Food is Fun and Beautiful!

Meal Challenge:

Food is fun to discover and beautiful to look at! See if you can put together a meal with at least five different colours.

Fun Food Facts:

• Did you know that rhubarb grows so fast you can hear it?
• Did you know that cotton candy was invented by a dentist?

Opening Activity

Rediscover the fun of flavours by doing a blindfold taste test. Choose five foods from around your house—things like applesauce, jam or diced vegetables. Let every person try each food and guess what it is. Each correct guess gets a point!

Our God is a creative God who not only makes food nourishing but fun and beautiful, too!

Ask: What is the coolest-looking food you’ve ever seen?

There are so many weird and wonderful foods in the world. Have you ever seen a dragon fruit? It looks as cool as it sounds! Its outside skin is bright pink with what looks like yellow scales. And if you cut it down the middle, do you know what you’ll see? Snow white fruit with lots of black specks—almost like cookies and cream ice cream! Pretty amazing, right?

Ask: If you could invent your very own food, what would it look like?

God is the greatest inventor! When He created the world, He decided to make a big, beautiful garden full of colourful things: bright birds, fuzzy animals, tall trees with delicious fruits and, best of all, people!

One of the best things about our God is that along with being mighty, strong, all-powerful and holy, He is creative. When He made the world, He chose to fill it with all kinds of colours, textures, smells and sounds. The songs we sing, the flavours we enjoy in the food we eat—all carefully created by a God who wants us to see beauty and enjoy it!

Next time you eat, take time to look at all the colours, shapes and textures on your plate. Let it remind you that you have a Father who loves you so much that He wants you to find joy in the food He provides for you. Our God truly is an awesome God!

Discussion Questions:

1. If you could eat only one food forever, what would it be?
2. God could have made one or two foods that gave us everything we needed to stay strong and healthy, but He didn’t. Why do you think God made so many different foods with different colours, textures and tastes?
3. What can we learn about what God is like through our Bible verses today?
4. Pick a food that you eat at home a lot that makes you smile. Share your answer with each other and use it to remember the creativity of God whenever you eat it.
5. Encourage kids to draw their made-up food and tell you all about it!

Prayer

Father, we are thankful that we serve a God who is creative. We’re thankful to be loved by a God who fills the earth with so much colour and beauty! Thank You that You chose to make food fun, delicious and beautiful as well as nourishing. When we see the beauty of Your creation all around us, let us sing a song of praise to You! Amen.