I’M AMAZING!
Read Psalm 139:13–18. You are fearfully and wonderfully made! Draw a picture of yourself. Roll out a long piece of craft paper, or glue or tape several sheets of printer or construction paper together. (Or you can use sidewalk chalk on your driveway or church parking lot.) Ask a parent to draw around your body. Write something amazing about each area of your body: your toes, legs, knees, tummy,
SHAPED FROM CLAY
God shaped Adam out of clay (Genesis 2:7). Use clay or make playdough with flour, salt, and water. Give each person in your family a piece of clay or playdough and ask them to shape a person. It’s a bit tricky! Don’t worry if your person looks a bit wobbly. Show your models to each other. Imagine that all humans looked like your models! Laugh! Then thank God for making you—because He is a much better artist than any human will ever be!
HANDY HANDS
Draw around an adult’s hand. Then fill the hand shape with things you love to do with your hands. Isn’t that amazing? Thank God for making your amazing hands! How do you use your hands to bless the people around you by sharing God’s love? Read Ecclesiastes 9:10. Find the answer to these questions:
• How many bones are in each of your hands?
• What is special about human thumbs? (Try doing some simple tasks without using your thumbs. What happens?)
• Find out how you can use your hands to communicate if you can’t speak. Learn to finger-spell your name.
TOUCHY-FEELY
Ask a parent to place several clean objects with different textures into a pillowcase. Without looking, put your hand inside and see if you can name all the objects just by feeling them. Your hands are amazing because they can feel the difference between so many things!
NIFTY NOSE
Ask a parent to find several things you would recognize by smell and put each in a different paper sack so you can’t see what they are. Smell each sack and try to guess what’s inside. Lemon? Soap? Garlic? Lavender? Coconut? Thank God together for all the lovely things He made that you can smell with your nose. Paul told the Corinthians that they were to be a lovely fragrance of God’s love in the world (2 Corinthians 2:15). If God’s love had a fragrance, what do you think it would smell like? How can your family be the fragrance of God’s love in the world and make your community a kinder and happier place to live?
INCREDIBLE FEET
Draw around one of your feet. Write in the shape some of the things you like to do with your feet. Then jump, skip, hop, and run! Have everyone in your family stand on one foot and see who can stand the longest without putting the other foot on the floor. Standing on one foot is very good for your body’s balance. Some doctors encourage people to balance on one foot every time they brush their teeth. This habit can develop their balance muscles! Read Romans 10:15. How do your feet carry the good news of God’s love into the world?
LISTENING EARS
Be very still and quiet for a few moments, and then tell each other the different sounds you can hear inside and outside your home. Your ears are amazing! God made them so you could listen to those you love, sing together, learn from your teachers, stay safe on the roads, hear the wonderful birdsong, and listen to so many other things! Thank God for your ears because they help you learn about Him. Ask your parents how
they listen for God’s voice.
WONDERFULLY MADE
Make a little sign to put on every mirror in your house that says, “You are wonderfully made! You have been designed by the greatest Artist and Scientist in the universe, and He loves you!” Remember that whatever anyone says to you or about you, God loves you and thinks that you are beautiful and amazing.
THANK YOU, GOD, FOR MAKING ME, ME
Design a card to thank God for making you just the way you are! You could paste a photo of yourself on the front or draw a picture instead. Then write a thank you note to God inside the card. Even though you can’t mail it to God, He sees what you write!
IT’S OK TO SAY NO!
Your body is very precious and special. It belongs to you and God. If someone wants to do something to you that you don’t want them to do, you can tell them “No!” and yell “STOP!” This is a good thing to do. Then tell your parents or a trusted adult as soon as you can. This is very important because you are so special, and God does not want anyone to hurt you. Read Matthew 18:2–6.
JESUS BLESSED CHILDREN
All children are very precious to Jesus. He took them in His arms and blessed them (Mark 10:13–16). Every bit of you is very precious to God because He made every part of you, and everything is beautiful and wonderfully made. Worship is using all that you are to praise God for all His amazing love! Ask your parents to take you in their arms, bless you, and praise God for the way He has made you and gifted you to them.
BODY PRAISE
“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord” (Psalm 150:6). We can praise God with our whole bodies! Sing one of your family’s favorite praise songs. Take turns choosing a body part, such as your toes, arms, hands, legs, knees, or elbows. Then invite everyone to praise God with that part of their body. Wow! You will all bring a lovely smile to God’s beautiful and loving face.
