- PRINTING & COPYING INSTRUCTIONS - Begin by downloading the PDF files for the VBS theme you have chosen. Each VBS theme has a Teacher’s Handbook and a Student Handbook for each of the following grade levels: - PreK-2 nd Grade - 3 rd -5 th Grade - 6-8 th Grade For High School/Bible Class, only a Teacher’s Handbook is provided. It is an outline of the lessons with suggested themes and topics, but does not contain specific lesson plans or activities. Teacher’s Handbooks - Print/copy in full color or black/white - Can be printed with double-sided pages (with the intention that the teacher will make copies of individual pages if necessary) - Contain ALL preparation materials, lesson plans, and worksheets/activities. The worksheets/activities also appear in the Student Handbooks. Student Handbooks - Print/copy in full color or black/white - Print/copy SINGLE-SIDED ONLY to avoid problems when students need to complete an activity that requires cutting or gluing. - Contain cover pages with memory verses for all lessons as well as worksheets/activities. General Instructions For both Handbooks, each church or VBS superintendent may choose which pages of the Handbooks to print and include. If you only plan to do four lessons of VBS, for example, you may choose not to print/copy the fifth lesson at all. You may choose to print in black/white or exclude the lesson cover pages to save on cost. In some cases, perhaps just a Teacher’s Handbook is needed, and the teacher can make copies of individual activities as needed, rather than providing an entire Handbook for each student. However, a take-home Handbook is often a special way for each student to remember the lessons they were taught during this week of VBS. Many copy/print shops and office supply stores make it very easy to upload a document or PDF and select the options you need in order to print/copy in bulk.
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- PRINTING & COPYING INSTRUCTIONS -
Begin by downloading the PDF files for the VBS theme you have chosen. Each VBS theme has
a Teacher’s Handbook and a Student Handbook for each of the following grade levels:
- PreK-2nd Grade
- 3rd-5th Grade
- 6-8th Grade
For High School/Bible Class, only a Teacher’s Handbook is provided. It is an outline of the
lessons with suggested themes and topics, but does not contain specific lesson plans or
activities.
Teacher’s Handbooks
- Print/copy in full color or black/white
- Can be printed with double-sided pages (with the intention that the teacher will make
copies of individual pages if necessary)
- Contain ALL preparation materials, lesson plans, and worksheets/activities. The
worksheets/activities also appear in the Student Handbooks.
Student Handbooks
- Print/copy in full color or black/white
- Print/copy SINGLE-SIDED ONLY to avoid problems when students need to complete an
activity that requires cutting or gluing.
- Contain cover pages with memory verses for all lessons as well as worksheets/activities.
General Instructions
For both Handbooks, each church or VBS superintendent may choose which pages of the
Handbooks to print and include. If you only plan to do four lessons of VBS, for example, you
may choose not to print/copy the fifth lesson at all. You may choose to print in black/white or
exclude the lesson cover pages to save on cost. In some cases, perhaps just a Teacher’s
Handbook is needed, and the teacher can make copies of individual activities as needed, rather
than providing an entire Handbook for each student. However, a take-home Handbook is often
a special way for each student to remember the lessons they were taught during this week of
VBS. Many copy/print shops and office supply stores make it very easy to upload a document or
PDF and select the options you need in order to print/copy in bulk.
Worksheet 5B
PreK-2nd Grade | VBS Student Handbook
Parables of Jesus:
Stories that Changed the World
Name: Grade:
Teacher:
2
THEME VERSE:
“And with many such parables
spake he the word unto them, as
they were able to hear it.”
Mark 4:33
THEME SONG:
Tell Me the Story of Jesus
Lesson 1 / Parables about God’s Love
Memory Verse: “For this my son… was lost, and is found.” (Luke 15:24)
Worksheet 1A – “The Lost is Found”
Worksheet 1B – “Find the Lost”
Activity 1, Part A
Make a “Prodigal Son Hug”
For
this
my s
on…
was
lost
and
is
found
! (
Luke 1
5:2
4)
1. Copy this pattern onto construction paper or colorfulcard stock. Have student cut out the pattern.
2. Fold the ‘arms’ toward the center along the lines.3. Draw around their hands and cut out (or cut out the
hands on the template).4. Glue or tape the hands onto the ends of the paper
strip.5. Draw a face on the round circle.6. Open the ‘arms’ wide to show the father’s willingness
to forgive and welcome home his son. Show how theyinterlock and close to show the big hug the son returnsto his father.
Activity 1, Part B
Lesson 2 / Parables about Living Right
Memory Verse: “… God, be merciful unto me, a sinner.” (Luke 18:13)
Worksheet 2
PROUD
HUMBLE
Lesson 3 / Parables about the Kingdom
Memory Verse: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19-21)
Worksheet 3A – “The Kingdom of Heaven is Like a Mustard Seed”
Worksheet 3B – “Treasure in the Field”
Lesson 4 / Parables about the End Times
Memory Verse: “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you…” (Matthew 25:34)
Worksheet 4A
The Wheat and the Tares Color the grains with the good, helpful thoughts (wheat). Leave the unhelpful, negative
thoughts white (tares)
Worksheet 4B
Depart Inherit the Kingdom
Worksheet 4B - Pieces
Cut these words out and glue them onto the correct spaces on Worksheet 4B.
Cursed Gave me no meat
Clothed me Left Hand
Visited me not Gave me meat
Gave me no drink Took me not in
Visited me Blessed
Right Hand Took me in
Clothed me not Gave me drink
Activity 4, Part A
The Parable of the Ten Virgins Use this
template
and the
template
on the next
page to act
out the
Parable of
the Ten
Virgins in
this lesson.
Activity 4, Part B
Use this template with the template of the church on the previous page to act out the story in
this lesson.
Lesson 5 / The Invitation
Memory Verse: “… all things are ready: come unto the marriage.” (Matthew 22:4)
