"With the help of an adult, take a couple eggs and make an omelete or scramble them up. Talk with whoever is helping you and explain how the shell of the egg needs to be broken to be able to use the egg. Discuss how when the limits of the shell are taken off, and when the egg is combined with the other eggs, and then whisked together, that the thing that once was a yolk and a white inside a shell, has now turned into something that is bigger than it was to begin with (and useful!). Talk about how this applies to God using us and others to help us live a limitless life!
The next activity is using eggs. Show your child a regular egg out of your refrigerator. Have your child look carefully at the outside of the egg. Then have your child crack open the egg and put the contents into a bowl. Explain to them that when we are born, we have sin in our lives. Our hearts are not good, they are filled with foolishness and evil. Then take another egg and boil it. Talk to your child about what Jesus did for them. After the egg has boiled and cooled, have your child crack open this egg. Talk about how when we come to Jesus and ask for forgiveness and make him the Lord of our lives, he makes us a new creation, different from what we were. Talk about how the outside of the egg was the same whether or not it was fresh or boiled. Then talk about how the outside of us doesn't change, but our heart and lives do change when the Lord is our Savior.
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