OUR COLORFUL SYNONYM TREE

with contributions from Emilia, Ella, Christa, Sheri, Steven, Jake

Earlier this year, a fifth-and sixth-grade Sunday School class in Boulder, Colorado, worked on a special project. To learn more about God, the students and their teacher created what they called the "synonym tree." They started with a cardboard tree trunk and wrote ideas about God on the trunk. Then each week they added a branch for one of the synonyms, or names, for God they were studying. On the branches they wrote things they were learning about the different aspects of God. The kids also liked to cut and paste colorful quotes and drawings from my Bible Lesson onto their branches and leaves. This activity helped them get a bigger sense of God. "The project was very colorful," they said, "and so is God!"