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We’ve been zipping, twisting, and turning through the Bible as we learn to live for God at Animal Adventureland! Park owner Rosie Rider has created each ride at the park to teach us how to live for God. This past weekend, we saw the grand opening of the Peach Penguin Popsicle Stand.

Rosie created the Peach Penguin Popsicle Stand because she wanted everyone to know that God cares for them! Our parents care for us, and God cares for us too! When it’s a hot, sunny day in the park Rosie wanted everyone to grab a popsicle to cool off and be reminded how much God cares for us!

The Peach Penguin’s favorite summer treat is a popsicle! Make these delicious popsicles with your kids and maybe even open your own popsicle stand!

RAINBOW PUDDING POPSICLES from Sandy Toes and Popsicles

INGREDIENTS
2 – large boxes (5.1 oz) instant pudding mix (light colored)
milk
food coloring
Dixie Cups (5 oz.)
popsicle sticks

DIRECTIONS
Prepare pudding according to the directions. (You may need to add a little more milk to make the pudding pourable.) Let pudding stand until it has thickened a bit. Divide into 5 parts and color each part with food coloring. Layer each color of pudding into small dixie cups. Cover with tin foil. Insert popsicle sticks. Chill in refrigerator 2 hours, then place in freezer to completely freeze.

To eat, peal off dixie cup paper and enjoy your pudding pop! Makes 10 – 12 popsicles.

LEMONADE POPSICLES from Cooking With My Kid

INGREDIENTS
1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
4 cups warm water
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup agave nectar
1 package gummy fruits
8 to 10 popsicle molds (or 5 oz. Dixie Cups and popsicle sticks)

DIRECTIONS
Dissolve sugar in water and whisk well. Add lemon juice and agave. Continue to whisk until completely combined. It should be very sweet. (If it’s not sweet enough, it will get bitter when frozen.) Pour liquid into popsicle molds and drop a gummy fruit into each mold. Cover and freeze. Make sure they are frozen all the way through before removing from molds – it takes a bit longer with the gummy inside. Run fully frozen popsicle molds under a little warm water before pulling out pops.

NUTELLA FUDGESICLES from Inhabitots

INGREDIENTS
1.5 c. Chocolate Milk
1/2 c. Nutella
ice pop molds (or 5 oz. Dixie Cups and popsicle sticks)

 
DIRECTIONS
Whisk together the chocolate milk and Nutella until mixed uniformly. Chill mixture for at least two hours. Pour into ice pop molds or dixie cups and insert popsicle stick. Freeze until firm.

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1st – 5th Grade

Monthly Bible Verse: Hebrews 4:12 “For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Bible Story: Jesus Reading the Scriptures | Luke 4:16-21
Main Point: Followers of Jesus Read the Bible
Lesson Overview:

This weekend at BIG Headquarters we learned that life long followers of Jesus read the Bible.

All over the world, followers of Jesus read the Bible and not just because it’s the right thing to do but because they WANT to read it. Jesus read the Bible too!

We can follow Jesus and His example because followers of Jesus read the Bible. Three reasons why we should read the Bible:

1. If it’s important to Jesus it’s important to us. | Reading the scriptures was important to Jesus and as followers of Jesus what is important to Him is what should be important to us. When we read the Bible we discover more of who Jesus is and we discover more of who we are! Jesus read the Bible and we can too!
2. Leaders are readers. | There has never been a time in history when it is easier to read God’s word. How incredible that we have access to God’s Word anytime we want. Now all we need to do is read it! Be a leader, lead others to Jesus, read His word and help others do the same.
3. You can’t read the Bible too much. | The Bible is a pretty big book, but there is no end to what you can read and learn. You don’t just read it cover to cover and put it away. The more you read it the more you realize there is more to know and more to learn. You could read the same passage over and over again and still see something new. God can speak to you in his Word over and over again and as you get older the same passage may take on new meaning for your life.

