I had set out a variety of supplies from the arts and crafts closet, along with magazines, and construction paper. I invited people to use what was there or to go outside to see what they could find. We ended up doing a variety of approaches.
One family worked together. The mother and daughter went outside to find materials while the older son looked through magazines. They ended up with an interesting creche:
I love the baby Jesus stuck on a flower pod for a manger.
I put together scenes from a magazine.
The angels are photos of dancers that I got from a photography magazine.
I put the clip of Mary and Jesus at the right side of the page over a photo of a hurricane Maria-wrecked landscape in Puerto Rico.
Another worshiping artist put together this collage:
I found it interesting, the ways we used modern images to revisit the story. I want to believe that it helped us engage with a very familiar story in new ways.
And people who came into the fellowship hall later exclaimed their pleasure at the creations.
I think this idea could be useful not just in Christian ed--it makes me think about my secular classrooms in new ways. Hmmmm.
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