Faith and Family Fun Fridays: Silly Putty and Scripture
It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword,
cutting between soul and spirit,
between joint and marrow.
It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
-Hebrews 4:12
Welcome to Family Faith and Fun Fridays. As the week winds down and I anticipate more family time over the weekend, I often ask God for one good idea that will enable me to bring the Word to life and bring our family together. Usually, the activity overflows out of something the Lord has been teaching me through His Word during the week. I’d like to invite you to join me and my family in the adventure. Sometimes I’ll post things we’ve tried; other times I’ll post an idea in the works. If you’ve got thoughts to add or suggestions on how to adapt or improve the activity, please don’t hesitate to comment. Enjoy!
The Amplified version commends parents to impress the Word of God upon the hearts of our children.
“And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds and hearts; [then] You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach andimpress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children,and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.”
After reading the Amplified Bible’s version of Deuteronomy 6:2 to my children, I asked them what it meant to “impress” God’s Word on our hearts.
“That means you think God’s really cool,” Hannah declared.
“That kind of impress is like letting the Bible STICK to you,” Lizzy corrected.
“Oh, yeah,” Hannah added, suddenly understanding. “And it’s kind of like having God write something on your heart.”
“A heart tattoo!” Luke summarized.
I applauded their wisdom, and then pulled out the Silly Putty. “So, if I want to impress a word on this putty, which we’ll pretend is my heart, then what would I have to do?”
“Stick a word on it,” Hannah urged.
I flipped through the newspaper on the coffee table in front of me and found a bold print headline. I pressed the Silly Putty against the letters and waited. “Like this?”
“Yeah!” The kids all took a turn pounding the putty onto the paper and then we created a drum roll.
I slowly peeled the putty off the newspaper and revealed the squat black letters.
“Wow!” the little ones cheered. “That’s awesome.”
“That’s what happens to our hearts when we press into God’s Word by reading it, thinking about it, and memorizing it,” I explained, “It becomes impressed on our hearts like these words on the Silly Putty!”
The kids all scrambled for their own duo-toned egg and a piece of the Sunday paper. They laughed at the faces, the words, and the graphics that they magically lifted from the pages of the paper on that elastic gray putty. They pulled and stretched the images until the impressions looked like reflections one might find in The House of Mirrors. Then they each took a note card on which to write their choice of the Bible verse they planned to impress upon their own pliable hearts.
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this is a great idea! {hope this weekend was wonderful}…
This is a great idea…I will keep my eye open for silly putty…which my kids all love!
This is such a good idea! I am bookmarking it AND going to find some silly putty!