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Children's Fest 2006

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Children's Fest 2006 The Children’s Fest was, I’m told by all who went, a resounding success. Up to 85 children a day and 35 helpers did so many different things that when I asked lots of people for information they all told me completely different things!

To illustrate the theme of people whose lives were touched by Jesus, a Palestinian village was set up inside the parish church, with three large wooden house faces, and each day a character appeared from one of the houses to tell their story and kick-start the day’s action. On the Monday, Martha (aka Sarah MacConaughie) talked about her busy domestic life and how much time she had spent on chores and work around the house, before realising that other things were important too and learning to spend time listening to Jesus and learning from him. The craft activities for that day followed a domestic theme and included painting spoons, tie-dyeing and making clay pots.

Tuesday’s storyteller was Zaccheus (or David Parsons, if you will) and he talked about the day he’d gone to see Jesus arriving in town and was surprised to be chosen as the person whose house Jesus wanted to visit. From Jesus, Zaccheus learned about the joys of giving and sharing, rather than keeping everything for yourself. All the games and activities followed a Roman theme: toga costumes were made from pillow-cases, and shields were painted. The children built a Roman archway of bricks painted with their names and made Roman coins.

On Wednesday Adrian MacConaughie played a man called Barnabas, who reflected on his childhood and especially remembered the day he’d been to a picnic with his loaves and fish and explained how he too had learned the importance of sharing. The activities had a fish theme and the children iced fish biscuits, made fish mobiles and jewellery and stuck tiles on the huge fish mosaic you may have seen in the Parish Church. Outside there was an anglers’ contest.

I asked a few of the younger children what they had most enjoyed. Jonty was very taken with the Roman games, especially the archery, the tug-of-war and the chance to roll coins along a board with Roman numbers on it and score points. Isaac made a hobby -horse and a threaded necklace, added tiles to the mosaic and iced a good number of biscuits with plenty of decorations. Lucy enjoyed painting a spoon to take home and making a fish fridge magnet and she and Luke also enjoyed decorating biscuits. Frankly, I’m exhausted just thinking about it all. How much more tired must the army of helpers have been? Special thanks, again, to Sarah and Adrian and David and Jenny who put such imagination and creative energy into the whole marvellous project.

Marion Jones


        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        




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