Daniel Makes Good Choices

Daniel Bible Lesson with Crafts and Bible Games for Children's Ministry

 

“Daniel Makes a Good Choice” Bible Lesson – Children discover how Daniel stood strong and chose to do what was right, even when it wasn’t easy. This lesson includes a variety of crafts, games, and printable activity sheets, available in The Resource Room or as an instant digital download, with flexible options to easily adapt for kindergarten through 5th grade.

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Reinforce the story of Daniel with this simple, hands-on activity. Children enjoy picking their favorite vegetables and gluing them onto “Daniel’s Plate” while learning about his choice to follow God. This activity encourages conversation about the foods they like and what Daniel might have chosen to eat.

A printable pattern are available to members of The Resource Room and as an instant digital download. It includes the complete lesson with all the material on this page.

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Challenge older children with this fun “mystery name” activity. Students will enjoy matching the pictures at the top of the page to the ones below, then write the corresponding letters above each vegetable to discover Daniel’s new name. Have them look up Daniel 1:7 to check their answer.

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Making Choices Side Walk Game

Children of all ages will love this active game! Take them outside to enjoy the beautiful weather and learn the consequences of making good and bad choices with this fun sidewalk game.

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Help children apply Daniel’s example with this “What Would Jesus Do?” coloring sheet. As they color, talk about how Daniel chose to do what was right and how they can make good choices by asking, “What would Jesus do?”

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Play Vegetable-themed Games

1. Name the Vegetables Game -Start your lesson with this fun introduction activity. Show students the sheets and see how many vegetables they can name. Then explain, “In today’s lesson, a young man faced a big decision—eat the king’s rich food or choose vegetables and water to honor his beliefs."

Ask, “What would you choose? Why?”

If you want to guide them a little more, you could also ask:
“Do you think it would be easy or hard to make that choice? Why?”

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2. In class show your students the vegetable pictures and see how many they can name.

 

2. Memory Game

1. You can also use the pictures to play a memory game.  Show your children the pictures of the vegetables one at a time naming them as you place them on a table or tape them to a blackboard.

2. Cover the pictures and then ask your children to name the vegetables that were displayed. If they name all of them, start again and add more pictures.

 

3. I'm Thinking of a Vegetable Game

Show your students all the pictures of the vegetables.

Select one student to pick a vegetable from the pictures, but tell him or her not to let anyone know what vegetable they are selecting except for the teacher.  You may have to take them out of the room for the student to tell you which one they select.

Have the other students take turns asking the children who selected the vegetable yes and no questions to try and find out what vegetable the student selected.  Tell your students that they may not ask a color question or anything about how it is spelled.  They may ask something like, "Can you find this vegetable on pizza?" or "Can this vegetable be long and skinny?", or "Is the vegetable hard on the outside?" etc.

 

 

This engaging rebus activity helps children memorize Daniel 1:4. Each cartoon picture represents part of the verse, giving visual cues that make the words easier to remember.

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2. In class hand out the sheet and point to each picture and discuss what each picture represents from the Bible verse. Tell your children to study the pictures a little longer and then you will see how much of the Bible verse they can recall.

3. Remove the Bible verse sheets and show your children each picture and ask them to tell you what part of the verse it represents.  Write down everything they say even if it isn’t correct.  When the children have told you everything they remember, show them the sheet again to compare their answers.

 

 

Help children apply Daniel’s example with this “Good Choices” chart. Students look at everyday situations—“Forgive or Be Mad,” “Be Happy or Sad,” and “Obey or Disobey”—and decide which choice they would make. Use it to spark discussion about making choices that please God.

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Use this fun memory card game to review the Bible verse.

What you will need:

Cardstock

 

How to make:

1. Before class print out the Bible verse cards onto card stock.

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2. Write one word from the verse on the back of each card. For each word card you will need two other cards that are blank.

How to play:

1. To play place a set of three cards in front of your students.  Have a child pick one of the three cards to see if he can find the one with the word on the back. If he doesn't choose the right one, have the next child try, or give him a second chance.

2. When a child has picked a card with a  word, tape the word up on the board and then go to the next set of three cards and have the next child try to guess which card the word is written on. Each time you tape a word on the board, read the words that you have already taped up.

3. When you are done playing remind your children that they all made a choice as to which card they picked. Some of them made the right choice and some of them didn't. This was just a game so it didn't really matter what choice they made. But life isn't a game, and it is important that they make good choices.

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