These easy-to-use and kid-focused talks build on the attachment kids have to their favorite animals to help them remember important lessons about God. These resources are ideal for quick lessons or attention-getting visuals to supplement existing lesson materials. Just use items from your kitchen, craft basket, or tool chest to create lessons that fascinate children, illustrate a biblical truth, and deliver memorable messages your kids will love.

These easy-to-use and kid-focused talks build on the attachment kids have to their favorite sports to help them remember Bible truths. These resources are ideal for quick lessons or attention-getting visuals to supplement existing lesson materials. Just use items from your kitchen, craft basket, or tool chest to create lessons that fascinate children, illustrate a biblical truth, and deliver memorable messages your kids will love.

Almost all children (and adults) have a favorite animal. Young children love stories about animals, and older children weave them into their own stories. "Object Lessons from Animals Kids Love" builds on the attachment kids have to their favorite animals and helps them remember important lessons about God. These easy-to-use, kid-focused books are meant to provide teachers and leaders of children ages 6 to 12 with biblically sound and culturally relevant object lessons taught with animals that kids love. Each object lesson starts with an animal that most kids will recognize and builds on a Scripture-based theme to lead kids to deeper spiritual application. In addition, each lesson also suggests an object that the teacher can send home with each child to help the application stick. Object Lessons from Animals Kids Love is ideal for Bible school classes, mid-week programs, and children's worship services. These easy-to-use and kid-focused talks build on the attachment kids have to their favorite animals to help them remember important lessons about God. These resources are ideal for quick lessons or attention-getting visuals to supplement existing lesson materials. Just use items from your kitchen, craft basket, or tool chest to create lessons that fascinate children, illustrate a biblical truth, and deliver memorable messages your kids will love.

When children are engaged, they learn. Creativity captures their curiosity and helps the truth of God's Word to sink deeply into the soil of their hearts. And God is faithful. He will continue to water and care for those seeds until they produce a harvest. In this book, you will find creative, dynamic object lessons that let children participate in their learning. They draw on lessons from science, stories, popular games and even a little "magic," and they are always firmly rooted in truth from God's Word.Both new teachers and old will find these lessons easy to use and fun to deliver. Children will want to share what they learn with their families and friends, and they will be excited to see what you are going to teach them next week!

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.