Go Fish With God

Today we launched our annual Vacation Bible School. We have 35 children registered and over 20 adults involved with the week. This, our St James' Children's Ministries Blog, will be seen by all those families this week. We will try and share some of the things we have been doing and some of our plans for the week.

Our theme, Go Fish, is illustrated on campus with some fishy panels, some hanging fish and even a  real boat in church.
Along with singing we learned some sign language today, hopefully we will get better at it as the week goes on!
Do you know how a seahorse moves? Or a crab? We found some different ways to move around between activities - some of them looked very funny!
Today our craft activities included making a big fish (or whale), and Jonah to go inside him. Lots of the kids took delight in drawing pictures to illustrate the other things the whale may have swallowed!
Our Monday snack was a beach 'trail mix', including life preservers (cheerios), driftwood (pretzels), seaweed(noodles), coral (dried fruit) and pebbles (choc chips)
Our theme also continued with crafts using both water and sand.

Each day our kids will be collecting 4 cards that relate to our theme. Today the 4 cards illustrated the story of Jonah. By the end of the week they will all have a set of cards they can use to remind them of the stories, play matching games with and even play Go Fish!

We will all sleep well today and look forward to another day of Go Fish with God tomorrow.