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To understand the prophecies of the different nations that would rule after Babylon, you can make a prophetic statue from Daniel with your children. Teach your children about history and how God’s prophecies always come true. The head of the statue was gold, representing Babylon. The chest was silver, representing the Medo-Persian Empire that conquered Babylon the same night that the writing on the wall happened. The Greek Empire was represented by brass, and Alexander the Great conquered all the known world at the time. Then the Roman Empire came next, which was represented by iron. This was during the time that Jesus was born. The Holy Roman Empire followed, which had clay mixed with iron, and that kingdom would eventually crumble because it had weaknesses, being too spread out.

To make this prophetic statue from Daniel, you will need the following items:

• white self-hardening clay
• a plastic placemat for underneath
• a clay sculpting tool (or a table knife)
• paint and paintbrush (or spray paint) in gold, silver, bronze, black, and dark red

Grab a hunk of clay and mold it into the shape of a Persian man with folded arms. Let the clay dry for a few days.

Spray paint the entire statue gold (or paint it on with a brush). The next day, cover the head of the statue and the waist down. Tape the paper in place before you spray paint the chest silver. You don’t need to cover the statue if you are brushing it on by hand, which is what I did with the other colors. Use a brass-colored paint for the lower torso, and black paint for the legs. Then paint the feet a reddish clay color. Let that dry, and then dot it with black. The feet were supposed to be clay mixed with iron.

Your prophetic statue from Daniel is now complete, and you can use it to teach children about this prophecy given to King Nebuchadnezzar from the Babylonian Empire. Daniel interpreted the dream. All these prophecies came to pass, just as the Lord predicted through this dream.

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When you teach the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den to children, you can make this easy craft. You will need a coffee can, small plastic lions, and a Lego man. You will also need a hot glue gun and a strip of white cloth.

Plug in the hot glue gun. Open the coffee can and arrange the lions down in there. Grab the Lego man and the strip of white cloth (about an inch wide and 8 inches long), tying the cloth around the Lego man like a Bible-time tunic. Hot glue the end down. (If you don’t have a hot glue gun, you could sew the end of the cloth strip down on the back.) Now place your Daniel character into the lion’s den.

No, wait a minute! You need to throw the Daniel character into the lion’s den, telling the kids that evil men threw Daniel into the lions just because he was praying to God three times a day. Those evil men couldn’t find a single thing wrong with Daniel because he was a man of integrity, always doing what was right.

The lions did not eat Daniel. An angel of the Lord shut their mouths, even though the lions were hungry. The next morning King Darius asked Daniel if he was okay, and King Darius was overjoyed to find out that God had saved Daniel from death. He took Daniel out of the pit and threw the evil men into it, and the ravenous lions ate them all.

So I suppose you could throw more Lego men into the bucket, then slam the lid down, and shake the bucket. I know… gruesome, huh? But these men conspired to murder an innocent man, so what goes around comes around. God controls the universe, not man.

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