The Amish Eskimo: SUPER SPEECH and other stuff...

Yesterday we did the story of the ~~Tower of Babel~~ Walls of Jericho falling down (please note that I had written "Tower of Babel" because my mind is completely warped). After acting it out with laundry baskets piled high as our "city" and using choo choo train whistles as our "horns", my little munchkins watched the "Josh and the Big Wall" VeggieTale. Then we made made our own City of Jericho with graham crackers as walls and icing as the cement to hold them together. Had I been thinking a little more clearer, I would have used peanut butter instead... I guess the kids got lucky with that one!

Here Zoe and Roman are posing with their Jericho City... note: Zoe's is perfectly intact and Roman's has completely fallen

Zoe wanted hers complete with a roof... notice the little graham cracker fish... they were serving as the Israelite army marching around the city!

Roman's tower didn't last more than a minute before it was completely destroyed.

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Last night at LifeGroup I worked with the children using a SuperHero theme based on 1 Timothy 4:12. Our focus for the night was on having SUPER SPEECH!

¹² Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

The inspiration came from www.impressyourkids.com. I've newly discovered this site and just love it! It is all about teaching bible verses to our children in a way that makes them stick! All of the crafts and ideas that I used came from there.

Here are my two superheros of the faith!

All the kids made a superhero crest that will eventually be added to a cape for them. Each week we'll focus on one of the areas of the verse (Super Speech, Fantastic Conduct, Incredible Love, Lightning Fast Faith, and Magnificent Purity).

The kids each made Superhero cuffs that they wore as part of their costume.

We did a cool experiment based on the verse found in Matthew 12:34 (For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.)It involved two jars. One we filled with yucky stuff (vinegar, dirt, coffee grounds, old leaves) and the other we filled with yummy stuff (fruit juice, strawberry jam, honey). Then I took the yucky jar and asked the children "If we filled the gross jar with yucky stuff, what do you think is going to come out?" And they responded with "yucky stuff." The same was asked of the yummy jar and they said "good stuff" would come out. The parallel was made regarding our lives and how what we fill our heart with will be reflected in what comes out of our mouth (our speech).

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Today we continued to focus on SUPER SPEECH! I borrowed some more activities from www.impressyourkids.com (my new favorite site!).

We had a new verse today. It was found in Ephesians 4:29:

^"29 Don't let any evil talk come out of your mouths. Say only what will help to build others up and meet their needs. Then what you say will help those who listen."

We began by painting a large piece of poster board all red. The kids LOVED this and had a blast with the paints!

Then we let that dry and cut it out in the shape of a mouth. Then I took a large roll of paper (easel paper) and wrote the VERY long verse out on it to make it as long as I could. Then I made a slit in the mouth and taped one end to the backside of the mouth and fed the verse through. The kids then each took turns pulling the verse out of the mouth as we recited it.

After having it ripped 10 times by Roman, I decided to display it along the top of the wall, so they no longer could reach it, but would be able to see it as a constant reminder!

I also painted on each of their hands the verse and a mouth to remind them through the day.