Messy Church

Another hot day – and we are going to have to wait patiently for the weather the change. Today’s story was about Noah, who had to be patient as he looked after the animals in his ark, and waited for the weather to change.
Here’s a picture of the ark.

We made animals from egg boxes and planted cress seeds, and we’ll have to wait a few days for them to grow before we can eat the cress.

Thinking about food, do you know how butter is made? We put some double cream in a jar with a lid and then shook it hard, and kept on shaking and them it turned into butter after a lot of time, effort and patience.

And more food! We used rainbow-coloured sweets to decorate biscuits, using icing to hold them in place. There was a catch – we had to wait for the icing to set before we could eat them!

We played a game taking turns to throw the right number to collect pieces of the rainbow in order and that took a while to do.

And more rainbows with a mixture of food colouring, a few drops of washing up liquid and baking sola mixed together in a dish. What happens when you add vinegar drop by drop? Slowly the mixture rose up to make a multicoloured foam!

In church we talked about what we had done and then watched a video about Noah and his ark. 
Jane told us another part of the story. The ark was afloat for a very long time, and it kept raining. When the rain stopped, Noah sent out a raven to fly over the waters to see if there was anywhere to land. It flew round and round but couldn’t find anywhere to land, so Noah waited and then sent out a different bird, a dove. 
But it also flew round and round, still finding nowhere to land so it came back to the ark. Noah waited another week and sent the dove out again. This time it came back with an olive branch. There was dry land and trees were growing so Noah’s journey in the ark with the animals was at an end. He had been very patient obeying God. 

God is very patient with us too because he loves us and really wants us to follow his way.