Need a creative summer snack for your kidmin program? For this summer treat, kids make and enjoy a “desert” dessert. Plus, they discover that God is with us everywhere!
Bible Story: Joseph is imprisoned. (Genesis 39–40)
Bible Verse: “For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)
Bible Point: God is with you everywhere.
Consider This
The Midianite merchants took Joseph about 300 miles from Dothan to Egypt. There, it’s unlikely that Joseph knew the Egyptian customs and language.
Genesis 39 details Joseph’s 11 years of enslavement. The phrase “The Lord was with Joseph” appears four times in this chapter. You’ll also read “The Lord gave him success…” and “[The Lord] showed him kindness and granted him favor.” Not an expected theme about such a hard chapter in Joseph’s life.
Note that Joseph’s coat—used as evidence of his “death” staged by his brothers—was now used as evidence against him by Potiphar’s wife.
Why It Matters
Joseph’s circumstances changed wildly throughout his life. Kids experience a life filled with changes, too. The U.S. Census Department estimates that the average person moves around 11 times in a lifetime! So it’s likely that kids at your church understand the discomfort of a new neighborhood or school.
And it’s easy to feel disconnected from God on a busy playing field, alone at night, or during a thunderstorm. Yet, just as God was faithfully beside Joseph in each situation, kids need to know that God will be with them everywhere they go. God’s faithful goodness goes with us!
Summer Snack for Kids
Supplies:
- Bible
- instant chocolate pudding cups (1 per person) *
- graham cracker crumbs (2 tablespoons per person) One 13.5-ounce box is enough for roughly 13 portions. *
- small pretzel sticks (4 per person) *
- gummy worms (1 per person)
- disposable spoons (1 per person)
- disposable bowls
- napkins
- hand wipes
Tips *
Gluten-free and dairy-free options for many snack ingredients are readily available at grocery stores. Use these ingredients or substitute with your own ideas. Communicate about and give special care to any serious allergies among kids. Read food labels carefully, as some foods are processed on equipment shared with allergens such as peanuts.
Easy Prep
Before kids arrive, crush graham crackers into crumbs. Separate the crumbs, pretzel sticks, and gummy worms into bowls.
Sandy Cups
Give each child a wipe to clean their hands. Then distribute spoons and napkins to each person.
Give each person a cup of chocolate pudding. Next, have everyone take a spoonful of pudding off the top and eat it.
Say: In the desert, we might see sand, cactus, shrubs, old sticks, and even snakes! Let’s build our own deserts inside these cups.
Have each child sprinkle two spoons of graham cracker crumbs atop the pudding. Then they can arrange four pretzels and one gummy worm in the “sand.”
