Fruit of the Spirit lesson

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Yesterday I was feeling the hankering to do a little school with the boys. When I say this I mean like creative lesson planning and activities around a specific theme. I don't often have this kind of hankering because it requires effort and some planning LOL. But it really is so much fun. So while they watched their spanish lesson on DVD (La Clase Divertida), I got online and googled "fruit of the Spirit preschool" and found a ton of great resources.  Here is where I got a lot of stuff. I had planned in September that our Bible focus this year would be the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23). I would teach them each fruit and use different bible stories to illustrate each fruit in action. Great ideas, but it never really happened. So yesterday we made this cute little fruit basket craft which was very simple but involved scissors and glue which my boys love. And Luke actually really enjoyed coloring his fruit and basket. He colored everything himself except the bottom part of the basket. He's really improved at coloring in the last month!

Josh loves "scissoring" he had fun cutting up the watermelon and his basket page LOL. I glued it back together for him :) I also helped him color.

What was nice was that while we were coloring we talked about each fruit. I tried to define them in a way that a 2 and 4 year old can grasp (not easy BTW!). It was a bit easier talking about examples of how to show the fruit. We talked about a few of the bible stories I had wanted to use for love. I just told them the stories as we colored and cut and glued. For the idea of "Love your Neighbor" I told them the Good Samaritan (based on Luke 10:25-37). For "Love your enemy" we did David and Saul (based on 1 Samuel Chapters 18 - 24). Then we learned a new song - the fruit of the Spirit song:

We watched the video and then I quick looked up the chords and we sang and played it together. We've been singing the song a lot since yesterday and Luke has almost all the fruit memorized already! Looking forward to our next fruit lesson!