Snowflakes!
Don't Be Afraid
Bible Verse: "Don't be afraid, for I am with you." Isaiah 41:10a
Printable Bible Phrase
Cards: Print out the cards onto card stock, cut them apart,
and send one home with each student. (Printing Problems?)
Teaching Concept: Children learn that God is in control
of everything. We don't have to be afraid because God has a plan
for our lives. He wants us to follow him.
Opening Activity
Make a Snowflake Frame with Bible Verse Picture
 Cut out a
frame from a half a sheet of construction paper leaving a one inch
border all the way around.
Have children glue on fun
foam snowflakes or snowflake stickers.
Foam Self-Adhesive Foam Snowflake Shapes from Amazon.com
How to make this poster:
 
Print out the Bible Verse
Picture and make copies. Cut them in half. Glue the picture
to the back of the frame. Add a magnetic strip to the back so the
children can hang them on their refrigerator. (Printing Problems?)
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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"Find the
Snowflakes that Match" Activity Sheet
Print out the Activity Sheet and make copies. Have your children see if they can find the matching snowflakes
The Lesson
Preparation: Before class print out pictures of snowflakes or
get a book from the library. Snow
Crystals.net web site has great pictures of snow crystals.
(See the picture above.) I just clicked on the pictures I wanted
and saved them to a file. The pictures are too big to print out
on a regular sheet of paper so you will have to change the size
in a photo editing program. I used a black and white laser printer
and the picture came out great. Sorry I can't include the pictures
for printout on this site because they are not copyrighted for commercial
publication, but you may print them out for your personal use. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
Have you ever looked at a snowflake really close? They are really
amazing aren't they? (If you have pictures, hand them out so the
children can see them.) Scientists tell us that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. They
have discovered that the shape of a snowflake is determined by the
journey it takes through the sky, the temperature, and how wet or
dry it is. Every snowflake starts forming around a speck of dust
that is floating in the air. A tiny water droplet attaches itself
to the dust and forms into a six sided ice crystal. The crystal
grows into a snowflake as it travels through the sky on its way
to earth. Since no two snowflakes take exactly the same journey
through the sky and experience the exact same conditions, no two
are exactly alike.
Let's pretend we are a little water droplets that have just attached
ourselves to a dust particle. Tell the children to pretend to be
snowflakes by grabbing onto a dust particle and forming into a six-sided
crystal. (Remind the children that snowflakes are very quiet, so
they can't make a sound while they are pretending.) Tell them to
pretend that they are being blown around in a cloud and they are gently bumping into other small snowflakes within the cloud.
Now they have broken free of the cloud and a strong wind is blowing
them up and around and over and over like they were on a roller
coaster ride. Now they start to fall down to the ground, slowly
falling because they are so light. They finally land softly and quietly on top of other snowflakes that have already
fallen to the ground. Have the children all sit back down in their
places and remind them that snowflakes are very quite.
Raise your hands if you ever feel like a snowflake that is being
blown all over the place, out of control, with no way to stop what
is happening to you? We all feel this way sometimes, don't we?
Sometimes it seems like everything is out of control or everything
is changing and we can't do anything about it. People get sick,
our friends leave us, and we can't stop it. Sometimes people we love
die and it seems like it just isn't fair.
Sometimes we feel like we are all alone or that we have nothing
to hold onto to keep us from being blown away. We feel like things
are happening that we have no control over.
But you don't have to feel this way. God wants you to know that
he is in control of everything. He made you and loves you. No matter
what happens to you or your family or friends, he is with you. He
is right there beside you. He will never leave you. Open your Bible
and read Joshua 1:5: "No one will be able to stand their
ground against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as
I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you." God
made this promise to Joshua and he makes that same promise to everyone
who follows him.
Sometimes you may think that God has forgotten about you or doesn't
care about you because he has let bad things happen in your life.
But God does care. The Bible tells us that God causes everything
to work together for the good of those who love God and are called
according to his purpose for them." Open your Bible and read
Romans 8:28. Bad things do happen, but if you are following God,
he promises to make good things come from those bad things.
