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Treasure Box

Grab

Washable tempera paints, brushes

Beads, glitter, feathers, ribbon

Stickers, stick-on plastic gems

Glue, scissors

Wooden or papier-mâché box with lid

Newspaper

Go

Your daughter’s treasure box will be a treasure in itself! Help her spread newspaper over your work area. Lay out all of the various craft supplies, paint, and glue. Provide her with a water cup for her paintbrushes.

Follow her instructions as you work together to paint her box. Let her choose the colors. Let the paint dry, then begin gluing gems, ribbon, glitter, etc. onto the box. In this case, there cannot be too much of a good thing! When your daughter decides her box is complete, set it aside so the glue can dry.

Grow

While the box is drying, read the following verses:

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matt. 6:19–21 ESV)

Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. (1 Tim. 6:18–19)

  1. Work with your daughter to make a list of the treasures we try to store up on earth.
  2. Brainstorm together to make a list of ways to give and share that “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
  3. Commit to using the treasure box to hold dollars and spare change that can add up to a wonderful gift to help others. Consider the church or organizations to which you may be able to donate your savings.
  4. Pray together, thanking God for all the ways he has blessed you with “treasure” in your lives.

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Dear Lord,

You have blessed us in every way! Please teach us to have thankful hearts and to see all of the ways you share your treasure with us each day. Please give us hearts that care for others. Please show us how you want us to share with those around us. Amen.