Prepare a safe location with something like a plastic tablecloth underneath. Provide covering for clothing with something like Dad's old shirt. Use washable paints in safe containers. Sponges held with clothespins as well as brushes make good painting instruments. For a young child use one color at a time. One possibility: Provide an 11x17 piece of construction paper, a small piece of sponge held by a clothespin, one color of paint, and a tag board animal shape related to a lesson. Have the child place the shape on the paper and sponge paint around it. Move the shape a few times and paint around it each time.

Pantomime:  act out events of stories or help children act out events of stories

Paper plates:  make faces; set table; use upside down as a drum

Parallel play:  normal for preschoolers, especially two year olds, provide several of the same items

Pegboard:  hammer, nails (golf tees in Styrofoam)

Pictures, flannel graph:  Provide pictures related to the lessons whenever possible, post them on the wall, make a collage, use them with a verse, use in guided centers, use with stories at times. Do not try to provide pictures of Jesus or representations of God. The Old Testament was careful to forbid this kind of representation, and it detracts from each individual's own picture of God's greatness and majesty. We cannot accurately portray God, but we can see His handiwork all around us.