In the belly of the whale......

    One day God told Jonah, "Go to the city of Nineveh! Its people have done wrong. Tell them I will punish them."

But Jonah was very scared. He ran away.

    Jonah went to sea. He jumped on a ship that took him far away from Nineveh.

But God sent a great storm.

Waves splashed into the ship and the sailors were afraid.

But Jonah lay asleep below deck.

"wake up, Jonah!" called the captain. "Help us or we'll all drown!"

"It's my fault," said Jonah. I'm running away from God - that's why He sent this storm."

"Toss me into  the sea," Jonah told the sailors.

"Then the storm will stop."

The moment they threw Jonah into the water the storm stopped.

Down into the swirling water sank Jonah.

Then - gulp! Something swallowed him!

It was huge, huge fish!

Jonah was inside the fish for three days and nights. "Help me Lord!" he prayed.

At last the fish spat Jonah out on to a beach.

"Go to Nineveh!" God told Jonah again. Tell the people I'm going to punish them."

This time Jonah did as God said.

He went to Nineveh and warned the people "we're very sorry," they said. "we will change."

 

From Jonah's story we learnt that we should obey God and obey parents. If we have disobeyed them we should ask sorry for what we have done.

After the story we learnt a song .

Who Did (Swallow Jonah)

 

Who did, who did

Who did, who did

Who did swallow

Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo (3)

Who did swallow Jonah

Who did swallow Jonah

Who did swallow Jonah down?  

Whale did, whale did

Whale did, whale did

Whale did swallow

Jo, Jo, Jo, Jo (3)

Whale did swallow Jonah

Whale did swallow Jonah

Whale did swallow Jonah down

 

Then we moved on to the craft.

We made this fun puppet to illustrate the story of Jonah and the Whale. 

Reference picture to draw Jonah and fish.

Materials Required:

1. Clothes clip.

2. Chart Paper (Preferably blue or grey)

3. Scissors and glue

4. pencil and crayons

5. Googly eyes

 Procedure:

1.    Cut out a whale shape from your blue or grey chart paper.

2.    Cut out a Jonah shape from your white chart paper and color him in.

3.    Cut your whale in half horizontally.

4.    Glue your googly eye on your whale (or draw the eye on with marker).

5.    Glue each half of the whale to the clothespin.  (Make sure that both halves line up.  Also make sure that you glue only the edge of each half-whale to one half of the clothespin.)

6.    Glue Jonah on the reverse side of the clothespin, so that he peeks out when you open the clothespin

 

 Now it looks like the whale is eating Jonah (Jonah in the belly of the whale).

Our kids enjoyed the fish they made.

Reference verse:

Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17

Memory verse:

Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Ephesians 6:1