![]() ![]() If you use a fishing pole, you have to have bait. What do you need to catch fish? (Let the children respond.) You need a net or a fishing pole. We tell people about Jesus so that they too want to follow him too. What does it mean to be a "fisher of men?" Instead of catching fish we catch men. When we follow Jesus we also learn how to be "fishers of men". They became Jesus' disciples and learned from Jesus how to become "fishers of men". The fishermen left their boats and everything they had and followed Jesus. They knew how to catch fish, but men? How could they not follow a man who seemed to know everything. This sounded really exciting to the fishermen. He told the fishermen that if they followed him, he would make them fishers of men. Then Jesus did something else really amazing. They thought that there had to be something very special about this man Jesus. How did Jesus know where the fish were? They had looked all night long and couldn't find them. Soon they caught so many fish that their boats were beginning to sink. Simon Peter called to his friends in the other boat to come and help him. And when they pulled up their nets this time, they were so heavy with fish the nets started to rip. Simon Peter and his friends were very tired and hungry but they did what Jesus said and went back out into lake again and threw out their nets just where Jesus told them to throw it. They fished all night and all they got were some dirty nets.Īs they were cleaning their nets the next morning Jesus came up to Simon Peter, who was one of the fishermen and told him to take his boat back out into the lake and throw out his net again. They threw their nets in the water and pulled them back out many times, but there just didn't seem to be any fish. All night long they sailed their boats from one side of the lake to the other trying to catch some fish. This one night, though, they weren't having much luck. ![]() They used a net and would scoop up lots of fish all at one time. They didn't use bait to catch their fish. They fished just about every day and they were probably pretty good at it. Our story today is about some men who were fishermen. Or do your parents do that part? Then if you catch a fish, you have to cut it open and take the guts out. You have to pull the worm apart and squish it onto the hook. How many of you have ever gone fishing? What did you use as bait? Did you use night crawlers like these? Did you catch any fish? (Give each child a chance to tell about their fishing experience.) Fishing can be fun, can't it? It can also be kind of disgusting. If you don’t want to make the paper fishing poles or use drinking straws, you can use the fishing pole patterns.Ĭopyright 2000-2021, Digital by Design, Inc. Insert the fishing pole into the slits on the background paper. Give each child a brown tube or drinking straw and help them tie the string to the end of the "fishing pole". Punch a hole at the top, tie a piece of yarn or string to the hole, and tape a paper bobber to the string above the "fish kid". In class have the children color the "fish kids" patterns and bobbers. Cut pieces of paper into 7.5" x 7.5" squares and then roll the squares into a tube shape starting at one corner rolling to the opposite corner. Print out the "Follow Me" background pattern and cut slits where indicated with a box cutter.Ģ. Kids and bobbers patterns and cut them out. ![]() "Fishers of Men" Bible Verse Activity Sheet and Color Sheetsīrown Paper or Drinking Straws, Blue Paper, Crayons or Markers, Yarn or String, Box Cutter, Hole Punch, and ![]()
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