LifeSong Sparks

January: Loving God Like Jesus Did

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Monthly Small Talk: Ways to engage your preschooler in learning about how to "love God like Jesus did."

Preparing Your Family for Christmas

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Have you thought about what you will teach your preschooler about this Christmas season? This website has an excellent advent Bible study the whole family can do together each day. Even the littlest ones can help answer the questions as you ask them aloud. This study is so great that I am incorporating it into my personal quiet time for the month of December.

December: God Gave Us Jesus!

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Monthly Small Talk: Ways to engage your preschooler in learning about how "God gave us Jesus."

Christmas Take-Home: Tools to help you start traditions and create memories with your preschooler this Christmas season.

Christmas Giving Project: Coats for Kids

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We are so excited that our preschoolers will be learning in December that God gave us Jesus! All month long, we are going to unpack the Christmas story for our preschoolers and teach them that God gave us Jesus! We thought this was an amazing opportunity to talk to our kids about giving to others. We can help others just like God helped us. We want to make a connection between how God gave us a gift to help us and how He wants us to give to others to help them.

We decided to focus on a physical need to which all young children can relate. You see, every child has been cold. And, most children have had the experience of putting on a nice, warm coat and getting toasty warm again. We thought that this would be an easy connection for young children and that they could feel empathy for another child who might not have a coat to keep them warm.

Our hope is that we can look back and celebrate with our preschoolers that we helped many kids who needed a warm coat this winter. And, that this would be just the first of many opportunities that our kids will have to experience the incredible gift of giving to others.

As you head into the Christmas season, really let it sink in that God gave us Jesus! Just think about what that means to us today, hundreds of years later. There is no greater gift!

November: Creation

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Monthly Small Talk: Ways to engage your preschooler in learning about creation.

Creation Investigation: Grab your child (and the magnifying glass he/she received in Sparks this week) and explore God's creation using these interest-sparking investigation cards.

Welcome to the Sparks Parent Portal

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This is the place to be to find out what your kids are learning about at PowerHouse. Check back for monthly resources including Small Talk, which provides talking points for engaging your kids in discussion about what they learn at PowerHouse. And take time to watch the monthly parent overview video, too!