Christian story hour based on seeds, growing, flowers gardening, any great verses or Bible stories ?

I posted this question a long time ago before my puter crashed and I lost it all. If you have children 8 and under especially 5 and under, what are some ways you can think of to talk about God at their level and using gardening of flowers to teach lessons. Please only answer if you have good ideas, the answer that just post to get 10 points or 3 pts. for answering are just irritants to us all. I know children very very well, but I always like to brain storm and last time I came up with great responses to put on my list. WEd. is our first and I think I%26#039;m going to start looking at various flower seed of all kinds and shapes and explain to them that they were created by God like this, and then each plants one and as time goes by it will turn into some kind of flower, just like God created them unique etc. Please don%26#039;t voice your opinion as to whether you think I should do this or not, if I wanted to know that, I would ask, please :)

Christian story hour based on seeds, growing, flowers gardening, any great verses or Bible stories ?
I would start by brainstorming topics about plants first. Then see how they fit in with God.





Plants:


--Grow


--Are born


--Give us food


--Give us shelter from the sun


--Provide homes for animals


--Often need to be taken care of


--Have interesting ways to get their seeds around





Now, take one or two of those topics and brainstorm again.





%26quot;Plants give us shelter from the sun.%26quot; How does this relate to God?


--God gives us shelter


--How does God protect us?


--Shade gives us rest.


--We don%26#039;t always think of that as a benefit God gave us, but it is one we are supplied with.





I tend to like that third one.


Maybe you can develop a story where someone is walking in the hot sun and needs a rest. He stops under the shade of a tree and decides it is a good place for a while. As he sits under the tree, he notices several different ways people are helping each other.





Children can then make up their own pictures of their favorite things to do to help others and share them with the group.








All this came off the top of my head brainstorming as I typed. Might be a good idea...might not be the greatest idea...might be a horrible idea. I just wanted to share the process of how I come up with these things.





Matt
Reply:Another option in addition to your ideas is to plant the flowers in 3 different types of soils. This can reference the parable of the seed that fell on different soil and how it grew. And easy way would be to but some clay soil in a pot and never water it, another pot could have a bunch of weeds, and the third one could be really good maintained soil.
Reply:i believe that there is some story or passage related to the mustard seed.
Reply:I think this is a wonderfully written child story, well constructed and entertaining. There is the quotation of bible verse in every bible story page. Please refer to these urls:-


http://www.childrenstory.info/biblestory...


http://www.childrenstory.info/biblestory...


http://www.childrenstory.info/biblestory...
Reply:Matthew 13


The Parable of the Sower


1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: %26quot;A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9He who has ears, let him hear.%26quot;


10The disciples came to him and asked, %26quot;Why do you speak to the people in parables?%26quot;





11He replied, %26quot;The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 13This is why I speak to them in parables:


%26quot;Though seeing, they do not see;


though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:


%26quot; %26#039;You will be ever hearing but never understanding;


you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.


15For this people%26#039;s heart has become calloused;


they hardly hear with their ears,


and they have closed their eyes.


Otherwise they might see with their eyes,


hear with their ears,


understand with their hearts


and turn, and I would heal them.%26#039;[a] 16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.





18%26quot;Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: 19When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. 23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.%26quot;
Reply:Isn%26#039;t amazing how small children are more perceptive and intelligent than Religious Elders of thousands of years ago!



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