Setting the scene for God’s Covenant with Abraham
Gather your students in a darkened room. Sit around the campfire, with glow-in-the-dark stars on your ceiling and night sounds playing quietly on a CD player. Then retell the story!
Pretend Campfire – Group Publishing has an electric one. Oriental Trading has an inexpensive inflatable one. Amazon has a variety of choices.
Glow in the Dark Stars – look in dollar stores, party stores, and educational Stores.
Note: we have drop ceilings so I put a magnet on the back of each star and then haphazardly put them around the cross bars, bunching them where the crossbars met and putting the odd one here and there along the bars and it looked great. The nice thing with the magnets they were a snap to put up and take down! If you don’t have a drop down ceiling, use putty to hang the stars so you can remove them and use them again.
Night Sounds – find a sound-effects CD, such as the one used for the Christmas Story in the book The Humongous Book of Bible Skits for Children’s Ministry by Group, 2005, 9780764430831 (track #24: crickets, wind, owl & wolf). Or search the internet for "night sounds sound effects" and you will find some free ones, such as these at Pixabay.
