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Jungle Explorers Lesson 1 Jan. 6/7

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Jungle Explorers

Series at a Glance for Kid‐O‐Deo

About this Series: We’re on a hunt for the greatest fruit in the world—the fruit of the Spirit! Join us in Kid‐O‐Deo as we brave the wild jungle in search of love, joy, peace, patience and other amazing “fruit.” And guess

what? There’s no chance of getting lost on this adventure because we find these fruits by following God!

Memory Verse: Galatians 5:22‐23 ‐ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness and self‐control.

Weekly Overview: Lesson: Topic: Big Idea: Lesson 1: Jan. 6/7 Lesson 2: Jan. 13/14 Lesson 3: Jan. 20/21 Lesson 4: Jan. 27/28 Lesson 5: Feb. 3/4 Lesson 6: Feb. 10/11

Faithfulness Joshua and the Wall: Joshua 5:13‐6:27 Patience Hannah Waits: 1 Samuel 1 Self‐Control Daniel’s Diet: Daniel 1 Kindness/Goodness/Gentleness Jairus’ Daughter: Mark 5:21‐43 Peace Jesus Prays: Luke 5:16; Mark 4:35‐41 Love/Joy The Lost Son: Luke 15:11‐32

I can be faithful to God. I can wait patiently. I can use self‐control. I can be kind, good, and gentle. I can have peace. I can be loving and joyful.


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Jungle Explorers Series at a Glance for Kid‐O‐Deo (continued)

Lesson 1: Faithfulness When Joshua marched into the Promised Land, he expected to need tools like a sword and a shield. First, God had Joshua use a much greater tool, the fruit of faithfulness. When God gave Joshua a strange command, Joshua had to choose between trusting God and doing what seemed right to him. Joshua’s choice shows us what it means to be faithful no matter what. Lesson 2: Patience Sometimes the hardest thing you’ll do is to not do anything. Waiting for something can make a minute feel like an hour and a day feel like a year. This week, the story of Hannah will show us something important about patience. While waiting for a baby, she continued to trust God. Hannah shows us that having patience for God’s timing is always worth the wait. Lesson 3: Self‐Control Daniel was one of many men captured by King Nebuchadnezzar and brought to work the city of Babylon. But Daniel stood out from the others. Everyone else was eating the delicious foods presented by the king, but Daniel and his friends did something different. In this week’s story, Daniel shows us the power of self‐control. Lesson 4: Kindness/Goodness/Gentleness There are many examples of Jesus using the fruits of kindness, goodness, and gentleness. One of those times was on a day when Jesus had sailed across a sea and was met by a large crowd. We’ll see what happens when Jesus meets a sick girl’s father and a group of heartbroken people. Jesus’ actions in this story tell us about three powerful fruits of the spirit. Lesson 5: Peace In the Bible, we can read about Jesus going off to places by himself to talk to God. Even though Jesus loved helping people, he knew that making time for peace and spending time with God was important too. During a huge storm out on the water, Jesus demonstrated what it can look like to have true peace—the kind of peace that only comes from God. Lesson 6: Love/Joy This week, we’ll hear a story Jesus told about how powerful love can be. It’s about a lost son and the love his father had for him. When we have love, it’s that much easier to have true joy—another fruit! God loves each of us so much, and he wants us to joyfully share that love with others. We’ll learn how we can do that this week in Kid‐O‐Deo!


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Jungle Explorers Lesson Outline for Kid‐O‐Deo

Lesson 1: Faithfulness

Lesson Segment Total Running Time

Kid‐O Playtime Transition Time Kid‐O‐Deo Theme Song Video (3:00) 0:00‐15:00

Welcome (2:00) Value (0:30) Worship Song: Better Than the Best Thing (3:00) Bible Adventure (6:00) Memory Verse: Galatians 5:22‐23 (3:00) Worship Song: Shout (3:00) Application (4:00) Big Idea Video (2:00) Kid‐O‐Whampus (2:00) Take‐Home Reminders (1:00) Prayer (1:00) Transition Time 15:00‐45:00

Group Time (15:00) 45:00‐60:00

Video Cue Slide Cue Audio Cue Tech Notes


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Opening Song 3:00

Welcome 2:00 Hi Kid‐Os! Welcome to Kid‐O‐Deo! My name is _____________, and we are going to have a lot of fun. If you’re here for the first or second time today, and we are super glad that you’re joining us! We will be singing some songs, learning a Bible Memory Verse, and hearing an awesome story. Before we do any of that, let’s go over the rules we have in Kid‐O‐Deo. There are 587 of them, so we better get started! NO! No? How many do we have? THREE! Oh yes, you’re right!

