Sometimes the most ordinary things are the most interesting. This month we’ll take a look at something we see and use every day.
Discover
This column for kids explores nature, science, and God’s amazing, good world.
Plants Planting Plants
Imagine you’re a plant. You eat, you drink, you breathe, you grow, and you make seeds.
Terrific, Tremendous Trees
Trees are a big deal in the Bible, and I can prove it. Ask a parent for permission to go online.
Small Wonders
If I know you and you know me
I’d call you by your name
flashing by on my mind’s marquee
a thumbs up for your famWhen God finished making the world, everything worked perfectly. Adam and Eve had plenty of fine food to eat.
Silent Signals and Secret Codes
Did you know that trees talk? They do! So do some flowers and bugs and other animals.
Word Pictures
Have you ever had butterflies in your stomach?
Has it snowed at your home yet? If you live in the northern United States or in Canada, it probably has.
Mysteries make us curious. We want to know what happened, how, and why. But you say Christmas is not a mystery?
One fine day God told Moses to build a tabernacle—a house for God. God said, “Just build any old thing, Moses.
Consider the Birds
A No. 2 pencil can write approximately 45,000 words. That’s a lot of writing.
Did you ever find money on the sidewalk? Pretty exciting, isn’t it?
Would you like to see something really neat? Then check out a honeybee’s knees.
You don’t feel dizzy. You don’t see a line moving. Yet the earth moves in several ways.
They creep, they crawl, they scuttle, they gallop. They fly, hop, slither, and swim.
Dirt gets a bum rap. Think about these familiar phrases: treated like dirt, dirty looks, dirty jobs.
Extreme makeovers promise to change everything from looks to personalities to houses.
Deep-Sea Forgiveness
The deepest part of the ocean in the whole world is near the Mariana Islands (in the Pacific Ocean, south
You are amazing. Just look at you.
Getting ready for Christmas is kind of like time traveling.
For thousands of years, people all over the world have celebrated harvesttime.
Have you heard berries screaming for attention or seen bees tucking themselves into bed lately?