Jesus Calms the Storm: A Sunday School Lesson

With our Sunday School, we did a whole unit on miracles. Miracles are fun to teach because they show children the amazing things that God can do, and open up the imagination. We did one lesson on Jesus Calming the storm. Here is a brief overview of the lesson we used.

• Talk about storms. Different kinds of storm, snow storms, thunder storms, rain storms etc. Do we like storms? Talk about how storms can be scary.
• Read Luke 8:22-25, since this is a shorter story it is a good one to have an older kid read to the class.
• Talk about the story. Why were the disciples scared? Would you have been scared if you were one of the disciples? Why or why not? How do you think Jesus stopped the storm? (This is a great one to get the imagination going since there isn't really a right answer)
• Storm in a bottle craft.

The storm in a bottle craft is fun for kids of any age. All you need is empty water bottles, water, cooking oil, and food colouring. Mix the water and the food colouring in the bottle, then fill the rest up with oil. Water and oil should be a 1:1 ratio. You can also add glitter for a little extra something. Then put the cover back on and use a hot glue gun around the seal so it doesn't leak. Kids of all ages will love to shake this and watch it separate, their own storm in a bottle!




This is an easy lesson, and can also be combined with the Jesus Walks on Water lesson, grouping them as ''miracles that happened on a boat/on water''.