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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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Lego Tower of Babel

Friday, October 4th, 2013

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When you teach your children the origin of world languages, you can have them build a Lego Tower of Babel. All they have to do is grab a base and start building a square three rows tall. Then move on to a different color, scooting in by one row of bumps. Build a stack of three again. Continue until you have run out of Legos.

lego-tower-of-babel-2I did this in a church nursery one time with Duplo Legos, and the structure was even taller. You have to have an enormous set of Legos to actually make a structure tall enough to look like a tower. If you don’t have a large enough Lego set, you can make your tower out of blocks or other building materials. A miniature Tower of Babel could be made from sugar cubes.

Explain to the children that all men on earth had one language, and that they worked together to build a tower that reached to the heavens. God had commanded Noah and his family to be fruitful and to fill the earth. They disobeyed by staying in one place. Some people have speculated that they wanted the tall tower for 3 reasons:

  1. To climb on if there was another world flood, so they wouldn’t drown this time.
  2. So that they could find this location from far away, because it was so tall. They did not want to scatter to fill the earth like God commanded.
  3. They wanted to show their prowess of how awesome they were, because they could build a limitless structure that would reach up to God Himself.

In other words, they could disobey God, avert God’s wrath, and become like God, dwelling in the heavens. God struck them with confusion as they suddenly were each speaking separate languages. They couldn’t understand each other! The builders couldn’t figure out how to proceed because everyone was speaking gibberish. Just to survive, they separated into different regions and towns, and they never finished building the structure.

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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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