Oh My Stars

I have found that if you can mix a lesson with food, that makes kids happy!  They love making food or playing with food and I say "WHY NOT BOTH!" We were studying Joshua 6: 1-27; the Battle of Jericho.  I just kept reading and re-reading asking the Lord to give me an idea and I remember reading in Group's Children's Ministry one time an idea about peanut butter sandwiches and the wall of Jericho.  So, I decided, to tweak their idea a little and create a really long wall of peanut butter sandwiched joined together with pretzel sticks.  I told the children, that as I read the story of Joshua and this huge wall that kept them out of the city of Jericho, I wanted them to make peanut butter sandwiches and cut them in half and then cut the halves in half, so that each sandwich made four squares.  After that was finished, I would love it if they would stick the pretzel sticks out of both sides of the sandwich square, between the bread and peanut butter, so it wo...

Oh my stars...I am always looking for fun new ways to show, share and teach the kiddos in Children's church...So I have decided to start sharing some of the smaller (I will share the larger too!) things we do to re-enforce our lesson for that week. The Lesson... Samson...and his strenght...was it his lucky hair or really GOD??? Judges 16 First we played a game. Divide your class into equal teams.  We are going to play a relay race.  We had three teams.  Give the first person on each team a lucky charm. It was in March that we did this lesson so the Dollar Store had just put their ST. Patricks Day stuff on sale and those items were the lucky charms...i.e...four leaf clover sunglasses, a green beaded necklace with tons of plastic shamrocks hanging off and a green headband with juggly green glittery balls on the top.  The first person on the team puts on the lucky charm, runs to the end of the finish line (however long you choose to ma...

Oh my stars......if you have never read Liz Curtis Higgs you are missing out!!! Bad Girls of the Bible is outstanding! The fictional story at the beginning of each Bad Girl, just sucks you in, you can see her, hear her...Oh my stars....you know her!!! Bad to the Bone, Bad for a Season, or Bad for the moment...we all have been there. Lizzy helps us to learn from these women, to love these women and ... to grow from these women. There are not many Bible studies about women for women and Liz Curtis Higgs brings it to us!! My Sunday School Class is starting this study and we are very excited. Read this awesome book and then decided.....are you Bad to the Bone, Bad for a Moment or Bad for a Season?????????????????  This book was sent to me free by Waterbrook Multnomah. Like Unlike · · Share · about an hour ago