Trash-Filled Thursdays - Square Kleenex Box

A square Kleenex box was used to help with this review activity. We needed two for this one. Each is covered with bulletin board paper and, then, covered with clear contact paper. Notice we did leave the opening open so we could place items down into the box. We found pictures to represent Elijah and Elisha. We colored them, laminated them and placed them on the boxes with tape. See the previous post to see how these boxes were used in our class.

Elijah and Elisha Review

Elijah and Elisha are tough to keep straight - even for adults. In the 4 year old class, they end their time there learning about these two men but there is still some confusion. So, for our new Kindergartners, we use this to help us ALL keep these two important men straight.

We use two square Kleenex boxes one for each man (see this post). Then we made a poster board for each man as well (see pictures below).

In each Kleenex box, we placed pictures that represented each story that was taught on each man. We would pull the picture out of Elijah's box and review the story. Then, we would place the picture on the Elijah board. We would do the same thing for Elisha.

To do a complete review, we would place all the pictures in one box and as we would take the pictures out, the students would tell us which man it belonged to and we would let them place it on the appropriate poster.

Later, it would be a center game for the students to play as they came into class.

Naaman in the Jordan River

This morning, I taught about Naaman being made well. We made this simple craft to help us act out and remember the story.

I used blue plastic cups and cut a small hole (large enough for a Popsicle stick to get down)

at the bottom of the cup.I used a die cut man as Naaman and taped him to a Popsicle stick. The kids were allowed to put dots all over Naaman to make him leprous. Then we stuck the Popsicle stick with Naaman down into the cup.

The cup being the Jordan River.

The kids were able to dip Naaman down into the river 7 times to become clean.

They could turn the man over on the other side to be clean.

We enjoyed our lesson on how we should obey God no matter what His instructions are.

Naaman finally did and was made clean because he obeyed God.