This activity goes along with day five of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown.
For our activity today we focused on the portion of the Living Christ that states “and the potential for the sons and daughters of God in the life to come.”
I held up an apple seed and asked my littlest ones what it was. I then asked them what it would grow into if it was given the proper care: sunlight, water, nutrients, etc. At this point my 8 year old blurted out, “That’s just like people! If we receive the right types of things to help us grow we can become like Jesus Christ!” BINGO!!
We made a list of the right things that would help us grow and also a list of the wrong things that would hinder our growth. We discussed each one as we wrote them down.
As a further activity for the younger ones I printed of this animal baby/mommy match game. You could also play this fun online matching game.
The older ones wanted something harder so I took a seed from each of our seed packets that are waiting to be planted in our garden and they had to match each seed with what plant it would grow into. It was a lot of fun!
Love this lesson. It is a wonderful object lesson of our potential. Thank you for sharing.
The comment your 8 year old made was beautiful!! I have a question, are your teen agers homeschooling with you too, or do you have them go to school at a certain age? If you could take a moment, its mama.emfarmgirl@gmail.com. I love using rich curriculum but then part of me wonders if I harden off a plant and get it ready to plant outdoors, it needs to be used to some wind and cold.
I am soooo thankful for all the time you took to keep track of what you did, and take pictures, and just, everything, its very rich, and wonderful. I frankly don’t know how you do it, all, just doing it is my achievement, let alone thinking of what to do and blogging it. What a great example! Thank you for sharing your talents!