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Jacob’s Ladder

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Jacob's-ladderThis craft will help children to internalize the story of Jacob’s ladder from the Bible. God gave Jacob a vision of angels ascending and descending a stairway or ladder into heaven. Then the Lord Himself appeared to Jacob, confirming the same covenant that he would have lots of descendants, just as He had promised Abraham and Isaac.

You will need popsicle sticks and string. You also need a drill and Elmer’s glue. Grab a piece of wood that you don’t care about. (My husband says it’s called a spoil board.) Place that under where you’re going to drill, so that you don’t totally ruin your dining room table.

Drill holes in 10-12 popsicle sticks, one on each side. Make sure that the drill bit is the correct size to fit the string through. You want the hole to be large enough to thread the string through, but small enough to stop the stick from sliding with just one knot.

Cut two equal pieces of string about a foot and a half long. Put some Elmer’s glue on the top of one piece of string. Let the glue dry about 30 minutes until it is hard, making it a “needle” for threading the popsicle sticks. Thread the string through each hole on one side of the popsicle sticks, knotting before placing the stick down the string. Do the same to the other side. Watch the video to see how to do this:

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Sand and Stars: Abraham’s Descendants

Sunday, October 6th, 2013

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Why not make a craft using sand and stars to illustrate Abraham’s descendants? God promised Abraham as many descendants as there was sand on the seashore. God also compared Abraham’s descendants to the stars in the heavens. This promise was made at a time that Abraham and his wife were too old to bear children, so the fact that Isaac was born was a miracle. God indeed fulfilled His promise, and from Isaac came Jacob, and from Jacob came the 12 tribes of Israel. If you would like to see a chart of the genealogy of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, click here.

To make this fun craft, you will need the following materials:

  • a plastic jar
  • washed sand
  • water
  • blue egg dye
  • gold stars confetti

Scoop some sand into the jar. Add water to the jar. Put a couple of drops of blue food coloring into the jar to represent the sky. Now pour the star confetti into the jar. Screw on the lid. Your sand and stars craft is complete. You can use this like a snow globe, shaking it to see the sand and stars, remembering God’s promise to Abraham.

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Lot’s Wife: Knock Over the Salt Doll

Saturday, October 5th, 2013

lot's-wife-salt-doll“Lot’s Wife: Knock Over the Salt Doll” is a new game I made up for my kids to internalize the story from Genesis 19. Lot and his family were living in Sodom, and every single person in the city was wicked. They surrounded Lot’s house and began breaking down the door to physically assault the people in Lot’s house.

Two angels struck the people from Sodom with blindness. The people from Sodom said that Lot was judging them, and they were hateful, even though they enjoyed injuring other people. This is why God was going to hail down fire and brimstone from heaven on them, destroying the entire city.

The angels grabbed Lot, his wife, and his two daughters, who ALL hesitated and didn’t want to leave. They were commanded to not look back. Lot’s wife didn’t care about obeying God. She turned her head back to the disgusting wickedness that she loved, and God turned her into a pillar of salt. This happened at the same time that fire rained down from heaven.

An easy craft to internalize this story is to dip a doll in glue, then dip her into salt. Now stand her up, and try to knock her down with a cardboard bolt of lightning. Go ahead and watch this short video to understand how to play the game “Lot’s Wife: Knock over the Salt Doll.”

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Cardboard Model of Noah’s Ark

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

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Create a three-dimensional model of Noah’s ark by making a cutaway of the bottom deck of the ark. In this video, I will show you how to make a scale model of all the compartments on the bottom deck of Noah’s ark. You will need the following items for this fun activity:

  • lots of cardboard (preferably cardboard box lids)
  • packing tape
  • masking tape
  • brown paint
  • popsicle sticks
  • diagonal cutters or butcher knife
  • small plastic animals, 2 of each kind

Tape cardboard box lids together, as shown in the video. You can use any pieces of cardboard to create the same shape. Measure one foot across, and 6 feet long. These are the proportions of the ark, since it was 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long. The ark was larger than a football field, with three decks.

After taping the cardboard together with packing tape for strength, place masking tape on top of it, so that the paint will adhere to it. Now paint the entire model of Noah’s ark whatever shade of brown you want, since nobody knows what color gopher wood was.

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Now have the kids build fences with popsicle sticks, gluing 3 half-pieces to 2 whole sticks. I show you how to do this in the video. Insert the fences into slits that you cut into the bottom of the cardboard. Now place the animals in the ark two by two.

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The reason God destroyed the earth was that every inclination of men’s hearts was to do evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) This caused God to have great sorrow, because no one on earth cared about having a relationship with Him. Noah was the only exception. God supernaturally saved him with his family by having Noah build an ark. Then God cracked open the foundations of the deep under the earth, and water poured over the earth from below and above. Scholars have conjectured that the continents were all connected until the flood, and that the major earthquakes of the waters under the earth breaking forth caused the present locations of the continents.

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