Jacob and Esau Meet Again-A Lesson on Feelings

We are slooooowly making our way through the Beginners Bible in our lessons.  I'd like to say we were going faster, but ya know, the Bible took thousands of years to write, so we are going in real time :).  

This lesson was based on Jacob and Esau Meet Again  (Genesis 29-33).  I thought this would be a great lesson to learn about feelings, since we know that Jacob was feeling all kinds of different feelings when he met up with Esau after such an angry parting of ways.

We started by reading two books: 

Today I Feel Silly  by Jamie Lee Curtis and The Way I Feel by Janan Cain.  Both are super cute books-highly recommended!

Then we discussed feelings using the cards from Carissa's pack at 1+1+1=1.

We acted out a few of the feelings.  This is cold.

Silly.

Strong.

For their Bible Activity book, they made little Jacob's feelings books.

Any chance to cut and glue is a great time here.

The book is VERY simple, I just used free online clip art.  Everything needed for this page can be downloaded here.

If you would like to see other pages of our Bible Activity Book, check out previous entries here.

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Bible Activity Book: Abraham's Descendants Family Tree FREE PRINTABLE!!

I havent had a chance to do it much since becoming a mom, but I LOVE genealogy! What I loved the most-other then stumbling upon strong Christians who had been major influences in the lives of those around them-was how it made history come alive for me. Somehow, understanding how their lives all wove together made them feel more real.

This drew me to want to make a family tree for Abraham and his descendants. We are getting ready to talk about Joseph and the coat of many colors, and I wanted the kids to understand that Joseph isnt some random dude in a new story-he is Jacob's son, and Isaac's grandson, and Abraham's great-grandson. I wanted to be able to show them how it was the same relation as our own great-grandparents. So I came up with a family tree printable to put into our Bible Activity Book.

We discussed the family of Abraham as Mustang and Charger cut out all 22 people.

I actually thought long and hard about what to do about the 'questionable' story of having Bilhah and Zilpah in the story. Should I leave them out, should I say they were wives, or what? I finally decided just to tell it like it is, figuring it would be more confusing to untell my made up story and explain why I had mislead the kids in the future. Turns out, the kids didnt even bat an eye.

I DIDNT go into the entire story of how Jacob worked for Rachel 14 years and the fighting between Rachel and Leah. I mentioned they were sisters, and that Bilhah and Zilpah were maid-servants and we just discussed how many kids each of them had. The Beginner's Bible that we follow leaves this story out completely, so I didnt want to get into it too much.

When it came time to glue all the people down, they were a little disappointed-apparently I'm going to have to make a second set for story telling. The little people ARE pretty darn cute.

In the end the project took a VERY long time-well over an hour. I wished I had thought of this earlier and added to the tree with each story. Oh well!

I used a file folder and glued Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob and Esau on the first page.

On the inside, we put Jacob again (file includes two Jacobs), Rachel, Leah, Zilpah and Bilhah, and all the kids. In case you dont want to look it up, place the following kids with their moms:

Leah-Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dinah, & Issachar
Zilpah (Leah's maid)-Gad & Asher
Rachel-Joseph and Benjamin
Bilhah (Rachel's maid)-Dan and Naphtali

I didnt worry about putting all 13 in order, as it would be confusing, but I did put the kids in order under their moms. I intend to have the kids refer to this tree in the future-and maybe even when they are a bit older, so I want some accuracy to the tree.

If you would like to make the family tree with your children or Sunday School class, it can be downloaded FREE here.  ****This link was updated as of 3/2/2014 to Google Docs***

All graphics used in this printable were purchased from Just So Scrappy or Digiscrapkits.com

I hope you enjoy the printable!!

God Bless!

BTW, yes it looks like I forgot Zeb!  So sorry!!  I am not likely to get a chance to fix it, I have gotten out of the printable making!

Bible Activity Book: Jacob's Ladder FREE Printable!!

Our newest page in our Bible Activity Book is based on the story 'Jacob's Dream.' We follow the order of The Beginner's Bible. If you dont have a children's Bible, I highly recommend this one!!

It took me a bit to figure out what we were going to do for this story. I couldnt find what I wanted online, but thankfully the Lord helped me come up with something for us-and for you :).  The graphics used in this package were purchase from Just So Scrappy.



I went ahead and cut everything out for Charger and Mini Cooper, so this is what they started with. Mustang cut out her own stars. The anchor paper has "The Lord said...I will watch over you where ever you go, and I will bring you back to this land." Genesis 28:15 (this is abridged since the part-the Lord said-is actually in Genesis 28:14, and its not the entire vers). I used the NIV 1984 version for my text. I try to come up with a verse that tells as much of the story, or the most important part of the story at one time.



I had something different in mind, but when I sat down with the kids I realized right away that it wasnt going to work. So, I cut strips out of yellow construction paper to make our stairs. I made some for the download, hopefully they work right :). I glued around the edge of three sides and then Charger and Mustang put them in place on their papers. Dont glue the forth side or it wont work right.



Then we glued down the rock and the stars. Jacob and the angels are free so that they can move about the page. Since this story promises that God will bring Jacob and his family to this place, there are 12 stars to represent each of Jacob's 12 sons.


The angels can be tucked into the staircase as they move up and down.


Joseph can sleep and dream,



or stand and praise the Lord. I did realize after Chargers that it would be better to place the rock under the staircase so that Jacob has more room to stand. We did that for Mustangs and it seemed to work much better.



In case you would like to use this craft with your child or Sunday School class, it can be downloaded free here. **Updated to Google Docs 3/2/14** Pack includes 2 pages. The first page is the base sheet with the Bible verse, grass, and small gold stars. The second page includes Jacob, 5 angles, 5 gold stairs, 12 stars, and a rock.

If you have any problems with the download or questions about putting it together, please let me know. I hope you enjoy it!!

God Bless!

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