Isaiah's Prophecies: Advent Week 1

For our final day of activities in The Problem and The Promise, our first week of advent, we read "Operation 'No more Tears!'" from The Jesus Storybook Bible.  It's based on prophecies from Isaiah 9, 11, 40, 50, 53, 55, 60.

I find this selection pretty impressive in that it is written in preschool friendly language and makes the prophecies concrete.  Even though it's very well done, it's still a bit lacking in action and abstract for a 2 year old and 4 year old, so I'm not sure how much sunk in.

As we talked about this story, I tried to focus them on the idea that Isaiah's job was to tell everyone about God's promise to send some one to save us from our sin.  To that end, as our project, we made what my mother-in-law fondly refers to as a "du-ta-du"--sometimes called a paper towel tube.

I gave them each an empty paper towel roll and had them hold them up to their mouths and hear how it magnified their voices.   Then we decorated them with left over party streamers.

Once finished, we held them up and shouted through them together, "God promised to send a Savior!" over and over again.  The kids loved them and danced and waved them around while we shouted.

It was a joyful way to celebrate God's promise.