The Parable of the Lost Coin

My hope is that you are able to look at these ideas on the blog to spur you on and equip you to see how you can do these simple and fun activities in your home. It's important for us, for our kids to remember that we spend time with God everyday and it's about a relationship (unlike a once a year thing--- aka Santa). We also want them to remember not necessarily what we did but that we were there as a family, spending time together and making that a priority... and doing it in a fun way :)


This week we had fun doing lots of "sensory" type of activities to bring the Parable of the Lost Coin to life in our home!


Day 1: Find the Lost Coin
      I found a bag of coins from Dollar Tree and I hid one before family time and she had to go find it. Then she would leave the room and I would hide it again and she would find it again :) This lasts a long time in our house!

Day 2: Finding the Coin in Rice
         I poured a bag of rice into a pyrex container and hid the coin in it. Then she had to find it and then close her eyes so I could hide it again. You should probably not do this activity on shag carpet... just sayin ;)

 Day 3: Coloring!
         As long as you have google and a printer, you can find a coloring sheet for just about anything! She colored (and her little brother helped) a picture of the Lost Coin.

Day 4: Finding the coin---in another way!
       I took the rice from the previous activity and poured it into an empty water bottle and then also put in some pennies and dimes. (The plastic coins from Dollar Tree are too big to fit in a water bottle.) The she got to shake it around and try to find the coins

Day 5 and 6: Making some "Coins" and hiding them--- cause, it's what we do! :)
      I got some aluminum foil and let her "squeeze" them into a ball and those were our coins that we got to hide and find!
       And on Day 6 we played this game again and also focused on how she was so excited when she found her coin so we celebrated with every coin found too.

So there you have it! That's how we made the Bible come to life in our home, in Family Time, in simple, fun and affordable ways!

The Parable of the Lost Son

Talk about Piggie overload this week!!! :) The kids had a great time with Family Time this week!

Day 1: Learning about the Daddy who had 2 sons but one went away
       We use some previous cut out people from other weeks and 2 were the sons and one was the father.
         And then also for this day, we used her 2 baby dolls as the sons and had her take one and make it go away and we waved  bye bye --but then she got excited and wanted the house and the other baby to go too haha!

Day 2: The piggy!
      We learned about how the son went away and lost all of his money because he partied too much and then had to find a job working with the pigs.
      I simply printed off a pig picture and let her color it.

Day 3: He had to eat the pigs food?!?!?
     We have a puzzle that has a pig so we got the pig and some of her play kitchen food and fed the piggy and the son.

Day 4 : Let's be a piggy!

      I took 2 pink pipe cleaners and put them on one of her headbands and took turns being pigs :)

And this was also Day 5 because she really liked this :)

even the horse joined in family time...

 

Here are some extra ideas!

 Day 6: Turn mommy into a piggy and feed her
          Grab a piggy head band and a pink blanket and let the kids feed you carrots :)

Day 7: Paint a Piggy!



         We took the picture of the big that we colored a few days ago and grabbed a paint brush and painted mud on our pig---with CHOCOLATE SYRUP!

 And then she thought the piggy needed a cookie after all of that hard work of getting dirty :)

And to wrap up the story--- throw a party celebrating how the son came back home!

 

We all love family time and look forward to it every day! Its so awesome seeing her want to read the bible for herself and opening to a page and knowing things about the stories!

 

It's my prayer that this blog will encourage and inspire you to take that next step in bringing God into your home throughout the week and all get into the Bible a little more than you currently do---and to LOVE it :)