Trash
Snack Recipe
12
oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1
cup peanut butter
1
stick butter
12
oz. box Crispix cereal
1
lb. powdered sugar
1
white kitchen trash bag
In a saucepan, melt chocolate chips, butter and
peanut butter. Put the Crispix into a large bowl. Slowly pour the
chocolate/peanut butter mixture over the Crispix. Lightly stir until all Crispix are coated.
Take a medium white kitchen trash bag and put half
of a one pound bag of powdered sugar into the bottom. Pour the bowl of
chocolate covered cereal on top of the sugar. Cover with the rest of the sugar.
Tie the top of bag and carefully shake the bag. Store in ziplock bags.
Water Bottle Flower
Craft
Water bottle
Scissors
Colorful Fingernail polish
Glitter glue
Optional pin or barrette base
I saw
something similar on one of my favorite crafts sites and had to put my own spin
on it. Recycling crafts are a fantastic
way to make use of things that would otherwise be thrown away and damage the
Earth that God made.
Cut the
bottom off of an empty water bottle.
That is the part you will use for your flower. Trim the circle to make four or five petals
depending on how the bottle is made.
Now, this is
the neat part. Preheat your oven to 225 degrees F. Place the plastic flowers in an aluminum pie
pan and set in the oven for about 10 seconds.
Watch it carefully. It will start
to shrink and curl. Take it out as soon
as it is the desired size and shape. Let
it cool.
Paint the
petals with the fingernail polish. This
gives it an enameled look. Put a drop of
glitter glue in the center of the flower.
Use it to decorate a package or box.
Optional: Hot glue the flower to a pin or barrette base.
Other ideas:
Use the sides of the bottle to cut into shapes for necklaces and key ring
tabs. Cut circles from the sides of the
bottle and decorate to make bangle bracelets. Cut shapes from craft foam and
glue to the lid to make your own stamps.
See how much of the bottle you can use.
Waste Not, Want Not
Lesson
Ezekiel 16:49-50 (KJV) Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister
Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in
her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And
they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them
away as I saw good.
When God
gives us plenty of anything, He means it to be a blessing to us and a way for
us to bless others. If we misuse that
blessing by eating too much, being selfish and making a lot waste it becomes
sinful. When we take more than we need
of something, we are taking from others.
There are many people in the world who do not have all they need. Taking more than we need is greediness. That is wrong because it hurts others. Living a careless throw away life style hurts
the environment that God told us to protect.
It is a way of being prideful and putting our desires before God’s.
People used
to often say, ‘waste not, want not.’
That was a way of telling us to make the most use of everything we have
so there will be enough to go around for everyone. A modern way of saying the same thing is, ‘reduce,
reuse, and recycle.’ Reduce means using less of something. We often use more than we really need of things. Reuse means to use something again instead of
getting a new one. We do that when we
give our outgrown clothes and toys to someone else who needs them. Recycle
means taking the material from something and making it into something
different. Try to make a habit of doing
at least one of these every week.
Consider
having the children in your group collect soda cans for a month. Take them in to the recycling center and plan
together how to use the money to help someone.
Deuteronomy 8:17 And thou say in
thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. 18
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power
to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy
fathers, as it is this day.