Happy Ultimate Blog Party!
If you are here for the first time: WELCOME to Impress Your Kids! We’re just a couple of mamas who love our kids and love Jesus more. We use all of our creative prowess (and collectively, it’s quite a lot) to impress God’s Word and His Love on our children’s hearts and lives.
We believe that our kids (and your kids!) are open vessels, ready to hear and accept God’s Words. We believe God gave us a mandate to make sure our kids love and follow him. We also believe God gave us all the tools we need to see our kids grow up to love and follow Him
We have lots of tools in our toolbox: crafts, activities, games, books, songs, parties, adventures and more. This week we’re going to show off a little for you. We’re going to show you how EASY it is to Impress Your Kids. We’ll be posting a special daily activity based on one of our favorite tools: Seeds Family Worship CDs.
Each day we’ll do an activity based on one of the songs from the CDs. We’ve been blasting emails back and forth and it is going to be so fun! And hey–there is something in it for you!
Seeds Family Worship has given us some CDs to give away to you! All you have to do is leave a comment. That’s right. Any old comment will do (an impressive one would be niiice, though).
If you’d like an extra entry:
1. Come back every day during the Ultimate Blog Party to read the rest of our It’s Easy To Impress Your Kids posts. Leave one comment on each post and you’ll have lots of extra entries.
2. If you like one of our activities, try it out on your OWN kids–then blog about it. Link it up on the MckLinky below and it will be worth 5 whole entries. {Plus, you could get some extra traffic from all those UBP folks who will be visiting!)
Here’s our first activity based on the scripture, Matthew 7: 7-8 and found on the CD Seeds of Courage:
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
A prayer box can be an easy way to help a child learn to pray more than rote, memorized prayers – and when combined with the scripture from Matthew 7: 7-8, it can help a child understand prayer in a new way!
You can make a prayer box any ol’ way you want to… I wanted to include a door on our box so Elias, my 4 year old son, would have some help in remembering the verse. Here’s how I did it…
- Take an old shoe box.
- Prep the shoe box with a cut out door and the scripture from Matthew 7: 7-8 glued inside the bottom of the shoe box.
- Seal the box shut if you’d like – boxes don’t last long around here unless they are sealed tight. Otherwise, they are stuffed to the brim with toys, sat in, and stomped on until they are destroyed. My hubby happened to have some brown duct tape laying around, which I thought went well with the wooden-door look I was going for, so I just wrapped it around and around the box until the lid was sealed on the box and the sides were completely covered.
- Decoupage a piece of paper to the top for the shoebox (yes, over the cut-out door. Or you could do it the easy way and not cut out the door until you have decoupaged your paper on. Your choice.). You could use plain paper or pretty scrapbook paper – I happened to have a woodgrain background picture on my computer that I printed out on regular copy paper and pasted onto my shoebox. Have your little helper cut out the words “Ask, seek, knock,” or if they would like to write the words by hand, that would give their box a nice personal touch. Seal all rough, not-pretty edges with more cool brown duct tape.
After our box was done, we played “Ask, Seek, Knock,” from the Seeds of Courage CD and sang along together (we’ve been listening to the Seeds Family Worship CDs for a couple of years now, and I can attest that these songs do so well in impressing the Word of God on your children’s hearts – and on your own!).
Then we talked about the verse - how it is a promise from God, and all we have to do is ask God, seek after Him with all our heart, and knock on His door, and He will answer our prayers! We took several slips of paper and wrote down things to pray about – then we slipped them in our prayer box, knocked on the “door,” and started asking God to bless our friends and family.
Elias was so excited about his prayer box that we prayed for everything in the box again before bedtime, and it is now sitting on his dresser along with the children’s devotional book we read from each night. He asked to sleep with it, too, but I had to draw the line somewhere…
See how easy that was?
{2nd day activity: THE MOUTH}
{3rd day activity: Eternal Life}
{4th day activity: Do Not Fear}
{5th day activity: Convinced}
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CD and at first I thought, “What does that have to do with courage?” But think about it–how different would you live your life if you knew NOTHING could come between God and His great love for you. It would be easy to stand firm and in strength during all occasions.
