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Gideon’s Trumpets
Art Workshop

Summary of Lesson Activities:

Learn the acronym F.R.O.G.: "Fully Relying on God." Make a frog to take home to help students remember what they learned.

Age Note: Depends on the complexity of the frog origami project you choose. There are many to be found online.

Scripture Reference 
Judges 6-8, especially 6:33-7:22 CEV


Supplies List:

  • Scissors and/or X-Acto knives, frog patterns, and various papers.
  • Decorating materials such as: paint, glitter, glue, salt drip, popsicle sticks.
  • Acrostic: 8 ½ x 11 construction paper (one per student), markers, and tape/glue stick.
  • The book Gladys Aylward, Daring to Trust by Renee Taft Meloche

Teacher Preparation:

  • Read and understand the Bible background.
  • Find a good children’s Bible to read or tell the story to the students.
  • Cut out and partially fold the frogs for the youngest children.
  • Write the acrostic Fully Relying On God on construction paper for each child (or make and print documents on your computer).


Presentation

Opening-Welcome and Lesson Introduction:

Greet the children and introduce yourself.

Open with a prayer.

Dig-Main Content and Reflection:

Lesson Plan:
Read the story of Gideon from a Children’s Bible.
Say: An angel was sent from the Lord to tell Gideon: “Gideon, you are a strong and mighty warrior. God has chosen you to lead an army against your enemies, the Midianites. Gideon felt afraid—he certainly did not feel like a brave leader. But he relied on God to help him. Can anyone tell me what it means to “rely” on God?

That’s right! Rely means to “depend on,” to “have confidence in,” or to “trust.” There is an acronym for Gideon’s complete trust in God. It is FROG: Fully Relying On God!
An acronym is a word formed from the first letters of the words in a phrase. The acronym can help you to remember the phrase. The first letters of each word in the phrase “Fully Relying on God” spell FROG. (Write the acrostic on the board, and point out how it spells FROG.) Today we will make a frog for you to take home, to remind you to Fully Rely On God.

Art Time:

How to Build a Paper Frog: 
Real frogs come in every color of the rainbow, so anything goes for paper frogs--bright or drab, speckled or striped. The finished paper frogs can be decorated with paint, applique, glitter, or salt drip (recipe follows.)

Editor's Note: There are many different kinds and levels of frog origami projects to be found online. Here's one for reference that might work with younger children.

http://www.origami-instruction...sy-origami-frog.html

The one used, by the author of this lesson, came from Best of Make it with Paper, Michael J. LaFosse and Paul Jackson.

Design tips: 
Note: there are many different online sources for instructions to make origami (paper) frogs. 

Salt drip: Mix together 3 parts flour, 1 part salt, food coloring, and enough water to make a dripping consistency, but not too runny. Use a popsicle stick to drip onto paper shapes. Will dry hard and sparkly.

Cut out, fold, and decorate the frogs.
(Note: for younger children cut out the frogs before class and do some of the more difficult folds. The students can decorate the frogs with paint, glitter, or salt drip. When they are finished decorating, let the frogs dry while you read a story to the children.)

Apply the Lesson:
Do you think God can still do amazing things through ordinary people today? (Allow some time for discussion.)
Today we will listen to the story of Gladys Aylward. Gladys was not beautiful, and she wasn’t a very good student. However, she believed that God wanted her to bring the good news about Jesus to the people in China. Gladys believed that God could work through her, and He did. Let’s learn about some wonderful ways God helped Chinese women and orphans through Gladys.

Read the story of Gladys Aylward to the students.

Journal Time:
Gladys Aylward was an ordinary woman who Fully Relied On God! (Allow the students to talk about the story, if they wish.)
Let’s take this time to practice our memory verse. It reminds us that we, too, can trust in God to help us do good things to help others. “Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Don’t tremble with fear. I am your God. I will make you strong.”

  • Pass out the sheets of construction paper to the students, to make an acrostic.
  • The students can color in the outline of the letters FROG.
  • Fasten the origami paper frog to the paper with glue or tape.
  • If time allows, the children can write or draw a picture of a time when we should trust in God to help us.

Closing:

God of power and might, thank you for watching over us every day. Help us to remember that you are always with us to make us strong. And all God’s children said, AMEN.


References:
Best of Make it with Paper Michael J. LaFosse and Paul Jackson, Quarry Books ISBN 11-56496-428-0
Salt Drip Recipe from: http://www.dltk-holidays.com/easter/3dcross.htm
Gladys Aylward, Daring to Trust by Renee Taft Meloche ISBN 1-57658-228-0


A lessom written by Kirsten from Augustana Lutheran Church,
Saint James, MN

A representative of Rotation.org reformatted this post to improve readability.

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