This is my Church/Spiritual Family

We wrapped up the month of September talking about what a 'spiritual family' or 'church family' is.  This can be whoever you consider part of your child's spiritual development or influence: pastors, godparents, family, church members, nursery workers, friends at church, a special greeter, even a seeing-eye-dog in training can teach your child much and they can be part of the congregation in a special way during their training. 

We had two crafts this week: One was a candle (battery-operated, from the dollar store, so it...you know...fit in our budget and was safe around the little ones ; ) and all the parents at Mustard Seeds added their name and their chileren's names to the candle on post-it flags.

We also attached circle labels to baby spoons and put names or faces on them (the intent is that if you want, you can attach pictures when you get home) of people in your child's spiritual family.  You can take the spoons out of the paper cup and talk about who that person is and how much they love your child, sing a song about it, pray with your child for that person or even pretend that the person is talking to your child (example that I would do, in a funny muppet voice, "Hi, I'm grandma.  How are you today?"  Just to have fun with it.)

Also, I bought a blank puzzle and all the mustard seeds kiddos (that were able) and parents colored on it.  At the end, we each took a piece away from it and what was left over, I plan to frame and write 'Mustard Seeds 2012-2013' on it for our room.

We had a lot of crafts this week!

We read "Church is a Special Place" by Daphna Flegal, published by Abingdon Press

Our parent question was: What are your favorite ways to spend time as a family?  What are some fun outings that you have gone on or would like to? We got many ideas of places to take our little ones.

A church family is an important part of your child's spiritual development and is made up of many people.  It's good for you as well as you little one to think about and pray for those that are in yours!