Ancient Marketplace...You should have seen the ancient marketplace that was set up at church today. For 4 weeks, the kids in Sunday school will be visiting a different merchant in the marketplace. Just as in the time of Jesus' birth, there is a census being taken and the time frame recreated. It was really cool. All of the Sunday school teacher's were even in costume and did a skit in the church service right before they released the kids for Sunday school. Today, Jacob's group went to the toy maker and made homemade dreidels. Jacob, Julia and I spent quite a bit of time this afternoon playing the dreidel game. I looked up the rules on the internet and we broke out the coin jar to use as tokens. Jacob is really looking forward to next week when his group goes to visit the perfume maker. There is a lesson to be learned with each merchant and will be culminated at the end of the 4 weeks. What a great idea!