In the preschool, we are learning the story of Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a very smart teacher who knew all the right answers and followed all the right rules. One night, Nicodemus went to visit Jesus to ask Him about eternal life. Jesus explained that it doesn't matter how much we know or how good we are, what matters is loving and trusting Jesus. We did an activity with the children that you can do again at home:
Make a large heart using 2 sheets of paper glued together. One sheet should be brown and one white. Put a sad face on the brown side of the heart.
Name specific sins and for each sin make a mark on the sad side using crayons, markers or stamps. Depending on your child's age, you can make simple marks or draw pictures of the sins you are talking about. Talk about how sad a heart looks when it is full of sin. This is what God sees when we have hearts that don't love him.
Then, turn the heart over and use your child’s favorite color or paint to add to a heart that is beautiful because it loves Jesus most and trusts Him for everything. Draw a smiley face on this side and talk about how God sees this beautiful heart after we have decided to love him most and follow him.
Talk about how without Jesus, our hearts are sick and sad because they are full of sin. But when we decide to love and trust Jesus, He cleans our hearts and makes us new and makes our hearts beautiful.
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