5 Ways To Teach How Jesus Heals the Sick to Preschoolers
We just finished our Jesus Heals The Sick unit preschool Bible lessons in Sunday School. And my littles had a BLAST learning about God’s healing power! Here’s an overview of this engaging unit on the healings of the Bible.
Healing Exploration Stations
For each bible unit, we have exploration stations for the first 10-15 minutes of our preschool Sunday School class. Kids can choose which station to go to. (You can read more about that here.)
Our “hospital” dress up station was a HUGE hit this time and stayed crowded each Sunday!
Jesus Heals The Sick Bible Stories
After our exploration stations time, we come to our carpet circle and read our Bible story. I use these readers available in my Jesus Heals the Sick unit to read the Bible story. But I always have the Bible in my lap to help my little preschoolers connect that the story I’m reading comes from the Bible–and it’s TRUE! I add details during the story, too, since this is set up as a “reader.” Then, this story goes in our book nook for the kids to read during stations.
The preschool Bible lessons and Bible stories and readers included in this Jesus Heals The Sick unit are: The Blind Man, The Deaf and Mute Man, The Paralyzed Man, Jarius’ Daughter and the Bleeding Woman, and Lazarus.
After Bible time, we pray while we are still in our circle. We used this Jesus Heals The Sick unit to talk about the power of laying our hands on our friends and praying for them! #socute #bestillmyteacherheart
Table Time
After prayer time, we go to our kidney table and color. I play a song that goes along with our Jesus Heals The Sick unit and we sing and color! The song we used for this unit was, “Is Anything Too Hard?” My little loved this one!
When we colored Lazarus, I even had friends who added green “stinky fume” lines! 🙂
Healing Bible Games for Preschoolers
After our coloring time, we play a game or do a craft that goes with our preschool Bible lessons. This doesn’t always work out for every single lesson, but for our Jesus Heals The Sick unit, we had a game for almost every week!
When we learned about Jesus healing blind man, we played Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
When we learned about the friends helping the paralyzed man get to Jesus, we used our creativity to find ways to get our “paralzyed” friend to “Jesus” too!
And our favorite…we wrapped our own Lazarus people with toilet paper and told them to “come forth” to be healed.
When we learned about Jarius’ and the woman’s faith to be healed, we made a healing craft by telling what we had faith that Jesus could heal on us. **NOTE: we used washi tape for bandaids because my regular size bandaids were too big. The mini bandaids would work great though!**
Line Up!
At the end of Sunday School, I walk our kids to the children’s church room. Each week, the line leader gets to choose how we walk (like soldiers, etc…) But during our Jesus Heals the Sick unit, I chose how we walked based on our lesson.
Any guesses which week this was?
Yep, we were the blind leading the blind! LOL!
So many fun things to do with this Jesus Heals the Sick Bible unit to engage little preschoolers in learning about our foundational healing doctrine! You can find the lesson plans and materials for this healing unit here or get 2 years of Sunday School preschool units here!