As the Christmas season approaches, I want to make you aware of some upcoming events for your family at NewSpring Church.

First of all, don’t forget about your Operation Christmas Child boxes. We will be collecting the filled boxes this coming weekend and also on the 19/20th. If you need some information on how to pack a shoe-box, just click here.

KidzWorld FX, Jingle Jam Edition is a fun Christmas program for the whole family. It will be December 9th at 7 p.m. in the main auditorium. Your child has an opportunity to participate in the program as a Jingle Jam Caroler. You can get all the details here.

NewSpring  Christmas Eve services will happen Friday, December 23 at 5 and 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, December 24 at 3:30, 5 and 6:30 p.m. All KidzWorld environments will be open for children from infant through 5th grade for the two services on Friday and the first two on Saturday. NO KIDZWORLD during the 6:30 service on December 24th.

Have a great day!

As a family, you need to create a masterpiece using various household objects. When you have finished your creation, take a picture and email it to kidzworld@newspring.org with an explanation of what it is and why you created it. All of the submissions must be sent in by October 28 and will be entered in a drawing to win four free tickets to see Tim Hawkins Live ($60 value) on November 17 at NewSpring Church. The winner will be announced in the four weekend services on October 29/30.

How many states border the Pacific Ocean?

Answer: 5
California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii

Bonus question: How many states start with the letter M?

Answer: 8
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Minnesota and Montana

How many states border the Pacific Ocean?

Bonus question: How many states start with the letter M?

Answers will be posted tomorrow.

The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

The New Testament has 7,959 verses

On average, the human tongue has 2,000–8,000 taste buds and they only live for 10 days. On Mr. Dan’s blog you can do a taste testing experiment with two simple ingredients, an apple and potato.

Taste Testing Your Tastebuds

We all know that some foods taste better than others but what gives us the ability to experience all these unique flavors? This simple experiment shows that there’s a lot more to taste than you might think.

What you need
small piece of peeled potato
small piece of peeled apple ( same shape as the potato so you can’t tell the difference)

Instructions

1. 1.       Cut your pieces of potato and apple.
2. 2.       Close your eyes and mix up the piece of potato and the piece of apple so you don’t know which is which.
3. 3.       Hold your nose and eat each piece, can you tell a difference?

What’s happening?
Holding your nose while tasting the potato and apple makes it hard to tell the difference between the two. Your nose and mouth are connected through the same airway which means you taste and smell food at the same time. Your taste buds can recognize salty, sweet, bitter, and sour, but when you combine this with you sense of smell you can recognize many other individual ‘taste’. Take away your smell and you limit your brains ability to tell the difference between certain foods.

We would love to hear what you discovered from this experiment by leaving a comment.

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