Bible Activities for 3- to 5-Year Olds

Older preschool includes 3 or 4-year-olds through 4 or 5-year olds, depending on how the church organizes its classes and when the child's birthday falls.

Mary and Martha

Which is more important—making sure everything is right when you have company in your home, or listening to Jesus? Mary knew already, and her sister Martha learned. This lesson highlights the event that featured Mary’s example and Jesus’ instructions to Martha. Even preschoolers can learn from this episode in the sisters’ lives.

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Zacchaeus

Zacchaeus Met Jesus

A hated tax collector named Zacchaeus was a changed man after Jesus spent time with him. Why and how did Zacchaeus’ life change? This lesson focuses the meeting Zacchaeus had with Jesus. After meeting Jesus, Zacchaeus did things for people that surely caused them not to hate him anymore.

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Jesus Taught About Giving

Preschoolers as well as adults can learn a great deal about giving from the example set by a poor widow who gave her two last coins to God. That event, as well as Jesus’ statements about what the woman did, is the focus of this lesson.

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Jesus Taught About Forgiveness

Can preschoolers understand what forgiveness means? Jesus’ parable of the lost son will help them begin to understand it. That parable is the focus of this lesson.

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Jesus Taught About Prayer

How should we pray? Even preschoolers can learn from the Model Prayer Jesus gave to His disciples. That prayer is the focus of this lesson.

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Jesus Taught About God’s Love

In this lesson, preschoolers will learn about Nicodemus and the questions he had for Jesus on the night he and Jesus talked. They’ll also learn about the important answers Jesus gave.

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The Wise Men Worship the Boy Jesus

Wise Men Told About Jesus

As a young child, Jesus was visited by wise men who traveled many miles to come and worship Him. This lesson will inform and remind preschoolers about the wise men’s important visit and what we can learn from their experience and example.

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Shepherds Told About Jesus

In this lesson, older preschoolers will hear, or hear again, how some shepherds who were keeping their sheep near the place where Jesus was born learned about Him and His arrival. Quickly they made their way to Bethlehem to see Him.

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Joseph Told About Jesus

In this lesson, older preschoolers will learn how Joseph, the man whom Mary was going to marry, learned that the baby Mary growing inside Mary’s womb was God’s Son.

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