Woodies Kids | Saying Sorry

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this week are thinking about…

saying sorry

Today we are thinking about saying sorry and being forgiven.

Even though it’s not always easy, when we do something wrong it’s important to

say sorry, and Jesus will always forgive us! In the Cheeky Panda treehouse, Benji is

enjoying his favourite pizza and leaves one slice in a labelled box in the fridge to enjoy later. CJ finds the slice and eats it, and learns that it's important to say sorry, just as the woman said sorry to Jesus in the bible.

When was the last time you said 'sorry'? Saying ‘sorry’ can often be one of the hardest things to say. In today's, Elle reflects on when she’s upset someone or has disappointed God, she feels like she has let people down. Elle notes pride as something that gets in the way of her saying sorry to other people, or to God. We need to say sorry when we’re in the wrong – breakthrough and freedom comes, when we say sorry.

I wonder why we find it so hard to say sorry? Vote on the top reason:

1) I don’t like being wrong

2) I am scared I might get punished

3) I feel guilty if I own up

4) It is easier to say “It wasn’t me”

5) No one really knows that I did it anyway so it doesn’t matter.

Choose five friends you could pray for this week. Draw around your hand and write their names in each finger! Is there anyone you need to say sorry to?

Chat and Catch: Tell God what upsets or disappoints you. Ask God to help you to say sorry when you need to.

Woodies Kids | Giving Thanks

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this week are thinking about…

Giving Thanks

In the Cheeky Panda treehouse the pandas are trying to think of a gift to get CJ for her birthday. They order pink ice skates, but pink iced cakes arrive and are all broken.

They are really sad that they messed up her birthday, but CJ reminds them that it's their friendship she is most thankful for! They learn that there is always something to be thankful for, because every good gift comes from God.

The Birthday Gift I wonder how you might have felt if your

birthday gift had arrived all broken? How might you feel if the gift you had given to

someone arrived all broken? What did you think about CJ’s response to her friends?

I wonder how you might have felt if your birthday gift had arrived all broken? How might you feel if the gift you had given to someone arrived all broken? What did you think about CJ’s response to her friends?

Woodies Kids | Praising God

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this week are thinking about…

praising god

Even on bad days, it does us good to praise God because it reminds us of how good he is, and how much he loves us. In the Cheeky Panda treehouse the pandas have been nominated for an award but don't win it. They learn that praise is important in every situation, because it shows God how much we love him. Just as Paul and Silas praised God when they were locked in prison, we should praise God because he is good every day!

Let’s make!

Find a small, empty plastic bottle with a screw top. Half fill it with either dried beans, rice or lentils. Seal the top, tightly. Make sure it makes a great sound when you shake it. Decorate your shaker with stickers, glitter, paper shapes etc!

Woodies Kids | How much do we mean to Jesus

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this week are thinking about…

How much do we mean to Jesus?

We are all like the sheep that wander away from the Shepherd, but Jesus always

comes to find us because he made each one of us and loves us. In the Cheeky Panda

treehouse Milo loses his custom-made guitar pick that is very special to him. They learn

that when God made each one of us, He only made one of us in the whole world, and He

loves us more than we could ever imagine!

Print out the image of the sheep below, cover it with cotton wool balls or Cheerios and mark the eyes and legs out in black. Play a game of hide and seek with the sheep!

Our Tiny Treasures Team are telling us all about their favourite bible stories over the next few weeks

Woodies Kids | Your favourite story

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this week are thinking about…

our favourite bible stories

Do you have a favourite bible story?

Why do you like that story? Is it the character you like or how God used that person?

Why not ask your family which bible stories they like and why they like them. Ask God if He wants to show you anything in those stories! You can use our chat and catch ideas below :)

Woodies Kids | Pentecost -The Holy Spirit (week 4)

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this week are learning about…

Pentecost

Today is Pentecost, the birthday of the church!!!

Do you remember when we spoke about when the disciples received the Holy Spirit and began talking in different languages?! The Holy Spirit spoke through them to enable them to speak to people of other nationalities about the wonderful love of Jesus.

3,000 people said YES to Jesus that day and were baptised. The disciples then travelled to different countries to share the good news of Jesus and this is how the church began to grow and spread across the world!

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Woodies Kids | The Holy Spirit (week 3)

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this week are learning about…

the Holy Spirit

The Bible is one of the main ways the Holy Spirit will speak to us.

The Bible is full of lots of stories which help us to understand who God is, we can get to know him better by reading our Bibles.