God had a plan when he created you. And they are good plans. He
wants you to follow him. When you follow him, you are never alone.
Ask God to show you the journey he wants you to take through life
and he will guide you the whole way. You won't be like the snowflakes
blowing around wildly not knowing where you are going or where you
will land. You will know exactly where you are headed. You will
be heading in the direction God wants you to go. Someday when your
journey is over you will go to live with him where is has prepared
a place for you and has been waiting for you to join him and everyone
you love to live forever with him in heaven.
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Prayer
Father, Help us not to be afraid because you are always
with us. We never have to feel alone or abandoned because you will
never leave us. You knew us before we were born and have a special
plan for each one of us. Help us to always follow you. Amen
Crafts
Make a Snowflake with a Poem Craft
 Go to Danielle's Place Bible Themes - G for a
pattern and directions.
This is my snowflake, I made it myself.
If it were real, it would quickly melt.
It wouldn’t be around forever and ever,
But there is one thing that won’t leave us, no, never.
It is God’s Love for each of us all.
He will never leave us, He’s there when we call.
So if I feel sad or just need a friend,
I can always turn to God, on Him I can depend.”
by Carolyn White
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Make Wagon Wheel Noodle Snowflakes
 Before class spray paint
wagon wheel noodles with white spray paint. In class have the children
glue the noodles to a piece of blue paper. Write the memory verse
on the paper.
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Make Craft Stick Snowflakes - See the Winter Crafts Page for more craft ideas.
Make a "Don't be Afraid, for I Am with You" Snowflake
Mobile
 What you will need: Card stock, white yarn, scissors, tape
and paper punch.
How to make:
1. Print out the patterns and cut them out. Print out Cloud
and Snowflake Pattern 2 on the back of Cloud
and Snowflake Pattern 1 so that you will have a matching
picture on both sides of the paper. Print out the Snowflakes Pattern 2 on the back of Snowflakes
Pattern 1. (Printing Problems?)
2. Cut out all the pieces and punch holes in them.
3. Attach the snowflakes to the cloud with white yarn of different
lengths.
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Make Colorful Snowflakes
If your children are second grade or older, you can make snowflakes
for them. ChristianCrafters.com has some free snowflake patterns and a book you can order to get
more snowflakes with Christian symbols in them.
You can also find
patterns on Dave's
Paper Snowflake Patterns web site.
How to Print or Copy these instructions.
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Activities
Bible Verse Review
Print a separate word from the Bible
verse on each snowflake picture you printed out or cut snowflake
shapes and write the words on them. Tape the snowflakes on the wall
or board in random order. Call on one child at a time to come up
to the wall and work on putting the words in order. Give each child
ten seconds to help put the verse in order. When the verse is correctly
put in order, mix them up again and start all over until each child
has had a turn.
Act Out a Poem (Preschool)
Snowflakes
(Written by Carolyn Warvel)
Snowflakes, snowflakes blowing all around. (Stand in a circle holding hands and walk around in a circle.)
Blowing, blowing round and round.
Snowflakes, snowflakes falling down. (Slowly crouch down as you walk in a circle.)
Falling, falling without a sound.
Snowflakes, snowflakes on the ground. (Sit down on the floor.)
Growing, growing into mounds.
3. Falling Snowflake
(Written by Carolyn Warvel)
Sing to “Hush little baby”
Falling snowflake, where will you go?
Blowing, blowing to and fro,
Landing softly in the snow.
When I see you, I can know,
God is with me and loves me so.
He will never leave me or let me go.
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Comments
We would love to hear your comments about this lesson. If you
have done this lesson with your class we would love to hear how
it went, if you changed anything, added anything, what age you taught
and was it appropriate. Any comments that would help other teachers
would be greatly appreciated and posted here for everyone to read.
I did the lesson "Snowflakes" with my
4 yr. old - 3rd grade class. They all really enjoyed learning
how snowflakes are formed. Some even decided that they didn't want
to catch snowflakes in their mouths anymore. However, when I went
to print out the snowflakes for the craft they didn't line up. We
ended up cutting out 2 copies of each for each child and they glued
them together, back to back. Some children took their snowflakes
home and were going to color them, others liked them being white.
