Family Pumpkin Carving Activity

I love meeting LMM readers and fellow bloggers! And meeting Alissa (standing next to me above) was a special treat! She is the sweetest gal ever and she’s the designer of my super fab Snuggie.  Alissa will be hanging with us today. Here she is:

Hi, my name is Alissa, aka “The Snuggie Girl.” I blog over at Rags to Stitches and I have a little shop filled with Snuggie cases for your iPads, Laptops and e-Readers.  I’m a lover of my Heavenly Father, a wife to an amazing hubby, and momma to two little ones who are 17 months apart. When I’m not busy running around with them, you can find me sewing in what the hubby calls my “sweat shop” {literally because it is a sunroom} or at my computer blogging my heart out.

I’m SO excited to be guest posting here today. When Ashley asked me if I wanted to guest post for her I literally spent 10 minutes jumping up and down with excitement. Then I started panicking about what I would share with all of you; her amazing readers! Once I stopped panicking I decided to share with you a little tutorial I used recently to share the Jesus story with my little ones.

As I mentioned, I have two little ones and I love to use every opportunity possible to share with them about Jesus. Since I love the fall and all things pumpkin, I thought it would be fun to turn our pumpkin carving fun into a reminder of the reason for every season. This is a really fun, and quick way to talk to your little ones about Jesus while carving your pumpkins.

{One}  As I cut open the top of our pumpkin I talked to my kids about how God created each one of us in a special way and God makes no mistakes. He knows our insides and our outsides.

{Two}  As we cleaned out the pumpkin of all it’s “yucky” pulp, I reminded them how this is a picture of how God takes us and cleanses us of all our sin – casting it as far as the east is from the west.

I took this picture of my kids as we talked to remind them of the joy that comes from allowing God to clean all our sin and make us new.

{Three}  I began carving a SMILING face into our pumpkin and as I was carving I told my kids that the smiling face represents how God makes us into a new creation.

{Four}  After we carved our smiling face into our pumpkin we put a candle inside and lit it. I explained to my kids that Christ comes into our lives as a light to guide us and we need to let this light shine through us so others can see Jesus in us too.

When we were all done talking about letting Jesus’ light shine in us we put our pumpkin on our dinning room table as a constant reminder of Christ’s story. My kids loved it and even talked about the pumpkin while we ate dinner. They told their daddy all about letting the light shine in us. It melted my heart to hear them retell the story.

Thanks Ashley for letting me stop by and share with your amazing readers today. I love meeting new people and I hope you’ll pop by my blog and say “Hello.”

xoxo, Alissa Circle
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