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Preschool Mission Project

Manipulatives, Music, & Missions

Collect food for the hungry, but before
donating it play with it.

The food collected and rhythm sticks.

Bible Connections:
“Help one another”
Galatians 5:13
“We work together”
1 Corinthians 3:9
“God gives food to us”
Psalm 136:9
“Daniel Chooses Good Food”
Daniel 1:3-20

After getting approval from the authority in charge of mission
projects in your church, notify your church that the preschool children
are collecting food for the hungry. This is especially helpful during the spring and summer when other organizations are less likely to collect food.
Give the three year-olds and younger the boxed foods, such as: breakfast cereal, macaroni and cheese, cake mixes, and crackers.
Demonstrate stacking the boxes, lining up boxes by size, and placing the boxes in paper grocery bags. In addition to using the Bible connections, tell the group that this food will be taken to give to people that don’t have enough money to buy food. Increase their vocabulary by talking about which boxes are heavy and which are light. You may need to explain that crackers and cereal may break if they are not handled gently.
Give the canned goods, and boxes that can be shaken without
disturbing the contents, such as rice, or macaroni and cheese to the three year-olds and older. Distribute a rhythm to stick to the children with the canned goods first, and if there are enough to those with boxes. Enjoy
making “music” with your food items. Emphasize sharing the instruments with each other and sharing food with the hungry, while making the Bible
connections.

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