Cheerful Cookie Box
excerpted with permission of the author, Kathy Ross
from "Crafts for Christian Values"

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Sue:
Kathy Ross, the popular craft book author, has written a new book craft book called Crafts for Christian Values.

Her latest book is filled with wonderful crafts and ideas to help children learn about Christian values and what they mean. Kathy has designed a terrific collection of crafts specifically designed to encourage children to practice Christian values. While the kids are having fun they are also learning the kinds of behavior that God expects from them.

Thanks Kathy for another delightful and fun book!
(see a the FREE craft excerpted from her book)
see an interview with Kathy Ross about this book
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Cheerful Cookie Box

" To have empathy is to try to understand how someone else might feel."

You need:

• Two identical disposable plastic containers with lids
• Photos, drawings, and old greeting cards
• Scissors
• Sticky bow

What you do:

1. Cut a total of four different pictures to fit with the edges slightly overlapping, around the four sides of one of the containers.
2. Lightly set one container inside the other. Slide the pictures down between the two containers to cover the four sides. Press the inner container down to secure the pictures in place between them.
3. Place a lid on the top container. Stick a sticky bow on the center of
   the lid.
4. Fill the container with some yummy cookies and surprise someone who might be feeling sad or lonely.
   
   Bible verse to read
   1 Corinthians 9:22

Interview with Kathy Ross

Sue:
Your book Crafts for Christian Values is a wonderful learning tool and delightful book full of terrific ideas. How would you recommend parents and others use your book?

Kathy:
When parents choose a craft to make with their child it provides the perfect opportunity to talk about the value that craft is designed to forward. Values are a pretty abstract concept for children. Providing them with a tangible project that reflects the value being taught is a helpful and fun way for children to begin to understand loving behavior.

Sue:
Children learn in all sorts of ways. In all of your books you
emphasize that "hands on" learning is the most effective way for children to learn. Can you tell us briefly why you think this is so important?

Kathy:
I think, because I personally need to be physically involved, to fully learn and understand a concept, I have felt very committed to creating simple ways for children to be involved in understanding what they are being taught. I never felt like I was working at school when I was involved in learning with more then my ears. I'm afraid I quickly tuned out an adult who talked "at" me for too long. I wanted to act it out, recreate it, draw it, look at it, sing about it...anything but sit there and hear it for hours and hours. I believe that learning should be a delightful experience rather then a boring one. To move around, to touch, to recreate the things that are being taught is a very natural way for children to learn.

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