I love this story, and it's a great way to remind children of how much they are loved - by Jesus, and us too!
We sang "Jesus Loves the Little Children". And I made some quick little flannelboard figures to tell the story:
M loved this! We left them out for a few days and I found him a couple of times doing the story on his own or telling it to Daddy. So great! It probably helped that I made it sound like Jesus was really angry about the children being kept from him. "Hey you better stop that! I LOVE children, I'm NEVER too busy to tell them I love them!!" said in a gruff voice. ;)
Unfortunately when Daddy came home, M said "Leave me alone so I can think!". Oops. I think he may have gotten that from me. This story was a good reminder to me to be more patient and to always take time to let M know I love him.
He also did this little puzzle I made for him:
That was all we had time for on Friday (it was my 10 year wedding anniversary!), but we did a couple more things throughout the week.
One day, I put these little clips on the flannelboard figures:
One day, I put these little clips on the flannelboard figures:
And we played with them like this:
We just basically retold the same story, but this little difference made it a big deal to M again and he had a lot of fun moving them around on the table instead of on the flannelboard.
Then we painted a cute coloring page I printed off from somewhere (sorry, I can't remember, but there are a lot of good free coloring page websites out there). The idea was to paint it, then rub the back with oil to make it transparent and then make it into a suncatcher. Well, it didn't turn out like I hoped, so I will spare you a picture of the end product. However, here M is painting it, and that was a lot of fun!
I hope this gives you some ideas of your own for bringing the love of Jesus to your little ones too!
Happy Friday! Have a beautiful day! :)
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