3 years – Kindergarten

Bible Story: Jars of Oil | 2 Kings 4:1-7
Main Point: God Cares for Me!
Memory Verse: “Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love endures forever.” 1 Chronicles 16:34
Lesson Overview:

 
Quest kids are learning how to live for God during our Summer Vacation at Animal Adventureland! But sometimes when we are learning new things at the park, the weather is super sunny and it gets really, really hot. Animal Adventureland park owner Rosie Rider created the Peach Penguin Popsicle Stand so everyone could grab a nice cool popsicle and know that God cares for them!

Park Guides Zaney Laney and Silly Willie shared our Bible story from the Adventureland Guide. God cared for the poor woman. He helped Elijah care for the poor woman by turning a little bit of oil into lots of jars of oil. Just like God cared for the poor woman, God cares for each of us!

6 weeks – 2 years

Monthly Focus: I Can Pray to Jesus!
Bible Story: Jesus Calms the Storm | Matthew 8:23-27
Weekend Activity: Storm in a Bottle activity

Make your own storm in a bottle! Hold the storm bottle in front of you. Say, “Jesus and his friends were in a boat when there was a big storm! Jesus’ friends were afraid! Let’s create a storm!” Encourage your toddler to shake the storm bottle, creating a storm, and watch as the storm calms. Say, “Jesus’ friends called out to Jesus and Jesus calmed the storm. When we call to Jesus, we pray to Jesus. We can pray to Jesus!”

1st – 5th Grade

Monthly Bible Verse: Hebrews 4:12 “For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Bible Story: Phillip and the Ethiopian | Acts 8:26-40
Main Point: I Know My Bible and How To Use It
Lesson Overview:

This month we headed to Australia on the ultimate road trip! One of the stops on our Australian road trip is to BIG Headquarters, located in Sydney, Australia. While at BIG Headquarters we will learn what it means to be a life long follower of Jesus Christ.

The team at BIG Headquarters taught as that the Bible is like a compass, helping us see what is right and wrong. But we have to know how to use the Bible to find the answers we’re looking for.

In Acts 8:26-40, Phillip helped an Ethiopian man understand what the Bible said. God’s Word will only be a part of us when we open the Bible and read what God has to say to us.

3 years – Kindergarten

Bible Story: King Boy Josiah | 2 Kings 22:1-22:3
Main Point: I Love My Bible!
Memory Verse: “Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love endures forever.” 1 Chronicles 16:34
Lesson Overview:

We’re having fun on our summer adventure at Animal Adventureland this summer zipping, twisting, and turning through the Bible as we learn to live for God!

We met up with our Park Guides Zaney Laney and Silly Willie and they introduced us to another fun ride at the park – The Pink Pig Pineapple Express. Rosie Rider wanted people to know the Bible story about a short man named Zacchaeus, and that no one was too short to ride this ride!

 
After hearing the Bibles story, we learned “I Am Special To Jesus!” – just like Zacchaeus was special to Jesus!

The Park Code (our memory verse) this month is 1 Chronicles 16:34:

Give thanks (prayer hands)
to the Lord (point up)
for he is good; (two thumbs up)
his love (cross hands over chest)
endures forever. (spread arms wide)
1 Chronicles 16:34 (hold up one finger, then three)

Every weekend in June, Quest kids can recite the Park Code for a special prize. We want all our Animal Adventureland friends to know the Park Code and how to live for God!

6 weeks – 2 years

Monthly Focus: I Can Pray to Jesus!
Bible Story: Jesus Calms the Storm | Matthew 8:23-27
Weekend Activity: Jesus Calms the Storm coloring page

Use your toddler’s Jesus Calms the Storm coloring page to review the Bible story and our monthly focus, I can pray to Jesus!, with your toddler. Place the coloring page on the bottom of your fridge to remind you during the week to ask your toddler questions about the Bible story. Tell your toddler when we talk to Jesus, we pray to Jesus. We can talk to Jesus just like the disciples talked to Jesus!