The incredible edible locust

The story of John The Baptist

or 

"did he really eat bugs?"

Last year our class studied the New Testament and naturally we learned about John the Baptist.

I wanted the class to become better acquainted with what made John a special servant of Heavenly father as well as give them some insight as to what he was like as a person.  Sometimes the description of John given in the scriptures can conjure up images of  a wild man living in the desert wearing crude garments and subsisting on bugs and wild honey.

Here as they say, is "the rest of the story":

During the time that John was an infant a decree was sent forth across the land that all male children were to be put to death (hence Mary and Joseph left the country with Jesus.) To save the life of his child, Johns' father Zechariah, sent him to live with family in the mountains.  Because Zachariah refused to tell the soldiers where his son was, he was killed and John remained safe.  In his mountain environment John lived and dressed as the mountain people did, wearing rugged clothes made of animal skins and he learned to live off the land resulting in the description given in Mathew 3:3

     

As a fun little take home I found a neat "recipe" for chocolate locust on a Pinterest site.  My wonderful wife being the talented culinary designer that she is, "cooked" up these awesome edible locusts.  They are made from Twix, pretzels, chocolate chips and a bit of "royal icing" to hold it all together.  

I then created a faux label and glued it to a white paper lunch size sack.  Inside we placed four of the treats as well as a small lesson summary for the kids to share with their family.

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