Mrs. Jones' Creation Station: God's Happy Campers: Good Samaritan Lesson

The story of the Good Samaritan is a great way to teach little learners how God wants us to love one another. I love this fun camping version that allows the kiddos to act out the story before they read it from the Bible...

We began the class by having the little ones make their {Camping Backpack Craftivity} and then we met together for some singing and to review and pack some of our camping materials.

After, we were packed and ready to go we began hiking through the "woods" when we came across a hurt frog...oh no!!!

We decided that we needed to help the frog before we continued to our campsite, so first we checked our backpack for some bandaids. I happened to have a handy first-aid kit that had pre-cut bandaids with sticky-tack on the back perfect for our little frog's injury. Then, we gave the frog some water to drink from our canteens.

Since, the frog was lost in the woods and not in his home we worked together to find his pond and took him there so that he would be more comfortable.

And, of course, we had to make sure the little guy had some yummy food to eat, so we gathered up some flies from the pond and placed them on his lilypad for later.

After, the frog was all taken care of, we headed to our campsite and were planning on checking in on him as soon as we had a nice campfire and some s'mores.

While we were circled around the fire I read the story of the The Good Samaritan (or similar version from a children's Bible). And we discussed how God wants us to help our neighbors just like the Samaritan did and just like we showed love to the frog.

We prayed that God would help us to love our neighbors and show kindness to everyone and that he would help to make the frog feel better.

After our s'mores and story by the fire we hiked back by the pond and saw that are frog was better! We were so excited to see that our frog was happy and healed.