Just today it occurred to me that I should try and carve out some time to put together some Bible stories that I can read to my 3 year old daughter. So I added yet a 5th Bible project to my already full plate of projects exploring the scriptures. At our home, every night at my daughter's bedtime we have "story time" and 19 times out of 20 the duty of reading the bedtime story usually falls to me (with Mommy filling in on those nights when I'm away minding the grill or otherwise occupied). It's not really a chore of course -- I truly enjoy it! While we have obtained some very good books, and my daughter loves them, it has been really hard to find good Bible stories. Many of the Bible stories for children are either too sappy, overly wordy, or just plain boring. Trust me I know you only get just a few seconds to grab a kid's attention. If it doesn't register right away -- forget it!
The other day I found some cheap books with accompanying CD-ROMs of 4 popular Bible stories (Noah's Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Samson & Delilah, and David & Goliath). I was excited to play the CDs and let my daughter read along (she loves to do this). To my disappointment while the pictures were okay, the music was really poor, the narration was painfully boring, and the sound quality was just plain weak. I thought then I would have to search the Internet for something better when I find the time.
That was over 2 months ago. I have not yet gone out looking for better Bible stories and just today it dawned on me . . . "hey, why don't I just make something up." It would be a nice little project for me to take the scripture which contains the story and extract out a narrative and dialog with some added content to provide a more interesting snippet suitable to read to toddlers, pre-schooler, and grade-schoolers. So today, without giving it any further thought, I created a project folder on my computer and I'll browse through the Bible for an appropriate first story to tackle. My first thought is, well just start at the begging with the story of Adam and Eve and simply move through the Bible chronologically. But, I realize that just the Lee brain working . . . little kiddos don't care about that kind of structure and it doesn't matter whether they are in any kind of order.
So, the plan at this point is to just randomly pick a story and start building out something a little person can digest and make it something fun. This should be interesting.
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