The Theater is Closed

 It’s the end of an era. I am discarding the Puppet Show. My youngest grandchild is twelve years old and doesn’t come over my house—I don’t have to babysit, anymore. Although she currently is in Theater Camp, so maybe she’ll be in her own show. 

I used the theater to explain Bible stories. We made sock puppets. I remember the carpet got soaked, when Moses divided the sea. 

The other lesson plan I remember, although it didn’t involve the puppets, was the story of David and Goliath. I made a giant figure of a man and stuck it to a door. (Picture “pin the tail on the donkey”).  I don’t remember what we used as stones, but I remember we used our Covid masks, as sling shots. 

Oh well!  Time marches on and children grow up. I pray they learned about their religion and had fun doing so. 

The Immutability of God

I'm having another puppet show for my grandkids.  This time it's Noah's Ark.  The last one was the story of Adam and Eve and creation.  Remember God in that one?  Well, we are made in the image and likeness of God so all my puppets are sock puppets, like God.  This second one, Noah's Ark, God makes His appearance again, as He talks to Noah. So I was wondering how and what kind of sock puppet I should make for Noah's God.

Then I remembered that God is unchanging.  He's immutable!  YES!  I don't have to make a new sock puppet.  I can use the same one over and over.

These sock puppets, although simple, are teaching my grandkids some deep concepts: we are all made in the image of God and our God is immutable!