Teaching Boys.......

[DianaB]

I didn't mean that I'm a drill sargeant all the time. I think that you'd like the way that I teach, Judy, and the way that I relate to the kids. I'm trying to make things fun and doing fun crafts. We've been studying pirates and connecting them to lessons in the Bible. Quite hard but I've enjoyed it. So far we've made pirate hats, treasure maps, and spy glasses. Tonight we're going to make a red scarf to tie around our waists and I'd like to make some swords next week but I'm not sure how to do that without someone getting hurt. We had a cannonball fight last week with rolled up paper balls and the boys just loved it!! I got attacked with the paper balls too.

Last week I told them that I needed them to be better for me or I wouldn't be able to be their teacher. It was like I had a different class from the week before. I hope tonight goes good too. It sure seems like Wednesday comes around rather quickly!!

[judy]

What fun! My grandson would love to be in your class. He's going to Sunday School with Kassidy because they are both receiving communion this year. I doubt that they are having such a good time, because they would tell have definitely told me all about it.

Maybe you can cut out cardboard or oak tag swords and let the boys decorate them.

[DianaB]

Tonight went well, but I only had 6 boys and at least two of them were sick. I'm probably going to have the swine flu next week. Bummer!! Tonight we made sashes to go around their waists. Then we cut the ends and tied beads on the ends. They turned out cute but the boys had trouble cutting the material AND tying on the beads so Amy and I had to do most of it. Oh well.....next week I think that we're going to make eye patches!!! Now I need to come up with a Bible story to go with it!!!

For the swords I'm wondering about rolling up newspapers. I have to have something that won't hurt others because I know that they're going to have some sword fights!!! Amy's doing some checking into something for me on this one.

[Marilyn]

Diana, one of our lessons this summer was putting on the whole armor of God, and we assembled a whole suit of Roman armor for each child using gold & silver poster board. I think these were from kits that we inherited from a congregation in Austin who had them leftover. They had gold belts with a holster to put the sword in. You could probably make some swords like these by using cardboard for a base and gluing silver construction paper or poster board over it.

The theme for the summer was the Keys to the Kingdom, and for the last lesson, they made crowns that had been pre-cut from the same gold posterboard. Purple tissue paper was used to form the top of the crowns, with gold crossbands and point on top and they got to glue plastic gem stones to them.

The armor and the crowns were really cool.

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[DianaB]

How cool!! I bet that the kids loved it!! I'll have to keep this in mind for future lessons. Thanks for the ideas!! I'll have to think about the swords. Tonight we're going to make eye patches!!!

[paula1961]

Those boys look so cute in their armor! I bet they had a blast! Diana, eye patches and boys They'll enjoy that!