Weeks 15 and 16--Highlights

In week 15 we learned about the tabernacle, the dwelling place for God among His people.

I found a book at a local bookstore on the tabernacle and it came with a model for the kids to put together.

Oh my, was that a challenge!!

It's a nice looking model, but I was hoping it could be done without much help from me. Instead, I finished it while the kids played out in the snow. Of course that was after I lost my patience and snapped at the kids. Yes, I snapped at the kids while working on a tabernacle model.
A tabernacle model.

There's nothing like being reminded of my desperate need for a Saviour while reconstructing God's dwelling place! As I worked, I thanked God for sending His Son, who was sacrificed for my sins. He has washed me in His blood and in Him I am made righteous.

Here's the finished tabernacle. In the courtyard you can see the altar and the washing basin in front of the tent. There's also 2 little people. One is a priest.

Inside the tent there are little replicas of the lampstand, the showbread, and the altar of incense. There is also a curtain to divide the holy of holies and a mini ark of the covenant. The kit also included and extra ark. It's a bit bigger and comes with manna, stone tablets, and Aaron's rod to put inside the ark. The girls like that.

Once the girls came in from playing in the snow, I made some hot cocoa to warm them up and apologized for my lack of patience with the craft. Thankfully, they are so quick to forgive...and to forget!

In other things:

Week 15 was the last week to work on memorizing the 10 commandments.

Week 16 they began memorizing Psalm23.

We are still really enjoying our read-aloud, Treasures of the Snow.