Due to some confusion on the rota, I had to help out at the last minute with the week on the battle of Jericho. This is what you can do with precisely 10 minutes of preparation:
Welcome the children, and give them a drink and a snack.
Get out a Duplo baseboard, and tell the children you need some help with building a wall for this week's story. Can they bring you some Duplo pieces from the box, and you'll build a wall together?
If they don't fetch very many pieces, get them to bring the box closer, so you can get pieces out yourself.
Build a nice wall with no doors or windows.
Point out that the wall has no doors of windows - how could you get through it? In this week's story, the Israelites (God's people) had to get into a city that had huge walls all the way round.
Tell the story of the battle of Jericho from memory (without the chance to check the details first!). Count to seven together for the number of times the Israelites marched around Jericho ("Who can count to seven with me?").
Knock the Duplo wall down at the appropriate moment in the story (they joined in with knocking it down, too, with great glee).
Get out some A4 sheets of thin card and some stickers. Roll the card up into trumpets and let them decorate them with the stickers and crayons.
Play with: construction toys and musical toys.
Phew!
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