Rule #1: When I’m talking, you are listening! Everyone put on your listening ears, and on the count of three, let’s practice listening! Rule #2: Keep your hands and feet to yourself! Do a little clap and place your hands in your lap! Rule #3: Stay in your spot! Let’s take our special glue sticks and put some glue on our spot to help us stay in the right place!

Now that we know the rules, we’re ready to have so much fun together. We are starting something new today, but first I want to ask you a question. Raise your hand if you like fruit. My favorite fruit is _____ because it is so yummy and good for you. One place that has a lot of yummy fruits is the jungle, and today we’re going to be jungle explorers! Doesn’t it feel and look kind of like a jungle in here?

Do This: Point to some of the jungle items on the stage.

Here in the jungle, we’ll be exploring something called the “Fruit of the Spirit.” Now the Fruit of the Spirit is not fruit that you eat though. The Fruit of the Spirit is what God calls some of the good things he gives us when we follow and learn about him and his Son, Jesus.

“Jungle Explorers” & Monkey and lion sounds

(Roll when directed) Kid‐O‐Deo Theme Song Video

(Auto advance) Kid‐O‐Deo Slide


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During our time together today, we’ll be learning about a fruit called “faithfulness.” Can you say “faithfulness?” FAITHFULNESS! Faithfulness is always believing in and trusting God. When you’re faithful, you believe that God is real and trust that he loves you and wants what’s best for you. I’m going to ask you about faithfulness throughout the lesson, so let’s practice saying it one more time. Ready? FAITHFULNESS!

Value 0:30

When we’re faithful and use the special fruits that God gives us, it can help us make wise choices and live our lives for God! Can you repeat these words after me? I can be who God made me to be. I CAN BE WHO GOD MADE ME TO BE. Awesome!

Worship 3:00 God loves you so much, and he loves to hear us sing to him. Right now, let’s all stand up and sing a song together. We can use our hands, feet, and voices as we praise God with this song called “Better Than the Best Thing!”

Bible Adventure 6:00

Super singing, everyone! I love praising God with all of you. You can sit down now. Our friend, Rocky, has a message for us. Take a look at the screen!

It sounds like our favorite raccoon friend sent us a letter all the way from the forest to the jungle. But I wonder where the letter is? IN THE MAILBOX! Good thinking, Kid‐Os! But…where is the mailbox?

Do This: Have kids help direct you to the mailbox. You can make this silly by pretending you can’t find it. Once you’ve found it, open up the mailbox and take out the weekly letter. Read the letter out loud. The content is below for your reference.

Song 1: Better Than the Best Thing

(Auto advance) “Jungle Explorers”

Rocky Letter Video



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Thanks for your help, everyone. Here’s our letter! I’ll read it to you.

Hello Kid‐Os! I need your help. I know that the Fruit of the Spirit is not fruit that you eat; it’s the good things God puts in our lives when we choose to follow him. Today’s fruit is faithfulness, but here is my problem…I don’t know how to use this fruit! You have some items in the boxes on your stage that will help you learn more about using faithfulness. Do the activities and answer any questions from inside the boxes. If you do that and earn all four fruit cards, we will learn how to use faithfulness together! Sincerely, Rocky

Oh, look! Rocky also sent us these fruit cards to put on our boxes. They’ll help us see what fruit we’ve earned!

Do This: Hold up the fruit cards.

Should we look inside box number one? YES! I agree.

Do This: Take out the Bible and Bible storybook from box #1 and hold them up for the Kid‐Os to see.

It looks like our first activity is to go on an adventure...a Bible Adventure!

Kid‐Os, are the words and the stories in the Bible real or pretend? REAL! That is right. The Bible is God’s true Word, so we know this story really happened. The story you are about to hear comes from the Bible, but we’re going to read it from our storybook because the pictures help us imagine what it might have looked like back when the Bible was written. Let’s get started!

