Lesson 16: God Gave us Hands to Do

Aims
To understand that God gave us hands to do many different things
To appreciate the sense of touch

Materials
* My Hands by Aliki (Let’s-Read-and-Find Out Science Book)
* Objects for children to feel – soft & hard, smooth & rough, wet & dry, hot & cold, heavy & light, spongy, rubbery, bumpy, furry, bendy, sticky etc…
* A feely bag with objects for children to guess – toy car, lego, spoon, pine cone, small soft toy, feather, balloon, money
* pictures to cut out
* paper, pencils,scissors, glue
* Songs – Hear we go round the Mulberry Bush, Incy Wincy Spider
* Story – beautiful Hands

Lesson Outline
1. Introduction
2. Book & Discussion
3. Activities – feel objects, guess objects, draw hand, cut & paste pictures, sing
4. Review aims of lesson
5. Prayer

1) Introduction
Remind children about our five senses that God gave us. Today we will learn about hands and the sense of touch.

2) Book and Discussion
* Read the book and look at the pictures. The book explains two things about the hands; a detailed look at the parts of a hand and what we use our hands for.
* After reading get the children to do the things that the book explains.
* Ask what favourite things they like to touch and why. How does it feel when they touch?
What do they dislike touching?

3) Activities
* Feel objects – Give the children different objects to feel (soft & hard, smooth & rough, wet & dry, hot & cold, stiff & bendy, bumpy & flat, sticky & non-sticky, spongy, rubbery, furry, etc)
* Guess objects – Fill a feely bag with different objects (toy car, lego, spoon, pine cone, small soft toy, feather, balloon, money etc). Children take turns to guess what is inside.
* Draw hand – Children draw around each hand, colour, cut them out and stick them on A4 paper.
* Cut & paste -Cut out pictures of things to feel. Stick them on picture of girl raising her hand
* Sing – “Here we go round the Mulberry Bush” to show the things we do with our hands
– “Incy Wincy Spider”
* Extra story – Beautiful Hands. This story teaches that the most beautiful hands are those that are the most helpful.

5) Review the aims of the lesson
To understand that God gave us hands to do many different things
To appreciate the sense of touch

6) Prayer
Say a prayer together to thank God for our hands and all the things we can do with them.