Muddy Children...for Grown-Ups!

I had a dentist appointment this morning, and was home with slightly sore gums, and my homeschooled children decided that the activity for the day was a "Magic Schoolbus" marathon thanks to Netflix. 

So with some home time on my hands, and Spirit Play stories on my mind, I turned my attention to an exciting project: making a Hosea Ballou story...for our adult religious education class!

I'm tickled the adult RE team asked for one. A couple of members of this group were hard to convert! They liked the old way we did children's R.E., and weren't sure Spirit Play was a good fit for our congregation. Maybe it just took time to adjust, and maybe the couple of community worship services featuring Spirit Play stories for all ages won their hearts.

I adapted the "Muddy Children" story in A Lamp in Every Corner, and came up with what I hope is a worthy design and execution.

Here are the story elements, minus the people (Hosea and father, probably will be unpainted pag people) and the underlay (probably beige).

From top left: mud puddle, shirt, bathtub, Universalist church, heart symbolizing universal salvation

And the shirt and bathtub are two-sided, and go from clean (above) to dirty (below).

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