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Jeremiah lesson for kids

September 22, 2014 Ticia 13 Comments

The kids and I have been studying our Jeremiah lesson off and on for the past two weeks in preparation for my teaching this to my Sunday School class.  That’s because I had great plans for us to get some clay and try molding it.  Then I had plans of using the playdough we made for our playdough layers of the earth model, and that play dough has disappeared.

Jeremiah snack of fig newtons

So, I essentially taught three different versions of the Jeremiah lesson to them and then let them have fig newtons.

No seriously, it relates to the story.

Our Jeremiah lesson comes right after King Josiah lesson.

 Jeremiah lesson 1

We listened to the Adventures in Odyssey episode about Jeremiah, from the Into the Light (affiliate link) set.  We all enjoyed it, but it didn’t really concentrate on what I wanted the kids to get from Jeremiah.  The AIO episode concentrated on Jeremiah as an evangelist, but I don’t really think he was called to do that.

Instead, Jeremiah was called to warn and prepare the people of Judah, so we headed off to our second Jeremiah lesson.

This was when we had our fig newton snacks, since God compared two baskets of figs, one good and one bad.

Jeremiah lesson 2

Picture Smart Jeremiah lesson

This time we used the PictureSmart Bible (affiliate link), and I drew rough sketches for the kids as I explained what all of the pictures on their page mean.  If you haven’t used the PictureSmart Bible there are several different ways you can print the material, from dotted lines to trace, brief bits are already drawn, or the version I did of it all drawn out and you just have to color.  The kids seem to like that one best.  I like these for a great overview of the book, but for some reason, it just wasn’t connecting with us this time.

At the end, they still weren’t quite clear with it, so I went to…..

 Jeremiah lesson 3

Jeremiah Bible lesson
I’m going to teach it one last time so I can have the kids videotape it, that should be interesting….

Also known as the Jeremiah lesson my kids took pictures of.  This means I have lots of pictures like this:

random shots of my Jeremiah lesson

And an awful lot of blurry pictures and pictures I really don’t want the world to see of me.

This time, I reworded some of the material from Jeremiah lesson 2, and added in a bit of my own.

Jeremiah visuals

And I talked about the warnings Jeremiah gave the people of Judah.  How God gave Jeremiah some awesome visuals and stories to tell, but no one listened to him.  For years, and years turned into decades, and they saw Babylon coming.  They still didn’t believe him.

Judah was defeated three times by Babylon, each time a group was taken away.  In the first time, Daniel and his friends were taken away (it is a common tactic to take away the promising young adults to enculturate them into your culture).  Next Judah’s king, the rich, and Ezekiel were taken away (God had a special plan for Ezekiel in Babylon).  Finally, the remnants were taken, leaving a defeated and sad people.

Eventually, Jeremiah is carried off to Egypt by the scared Jews, and (depending on which Biblical scholar you read) writes Lamentations in Egypt, or returns to Jerusalem to write Lamentations.

What do we learn from Jeremiah?

Even in the worst of times, there is hope.  One of the most hopeful songs comes from the book of Lamentations (and I remember this very well because I missed this question on my Old Testament test causing me to almost fail the test, ok, it didn’t help I kept switching the names of Abraham and Moses in my short essays). This particular version reminds me of being in college because this is how we sang it at ACU, being Church of Christ everything is sung A Capella.

Get your own Jeremiah lesson

Because I taught this in a slightly different way, I’ve divided the file into two parts.  First the Jeremiah teacher lesson, with the visuals in color, made bigger, and with the teacher script.  Then with the Jeremiah lesson for the kids with a booklet I made for my kids and Sunday School class to color as I taught the lesson.

Jeremiah lesson for kids

Jeremiah teacher lesson

Jeremiah story for kids

Jeremiah student lesson

And every time I talk about this lesson Jeff starts saying, “I hear Jeremiah was a bullfrog,” and that’s all he knows of the song.  So it gets stuck in my head for the rest of the day.  I will now get it stuck in your head:

Resources used for the Jeremiah lesson

(these are affiliate links)

  • Buck Denver Asks: What’s in the Bible? Volume Nine – God Speaks! (Isaiah, Jeremiah & the Prophets)
  • PictureSmart Bible
  •  Into the Light: (Adventures in Odyssey, Vol. 47)
  • Fig newtons, because we needed an excuse to eat them for a snack just like Jeremiah did

Next up read all about The fiery furnace lesson, or see the entire Old Testament Prophets unit.

Jeremiah the weeping prophet Bible lesson prophets Old Testament

Bible Old Testament, Prophets major and minor

Comments

  1. Almost Unschoolers says

    September 22, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    Like I needed that stuck in my head! But other than that – well done 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 22, 2014 at 9:01 pm

      You’re welcome. It’s been in my head for over a week now.

  2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    September 22, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    We have a fig tree in our little patio that is a “back yard”. You should clearly bring your kids to visit so you can show it to them 🙂

    I adore a cappella music.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      September 23, 2014 at 8:25 am

      Clearly, now to convince Jeff of the expense of this field trip.

      I do too, it’s amazing what can be achieved with just a human voice. Probably part of why I like Penatonix.

  3. Katrina says

    May 12, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    I attended ACU as well!! Me & my family are members of the Church! Good teaching info. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      May 12, 2015 at 11:06 pm

      How cool! I’m glad to help out others.

  4. claire says

    August 6, 2015 at 2:23 am

    Just to say I love your new look blog and finding out a bit more about you and your family. Have a lovely week with your hubby!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 6, 2015 at 8:46 am

      Yeah! I’ve still got a few kinks to work out, but I’m liking it too.

  5. Melody says

    August 15, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    We’ve been following your lessons since Genesis. Now we’re on Job. Do you have any lessons for the book of Job or other poetry books of the Bible? I wasn’t able to find any on your website. My son loves your lessons.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      August 15, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      I do, I haven’t made a landing page for them, because I’m behind on landing pages.

      Job 1
      Job 2
      Psalms 23

  6. CJ says

    February 18, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    Thank you for sharing this! I know I am a bit late to the party -but thanks to Google I stumbled upon your page and am going to use your ideas for my 1st grade Sunday school class. Thanks a bunch!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      February 18, 2017 at 10:13 pm

      Glad it’s helpful! I found Jeremiah to be a fun lesson to teach to my kids. I hope your kids love it too.

  7. Cheryn Preiss says

    January 26, 2020 at 10:28 am

    Thank you for all your effort and sharing! I am teaching preschool class for our home school co-op. Last week my husband came across your website while helping me (overwhelmed, stressed and completely grumpy self.) I laughed and shared your Elijah & Elisha lesson with my co-teacher. I’m back today for this week’s class.

    Reply

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