Category: Solo JAM Sessions

To be age appropriate, we gloss over Good Friday and head straight into Easter. New Life is the focus here. Jesus raised from the dead and gave us new life. With more time at home, you can dive deeper in and we’ve provided videos at the bottom to help you with that.

Focusing on new life, we make an Easter Egg card. We use tearing paper which is a really great preschool skill using fine motor-skills and bilateral movement.

We sing about Jesus being alive and we use fun large motor-skill motions.

Celebrate Easter with this great playlist.

In Zechariah 9, it’s prophesied that the king and savior will ride into Jerusalem on a donkey. Palm Sunday fulfills that prophecy. Jesus’ popularity had been growing. People had heard about his miracles. So, when Jesus rides in on a donkey, they think great – now he’ll kill all the Roman soldiers and we’ll no longer be oppressed! Woo! While they celebrated him, they didn’t really understand him, which is why in just a few short days they turn against him. With the benefit of hindsight, we see that him being king and savior was not a political or racial ideology, but an act of love for the entire human race. He offers salvation to each and every one of us.

We make a cute palm branch and remember to celebrate and respect our King of Kings.

We learn and sing about Hosanna, a word of admiration and praise.

We celebrate Jesus’ reign with the following playlist for you.

Check out these Palm Sunday books.

Being afraid is normal and healthy. Our body and mind respond to dangerous situations to help us keep safe. Being brave doesn’t mean we’re not afraid, it means we move forward even through fear.

Art is therapeutic. As we learn about God being with Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, we learn about him being with us as well.

Deep breathing is also therapeutic. We did breathing with our music. We breathed in to “when I am afraid” and out to “I will trust in you.”

Music can be comforting, which is why we’ve made the following playlist for you.

Can you imagine never seeing rain and just hearing about it? How would you describe rain to someone? Noah and never seen or felt rain, and, yet, God told him it was going to rain, and rain so much that the earth would flood. Oh, and, he needed to build a really big boat. And fill it with animals. I can’t imagine being told all of that and just having to believe it. But Noah did. He had hope in God and in his plan. Even when he didn’t understand it. Even when people made fun of him.

Color and mixing colors is just so fun. The kids had to Hope that mixing the colors was going to make new colors.

We do lots of motions with our songs to strengthen our large motor skills.

Music is such a great way to learn concepts, which is why we’ve made the following playlist for you.

Today we concentrate on how Moses had Faith when faced with an impossible situation. He could not see the outcome but absolutely believed that God had a plan. And, wow, did he. The parting of the Red Sea is an unexpected but perfectly problem solving miracle.

This cute Red Sea is a great reminder that God cares about us and has a plan for us even if we can’t imagine what that plan might be.

We sang a fun song about what a big God we serve.

Music is such a great way to learn concepts, which is why we’ve made the following playlist for you.

The Prodigal Son really really messed up. He was selfish, entitled, and ungrateful. And, yet, his father welcomed him home with a party. And that’s how God welcomes us.

Welcome Home is probably what the Prodigal Son never imagined but secretly longed to hear. We make a fence gate with a welcome home sign to remind us of God’s unconditional love for us.

We sang a fun song about Grace.

Music is such a great way to learn concepts, which is why we’ve made the following playlist for you.

Here are some book suggestions on grace and the Prodigal Son.

We use the example of a swing. *This is why they made a swing craft.

We ask them if they are on the swing and someone else has been waiting for a tune, what should they do? They should consider how they would feel if the roles were reversed and ultimately decide to let the other person have a turn. If you have a park or playground near you, this would be a fantastic opportunity to try this out!

This swing is too cute! We use lots of fine motor skills in this craft: coloring, gluing, threading. All of these are great for the development of your preschooler.

In our Music Session, we sang one of our favorite songs and we took turns playing instruments. This sharing reiterates the lesson we just learned.

Music is such a great way to learn concepts, which is why we’ve made the following playlist for you.