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| Mapusaurus vs. Argentinosaurus by Paleo Pastori |
So what did they find?
They found broken clay pottery pieces, a long metal spoon and a “petrified” wooden spoon and some “petrified” olive pits.
What Bible story do you think we were exploring on Tuesday?
In Bethany, Jesus liked to call the house of his FRIENDs, Mary and Martha, his home away from home. He visited them often and while there received wonderful hospitality and was greeted by many followers who liked to hear the stories Jesus had to tell about the kingdom of God. Martha is known for being busy with preparations for Jesus’ visit, while Mary is credited with recognizing that taking time out to listen to what Jesus had to say was the more important activity. Everyone could help with the chores later.
Our junior archaeologists made placemats and bread baskets in craft time. They ate apple wedges smeared with peanut butter and decorated with white mini-marshmallows to resemble a friend’s smile, and they enjoyed large heart shaped cookies that they could decorate with writing gel. A large red heart was added to our archaeology dig journal to help us remember that Jesus is our FRIEND.
They dug for treasure in our archaeological dig site and found red wooden hearts and small plastic dinosaurs that they could take home to remember today’s lessons.
They ground up brown grains of wheat and white grains of barley while learning about how these grains were used in Jesus’ time. They learned about basket weaving and how Mary and Martha would have had to make the baskets to take to market for the items they would buy to serve for dinner…no shopping carts or plastic bags in Jesus’ day.
In the afternoon, each junior archaeologist was given a wooden dinosaur puzzle to work on and/or take home, recreating a dinosaur skeleton.
They learned about Mapusaurus dinosaurs. They learned that while dinosaurs are not credited with having large enough brains to accommodate social thinking, like friendship, there were some dinosaurs, like Mapusaurus, who did hunt in packs. Mapusaurus were meat-eating dinosaurs that traveled in a group of 7-9 dinosaurs in the Patagonia region of Argentina. Mapusarus means “earth lizard.”
Don’t you wonder how different dinosaur lives might have been if they could have truly made friends with each other?
Mapusaurus and Jesus? Yeah, it’s a stretch, but what’s an archaeological dig without some dinosaurs?
What’s VBS without some FRIENDs?
The best FRIEND we can have is Jesus. He will always be by our side, no matter what.
Amen.
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