Water into Wine

We have finally resumed our bible lessons after the baby hiatus. Before the new baby, we were working Bible and Science in the afternoon - after tot school and J's schooling. After Riley, it seemed like all subjects in the afternoon got postponed because of one reason or another. So, now we have Bible and Science in the morning. Then I work with J and J can finish her work while I teach Kaleb. If she doesn't finish before lunch, she can continue because it is all independent work. This seems to work better than before.

Our week was learning about Jesus' first miracle - turning water into wine. I found some additions to the lesson with links below.

Day 1:

While I read the story, Kaleb and J colored the page included in the lesson. These pages are added to their school notebook.

We worked a color mixing experiment with milk, food coloring, and dish soap. The colors mixed but I had better results when using a better dish soap (than the cheap kind the we use at the moment). This experiment came from Flutter Flutter - link below.

Day 2:

Again, while reading the lesson from the bible, I try to have some simple craft they can do while they listen. Today, they colored a jar where you could pull the strip and change the water into wine.

Then, I placed some jars in cornmeal for the kids to "excavate" from the "sand."  J's were programmed with answers to review questions about the lesson.

Kaleb's were programmed with the letters from the word "MIRACLE" along with numbers one thru seven on the back so he could put them in number order.

We played a review game that I printed from The Catholic Toolbox (link below). They used some figures as game pawns and a number die that I bought from the dollar store. They enjoyed this game and we played it daily during Bible time for review.

Day 3:

We started day 3 with a mini jar shape book for their notebook.

For fun, I hid several jars labeled with the memory verse around the house. I hid 2 sets - green for Kaleb and purple for J.

J put them in correct order. We also played a hot potato game to review the story. When they answered the questions, they did some silly moves like jumping on one foot and dancing around.

Day 4:

I wrote the letters "MIRACLE"on some paper and placed it into a ziplock bag. I added some of the dyed rice that I made. J had to search through the rice and find the letters to the word "MIRACLE." For J, I wrote the letters small and for Kaleb, I wrote them larger (to make it easier for him). I also gave them a sheet to mark off the letters as they found them.

I made some printable for the lesson including the jar bible verse set that we used. If you would like to download them and use the feel free. I can't say this will happen with all the lessons, I just had a few extra minutes and thought they might help.

I added a bible verse tracing page...

as well as the verse on jars for the hide-n-seek game. There are also other pages in the mini pack that you might find useful. Enjoy.

Download Water into Wine Extras HERE.

Links 
Ministry to Children - has some ideas on how to teach this lesson, complete with a story sequencing page.

Sundays Childrens Focus - has a great idea using food coloring and water.

The Catholic Toolbox - has a long list of activities and coloring sheets for this story as well as The Wedding at Cana printable board game.

Highlights for Kids - an idea for a bottle cap memory game.

Msss Crafts - has jpegs of wine jars.

First School - has numbers in a jar worksheets for the younger set.

Children's Church - has more ideas and links for teaching the story including some youtube videos.

Mission Bible Class - has some more ideas plus cute idea for making puppets from wooden spoons.

Calvary Kids Pages - more links for printables.

Sing 365 - has a cute song He Turned the Water in Wine.

Learn Play Imagine - has a neat color mixing experiment using baking soda and vinegar.

Flutter Flutter - has a milk coloring experiment, this is fun to do.

Hands on Bible Teacher - has a milk jug game for review of the books of the bible, use this for the New Testament books that the kids will be learning.