Leader Guide
Optional Opening Game
- Nugget Page
- Blank Card Page
- Scissors
- Medium size box or container
- Round Pie Pan
- Optional: gold marker or crayon
- Optional: Clock, stopwatch or timer app
Make one copy of the Nugget Page for every two children, in color or black and white.
If copies are black and white, use a gold marker or crayon to lightly color each nugget. It is important that the color does not bleed through the paper.
Cut apart the four individual cards on each page.
Crumple each Nugget Card into a ball so the nugget can’t be seen.
Repeat this process for each Blank Card Page.
Place both sets of crumpled cards in the box and “stir” to mix both types together.
Place the box on the floor near one end of the room.
In today’s game you will pretend to be western prospectors who mine (dig) for gold nuggets!
Hold up a handful of crumpled cards from the box. This box is filled with paper balls like these. Some balls have a gold nugget, some do not (show the children a gold nugget).
Your job is to find the gold nuggets! When you find one, put it in this pan (hold up pan).
If the paper you choose is not a gold nugget, you will drop it on the floor and dig again until you find one. We will play until everyone finds a gold nugget (or two).
Conclusion: Hold up the pan of nuggets. Look at all the nuggets you dug up! If these were real, we would be rich! But you know, even if we don’t have much money, we already ARE rich—in the most important ways! Because we have each other as friends and most importantly we have Jesus! We are rich in love, rich in joy, and rich in hope. Right? Children respond.
In today’s video, Miss Tina and the robots are generously helping Professor Fern in her vegetable garden. What does that have to do with mining gold nuggets? Let’s watch the video to find out!