Leader Guide
Craft
- Bibles or the Superbook Bible App
- Scarlet Thread Bookmark
- Card stock
- Markers or crayons
- Children’s scissors
- Tape
- Red yarn, 3" length per bookmark
- Note: Red yarn is also used in the Additional Activity for Grades 1–3 below
Make copies of the Bookmark Pattern on cardstock, one page per five children, plus extras.
Cut out each individual bookmark.
Optional: using scissors, carefully punch a hole in the window cut-out line to help children begin their cuts more easily.
Cut the red yarn into 3" lengths—one per bookmark, plus extras.
Make one bookmark to display as a model.
Give each child a bookmark and piece of yarn. Lay out markers or crayons, tape and scissors. Have children write their names on the back of their bookmarks. Show your model bookmark to the children so they can see the finished product. Children should cut out the window and color the bricks on the “wall.” They should then put one end of the yarn through the window and tape it to the back of the bookmark.
As you begin the discussion below, have the children pull the yarn through the window so all of it hangs on the back of their bookmark.
The scarlet rope in our Bible story pointed to Jesus and His blood shed for us to save us from our sin and God’s judgment.
Now have the children drop the yarn through the window so it hangs on the front of the bookmark.
Rahab saved the spies by dropping a rope through her window and helping them escape. Later, a scarlet cord helped save Rahab and her family by showing Joshua’s men where she lived. This represents Jesus’ blood that saves us and identifies us as God’s children; cleansed, righteous and forgiven through Christ!
Read Joshua 6:22–23 (cev):
Joshua said to the two men who had been spies, “Rahab kept you safe when I sent you to Jericho. We promised to protect her and her family, and we will keep that promise. Now go into her house and bring them out.” The two men went into Rahab’s house and brought her out, along with her father and mother, her brothers, and her other relatives. Rahab and her family had to stay in a place just outside the Israelite army camp. But later they were allowed to live among the Israelites, and her descendants still do.
Isn’t that awesome? Rahab and her family were saved! Her descendants continued to live among God’s people! It doesn’t matter what you have done or where you come from; through faith in Christ we are God’s children. When you use your bookmark, thank God that through Christ you are adopted into God’s family and can call Him Abba, Father! Let’s say our SuperTruth together: “Through Christ, I am adopted into His family.”