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Sometimes we learn hard lessons. It’s difficult to let our children learn from the consequences of their actions, but those are often the best remembered lessons our children will learn! Below is a lesson you can read with your children in order to begin a discussion about learning from consequences and superficial behavior. I hope…
Chicks represent new life. They are baby chickens. And since we all receive new life in Christ, this is a good tie-in with Easter. It is a bit messy! But you can make these cute chicks yourself as a special treat to serve on Easter, or use it on Palm Sunday to help children look…
The vernal equinox is the time when planet earth has tilted such that the sun passes out of the southern hemisphere and becomes dominant again in the northern hemisphere. The light is not always equally distributed around planet earth, and that’s like the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we can feel him tugging hard at us, and…
As Christians we should practice being Valentines all year! This Valentine’s Day, we will use paper hearts to help students remember that love. “Love Calendar” Valentines Day Craft Material • Sheet of poster board • Black flow pens • Red construction paper • Ruler Introduction There are many legends that explain why we…
Although Ben Franklin’s kite experiment resulted in the invention of the lightning rod which helps keep lighting from destroying our homes, that is not an experiment we want our children to try because it can be fatal. But the notion that there are negative and positive forces all around us can tell our students to…
Holiday Service Project: Needs for Essential Baby Care Items are Great at the Holidays Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, family shelters usually receive donations of clothes, food and other items, but one thing that is often overlooked is the desperate need for baby care items. In 2006 Daniel Levine, then a student at Shrewsbury high School,…