Do This: Have kids help you “turn” the pages on the screen with an exaggerated arm wave throughout the story.

Bible Adventure Jingle

Picture 1: Joshua standing with the Israelites in the background


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There once was a man named Joshua. Can you say “Joshua”? JOSHUA. God chose Joshua to lead his people, the Israelites, to a new land. Joshua did not feel like he was good enough for this important job, but he was faithful to God and began leading the Israelites.

Joshua and the other Israelites arrived near Jericho, a city that God wanted them to take over. But there were tall walls around the whole city, and the gates had all been shut. It did not seem like the Israelites would be able to get inside this city, but God had a plan. God told Joshua to have the Israelites march around the entire city one time each day for six days. Can you hold up six fingers?

On the seventh day, God told Joshua to have the Israelites march around the city seven times and then blow their trumpets and shout as loud as they could. Does this sound like a strange plan? YES! This probably sounded like a pretty odd plan to Joshua too because people didn’t usually just march around cities and blow their horns. But Joshua had faith and trusted that God had the best plan, so he led the Israelites to do exactly what God said to do.

The Israelites marched around the walls of the city once a day for six days. On the seventh day, they marched around the city seven times. While some people blew their trumpets, the others began shouting, and as they shouted, the walls of Jericho came crashing down! God gave the Israelites the city of Jericho that day because Joshua was faithful!

Awesome job listening to our story, Kid‐Os! We completed the first activity by going on our Bible Adventure. That means we earned a fruit card!

Do This: Remove the “#1” from the first box and replace it with the apple card.

Picture 2: Joshua and the Israelites standing outside of Jericho

Picture 3: Joshua and the Israelites blowing their trumpets

Picture 4: The Israelites blowing their trumpets and the walls crashing down

“Jungle Explorers”


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We’re going to earn more fruit cards and learn how we can have the fruit of faithfulness like Joshua, but right now, we are going to learn a new Memory Verse!

Memory Verse 3:00

Kid‐Os, it’s time for us to practice our Bible Memory Verse! It’s a little long, but if you practice, I think you can learn it. And these words are super awesome because it helps us learn about not one…not two…but all nine Fruits of the Spirit. Which fruit are we learning about today? FAITHFULNESS! That’s right, and we’ll hear more about the other fruits over the next few weeks. Let’s practice our verse together so we can start to learn what those fruits are!

Do This: Read the verse from the screen.

Everyone stand up because it’s time to practice. This is the first time we are learning this verse, so you can listen and watch me do the actions once. Then we can all start practicing it together!

Do This: Practice the memory verse.

Great job practicing our new Bible Memory Verse and learning about the Fruit of the Spirit!

Worship 2:00 Everyone stay on your feet because we have another song to sing! This song is called “Shout.” I think a lot of you know and like this one, so let’s shout it out together!

Application 4:00

That is such a fun song! You can sit down.

Memory Verse Jingle

(Auto advance – Memory Verse) Galatians 5:22‐23 ‐ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self‐control.

Song 2: Shout



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Remember, we are trying to earn fruit cards by learning about a very special kind of fruit…the Fruit of the Spirit! Let’s look inside box number two to see if there’s something to help us learn more about this special fruit.

Do This: Take the horn/trumpet out from box #2 and hold it up.

It’s a horn! I think this means that we’re supposed to talk about our Bible Adventure, because this is kind of like the trumpets the Israelites blew after they marched around the city of Jericho. Joshua did a great job leading the Israelites by trusting in God and having faith that God had the best plan. What fruit did Joshua use in today’s Bible Adventure? FAITHFULNESS! That’s right, and your answer earned us our second fruit card!

Do This: Remove the “#2” from the second box and replace it with the grapes card.

We still need two more fruit cards, so let’s see what’s in the next box!

Do This: Take the problem picture out from box #3 and hold it up.

It looks like we have a problem picture to solve. The question that goes with the picture is on this card. I’ll read it to you.

Do This: Read the problem written on the note. The content on the note is below for your reference.

You are playing at your neighbor’s house, and she tells you that she doesn’t think God is real. How can you show faithfulness? Choice #1: Start crying and run home. Choice #2: Tell her that you believe in God because he created the whole world and he loves you so much.

