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Creative, Simple Ways to Make and Use God’s Big Pentecost Story Symbols
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One of my favorite things about our DWELL at Home devotionals is all the fun, creative ways you can use the story symbols. This is especially true with God’s Big Pentecost story, as it’s a chance to prepare for an important holy day that we don’t always anticipate as much as Easter or Christmas.
Recently I spent an afternoon creating a variety of Pentecost decorations with my family. At the end of our time my daughter said, “I’m so excited for Easter!” (accidentally saying “Easter” instead of “Pentecost”). To be fair, we did this a few weeks before Easter, so I can understand why she was confused. But it was a reminder to me that though we go all out to celebrate Easter and Christmas, in the past we’ve often left Pentecost ignored to the point that my daughter isn’t really familiar with the word. This year, thanks to God’s Big Pentecost Story, we’re ready to celebrate in style!
Here’s how we made our decorations:
To encourage creativity, I got out a bunch of art supplies and then let my family work with whatever they felt like using. Here are the supplies we used: watercolors, markers, crayons, gel pens, red tissue paper (cut into small squares), scissors, and glue. If you want to keep things more simple, feel free to pick just one of those options.
I also printed copies of the story symbols onto cardstock or thick paper. If you don’t have a printer, you can draw the symbol freehand or trace it from your computer screen. DWELL’s story symbols are designed to be simple images that can be drawn by anyone. But if you’re uncomfortable with that, just open the devotional on a computer or tablet, place a piece of paper over the screen, and gently trace the image with a black marker.
Here’s the specific method I used for making each of our decorations:
These are the three suggestions that are included in the devotional, but there are so many more ways you could creatively use the symbol to celebrate Pentecost. You could use the image to decorate rocks and use those as place cards, or print the image at a smaller percentage to create magnets. The possibilities are endless!
Once you’ve created your story symbol decorations, another simple way to prepare for the holiday is to purchase a red tablecloth and pinwheels (I got mine from the dollar store.) As God’s Big Pentecost story suggests, the tablecloth will be on our dinner table all day, signaling that today is different and special, and my children will blow on the pinwheels as we do the devotional when they hear the word “breath” or “Spirit.” See page 5 of the devotional for lots of other easy, fun ways to make Pentecost special.
We would love to see how this resource blesses families at your church. Please share your ideas on our Facebook group or by commenting below. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! And check out A Fabulous (and Free!) Idea to Help Families Celebrate Pentecost at Home for a fun way to get this resource to families.
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