Storytime Lesson Plan for Preschoolers: My Body

"God Made All Our Parts"

Storytime Lesson Plan #2

"God Made All Our Parts"

Psalm 139:13-14

This series of lesson plans was developed and used in NSW, Australia. Some books and/or songs may not be available in your area. Please adapt these suggestions to suit your resources.

I. Introduction: Enter wearing a white lab coat, carrying a bandaged-up doll or teddy bear. Show pictures from library books or other resources of doctor's offices, tools, and patients. Play song (or recite nursery rhyme), "Miss Polly Had a Dolly:"

Miss Polly had a dolly
who was sick, sick, sick.
So she called for the doctor
to be quick, quick, quick.
The doctor came in
with his bag and his hat,
and he knocked at the door
with a rat tat tat.

He looked at the dolly
and he shook his head.
And said "Miss Polly,
put her straight to bed."
He wrote out a paper
for a pill, pill, pill.
"I'll be back in the morning
With the bill, bill, bill."

II. Story: Help! I'm Falling Apart! by Tedd Arnold.
Discuss various concerns children might have regarding their health and their bodies. Use this opportunity to talk about how God designed us.

III. Fingerplay: "5 Fingers on This Hand:"

5 fingers on this hand,
5 fingers on that.
A dear little nose,
a mouth like a rose,
two cheeks so tiny and fat.
Two eyes, two ears,
and ten little toes -
that's the way the baby grows!

IV. Bible Verse Bracelets: Print out, on a brightly-colored sheet of paper, today's verse repeated down the page. Cut between each verse so that you have 10-15 strips, each with the verse printed on it. Ask the children to form a line, and using tape to stick the ends together, wrap a "Bible Verse Bracelet" round each little wrist. Some children do not want to wear it; in that case, hand it to them and tell them to use the verse as a bookmark. The children love these, and come to expect them at each session! The verses also find their way home to parents and siblings, and help to spread the news about that day's storytime.

Psalm 139:13-14a: "For You did form my inward parts; You did weave me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

V. Song: "My God is So Big," from "Bible Songs" recording by Cedarmont Kids.