Teaching Boys.......

[DianaB]

Tonight went well, but I only had 6 boys and at least two of them were sick. I'm probably going to have the swine flu next week. Bummer!! Tonight we made sashes to go around their waists. Then we cut the ends and tied beads on the ends. They turned out cute but the boys had trouble cutting the material AND tying on the beads so Amy and I had to do most of it. Oh well.....next week I think that we're going to make eye patches!!! Now I need to come up with a Bible story to go with it!!!

For the swords I'm wondering about rolling up newspapers. I have to have something that won't hurt others because I know that they're going to have some sword fights!!! Amy's doing some checking into something for me on this one.

[Marilyn]

Diana, one of our lessons this summer was putting on the whole armor of God, and we assembled a whole suit of Roman armor for each child using gold & silver poster board. I think these were from kits that we inherited from a congregation in Austin who had them leftover. They had gold belts with a holster to put the sword in. You could probably make some swords like these by using cardboard for a base and gluing silver construction paper or poster board over it.

The theme for the summer was the Keys to the Kingdom, and for the last lesson, they made crowns that had been pre-cut from the same gold posterboard. Purple tissue paper was used to form the top of the crowns, with gold crossbands and point on top and they got to glue plastic gem stones to them.

The armor and the crowns were really cool.

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[DianaB]

How cool!! I bet that the kids loved it!! I'll have to keep this in mind for future lessons. Thanks for the ideas!! I'll have to think about the swords. Tonight we're going to make eye patches!!!

[paula1961]

Those boys look so cute in their armor! I bet they had a blast! Diana, eye patches and boys They'll enjoy that!