Crafts and Lessons with Nana - the octopus, squid and cuttlefish

The kids asked if I would have lessons and crafts once again, so I did.

Our last time, I used Bible stories that had to do with the sea.  But this time, Papa and I decided to use creatures of the sea.  On day 1 we learned about octopuses, cuttlefish and squids.  I shared about the characteristics of these underwater sea Cephalopoda.  They are very interesting!   The squid and cuttlefish can change colors to match their backgrounds and we discussed why this was important.  

Sometimes people "change their colors" too.  If they are with one set of kids, they will act one way and when with another set of kids, will act another way.  Maybe at church, they act like a good kid but at school, there might be a really "cool" friend but he or she is not so nice.  Trying to fit in, you might act like that kid and make fun of others.

In high school, Papa used to be involved in the youth group but on weekends, he would go out with some buddies and get drunk and do things he shouldn't.  But the Lord rescued him from that type of life!  He has been changed from the inside out!

On that day, we tie-dyed shirts.  Hannah helped and was an excellent teacher!

And later we took pictures in our tie-dyed shirts.

On the day we had this lesson, I fixed octopus oranges, octopus hot dogs and we had squid to eat too.  Only Hannah was brave enough to try that, but I love it!  You can see this at this post.

 That afternoon, Papa got out the octopus kite!

 Hannah took a couple of FUNNY pictures!  The kite was pretty difficult to handle it seems.

 

 Sure was fun!