The Prodigal Younger Son

ABC's of Jesus' Life: Y is for Young

The youngest so's decisions in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

These lessons can be used without the alphabet theme.

Just consider them an update with new ideas and printables to teach the Life of Jesus!

I designed this Trip Strip to be a timeline. This one shown has lines for the students to write about each event. There is another worksheet without the writing space. These can easily be used for mixed age groups. Cut and glue the pictures on the bottom to the correct number on the strip. Color and black & white are included.
The Trip Strips can be downloaded here.

(They are not included in the application pack.)

This is an updated file for the Trip Strip. Everything is the same as the above, except the first two pictures are not of the outside. Click here to download this version. 

This is an easy-to-use accordion. Print, fold and use! The father runs to his son when he sees him coming home. For more fun, students can add to the background by drawing or adding stickers.

Click here to download the accordion.

(This is not included in the application pack.)

This cut and glue pig is super easy to print and put together. I printed on color paper as shown on the right. It can be printed black & white for the students to color. They can add some brown for mud, too. This is not in the application and can be downloaded here. 

The kids love color-by-number and mazes!

These Event Cards can be used as smaller visuals and they can be shuffled for the student to re-tell the events and lay them in order. The same full-page size visuals and pictures-to-color can be downloaded below.

There are alphabet mazes and worksheets included. These are half-sheets and can be used in Interactive Notebooks. Click here to see a free video on how to make and use Interactive Notebooks.  There is a color-by-number, pig maze (not shown) and a set of 5- and 10-piece puzzles.

Click here to download the lesson and the application pack.

These pages can also be cut apart and used as flash cards to put the events in order.

Click here to download a one-page foldable book in color and black and white.

All the visuals are not shown.
Click here to download the updated visuals.

Click here to download the pictures to color.
(These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.)

Click here to see the other lessons for Jesus in the ABC's in the Life of Jesus series.