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Kids 4: Activity Day Outline  Next, mix a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of pepper. Get a spoon and rub it against some cloth for 40 seconds. Hold the spoon over the salt and pepper, causing the pepper to stick to the spoon. Ask the kids what they see happening. Explain that we can’t see the force that is causing the pepper to stick to the spoon, but it’s real. We can tell because it’s making pepper move when it usually wouldn’t move. Our faith is evidence of things that we cannot see too.  Blow up a balloon and rub it against a piece of cloth. Turn on a thin stream of water from the faucet and hold the balloon very near the stream, causing the water to bend toward the balloon. Ask the children what they see happening. Explain that they can’t see the force moving the water, but they can tell there is a force there because they can see the water move. We can’t see God’s power, but we know it’s real because we can feel it. Our faith is the proof of things not seen.  Ask each child to close their eyes and hold out their hand. Give them a piece of food (could be a cheerio, apple slice, animal cracker etc.) and tell them to eat it. Explain that although they can’t see the food with their eyes closed, they can feel it in their hand at first and then they can taste it once they’ve put it in their mouth. This proves to them that it’s real. This is like when we follow the example of Christ and then feel our faith grow. The warm feelings of peace and hope we feel are proof from our loving Heavenly Father that the things we can not see are real. Ask the kids if they learned anything through these exercises that they’d like to share. Activity: America the Beautiful Song and Slideshow Sing America the Beautiful together (you can play the YouTube video on page 2 while you sing if desired). Play the pre-prepared slideshow while you sing. Craft: Pillars of Liberty Popsicle stick craft showing the pillars of liberty. Take one popsicle stick and lay it horizontally. Take three more and label them Faith, Virtue, and Patriotism. Glue these three popsicle sticks vertically to the horizontal popsicle stick. Glue a popsicle stick horizontally to the top of the three “pillars of liberty.” Label the top popsicle stick Liberty. Glue two more popsicle sticks to the Liberty stick to form a triangle on top. 4 Cottage Kids ✯ Moms for America