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Woodies Kids | The Holy Spirit (week 2)

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this week are learning about…

the Holy Spirit

We are thinking about how the Holy Spirit can guide us. In John 16:13 it says,

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

We watched this clip from the film Moana

Moana’s grandma helped to guide her to know what was true. She helped Moana to remember who she really is and to find her way. Just as Moana’s grandma guided her, the Holy Spirit guides us to find out the truth of who God says we are.

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Do the children have someone in their life who helps them when they are struggling? This is what the Holy Spirit does for us also.  The Holy Spirit helps us to know what is right and what is wrong.

Chat and Catch –  Focus around asking the Holy Spirit to show the children the truth of who God sees them to be.

Tell God about a person in your life who helps you when you are struggling. What are they like? How do they help you?

Thank God that he sent his Holy Spirit to help us and guide us

Ask the Holy Spirit to show/tell you 2 truths about who you are  

Woodies Kids | The Holy Spirit (week 1)

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this week are learning about…

the Holy Spirit

The Bible tells us in Galations 5:22-23 that we can stay connected to Jesus and walk with the Spirit as our helper then we will produce good fruit in our lives.

We watched this clip from the film Ratatouille

Linguini wasn’t very good at cooking to start with but Remy showed him how – step by step. We’re not very good at following Jesus to start with, but the Holy Spirit lives in our heart and shows us how to do it – step by step. Mostly, we get a feeling inside about whether we should do something or not do something – that’s the Holy Spirit working and helping us.

Later on in the film, Linguini tries to cook without Remy and makes a big mess of it. If we try to live without the Holy Spirit, we’ll get in a big mess too! The Holy Spirit is our friend for life – if we let him, He’ll live inside our hearts and help us to follow Jesus better and better every single day.

Woodies Kids | Knowing Jesus and the Holy Spirit

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this week we Think About…

Knowing JEsus and the Holy Spirit

Lie down comfortably with eyes closed and use your mind to imagine the story.

Read the following fairly slowly allowing time for the children to respond.

“Imagine that you have been with Jesus as one of his disciples. Imagine that you have seen him die on the cross and now you are scared and going to hide out in another town. You are walking along the road - it feels like a long way! How are you feeling inside?

​Imagine that suddenly a stranger comes alongside you and starts asking why you look so sad. What do you tell him?

Now imagine that the stranger starts to explain all sorts of things about Jesus to you. What he’s saying makes lots of sense and your heart feels all funny inside

of you. Imagine that you get to the place where you’re staying and you invite the man in to have some tea with you. Before the meal, the man says thank you to God for the food and suddenly you know that it’s Jesus! How do you know? What does he look like? How does your heart feel now?

Jesus disappears. What do you do? How do you feel inside?”

Give the children some time to think about this and maybe write, draw or talk about what they experience.

Woodies Kids | Jesus is our friend

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this week we Think About…

Jesus is our friend

HE IS RISEN!

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He is Risen

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!

Painting or Junk model of Jerusalem

So many important things happened in Jerusalem during Holy Week. If you want you could copy this picture or you could use this to help you build a model of Jerusalem. You could use Lego, or other bricks; or you could do a junk model of it using cardboard packaging and tubes. You can read chapters 14 and 15 of Mark's gospel and put toy people in to tell the story together of Holy week.

Hot Cross Buns

Here’s an easy recipe for hot cross buns, why not make some over the Easter Holidays!

Scripture Union have created a brilliant Easter Trail where you scan the QR code which takes you to a video about the Easter Story. You could do it in your garden with friends or why not put it up around your local area.

You can download the QR codes here:

We have some great activities this week, an edible Easter Garden and a Stained Glass cross to decorate your windows

Woodies Kids | Lent and the journey towards Easter (week 4)

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this week we Think About …

Lent and the Journey towards easter

Junior Explorers (year 4-6) have been working through Pilgrim Pathways and thinking about what items we might need if we were going on a journey and how these would play out in our lives as followers of Jesus.

Bright Lights (Year 1-3) have been looking at the story of Benjamin’s box in the run up to Easter. We have been thinking about what things are special to us and how God’s wants to talk to us through them.

Woodies Kids | Lent and the journey towards Easter (week 3)

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this week we Think About …

Lent and the Journey towards easter

Junior Explorers (year 4-6) have been working through Pilgrim Pathways and thinking about what items we might need if we were going on a journey and how these would play out in our lives as followers of Jesus.

Bright Lights (Year 1-3) have been looking at the story of Benjamin’s box in the run up to Easter. We have been thinking about what things are special to us and how God’s wants to talk to us through them.

