Hello friends and scattered family in Messiah!
This post is really about how to keep your kiddos involved and having age appropriate fun. I just had a conversation with a friend about this yesterday about how we want to have activities each year that are: warm, fun, and memorable for the kids. So when they are older they can look back in fondness and with love at the time shared with family around Yah's Feast days. One thing that we do with our family and children is go through our Bible Pathway Adventures Spring Feast book and complete some of the activities that teach about: Passover, ULB, First Fruits, and Shavuot (Pentecost). The kids always enjoy those and there are crafts in the back of the book! For Passover every yr we schedule a family and friends movie night to watch The Prince of Egypt . This is an event for fellowship with our friends who may not observe the Feasts in a way to share with them that is casual fun. But anyhow we make a big deal about decorating the house like a movie theatre, we make a special trip to the store where the kids can grab their favorite candy, chips, and drinks and we countdown to movie night to build anticipation. For First Fruits the kids watch: , God with Us, (an animated movie about the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua) complete activities in the Bible Pathway Adventures Spring Feast book, dress up nice and go visit the grandparents for fun and pictures in the evening. Likewise, for Shavuot (Pentecost) we watch The Messengers about the book of Acts and complete some pages out of: Bible Pathway Adventures Spring Feast book. For Shavuot, in the past, we have sometimes created a paper ring chain out of construction paper to count the Omer 50 days. The kids can tear a ring of paper off each day. For ULB there are also lots of Matzah crafts you can do or recipes you can create to make that fun as well. (Pinterest for ideas) Regardless, we want to be diligent about following the command to: "teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up." Deut 6:7 TLV (referencing the commands of Yah, these are HIS commanded Feast days) It is our job to teach our children the truth. "These are the appointed moadim of Adonai, which you are to proclaim to be holy convocations--My moadim" Lev 23:2 TLV And of course, on any Feast Day, the kids are free to blow their shofars in the back yard typically and they always love that opportunity and see it as a high privilege. How do you celebrate with your kiddos? Feel free to leave a comment! We use these books for lessons :
Pursuing the upward call | Facebook This is a public "personal blog" pg via Facebook to make it easier for readers to connect and share. Stop in for a visit, invite a friend. Hope to see you all there! Until next time: May Adonai bless and keep you as you: press on pursuing the goal for the reward of the upward calling of God in Messiah Yeshua. Phil 4:13 *side note DISCLAIMER: I do not receive compensation from ANY of the resources I share or use. They are just resources, curriculum, etc that have blessed our family and may bless yours!*
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