you are special punchinello

You are special 

 

We read this book in Sunday school this week. It ties in from last weeks creation lesson. Gods creation Is special and his children, even more so. 

It's such a sweet story it's definitely one of my favorites. 

In the story the Characters are Wemmicks, wooden people created by their maker Eli. The wemmicks spend all day giving each other stars and dots. Stars are for the talented or beautiful wemmicks and dots for the not so. 

 

Punchinello is one of the wemmicks who gets only gray dots. One day he runs into Lucia who has no dots or stars and he wants to find out what her secret is. Turns out it's that she spends time with Eli. By spending time with her creator she learns to not care what others think. The stars and dots just don't stick. 

 

The children and I talked about what makes them special after the story was over. We talked about spending time in prayer with God Our Elohim, which is a Hebrew name for God our creator.  

 

For our craft today we made little wooden people we colored with paint markers. I found these little wooden gingerbread men at Michaels. A pack of four for $1.75. They are small a little larger than a quarter. They are To remind the children to pray and that what God thinks about us is what really matters. 

 

I pray that each one of them always knows how special they are. 

Have a great week

Mrs Tabby. 

Space themed Sunday school lesson

Even the stars praise his name psalms 148

     This week we are looking at creation from space! When I think about the vast unknown expanses of space and the amazing stars and planets I can't help but be in total awe.

 

I know I am not the first person to have my breath taken away by the universe our amazing Father has created. 

Many astronauts have felt moved by our creator while in space.Astronaut Frank Borman looked down on the earth 250,000 miles away and quoted Genesis stating he had an enormous feeling that there was a God and there was a beginning. 

Another astronaut James Irwin later became a preacher his experience with God was so powerful. 

Astronaut Guy gardener frequently speaks to churches on the reality of God. 

Neil Armstrong had a deep experience as well and even took communion while in space. 

Then there is John Glen who stated "To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible." There are many more and it's no surprise. I can't  imagine it not being a very strong feeling of the Lord all around you. 

I found this awesome clip from Louie Giglios Stars and whales sermon. If you have the time (make the time!) listen to his full sermon it's amazing. This little clip though was just enough wow factor without going to far over the children's heads. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_iK6IMHCE

The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.psalms 33:6

That coupled by these amazing visuals takes my breath away. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4uOZrzv0s

 

 

Our king is a star breather. 

“In the beginning God ( Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.”

‭‭GENESIS‬ ‭1:1‬ ‭AMP‬‬

http://bible.com/1588/gen.1.1.amp

We spoke of creation Adam and Eve and touched lightly on the fall. Fellowshiping with our wonderful Lord. 

As for our craft I wanted something that the children could take home and remember how powerful God is and what beauty He created for them. I thought thes galaxy or nebula jars would work nicely. 

 

We tried so many different methods throughout the week. The green one we used cotton balls and water and food color. The baby food jar is diaper fluff and paint and food color and the mason jar is our "sun" it's also diaper fluff and water food color and glitter. 

You can do lots of variations and get many different effects. 

I printed out some thumbnails of some scripture to put on their jars andddd didn't get a chance to put them on of course. 

 

To make the "fluff" to go inside the jars we took clean diapers and soaked them with two cups of water. Then opened up the diaper and poured out all the cotton and gel. I used about 4 diapers and that filled 10 jars with plenty left over. 

 

 

The kids enjoyed working with it. We had a couple children that made three jars each. 

They put about three tablespoons worth of fluff  added dye and glitter and a little more water and then kept layering fluff, a couple drops of dye, glitter, then another tablespoon of water. Stiring each layer inbetween with a chopstick. But not to vigorously as we wanted a separation of color. 

I would definitely do this craft again. I had a class of 2-11 year olds and it was fun for everyone. 

Unfortunately I didn't get to photograph all of them but here are a few my children did. 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and looking at our Sunday school class. Have a blessed day. 

 

We are back

Well we are back after a super long break and a journey to another website. 

Why come back to blogger? It's free and is simple to use 🙃. 

What's crazy to me is my twins are the age C was when I was doing this blog the first time around. 

 Now C is 6 😅 and my twins will be two in may.

Much has happened. I got pregnant lost that baby then lost another pregnancy. My husband went into ministry and boy that was a HUGE transition. (Still is) then had twins. Gosh when I write it all out like that it makes me have to take a few deep cleansing breaths. 

Right now we are just starting to get our feet back under us. I am just starting to feel slightly human again. After 3 or 4 years of amazing changes. (And mind numbing amounts of lost sleep)

   But we are stronger now for all of it !

I am starting to get an itch for blogging again so here I go. 

I hope to blog about life as a pastors wife from my perspective. 

Teaching Sunday school, lesson ideas ext. 

Of course crafting with children and all things diy. 

Parenting and much more. 

Today I just wanted to introduce my beautiful family.

🍻 cheers to a great year of blogging ahead. Praying even one of my posts helps one person. Tata for now.