Woodies Kids | Lent and the journey towards Easter (week 2)

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this week we Think About …

Lent and the Journey towards easter

Today is Mother’s day, this year it may be hard for people who have lost mothers or family members during the pandemic. We celebrate all Mother’s whether biological or foster/adoptive mothers or mother figures in our lives .

Junior Explorers (year 4-6) have been working through Pilgrim Pathways and thinking about what items we might need if we were going on a journey and how these would play out in our lives as followers of Jesus.

Bright Lights (Year 1-3) have been looking at the story of Benjamin’s box in the run up to Easter. We have been thinking about what things are special to us and how God’s wants to talk to us through them.

In Tiny Treasures this week our under 5’s are learning about how we can love our neighbour

Woodies Kids | Lent and the journey towards Easter

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this week we Think About …

Lent and the Journey towards easter

Junior Explorers (year 4-6) have been working through Pilgrim Pathways and thinking about what items we might need if we were going on a journey and how these would play out in our lives as followers of Jesus.

Bright Lights (Year 1-3) have been looking at the story of Benjamin’s box in the run up to Easter. We have been thinking about what things are special to us and how God’s wants to talk to us through them.

In Tiny Treasures we have been thinking about what it means to love God with our heart, mind and strength.

Woodies Kids | Jesus walks on water and Lent

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this week we Think About when…

jesus walks on water

You can read about it in

Ask the children what they thought about the story.

· Is it really possible to walk on water?

· How did Jesus manage to walk on the water?

· Explain that this is called a miracle. What are the other two miracles in this story? [Peter walking on water and the storm stopping].

· Ask the children why did Peter sink?

· What did Jesus say about it?

Explain that Peter could walk on the water when he was looking at Jesus and not at the scary things around him. Ask the children if there are ever scary things around them? What could they do in these circumstances? Can they trust Jesus to keep them safe?

Explain how important it is that we fix our eyes on Jesus. We keep our eyes fixed on Jesus by remembering how powerful He is, then we can trust Him to look after us.

In Junior Explorers (Year 4-6) we have been working through Pilgrim Pathways, thinking about what things we might need on a journey and how those things can be reflected in our journey with Jesus.

This week we had a special guest who had made the massive journey from Egypt to Nazareth on foot!!! We heard about how Dan relied on God and about his journey.

Woodies Kids | Jesus Feeds the 5000 and Lent

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this week we Think About when…

jesus feeds the 5000

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Answer questions from the story:

· How many people were there at the picnic?

· Who had a picnic to share?

· What was in his picnic?

· What did Jesus do when the disciples said there was not enough food?

· What did they do with the crumbs that were left over?

Ask the children to then imagine that they were the boy who had gone to listen to Jesus with 5 loaves and 2 fish.

· How would the boy have felt at each point of the story?

· What would he have thought of Jesus?

· How might this have changed throughout the story?

· What did his family think?

Present these questions to the children, and encourage them to choose one of these to focus on during the week. 

· Jesus took time to spend with all the different families that came to listen to Him, who are you going to make time for this week?

· Take time to pray for people who might need Jesus to provide something for them.

In Junior Explorers (Year 4-6) we have been working through Pilgrim Pathways, thinking about what things we might need on a journey and how those things can be reflected in our journey with Jesus.

Woodies Kids | Jesus Calms the Storm

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this week we Think About when…

jesus calms the storm

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· What do the children think about this story?

· How did the disciples feel in the storm?

· How did Jesus feel?

· How did the disciples feel after the storm was over?

· What’s amazing about this story?

Sometimes things happen in our lives that might feel like storms. Can they suggest anything? Write down their suggestions eg. falling out with your friends, moving to a new town, parent losing a job, etc.

· What do they think Jesus can do about these storms in our lives?

· At the very end of the story, what does Jesus say is the most important thing to do? [Trust God]

· Is it easy or hard to trust God in our storms?

Tell God what your favourite cuddly toy or blanket is. Can you picture it in your mind? Tell God who you love getting cuddles from. Ask God to show you what it feels like to get a cuddle from God.

Jesus was with the disciples through the storm. He promises to never leave us either. Challenge the children to try and remember next time they face a “storm” that God is there with them.

Woodies Kids | Jesus calls the Disciples

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this week we Think About when…

jesus calls his disciples

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· In this passage who chooses to follow Jesus?

· What were they doing when Jesus called them?

· What did they leave behind?

· Why do you think they left everything behind?

· What changed for them after they chose to follow Jesus?

Share with God who your friends are. Tell God what your favourite activity to do with them. Ask God to highlight one of those friends to you. Ask God to bless that friend. What might that look like?