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Here are some thoughts others have had, to get you thinking.- Beyond the Create-a-theme poster, our volunteers wore capes to help distinguish them. It would be fun for the kids to do, too -- with different colors for different small groups.
- We used the posters and even the Bible Hero Cards from Group's Heroes Unmasked (check them out at http://store.grouppublishing.com/OA_HTML/gpCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11862). Four of the 7 posters in the poster pack were the ones from Heroes, and we thought posting the other three (Jesus, Esther, and Noah) would be fine, too.
Deb Bernard
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| We began the program with the heroes module. We used the suggestion of purchasing the posters from the Heros Unmasked Program and posted them along with posters od conventional superheroes ( Spiderman, The Incredibles, Batman) on the walls of our meeting place. We also found a few conventional superhero masks to hang and a superhero costume.
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| Well, once again I am looking for something a little more interactive, this time for the Heros unit. I read the ideas on the web page but they all had more to do with visual appeal. Any ideas of something a little more hands-on? I am also hoping that we hear something soon about the production schedule. Rondee in Washington
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| Besides what is here and on Group's Living Inside Out web site, our development editor Amy shares these ideas: You can make any type of super hero costume including hats, shoes, gloves etc. to go along with the capes. You can also make a super hero obstacle course as kids enter the class--something that only a "super hero" could get through. Kids could also make their own superhero logos out of snack items and then take pictures of them and hang them on the walls. Hope this helps!
Deb Bernard
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We hosted a super-hero themed Rally Day festival to kick off our fall sunday school season -
To get the kids thinking about what it means to be a hero, we had a variety of stations as our kids became heroes for the day. This included:
* choose a super hero cape (lovingly created in a variety of colors - 4 seams, and a ribbon can do amazing things!)
* think of your super hero name, cool super powers, and make a name tag for yourself
* face painting super hero masks (kept this simple with a variety of colors, but only 3 designs to choose from) (note that we practiced the week before which was a great help to this portion of things! What a great team!)
* publicity photo - get your photo taken against our city skyline
* make your super hero logo out of snack food (amazing what pretzels, snack food, marshmallows, and candy can do!)
* a couple of game stations - a super-hero themed bean bag toss, and "pin the kapow on the super hero"
* goodies including super hero slush
Then the crew learned a new version of the super man prayer (prayer normally done to the superman theme that we re-wrote) and flew into the beginning of the worship service that starts just after our sunday school hour and shared this with the congregation, and placed a cape on our worship leader for the day.
Our newsletter has highlights and photos that help share a feel for the event:
http://www.calvarylutheranchurch.net/clc/images/Newsletter/October09CalvarySpirit.pdf
Then the decorations and cityscape from our fellowship hall that was used for the rally day were moved to the hallway and classrooms for the weeks we've run the heroes curriculum. Outlines of super heroes were used in decorations and advertising around the church.
Here are the details on the superman prayer and our adaption...
Superman Prayer (regular version):
Thank you Lord for giving us food!
Thank you Lord for giving us food!
For the food we eat
and the friends we meet
Thank you Lord for giving us food!
Superman Prayer (Rally day version!):
Thank you Lord for giving us Life!
Thank you lord for giving us Love!
Living Inside Out
is what it’s all about
Thank you Lord, for giving us love!
Thank you Lord for giving us Life!
Thank you lord for giving us Love!
We’ll be a hero for you
just like you asked us to
Thank you Lord, for giving us love!
Then we added questions for the volunteers, parents and kids to think about together:
Think about and discuss together:
How does God’s idea of a hero compare to comic book heros?
What does it take for us to be a hero for God?
Examples of heroes from the Bible?
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