Building A Family That Will Stand: July 2014

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Scavenger Hunt Fun!

We've two nieces here for the weekend and all six girls have been having a boatload of fun riding horses, swimming, and giggling themselves to sleep. This morning I split them into two teams and sent them on a scavenger hunt. Here's the list and pics of the girls running hither, thither, and yon!

- 1 Bird feather

- 3 Prickley burrs in a Ziploc

- 2 Milkweeds in a Ziploc

- Baler twine

- Small frog in a jar

- Tadpole in a Ziploc with water

- 5 rocks bigger than an egg

- 10 rocks brought by the gravel truck

- 2 Sumac leaves in a Ziploc

- 2 Maple leaves in a Ziploc

- 2 Oak leaves in a Ziploc

- 1 Spirea plant cutting (cut with scissors, include some branch)

- Handful of hay in a Ziploc

- Handful of straw in a Ziploc

- 1 Ant in a Ziploc

- 1 Fly in a Ziploc

- 1 Earwig in a Ziploc

- Tuft of hair from Hank (taken fresh and put in a Ziploc)

- 2 Bobby pins

- 1 Screw and 1 nut

- 1 Original painting of a flower in a pot (each teammate must help paint it)

- 1 Fully completed 100 or more piece puzzle (each teammate must help complete it)

- 1 Sidewalk chalk drawing of a barnyard (each teammate must help draw it)

- 3 Braided “crowns” or laurels out of weeds (each team member must make one)

- 1 Macaroni picture on construction paper (each team member must contribute)

- Each teammate must have some kind of “up-do” when you bring me your treasures.

- Each teammate must be wearing rouge and lipstick when you bring me your treasures.

- Each teammate must be wearing their braided weed crown/laurel.

Oh that we might search out God's Word for His wisdom with such enthusiasm!

Proverbs 2:1-5

"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God."

Psalm 78:1-8

"Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God"