SERMON IN SHOES: Have children draw/trace another child's foot 2 times and then cut the feet out! Write on the feet - I AM A SERMON IN SHOES! These "feet" could be glued to another piece of paper to display or could be taped to each child's back for the day.

FEET SERMONS ON THE WALL: Teacher can have many feet cut out with words on the feet. Scramble the feet up and have children take turns getting a "foot" and matching words that rhyme. When they find the matching/rhyming "feet", they can tape them on the wall in a "walking pattern", so on a poster board. Rhyming words such as WALK IT/TALK IT; TEACH IT/PREACH IT; PRAY IT/SAY IT; LIVE IT/GIVE IT, etc. Children will enjoy a discussion about what each "foot word" means in their lives!

FEET FOLLOWING: Have children take off all their shoes and the teacher or a leader/helper can take all the shoes and make a long path with them for the children to follow the shoes to the END. Make the path around obstacles and under a pew or bench, etc. At the END of the path, children can gather in a circle to talk about FOLLOWING JESUS and obeying!

SHOE PILE UP: Let children take off their shoes and pile them altogether. This can first be run like a relay as children divide into two teams and they'll run up to the SHOE PILE UP and will have to find their own shoes and put them on before they return to their team for the next member to do the same! When children are done with the relay part of the game, let them talk together about different ways to be a SERMON in SHOES and how to FOLLOW the Lord!

SHOE BIBLE VERSE HUNT: Teacher can hide some shoes in various places in a designated area. When children find a shoe, they look for a word from the Bible verse inside the shoe and will bring that word/s back to the classroom to put the Bible verse in order on the SHOE poster board!

SERMON WORDS POSTER: Let children decorate a piece of construction paper cut out like a SHOE, with BE A SERMON IN SHOES, and then write in smaller letters around the shoe with many different colored markers or crayons, some words such as generous, loving, caring, helpful, kind, trusting Jesus, sharing Jesus with everyone, etc.

FOLLOW THE LEADER: Children can "practice' following a leader, with some BIG movements and then some "little" movements that children have to pay close attention to their leader in order to see and know how to follow! After everyone has had a chance to be the "leader", they can sit down and discuss how we follow OUR LEADER, Jesus Christ!

TEACHER TREATS: Teacher can either take the children on a short "hike" to follow her wherever she goes and then receive a treat at the end of the hike, OR the teacher can have a short scavenger HUNT for their treats, but they will have to listen carefully and FOLLOW the teacher's directions in order to FIND their treats of the day! If time allows and teacher chooses to have a more "detailed" scavenger hunt to teach this lesson in even more specific ways, the teacher can have CLUES (for "obedience") such as a starting place and then CLUE 1 will say to "Go to ________________" to find Clue 2. Then they'll be directed to go to another place for Clue 3, etc, until they find the TREAT TREASURE for everyone. This will lead to discussion about FOLLOWING JESUS every day for the TREASURES that HE has for those who OBEY!

Song:  "I'll Be A Sunbeam" by Nellie Talbot and Edwin O. Excell

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