Welcome to our Super Hero series! Each week we’ll be doing activities from 1 Timothy 4:12 to help our kids discover what it means to be an example of Jesus to others—which will make us a true “super hero”!

When we did our Super Hero Crests last week, we listened to Seeds Family Worship’s Young song (which is just 1 Timothy 4:12 set to music). We sang along to hear the 5 qualities listed in the verse. We counted them on our fingers and when I explained that the first one was going to be SPEECH, or the things we say, Lydia said, “Oooh, Oh! Can we do the drink thing?”

“The drink thing?!” I said. And then I remembered. Almost 2 years ago, we did an experiment that explained Matthew 12:34, “For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” How could she remember that so quickly? Almost 2 years ago? And it’s the first thing that popped to her head when I said “speech”?! I think that’s how God’s Word and little minds work. God’s Word is alive and little minds are sponges waiting to soak it up!

So, today, when Lydia gets home from school all of us will be doing the “drink thing” together. (And I’ll be updating our Facebook page with pictures of their kids and their concoctions. Feel free to post yours, too!) To help us know and understand exactly how our speech can be an example of Jesus. This is a super fun experiment you do with stuff from your cupboard and garage. Yes, garage.

Go ahead and click over to our “drink thing”—the Matthew 12:34 Experiment to see the fun and do it with your own {super} kids! Let’s have Super Speech today!

Do you remember my Fruit of the Spirit series? Well, it was such a big (and loooong) ordeal that I still think about it all the time. Maybe it’s just been popping into my head this summer as fruit has been more readily available. Anyway, the other day we had a mini playdate (oh, it was to try out our s’mores!) and I had this great idea to make some roll up sandwiches for the kids. But my time got short and sweeping the floor got attention over cute food.

Then I had a stroke of brilliance! FRUIT KABOBS. How cute are these?

But it gets even better! All I did was throw all the ingredients in a bowl and gave all the kids a skewer (yes, even my 1 year old) and let them pick out what food they wanted all by themselves! It was so fun to load up our skewers, then tear them right apart by popping the fruit into our mouths. I also added some deli meat and blocks of cheese to up the protein factor.

But back to the Fruit of the Spirit. I was thinking how fun this would be to do a Fruit of the Spirit activity with these kabobs. You could label the bowls joy, peace and patience instead of bananas, peach and kiwi. Then you could give examples of each Fruit of the Spirit as you slide them on the skewer. Or put them in order and have the kids use their skewer as a memory tool to say the fruit by heart. I’m totally doing this after my next trip to the Farmer’s Market.

See more fun ways to use FOOD to impress your kids!

Linked to We are THAT Family’s Works For Me Wednesday

When Leigh and I were discussing doing a Summer Camp theme I told her I wanted to make ice cream in the ground. I knew I had heard of this and was going to try it. I looked it up online and could not find it anywhere! That’s when I remembered…it wasn’t ICE CREAM in the ground…it was jell-o in the ground. Jell-o, ice cream—whatever! (I still can’t find the jell-o in the ground recipe, but I KNOW my mom did it at camp one year!)

However, I know of another fun way to make ice cream. Not in the ground. Not with an ice cream maker. Just a few basic ingredients:

4 quart sized plastic zip bags
4 gallon sized plastic zip bags
2 cups half & half
2 cups heavy cream
2 tsp vanilla
4 cups salt (rock salt is suggested but if you use regular salt, just use a little less)
1/2 c sugar
ice
gloves (for your sensitive kiddos!)

Instructions:

1. Whisk sugar, cream, half & half and vanilla together.

2. Pour 1 cup of liquid into each quart sized bag.

3. Put sealed quart sized bag inside gallon bag. Add ice–enough to fill gallon bag about halfway. Add salt.

4. Shake the bags for about 5-10 minutes. Asa was our muscle man and did 2 at a time. Lydia used gloves to keep her hands warm!

5. Grab a spoon and eat out of the bag!

This was so fun! I love making food in unconventional ways. This would be so fun to make on a hot day…bring the bags outside, shake ‘em up and eat it all on the porch!

Thanks so much for coming to our 2 Weeks of Summer Camp! Hope you had a great time! Don’t forget to write!