Feeding 5,000 Sunday School Lesson for Kids -
Jesus Takes Our Little and Makes it A Lot
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids how Jesus uses what we give Him to help others.
Needed: Bibles, strips of paper, snack
Intro Game: Delivering the Fish and Loaves
Divide students into two or teams for a relay race. Place a pile of paper strips at the other end of the play area in front of each team.
The first student from each team runs down to the pile, grabs a slip of paper, and hands it to the next person in line, who then does the same thing. The team continues running until each team member has retrieved and is holding a slip of paper. The first team to finish wins.
Snack Activity: No Leftovers?!
Bring a snack in to share with the class. It could be anything – pretzels, candy, fruit cups, doughnuts, etc.
Before passing the snack out, ask students, If I give you all of this snack, will I have any leftover? (No. If you give it all to the students, you won’t have any leftover.)
Okay. Well, I’ll give you all some of the snack, anyway.
(Pass out the snack and let children eat. When they’re finished, tell them to pass in their leftovers. They won’t have any.)
You mean you ate the snack and don’t have any leftovers? Well, this is not the way it happened in the Bible. Let’s read a story about a time when Jesus gave people a snack and had lots left over.
Lesson
Read John 6:1-15.
How many people were there in the crowd? (5,000 men, plus women and children.)
How much food did Jesus have? (5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.)
Can 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish feed more than 5,000 people? (No.)
Then, how did Jesus feed them all? (He did a miracle to make more food out of the 5 loaves and 2 fish.)
And then, the Bible says that Jesus still had leftovers afterward.
He started with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, fed more than 5,000 people, and ended up with more food than He started with!
This is still what Jesus does for us. The boy gave Jesus what he had. It was just a little bit, but Jesus was able to make more out of it. If we give what we have to Jesus, even if it’s just a little bit, He can use it in great ways.
Let’s think of some things that we can give to Jesus.
What can you give Jesus? (Suggestions include money in the offering, giving our time and talents to Jesus by helping at church or helping other people, giving Jesus our hearts when we love Him and do what He says, etc.)
(Teachers should also share how they give and help in the church, including teaching.)
When we give what we have to Jesus, we have faith that He can use it to help other people, just like Jesus used the boy’s 5 loaves and 2 fish.
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