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Life
Application Activities
Life
application of values is an essential element in a program
where participants are learning how to walk with God every
day. During Part 4 of every session (Personalizing the Voyage),
leaders are provided with three different life application
activities to help kids personalize what they have learned:
Pickle Pot Problems, Travel Trunk Activities, and Large
Group Activities. These options help kids answer the question,
"What does this have to do with me?" Life application also
encourages kids to apply what they have learned to everyday
life by putting values into practice right away!
 Pickle
Pot Problems
Pickle Pot Problems are real-life dilemmas that kids may
face every day! These dilemmas can be photocopied onto the
pickle shape (see the clipart in the Director's Guide) and
placed in a pickle jar. Kids discuss each problem in their
small groups and apply what they have learned to solve it.
Large group activities will encourage kids to work together
and share what they have learned with one another. These
activities creatively challenge kids to live out what they
learned.
 Travel
Trunk Activities
Each child also has an opportunity to participate in
a Travel Trunk activity. These Travel Trunk activities will
help kids personalize each session and remind them of what
they have learned during the adventure. A variety of life
application Travel Trunk activities are included in the
program, one with each lesson. Kids will participate in
a simple object lesson activity, which they can share with
their family and friends when they go home. These objects
go into the Travel Trunks and make a great review for after
the Adventure is done.
In addition, there is a daily Travel Trunk activity in which
the children create a "Walk With God" key chain. The key
chain becomes a reminder of each of the godly values and
Bible stories they have learned. On a card, kids are encouraged
to write down one goal for each value they discovered during
the lesson. The kids then place the key chain in their Travel
Trunk to serve as a review of the values learned during
the lesson and a way that each child can put the lesson
into practice in a specific and personal way in their own
life.
See our product
brochure to order enough Travel Trunks for each participant
in your program (or create your own Travel Trunks with the
kids). A sample Travel Trunk is provided in the kit. Click
here to see the Travel Trunk order information.
 Large
Group Activities
Participants are also encouraged to wrap up each session
with a large group activity that reinforces what they have
learned. These activities get everyone talking about, thinking
about, and planning how to help each other to walk with
God every day.
At the end of each session, kids are provided with two great
resources to take home. The first is a Family Connections
Page, which helps encourage the entire family to review
what was learned. This page is filled with a variety of
activities in which everyone participate.
The second resource is a take-home letter from Bob and Larry,
who are excited about their involvement in Jonah:
An Overboard Adventure! and who want to make sure
that kids know God loves them very much!
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