QUICK CRAFT: Make a personal TIMELINE. Tape together (on the back) 2 or 3 sheets of heavy-duty paper or card stock and (on the front) draw a thick line horizontally down the middle. Write the year you were born at the line's beginning, and evenly space each year to your present age along the line. Write all the places you have lived, people you have loved, and things you have done, alongside the appropriate years. Illustrate your notations with pictures and momentos (cut them from magazines, or draw them yourself.) You can update your creation every year if you'd like. Make sure to display your timeline where your family can admire it!
Does your small child like to fingerpaint? Plan the next painting adventure right before bathtime. Set them up in the tub with shiny paper and fingerpaints. Let the works of art dry stuck to the bathtiles (the wet paper needs no tape to "stick" to the tiles.) Clean up is quick and easy: rinse the tub, then bathe the child. QUICK TIP:
QUICK LESSON: Here's a spiritual twist on the "telephone game." First, have all the children form a circle. An older child or adult begins the game by choosing a short passage from a reference book (preferably sacred text). The passage is whispered into the first child's ear and that child whispers it into the next child's ear, so on around the circle. The last child says the phrase out loud (it is usually quite different than the original passage.) Then, before the adult reads the actual text from the book, have the children guess: Who knows the truth?. The common guess will be the adult, but upon further reflection the children will come to the understanding that we all must seek out the truth for ourselves, that we must look in the book itself for the truth.(This idea comes from Marisol Rivera-Thurman and Eileen Sabry)
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