Follow Up - OT - Ruth and 1 Samuel

A week ago I taught a primary lesson on the story of Ruth, which involved some unusual culinary treats for the kids. One of them involved having the kids taste some sliced baguette bread dipped in balsamic vinegar, which split the crowd, with half the kids enjoying it and one or two spitting it out into the wastepaper bin that I luckily had to hand.

Making sherbet was a hit though, and the kids had a blast with this. I had a couple of helpers for this class, and we made a bunch of makeshift paper bowls before the lesson started. (I tried following the instructions here but then gave up and just made one up.) Each kid was given an aliquot of sherbet in their own paper bowl, which they could dip into as they pleased. Two unanticipated side effects (which were painfully obvious in hindsight) were (a) getting icing sugar over their Sunday best (oops), and (b) having a bunch of hyper kids exit the class (double oops).

Using sugar in the sherbet experiment made for some slightly hyperactive kiddos. Photo by Mathilde Langevin on Unsplash

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