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One of my favorite videos on Creation is "Making Friends - God Made Me Perfectly!" from the Toby Series by Bugbox Animation, South Africa, 2004 (approx. 18 mins).

I see their website called Toby Adventures is no longer up, and looking back through their facebook page I see they've given away all stock they had remaining awhile ago.

But I found they posted it, for free, on YouTube n 2020 during Covid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyhue8OwoU4

I've selected to start the video during the 2nd half where Jesus takes Toby on a tour of Creation.

Ages 6 to 10.

The video begins with Toby --a young boy with a rather mean older teenage sister, and a mom who is too busy (no dad is mentioned).  When Toby gets feeling sad/lonely/cornered he meets Jesus (in his heart/spirit/submarine) and they go off on an adventure. In this case they go back to the beginning of time, and that's when the video really starts to get INTERESTING!

The second half of the video has JESUS taking Toby on a tour of Creation and talking about how HE created the world (which jibes with John 1), and what fun he had doing it, especially making all the animals, with joy, creativity, and great enthusiasm, and laughter, people are different nationalities, sizes, shapes, and he shows Toby that he is perfectly made, even down to his cowlick. What I especially liked was that Toby took that all back with him and looked at everything differently, even his sister (who he now sees is also made in God's image.)  

The only negative reviews I remember having seen over the years was the meanest of the sister and that's not how Christian children should act, which made me chuckle, I've never met a kid that was well behaved all the time.

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