Hidden Things of the Heart
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What you need:
- Jelly marbles – GET THEM HERE IN SEVERAL SIZES
- Water
- Time
Prep:
- Just place these little marbles into a bowl of water and wait while they grow.
- Once developed you will find that these absolutely visually disappear when placed into water.
Lesson:
Bring out the bowl of water that is full of the expanded jelly marbles. It will look like it is just a bowl of water.
This bowl is just like our hearts at times. We may look like we are pure and clean but inside we may have things that we don’t want anyone to know about.
Reach inside and grab a handful of the marbles and show them to the kids.
If we’re not careful we can have things inside of us but with God’s help we can be cleaned out.
Explain about the importance of repentance. God can remove all of our sin.
Additionally, if you place a written message on the table and then a bowl of these jellies over it you will find that it is completely obscured until you pour water in… after that the message is legible.
I love this object lesson! I have used it twice, once with 4-6 year olds and once with 7-12. The kids were amazed when I started pulling the spheres out of the water. I used it to talk about repentance and the kids responded really well. When i prepared the spheres at home and saw them growing, I got so excited I couldn’t wait for class time to use them! Thanks for all you do! This site has really helped our Sunday school.
Thank you so much! I’m so glad that the lesson worked for you and that the site is proving useful. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to make the site better.