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Kids 11: Activity Day Outline DETAILED OUTLINE: The agenda of activities can be rearranged to best meet the needs of your group. If you have enough children of various ages and parent participation, you can divide the children into two groups for some of the activities and even have two activities taking place at the same time. We do, however, encourage the opening/closing to be done with all the children together. Opening:  Opening Prayer  Pledge of Allegiance You can have one of the children hold a small flag or use a larger flag. This is a great opportunity to teach the children respect and proper care and folding of the flag. See the Activity Day Resource pdf for a diagram on the proper way to fold the flag. If you use an actual pole and stand for the flag you can keep it up throughout the Activity Day.  Preamble: have the children read or recite the preamble to the United States Constitution. (Doing this each day as a family will have your children memorizing it in no time at all. See the Activity Day Resource pdf) Theme Story & Discussion: When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree by Jamie L.B. Deenihan (or, alternatively, The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper with a discussion in the detailed outline as part of the stations activity) Discussion suggestions: 1. How does the girl in the story respond when she doesn’t get the present that she was hoping for? 2. What are some things she did to care for her lemon tree? 3. What did she do with the lemons? 4. At the end of the story, how did the gift that seemed disappointing at first help her more than she thought it would? 5. What are some things we can learn from this story? Moms for America ✯ Cottage Kids 3