For one of our Super Summer Specials during the month of August we decided to do a lesson on God being the Potter and our being the clay. We had a friend who was a potter and agreed to let us video tape her working on her potter’s wheel. She did a wonderful lesson that talked about what happened to the pot if the potter took his hand away while the wheel was still going (splat) and what happened if he pressed too hard (squish.) We drew the great analogy about God’s creation of man and the way He works in our lives, and then, we really wanted to bring the lesson home to the kids.
We had made homemade play-dough and gave each of the 100 kids a ball of play-dough and a plastic plate to work on making a pot so they could see for themselves the effect hands had on clay. The only problem is that the recipe we had gotten on-line had left out a crucial ingredient. As the kids worked the play-dough turned to mush and we had 100 kids in our chapel with green mush all over their hands and then their faces and then their clothes and then the chairs.
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