Cooking Ideas:

• The Book - "Incredible Edible Bible Fun" has a recipe for "Locust and Wild Honey Bites". (Group Publishing ISBN: 0764420011) You shape bugs out of a mixture of powdered milk, peanut butter, and honey. (Be careful of peanut butter if you've got peanut allergies. Substitute Soy Nut Butter instead (which has, despite it's name, no nuts in it).  CreativeCarol posted November 11, 2002

Object Lesson Ideas:

• "Crafts & More for Children's Ministry" published by Group suggests discussing right and wrong choices -- illustrated by providing toothpaste to put on celery sticks, discussing how it's not the right choice and then providing peanut butter and/or cream cheese. They suggest moving the discussion to "our story today is about a choice Jesus made ..." to be baptized even though he didn't HAVE to he knew it was the right thing to do. Matthew 3:15 NLT: "But Jesus said, 'It must be done, because we must do everything that is right.' So then John baptized him." Follow up with helping kids make decisions about how in the coming week they will do what's right in God's eyes, even if they don't feel like it.  Jan FPC Napa posted January 06, 2004

Curriculum on Jesus' Baptism

• Our next unit from PowerXpress is "Jesus is Baptized". They have an excellent Music Movement workshop that includes: Deep and Wide, Wade in the Water, Peace like a River ... also look for background CDs that focus on water sounds.  Judi Leaming posted January 08, 2004

A "short presentation" for any Workshop about John the Baptist using the 5 Senses.

• I would like to share this little presentation we used to engage students in the story.
  
  After reviewing why the water is used and showing how water cleans we had some time left so we discussed who John was and as a filler in the drama classroom (but could used anywhere), we review who John was by using our 5 senses. Have the children close their eyes to do Touch, Listen, Smell. Touch – camel fur, Listen – running water, Smell – honey, Sight – picture of wilderness, Taste – grasshoppers or honey (all the children decided they only wanted to try the honey) I did not realize how the children would react and remember this experience.  In God's SeRvice Lisa

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