Cubbies: Bear Hugs 7-10

Hello again!  Welcome to my little blog space about the Awana program called Cubbies for 3 and 4 year olds.  Here are my other posts so far...

Introduction
How I started down the Appleseed Trail
Bear Hugs 3-6:  God is Creator

This post is going to focus on the things we did during the unit "God's Word is Truth", which discusses the Adam and Eve and the fall of man.

I had some creative fun with this unit.  They have great ideas in the teacher's book, but I found myself always in charge of 'the boring snacks' each week (I had a list set up where parents can sign up to bring snack, which I already listed the snack ideas to go with the unit.  I found that all the 'veggie' related snacks were falling on me to prepare).  So, for bear hug 7, I decided to make 'Bibles' for the kids to eat.  Found this idea on pinterest.

 First, we bought fruit/cereal bars and cut them.  You can cut them in half, or, I ended up cutting the ends off as well as one edge to make them look like the filling was the 'pages', and then cut each in half to make 2 'Bibles' per bar.

 Using icing, pipe some details like a cross and 'binding' onto the bars.  (I am not sure why this blog insists on making this photo the wrong way)

Craft for bear hug 7 - I decided to make trees from toilet paper rolls with paper 'leaves' and red 'apples' to stick on for the kids.  I made pipe cleaner snakes that the kids could add to their trees.

Snack for BH8 - I had yet another snack to bring this unit, and decided to make pizza twists with a twist... I added raisins as 'eyes' before baking to make them into 'snakes'.  You can get the recipe here.

They were cute, and the kids enjoyed them (so did the leaders).

Other things we did - on the first lesson, I took my Bible and put it inside a cardboard treasure chest as was suggested by the teachers manual (I already had one I made for my son's birthday back in May).  I made a mini scavenger hunt with little envelopes with clues I had to read (one hid by the puppet theatre, one under one of the kids matts, that sort of thing).  The end prize was where the treasure chest was hidden.  God's Word is Truth... and it is a treasure as well.

On the last week, since it was the last Awana night before Christmas, we made gingerbread nativity scenes, and I brought the story of Adam and Eve needing to leave the garden into the promise that God said He'd send a Saviour someday... and led into a brief overview of the Christmas story before we headed to the craft room to make our craft.  I have a video (I need to finish editing it and put it up on youtube) on that which I will talk about... but that's another post.  The handbook time craft for that week was a coloring page... to keep it simple since the kids were so excited about their gingerbread houses.  :) 

That was probably the hardest unit, as it talks about things like sin, and Adam and Eve disobeying God and needing to leave the beautiful garden.  There were not too many craft ideas in pinterest on this either.

If you'd like, you can look at my Cubbies pinterest board here.