The Lego Tower of Babel

After making our way through the genealogy of Noah I decided that the kids needed something to make this a little more interesting today. I thought an object lesson was going to be the best way to go about this! First, we built what was to be a very tall Lego tower with NO talking, Only grunting allowed, In 5 minutes.This was rather funny!
...to mimic the confusion of languages in Gen. 11.

...in the beginning
It was an effective object lesson if I do say so myself since by the end of the building of the first tower Josiah was mad at Anastasia and upset that the tower did not get put together to his liking. Needless to say he did not want to continue this lesson!

As you can see in my pictures the first tower actually wound up being 3 small towers...that we couldn't quite figure out how to connect because no one really took the leadership.(since we couldn't speak)

The rules for round two were that we could speak and work together. WOW what a difference! Jonathan immediately took a leadership being the expert lego builder that he is! He is my lego maniac. Once the plans were made the tower went up and it became a challenge to try to use every lego no matter what it's shape...It wound up being the better tower BY FAR...
The kids worked together and saw the benefits of communication. They also learned ....
"We shouldn't try to do things so that other people will like us more and think we're better than other people"
We wrapped up the morning with Chapter 12.. Abraham's call and trip to Egypt... in which they learned "If you do what God asks He will be there with you and take care of you" or so they tell me ;)
I'm thinking that this blogging thing is going to have to be every 2-3 days...in order to keep my sanity. But, for now I am loving this!