All right friends, which is the better choice? Choice one or two? TWO. That’s right! There are some people who don’t believe in God, but you can be faithful by remembering that God is real, he loves you so much, and he knows what’s best for you. And you can tell those people about God and his Son, Jesus, too! You know what? By talking about the problem picture, we earned our third fruit card!

Do This: Remove the “#3” from the third box and replace it with the orange card.

Two kids talking


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We only need one more fruit card! Should we see what’s inside box number four? YES!

Do This: Take the giant banana out from box #4 and hold it up.

What is this? A BANANA! Yes, it’s a giant banana with a note that says to “Peel, Eat, and Go Bananas!”

Do This: In the following paragraph, demonstrate the “peel, eat, and go” bananas actions for the kids. Be exaggerated and silly in your movements. After you shout “Let’s Go Bananas,” just dance like crazy for about 10 seconds or until the music stops.

Here’s how this works. We’re all going to look around and listen to sounds in the jungle. Do you hear those monkeys and jungle sounds? Now reach up and grab a banana from a tall banana tree. Does everyone have their banana? Now peel your banana! Keep peeling your banana! Now it’s time to eat your banana! Nom nom nom! And the last part of the instructions is to go bananas! Going bananas basically means we’re going to dance like crazy, but remember to stay in your spot! Everyone stand up, but be ready to sit back down right away when the music stops. Let’s…Go…BANANAS! Great job, Kid‐Os! You can sit down. Guess what? We earned our last fruit card! This one seems like it was probably just for fun, but we love having fun here in Kid‐O‐Deo!

Do This: Remove the “#4” from the fourth box and replace it with the banana card.

We did it! We earned all four fruit cards. That reminds me…I hope Rocky has been listening as we’ve been learning about faithfulness. Rocky? Are you there?

Rocky says, “Here I am! Thanks for helping me learn how to be faithful! You rock!”

You did an amazing job today, Kid‐Os. Remember, God wants you to be faithful to him. We can be faithful by always believing in God and trusting that he loves us and wants what’s best for us. When you follow God, he will give you the special fruit of faithfulness!

“Jungle Explorers”

Rocky cheering

Crazy dance music

Background jungle sounds/monkey noises

Adjust volume so you can still hear the teacher talking

Readjust volume if needed


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Big Idea 2:00

It’s time for our Big Idea, which will help us remember what we learned today. We’re going to check in with our friend, Ranger Ron, who is going to help us practice our Big Idea together. Stand up tall, everyone!

Know This: The Big Idea is, “I can be faithful to God.”

Kid‐O‐Whampus 2:00 Awesome job! All right Kid‐Os, stay standing and listen up because I have a question to ask you…are you ready to go Kid‐O‐Whampus?!

Take‐Home Reminders 1:00

That was so fun! Before we go, I want to show you a couple of really cool things that you are going to get today.

Do This: Pick up the Memory Verse card.

You’ll get one of these cards with our Bible Memory Verse on it when you leave. You can use it to help you practice your verse at home! Each week in Kid‐O‐Deo, we also give you a sticker with a question on it about what we learned that day. Have your grown‐ups ask you the question on your sticker when they pick you up!

Do This: Pick up the Family Connection card.

Big Idea Jingle

Big Idea Video


Kid‐O‐Whampus: Balloon Blow Up

(Auto advance) “Take‐Homes”


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You can also take one of these cards that has some fun activities for you to do at home, so make sure to tell your grown‐ups about it.

Prayer 1:00

Now it’s time for us to talk to God together by praying. God is good, and he loves you so much. He wants to be your friend, and he loves when we spend time talking to him, so we are going to do that right now. You can fold your hands in your lap and close your eyes so you are only thinking about the words we are saying to God. You don’t have to fold your hands and close your eyes to talk to God, but doing this can help us be respectful and think about what we are saying. If you want, you can echo the words for the prayer after me. Dear God, We love you. Thank you for loving us. Help us to use the fruit of faithfulness. Amen.

It’s been great hanging out with you today! Now it’s time for you to go back to your classrooms where you will get into groups with your leader and other Kid‐Os, have a snack, and do a fun activity! See you later!

“Let’s Pray”

Kid‐O‐Deo Slide

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