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.