God's Plan Fulfilling

Beforehand Read Genesis 40-41

Memory Verse:

• "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13

Crafts:

• Option 1: 
• Create a Comic Strip View of Joseph's Life.
• Joseph with Coat of Many Colors
• Joseph in Pit
• Joseph Sold as a Slave
• Joseph Running from Sin
• Joseph in Prison
• Joseph Before Pharaoh
• Joseph Made Ruler
• You an have the kids draw these events or you can find color pages that either are or represent these events. 
• Tape them to the wall in order.
• Option 2:
• Create a timeline of the above mentioned events but in a way that kids can decorate. Think 7 Mini Crafts!

Snack Combined with the Story:

• Grape Juice
• A bread (donut or muffin or an actual slice of bread)
•  S'mores (Made using graham crackers, vanilla frosting and mini chocolate chips). 

Story: Genesis 40-41:

• Read them these chapters or retell it from memory.
• Chief Cup Bearer- tell the kids his role in Pharaoh's court. While telling his dream, give the kids a glass of juice to drink.
• Chief Baker- Tell the kids his role in Pharaoh's court. Give the kids a bread of some sort to eat (donut, muffin, french bread with a delicious topping, etc.)
• Pharaoh- tell the kids who Pharaoh is. While telling his dream, give the kids a snack fit for a king... S'MORES!

Memory Verse Games

• Act it out.
• Brainstorm motions with the students to match their memory verse. When children learn movements they are less likely to “lose it” from their memory.
• Post It Cover Up
• For this activity write the memory verse on the front board of the classroom. Practice reading it once together and then use post-it notes to cover up one of the words. Then, practice reading the verse again followed by covering up a second word with post-it notes. Continue this pattern until the entire verse is covered and the children are saying the verse from memory. This is an interesting spin on traditional drilling of a verse by repetition. You could also reverse the game beginning with some words covered and have children guess the missing words.
• Find, Assemble, and Read
• Put each word from the verse onto separate sheets of paper. Hide them around and have the kids find the words. Once the kids have found the words, congregate at a meeting spot and assemble the sentence and read them.
• Pudding Words
• Smear pudding on cookie sheets. Using their fingers, have the kids write the memory verse in the pudding.
• Pudding Pictures
• Smear pudding on cookie sheets. Using their fingers, have the kids draw what they learned from the lesson in the pudding.