Jonah

The kids loved learning about Jonah this week! Our daughter is really catching on and can tell me bits and pieces about what we're doing in family time. And I love how she asks all day if it's Family Time yet and runs to it when it is time. By the way, ever since Noah, she plays in the "boat" every day but tonight, to end Jonah, we turned the kitchen table into a whale... so I'm sure we'll be playing in the whales belly for the next few weeks. HAHA!

Here's what we did this week so you can see some ways that we made the Bible come to life for us and hopefully see how fun and easy it is so you can implement it yourself.

* We got home late one evening and weren't able to do one Family Time, so we combined 2 in one night.

Day 1: Introducing Jonah
         I copied Jonah as best as I could from what he looks like in the Bible onto a person cut out and introduced him to the kids. We made him "walk" the way that God asked him to go but then when we read that he got in a boat and went the other way, we put him in our boat---or baking dish. HAHA! And she had fun pushing him around.

This is just an extra picture that I wanted to share. I had shared on my face book page this question:
If your kids saw you reading your bible as much as they see you (fill in the blank), how would their perspective change? She loves it when I read and she wants to as well.

Day 2: Tossed out of the boat
        I don't have a picture for this one but what we did was Jonah was in the "boat" and he got tossed out into the waves. We just flopped a blue blanket around and watched Jonah ride the waves. :)


Day 3: The "whale"
        Just to keep it simple for her since she knows what a whale is, we just talked about how the whale came. I we put together this whale which I made from a small paper plate and then cut another paper plate in half and then cut out a small connector piece. I drew on a smile and we colored it, added a googly eye and bent a blue pipe cleaner to make it look like water coming from it's spout and taped it on the back.
        ---She loves tape so the tape became more of a distraction for us for this activity than the whale.

Day 4: Jonah gets in the whales belly!
        You will need a clothespin, blue construction paper or foam, something white for the water, maybe a googly eye and a small Jonah.
         This one could have been done better... I used just scotch tape to attach the whale to the clothespin and it wasn't sticking well so this craft lasted all about 10 seconds before falling apart but was cute!
           I showed her the whale and then opened it up and she was so surprised to see Jonah in the belly!

 Day 5 (and 6): We happened to have this shape sorter whale for the bath so we practiced putting things in the whales belly.
                And then also, I found a whale matching activity and a whale template that had a cut out for lifting the flap and seeing Jonah in the belly.

Day 7: Get in my belly!
         I turned kitchen table into a whale by putting a round blue table cloth over it, adding two paper plate eyes and some pipe cleaners for water spouts on the top and of course Jonah had to come along! Everyone LOVED this activity. She had to get out and in the whales belly many times :) And Henry had a great time too!

 

Such a fun week learning about Jonah!! There were so many fun ideas that I found on pinterest so it was hard to pick and choose which ones to do but I would love to hear about how you make Jonah happen in your family!