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Hi! My name is Priscilla and I am on staff at Redemption Church in Gilbert AZ. Working with children's ministry, My main job is to develop activities for the kids to do during the in between time of getting to class and the lesson starting, a time we call transition time. We love to make volunteering in class room as easy as possible. One of the ways we do that is to provide crafts and activities and the supplies that go with them. So, it use to be that we would throw some ink pads and paper in the room and have them make thumbprint people, an activity that is so much fun but not really that purposefully. If we are going to have these kids for only 1 and 1/2 hours a week, let's make it count. We, as a ministry decided to strive for pourpose in everything we do with the kids. A finger print person...great...but what if we put thoes finger print people in a thumb print boat and relate it to Noah and start a conversation with the child before the lesson even starts. My goal: to create, rearrange, and reuse awesome crafts that have proved sussceful and use them to introduce, in force, and engage kids with the lesson each week. A HUGE PLUS- my campus has switched our curriculum to The Gospel Project for Kids which means all our kids are in the same lesson every week. I LOVE THIS CIRRICULUM!!!! Our church customizes the layout to fit our model of Sunday school and the kids, the teachers, and the staff are all in love with it! Every week every child get to hear about Jesus. Even when we are learning about Ehud it points to Jesus, our wonderful savior who died for us and in his defeat of the grave gave us eternal life. How can you not be excited about that? Any way in our model of Sunday school even with using this new curriculum we still get to have a transition time where the teachers and helpers get to sit with the kids at a table around the transition activity bin and do an activity or craft and spend quality time engaging with the kiddos. This blog will be about the crafts and activities that I have decided to use to supplement the GPK. Hopefully I will be able to post a craft every week and follow the GPK lessons that we have done so far. This curriculum is a 3 year set up that takes us through the whole Bible. We will start at the beginning where the GPK starts....the beginning.