Splink | The Problem of Idolatry

Splink 1:

Who Gets 1st Place?

Run some different races to see who wins first place. (Optional idea is to buy 1st place ribbons, which can be found at a dollar store in the party section.)

Some ideas:

• Who can toss the most pennies (or marshmallows) into a bowl in a minute?
• Who can throw a paper plate the longest distance?
• Who can stand on one foot the longest?
• Who can blow the biggest bubble?
• Who can draw the best beach scene (without looking at the page)?
• Who can sing the ABC’s the fastest?
• Who can run to a designated spot first carrying a full bucket of water?

Cheer for the winners. To get first place means that you were the best! God deserves first place and He is the only one to be worshipped.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego knew that King Nebuchadnezzar’s statue was not a god to be worshipped. A false god could never help anyone! Only the one true God deserves to be worshipped. Only the one true God is real and could care for them. (And He did!)

Splink 2:

The Real Thing

Send the kids on a search for fake and real stuff. (Fake/real fruit; food; money; flower; etc.)

 What’s the difference between fake and real? (Fake is an imitation of the real—some fake things look very real, but they are not.)

What is an idol? (It is an imitation of the true God. An idol can be made from gold, silver, wood, or just about anything.)

What’s the difference between an idol and the one true God? (The one true God made the heavens and the earth; an idol is something people make to represent a god they worship.)

 There are people in many countries (many even in the US) who worship idols. They do not know the one true God and worship a false god. Nebuchadnezzar set up an idol for the people to worship until he realized that there was one true God who saved Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Splink 3:

Seek and Jump

Elementary students are learning Matthew 6:33 as this month’s Bible verse. Read the verse together. Grab the sidewalk chalk and go outside to draw a grid on the sidewalk or driveway (a tic-tac-toe grid would be perfect). Then assign kids different words to write in the different squares. (They will need to write more than one word in each grid to complete the entire verse. Also, don’t write the words in succession, but scramble them so kids will have to jump from one word to the next.)

Take turns jumping the verse. The “jumper” should seek (intentionally look for) and start on the first word(s) of the verse. Then jump to the next word(s), and continuing jumping until he has completed the verse. (Onlookers can say the words as the “jumper” jumps on them.)

What does this verse tell us to do? Seek God first! God should have first place and we should only worship Him.