Guess What You Hear???

This is a fun activity in which children guess which sounds are made by different items, and learn that Jesus knows exactly who we are when we pray, and the activity only takes a few minutes!

Materials:Whistle, Harmonica, Stapler, Bell, Baby rattle, Any other familiar item that makes a nice sound

Put all of your noisy items in a bag, have your child close his eyes as you take one item at a time out from the bag, and make a noise with it! (Be sure to have your child face the other way, I know mine is a PEEKER!) After making the noise, place the item back into the bag, and then let him open his eyes. Then ask him if he knows what the item was by the sound he heard. Let him know if he was right or wrong before going to the next item in the bag.

Explain to your child that sometimes we can tell what something is just be the sound it makes! At other times, just hearing the sound is not enough. We need to see it also! But when we PRAY, we don't need to worry about how we sound, or if God will hear us. He will know who it is, because Jesus takes our prayers to the Father. We can pray and be sure that God will hear and answer our prayers.

The Bible says, "And we can be confident that He will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will. And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for." 1 John 5: 14,15.