The Rock
This is a 4-day study of the Rock, Jesus Christ, and our relationship to and in Him. There are crafts, journal responses, and music integrated into the study. This page gives an overview of the study, as well as materials needed. We used it during the Feast of Tabernacles, but it could be easily adapted to a VBS.
We printed off the lessons for all of the children, then added some notebooking pages from notebooking.com and some word finds from puzzlemaker.com. We personalized the set of lessons for each child by making individual covers using wordles and printing photos of each child on some of the notebooking pages. Then we bound them with a spiral binder. There are lots of options available to make this set of lessons fun and memorable!
Enjoy!
We printed off the lessons for all of the children, then added some notebooking pages from notebooking.com and some word finds from puzzlemaker.com. We personalized the set of lessons for each child by making individual covers using wordles and printing photos of each child on some of the notebooking pages. Then we bound them with a spiral binder. There are lots of options available to make this set of lessons fun and memorable!
Enjoy!
The Rock
Lesson One: Choose a Rock
Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 32:4
Extra Verses: Psalm 61:2; Psalm 95:1
Devotion synopsis: Choose a rock, put it in a bottle, fill the bottle with sand.
Make sure the rock is visible. We must choose God - the only true God. He
must be in our lives (bottle) before we fill our lives with activities (sand).
He must be visible in our lives to everyone around us.
Music: I Will Call Upon the Lord; In Christ Alone
Craft: Choose a rock, put in bottle, fill with sand
Materials Needed: rocks, bottles, colored sand, shellac
Lesson Two: Mighty to Save
Memory Verse: Psalm 18:2-3
Extra Verses: Psalm 71:3; Psalm 62:2; Psalm 94:22; Exodus 33:22
Devotion synopsis: A rock can be used for defense or for offense. Our God is
both.
Music: A Mighty Fortress, God of Angel Armies
Craft: Using arrowheads, make a bookmark.
Materials Needed: arrowheads, card stock paper, markers, ribbon, clear contact
paper, wire
Lesson Three: We Won’t Be Shaken
Memory Verse: Matthew 7:24
Extra Verses: Ephesians 2:20-22; Isaiah 28:16
Devotion synopsis: Build on the rock concepts of days 1 and 2; add the idea of
building on Christ, our firm foundation.
Music: Sandy Land; Wise Man, Foolish Man; Solid Rock; How Firm a Foundation
Craft: Building with marshmallows on pudding, crushed oreos, brittle
Craft Two: Glue bottle from Day 1 on flat rock
Materials Needed: plates, marshmallows, pudding, oreos, brittle, felt, hot glue
gun, flat rocks, paint pens for memory verse on rock
Lesson Four: Lively Stonework
Memory Verse: 1 Peter 2:5
Extra Verses: Isaiah 51:1; Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:8; I Kings 6:7;
I Corinthians 3:9
Devotion synopsis: Building on the discussions of the first three days,
explore the ramifications to us today.
Music: God is Building a House
Craft One: Find verse/example of choosing God’s way over our own.
Craft Two: Glue photo onto flat rock, add verse/scripture reference, glue ribbon
to back to turn into a wall hanging.
Materials needed: hot glue gun, flat rocks, ribbon, photos, paint pens/Sharpies
Lesson One: Choose a Rock
Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 32:4
Extra Verses: Psalm 61:2; Psalm 95:1
Devotion synopsis: Choose a rock, put it in a bottle, fill the bottle with sand.
Make sure the rock is visible. We must choose God - the only true God. He
must be in our lives (bottle) before we fill our lives with activities (sand).
He must be visible in our lives to everyone around us.
Music: I Will Call Upon the Lord; In Christ Alone
Craft: Choose a rock, put in bottle, fill with sand
Materials Needed: rocks, bottles, colored sand, shellac
Lesson Two: Mighty to Save
Memory Verse: Psalm 18:2-3
Extra Verses: Psalm 71:3; Psalm 62:2; Psalm 94:22; Exodus 33:22
Devotion synopsis: A rock can be used for defense or for offense. Our God is
both.
Music: A Mighty Fortress, God of Angel Armies
Craft: Using arrowheads, make a bookmark.
Materials Needed: arrowheads, card stock paper, markers, ribbon, clear contact
paper, wire
Lesson Three: We Won’t Be Shaken
Memory Verse: Matthew 7:24
Extra Verses: Ephesians 2:20-22; Isaiah 28:16
Devotion synopsis: Build on the rock concepts of days 1 and 2; add the idea of
building on Christ, our firm foundation.
Music: Sandy Land; Wise Man, Foolish Man; Solid Rock; How Firm a Foundation
Craft: Building with marshmallows on pudding, crushed oreos, brittle
Craft Two: Glue bottle from Day 1 on flat rock
Materials Needed: plates, marshmallows, pudding, oreos, brittle, felt, hot glue
gun, flat rocks, paint pens for memory verse on rock
Lesson Four: Lively Stonework
Memory Verse: 1 Peter 2:5
Extra Verses: Isaiah 51:1; Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:8; I Kings 6:7;
I Corinthians 3:9
Devotion synopsis: Building on the discussions of the first three days,
explore the ramifications to us today.
Music: God is Building a House
Craft One: Find verse/example of choosing God’s way over our own.
Craft Two: Glue photo onto flat rock, add verse/scripture reference, glue ribbon
to back to turn into a wall hanging.
Materials needed: hot glue gun, flat rocks, ribbon, photos, paint pens/Sharpies