I get all my lessons from Danielle's Place. We usually do the lesson
and then the craft that goes along with it. Children always love
doing crafts and so do I. Sue Haviland
Hi, I just want to let you know that the snowflake
lesson turned out great! Actually, I had to improvise a lot because
at the last minute my first through third grade class became an
anybody-third-grade-and-under class! I didn't have enough of the
poems copied to glue macaroni wheel snowflakes to and I knew the
younger kids wouldn't be able to handle making the beaded snowflakes, so
we drew a simple snowflake shape in glue on blue construction paper
and glued the beads to it. They were very pretty! All the kids seemed
proud of their artwork. We also enjoyed acting like snowflakes in
different types of snow storms. We took turns calling out different
types of storms to pretend. (I was lucky that it was a warm day
and we could go outside to do this!) I had gotten books from the
library that had close-up photos of snowflakes. We were all amazed
at the beauty and complexity of God's miniature creation, the snowflake. Debra
I did the snowflake lesson with my Junior Church
Class last week ages 2 - 5. We started the lesson by reading a book
from the library called "Millions of Snowflakes" by Mary McKenna Siddals.
We acted out the pages as we read the book and then went into acting
out a snowflakes journey to earth. The children loved this part
and were then ready to settle down for the rest of the lesson. For
the craft I enlarged the poem craft on blue construction
paper which made it nicer for the children to paste their painted
wagon wheels to, to make snowflakes. I feel this lesson helped them
realize that no matter how each one of them are different from
each other, the Lord made them as He did the Snowflakes and cares
about what happens to each of them. Thank you so much for your great
ideas! Marleen Sooy
I have a 4 through 5 years class on Wednesday nights at church.
One thing that I added when doing the snowflake lesson was a snowball
fight using bags of white cotton balls. I have mostly 4-year-old
boys, so I had a rule that you were to stay on your knees to keep
activity at a slower pace. The children loved it. You would have
thought it was real snow! Mary
We had a lot of fun with this lesson and I did it pretty much as
outlined. For a snack, we made home-made snow cones that the kids
made themselves. We also made TONS of paper snowflakes and I used
them for a border for a large bulletin board. We also talked about
how unique snowflakes are and how we are also all unique. One last
thing we did was to go around the class and thank God for anything
that began with "snow" (snowflakes, snowmen, snow forts,
etc. One got silly and added "s-no school".) Teri Couture
Hello, I just wanted to let you know we did this lesson on snowflakes, and it was a lot of fun. We did go to another site and made patterns for some very beautiful snowflakes, they had easy ones for younger children and harder ones for the older children. The children really
enjoyed acting like snowflakes. Thank you so much for all you do. Christina Penley
Last Sunday I did the lesson on snowflakes, the kids loved it. They loved the part where they pretended to be snowflakes.Thanks for all the great ideas. Stacey
I used your Snowflakes lesson plan for my yoth group (Grades 3 - 5). The children enjoyed pretending to be snowflakes and learned about God’s love for them when they did the “Snowflake with a Poem” craft. This was easy to do and can be done by anyone in this age group. Glenda
I did the lesson on snowflakes. It was a good lesson. I broadened the lesson though. I had my daughters cut out snowflakes each one being different. I made some with hearts in the center myself representing the love God had for us. I did the lesson that God has a plan for us from what your lesson. I did add the fact that each snowflake is different. And told my class that the snowflake is like we are. They are different on the outside but on the inside we are all the same and that God loves each and every one of us. We need to trust in him and remember he is always with us. The children loved the lesson and were very interested in the formation of snowflakes. I did do the tortilla project and gave each of my kids a tortilla shell and told them to cut snowflakes out of the shells. I think it would have worked better if the shells would have been put in the microwave with a moist napkin to give them a chance to cut them out before they got hard on them. This was a great lesson. The day I did it there was a little snow. I think the next time it snows the children will look at it differently. Thanks for another great lesson. Melanie
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