Inculcating to our children good moral values using stories from the Bible is more fun with two learning materials from Zonderkids.
I won’t sugarcoat this: the Bible — the thick, wordy version — can be an intimidating book. Growing up, there was a scarcity of reading materials at home but my Mom made sure that we learn the stories of Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lions, David and Goliath, the Birth of Jesus, the Story of Creation. She would show us the traditional Bible and then proceed to read the story with a colorful flare.
She didn’t have any props but my imaginative child’s mind did the rest. Mom was good at storytelling and she encouraged reading even when buying books was not a top priority at home. She made sure though that we always had access to the required textbooks in school. She inspired us to attend regular church activities and learn more about our faith as Christians.
Any parents of toddlers know that the period between one to three is marked with several developmental milestones; temper tantrums being one of them. Short attention span is a challenge during our Monday night Bible time as we enjoin the children to watch faith-based films with us.
Since becoming a member of the Booklook Bloggers program, my family has been blessed with several reading materials which served as my tools and guide in sharing the Word of God to my children.
Two of them arrived in my mailbox in the last week and I’m excited to share them to my children.
Read with Me Bible for Little Ones
have had requested books similar to this book in the last month but this is the only book that really caught the attention of my husband Jeff. He actually laughed!
The reason for his glee?
The illustrations.
Dennis G. Jones is a drawing genius for making Bible characters fun and… fun! Seriously, the fish and the birds in the Story of Creation perked me up. Noah looked like a quirky grandpa and I mean that in a good way, while David looked like an anime hero with a can-do attitude.
The texts which were, obviously, derived from the Bible was written by Doris Wynbeek Rikkers, make for an easy read-aloud sessions with children. Sentences are shorter and simple so you won’t be tongue-tied and you won’t run out of breath reading the story of Jonah and the Big Fish.
This book featured eight stories from the Bible: four from the Old Testament and four from the New Testament.
My favorite story that comes with the illustrations is “The Day in the Life of Jesus”, which can be reas in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Rikkers wrote the story in a shorter and simpler form. Doing so makes it easier for me to ask my children to repeat sentences such as “Jesus prayed to the Father”, “Jesus loved little children”, and “Jesus told a woman about living water”.
Again, illustrator Dennis Jones did a superb job on this book. His contribution in this masterpiece cannot be overlooked.
Adventure Bible (Wild About the Bible) Sticker and Activity Book
This sticker and activity book is not a supplementary materials of Read with Me Bible for Little Ones.But I saw it in the list of books available for review and I thought: “Hmm… This one can be a great after reading activity.”
My twin toddlers love crayons and stickers and we often do activities in our learning corner at home that involves crayons and stickers. Hence, this book is a great addition to our growing library.
I have to photocopy the pages though as we only have one copy of this book. I already decided to just make copy of the pages for our activities so we can repeat the activities whenever we want to.
There are pages devoted for coloring, crossword puzzles, mazes, connect the dots, spot the differences, word scrambles, and secret codes.
It really is a great companion for any Bible Book for Children!
The pictures were the works of David Miles and they’re pretty simple for children to understand especially in activities where they need to match a picture to a specific story sequence.
Having these materials gave me several ideas on how I can further improve on the activities I included in the books I just finished writing.
Thank you for these gifts Booklook Bloggers and Zonderkids.
The Ruffolo Family is beyond grateful!
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