FHE: Jonah and the Whale

For FHE tonight, Aaron did Jonah and the whale. I think we'll be doing our "Follow the Prophet" theme for awhile, although thinking of the activities is getting harder. But Aaron did a fantastic job tonight coming up with something the boys were both thrilled about participating in. As usual we started with the song, here's the Jonah verse:

Jonah was a prophet, tried to run away
But he later learned to listen and obey,
When we really try the Lord won't let us fail.
That's what Jonah learned deep down inside the whale.

The we read the story out of the Bible, which is about 3 chapters long, short chapters, but it's still a lot more than I remembered. Next came the activity, which Aaron had prepared in secret, so I didn't know what to expect.

Aaron spread a blue sheet on the ground for the ocean. Then he told the boys how the Lord asked Jonah to go preach to the people of Nineveh, but Jonah was afraid so he ran away and got in a boat. Aaron had the boys take turns getting in our small laundry basket and Aaron took them out to sea and had them get caught in a storm. Aaron explained that the people in the boat were afraid and threw Jonah over board because he hadn't listened to the Lord.

Then Aaron brought out the "whale" which was our tall laundry basket with blanket taped around it, and eyes and a blow hole taped onto the blanket. The whale swallowed each of the boys, and then spit them up on the land, and Aaron told them that once the whale had spit Jonah out, he went and taught the people to repent and they did and were saved.

Here is a video of one of the swallowings (both Linc and Ivan wanted to be swallowed by the whale multiple times, so we got to reenact the story lots and lots) of the boys.




And this next video is mostly for the grandmas...it's Lincoln singing Follow the Prophet and then telling (sort of) the story of Jonah. It's cute :)



Oh ya, and don't mind Lincoln's lack of pants throughout this post...he just refused to put them on pretty much all day today and it wasn't a battle I was willing to fight at the moment. :)