Tower of Babel

Genesis 11:1-9New International Version (NIV)

The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ² As people moved eastward,^[a] they found a plain in Shinar^[b] and settled there.

³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
⁵ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel^[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

During our History class (Mystery of History) Mystery of History, the kids learned about the Tower of Babel.  Of course this story is nothing new to them, but I decided to make it a little more interesting to them. I had them close their eyes and then I played a tape in Spanish. I then told them to tell me what they said. (Since the just started Spanish at Co-op, I knew they wouldn't know most of the words that they heard on the tape yet)  I told them to imagine how it must have been to be working on this tower and then God confused their language. They had no idea what the others were saying!  The kids said that it would be really hard to get the tower done!  Exactly!

After our lesson, it was snack time, so I thought I would have some fun with it! I had each child make an edible Tower of Babel. They used some round crackers, peanut butter and bananas.

They came out great and tasted even better!  After snack the kids each made their own Tower with the Bible verse going up to the top.