Activities

Unexpected Gifts

Christmas has always been my very favorite holiday! As a child, I could hardly wait for the mailman to deliver the holiday catalogs so that I could plan my Christmas list for Santa. However once I grew up, married and had children, things changed. I realized that Christmas joy was more in the giving than… Read More Unexpected Gifts

Activities, Games, Teaching, Visual Aids

File Folder Games

File folder games are versatile, inexpensive and easily stored!  When I taught special education classes in school, we used MANY file folder activities for our students. File folder activities helped our students work independently on a variety of skills. In the Bible class setting, file folders make a perfect pre-class activity that can reinforce skills… Read More File Folder Games

Activities

What’s Your Claim to Fame?

Sir Frederick Treves was known as the first English surgeon to perform an appendectomy in 1888. He was later appointed “Surgeon Extraordinaire” to Queen Victoria. He wrote articles for the British Medical Journal and later books on surgical procedures, historical characters, world travels, and experiences in a South African field hospital during the Second Boer… Read More What’s Your Claim to Fame?

Activities

Can It Happen to Us?

According to the Associated Press, there are only two living members of the Shaker religious faith left in the United States.  The Shakers were a division of the Quakers in the 1700’s. They were originally known as “Shaking Quakers” because of their ecstatic dancing and spontaneous speaking in tongues during worship services. Major tenants of… Read More Can It Happen to Us?