This Is God’s House

 

Material

  • A toy house

Steps

  1. Show the house.
  2. Explain to the children that the church is like a house.
  3. Recite the nursery rhyme and make the gestures.
  4. Repeat slowly a few times.
  5. Encourage the children to join you in doing the gestures.

 

Nursery Rhyme

  • This is God’s house

(Form a roof with your hands.)

  • Where holy people gather

(Close the roof as if to pray.)

  • Here are the little children

(Show the children with the finger.)

  • Who sing for God who hears them

(Point to the sky and touch your ears.)