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Lesson three - pages 6/7 Dream
painting
Aim for the book
To engage children in a discussion relating the
Christian understanding of God to everyday life.
Learning objectives
- To know the Bible story of Joseph and his
dreams.
- To be able to reflect on our own dreams.
- To understand that dreams can help us
to make sense of our lives.
Bible references
Matthew 1.20
Matthew 2.13-14
Background
Dreams and dreaming are powerful religious images.
Within the Bible, dreams are sometimes God's way of communicating
with people; they are times of religious experience; they can offer
guidance or foretell future events. Everyone dreams and wonders
about them: the aim of using this picture is to help pupils to reflect
on their own experience of dreaming.
Ways of using the picture
- Look closely at the picture and talk about what
is happening there. Which bits of the picture do you find most
interesting and why?
- Sometimes we wake up and feel wide awake but
sometimes we feel half asleep and heavy. Talk about and collect
together words that describe children's feelings about their dreams.
Do the children think some dreams feel heavy and some feel light?
- Do we only dream in our sleep? When do we dream
about our hopes and visions for the future?
Key words
- Dream
- Worry
- Happy
- Scared
- Real
- Nightmare
- True
- God
Activity one - dream talk
Writing paper and pencils
Collage paper
Glue and collage materials
Talk about having dreams.
Do you have dreams? Do you like your dreams?
Make a large collage of a child in bed.
Surround the child with bubbles containing descriptions of children's dreams.
How do you feel in your dreams?
Are you alone in your dreams?
Do you ever dream about God? How would you know?
Activity two - Joseph's dream
Video of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The story of Joseph's dreams in Genesis 37.5-10 and 42.6
Watch the extract from the video of Joseph's dreams
as a boy, and/or read the account from the Bible.
Talk about Joseph's dreams. What did the two
dreams mean?
Discuss whether Joseph's dreams really happened.
Do all dreams come true?
Activity three - difficult dreams
Writing materials
Drawing materials
Discuss whether the children have had bad dreams.
(Don't press them to talk about anything they don't want to.)
How do you feel in a bad dream?
Do you wake up feeling sad and weary?
Draw a picture of, or write about, a sad dream.
How can you share your dreams?
- Draw a picture
- Talk to someone
- Tell God
Put the sad dream pictures and writing in a book or box to revisit
later.
Activity checklist
Activity one - dream talk
Writing paper and pencils
Collage paper
Glue and collage materials
Activity two - Joseph's dream
Video of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The story of Joseph's dreams in Genesis 37.5-10, and
42.6
Activity three - difficult dreams
Writing materials
Drawing materials
Web site links
For further information, look
at the links section of this site.
http://web.onramp.ca/rivernen/build_dc.htm
http://users.erols.com/brddwolf/dreamcatcher.html
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Klee.html
© Marion Brooks, 2001
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