The Little Theotokos

Introduction

Watch a 5-minute video from Be the Bee: "God's Mother, Our Mother". 

Activity 1

Play some of the interactive online games for Entrance of the Theotokos.

Activity 2

Make polysporia (bean salad) and give thanks to God for the things He has given us, like all the food harvested in the last few months. There are polysporia recipes here and here.

Lunch Snack

Eat some of the polysporia.

Activity 3

Use a matchbox painted gold (or use yellow construction paper to make a similar size box), and tape toothpicks or popsticks to the sides and yellow feathers to the top to make a little Ark of the Covenant. Print out and cut the attached printables, discussing how the Theotokos has become the new Ark and how the things in the Ark are types of Christ: the manna and the Bread of Life; the tablets and the fulfillment of the Law; the budding staff and the virgin birth.

Activity 4 

Wear white to church for the Entrance of the Theotokos.