I am teaching my childrens church tomorrow and need an idea of a snack they can decorate for a friend. We have done the cookies so i am stumped. My lesson is the perfect friend. They will be making a chain by linking arms with others that have things in common until the whole class is linked. So i thought we could have them decorate a snack and give it to the person next to them. Anything easy other than cookies????

By Tink on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 08:33 pm:

What about Vanilla pudding cups? They could choose add-ins like sprinkles, chocolate chips, gummy bears, etc. I don't know the age of the kids so I don't know if they are too young for this. It could be messy.

By Kate on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 08:37 pm:

Cupcakes?

By Marcia on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 09:11 pm:

I know it's not food, but we made friendship bracelets in my SS class. I just had to take a big bag of beads and some pipe cleaners. (younger kids) They loved it!

By Coopaveryben on Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 09:55 pm:

You can make a trail mix, use m&m's, raisins, pretzels, fish crackers, etc. and give each child one of the ingredients and have each child add it to a large bowl, divide it and share. Play on the whole, friends always add to our lives to make it better, we all have something to contribute, etc.

By Ladypeacek on Sunday, April 18, 2004 - 02:23 am:

I think i will try the trail mix. My kids are between 5 and 10 so i think that might work good. Thanks for all the suggestions! WE will be making the friendship bracelets too. we do a snack and a craft that goes with the lesson every week. last week was ressurection butterflies. That was pound cake for the wings, a candy bar for the body and then frosting and sprinkles to decorate. So they compared a catepillar in a cocoon turning to a butterfly to Jesus in his tomb.

By Coopaveryben on Sunday, April 18, 2004 - 04:58 pm:

I want my kids to come to your sunday school class....

I have been over the board of Education at our church and finding teachers who prepare and are enthusiastic about their lesson is so hard, I bet your kids love coming.

By Ladypeacek on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 01:38 am:

WEll i have alot of kids but if you would like to come to England each sunday, we don't mind, lol. Yes i love my children all 24 of them. Pastor asks me every Sunday if i need an assistant! NOPE!!! My kids are very good to me, they are wonderful helpers too! They love the weird things i come up with to tie the food into the lesson! With the trail mix, i paired them in groups of 2 with someone they did not know well and for each thing they found that they had in common they got a handfull of one of the items for their trail mix. At first i got alot of sighs because they wanted to be with their friends but by the end i had kids exchanging numbers with their new friends!! it was wonderful!

By Dawnk777 on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 10:14 am:

Kenna that's wonderful. You do sound like an excellent Sunday School teacher.