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God Sees My Heart

God Made My Heart

Day 42of 180
Week 9of 36
15Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that God looks at our heart, not just our outside

2

Learn that God knows our feelings and thoughts

3

Begin to appreciate God's deep love and understanding

📖 Scripture Connection

1 Samuel 16:7

“But Yahweh said to Samuel, 'Don't look at his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For Yahweh sees not as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.'”

— 1 Samuel 16:7 (WEB)

God cares more about what's inside our heart than how we look on the outside

📦 Materials Needed

  • Stethoscope or paper tube
  • Red heart cutouts
  • BibleMouse Resource Guide: PK3 Bible
  • World English Bible
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Let's listen to our heartbeat! Use stethoscope or paper tube to hear heart sounds

💭 Review Question: Remember how we learned about our heart beating yesterday?
2Teaching (5 min)

God sees inside our heart - not just what we look like on the outside

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • God knows all our feelings
  • God loves us completely
  • Our heart is special to God
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What makes your heart happy?
  • How does God show He loves you?
3Activity: Heart Feelings Craft (6 min)
discussion

Create a heart showing different feelings

📝 Instructions:
  1. Draw or color a big red heart
  2. Use stickers to show happy/sad feelings
  3. Talk about how God understands all feelings
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps draw feelings

Challenge: Child draws own feelings independently

4Closing (3 min)

Review today's lesson about God seeing our heart

📝 Review Questions:
  • Does God only see the outside?
  • Who knows all our feelings?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank you for loving my heart

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about having a heart that loves others!

💎 Memory Verse

Psalm 139:14

“God made me special!”

— Psalm 139:14 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Heart Hop: Cut out paper hearts, place them on floor. Child jumps on each heart while saying part of the verse

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

PK3 children are developing emotional awareness and understanding of abstract concepts

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use simple language
  • Be patient with short attention spans
  • Make learning fun and interactive
🤔 Common Struggles:

Understanding that feelings are important to God

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's engagement and attempts to express feelings

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • BibleMouse Printable: Heart Feelings Coloring Page
  • Sing 'God Loves Me' song from BibleMouse Song Collection

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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