When we were asked to bring a lesson to the children that would help them become good leaders in their communities, we started searching for a theme that had not been done by numerous other mission teams along the way. Proverbs 6:6 is the only verse in the Bible about ants and after finding on the internet a small lesson on it, we made it become our own.
Each of us became a different ant (learning all about ants from my pest control as we planned)and we put on a small skit showing how all the different ants help each other at all times without being told to. Ants are not lazy and they work hard everyday to provide and find food for each other. We tried to emphasize that the ants work together both in the physical world and the spiritual world (one should go after their spiritual food without being told to etc.).
the queen ant is the only one who lays eggs, of which Evelyn laid an egg or two near the children :)
A funny comment from the littlest ones we saw on our first day was when Cissy, our Soldier Ant marched in during our skit, a little boy yelled out "oh, she bites"! That very afternoon at another elementary school, the kids all saluted Cissy as she marched in!
Our fire ant had a great time squirting the kids with water! Madge found this inflatable fire extinguisher online. How cute is that?
I was the sugar ant and they all wanted to taste my plastic lollipops! and the children constantly touched my apron to see if the ones on there were real. We did give each child lollipops in their red bags at the end of the VBS :)
The leaf cutter ant , Jean, snipped away at her leaves during our skit :)
One thing for sure, our ant group had a ball preparing this VBS and giving it. There was a carpenter ant, helper ants, and a mama ant too but I did not get any close up pictures of those. We saved the crazy ant for last each time and the kids loved Lisa going crazy shaking pom poms throwing little balls and giving high fives etc...
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