Talking to your kids about lions!

We love sharing resources that families are using to disciple their children.
Especially when they help connect what we are teaching at church with what families can do at home.

Here is the opening activity of Week 75 (Daniel and the Lion's Den) from Thursday's free devotional book Long Story Short, which as of 07.05 was no longer free but still a great deal at $4.39

Bring a picture of a lion to Bible study. Showing the picture to your children, tell them some facts about lions:

• The African lion is the largest carnivore (meat eater) in Africa.
• Male lions can grow eight feet long— not counting the tail!— and stand four feet high. (Show your children how that compares to the size of your living room couch.
• A mature male lion can weigh more than 500 pounds.
• His roar can be heard five miles away. (Give your children an idea of how far this would be from your home.)
• Their needle-sharp claws are an inch-and-a-half long.
• Their longest pointed front teeth are more than an inch long and their jaws are very strong.
• They can run thirty miles an hour in short bursts.
• They can knock down a zebra with one swipe of their paw.

Machowski, Marty (2010-11-03). Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God (Kindle Locations 7188-7194). New Growth Press. Kindle Edition.