s devotional:
Who do the different characters in the parable represent?
Why did the vine-growers treat the son the way they did?

Family Devotional Idea

Click the button below to download today's devotional!
Devotional

In The Gap Kid's Forgiveness Video

Watch a lesson from the Bible that teaches forgiveness!

Wow! What a Day! 

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