This is called an evangelism cube (it's the kid version, there is an adult version too) It's a pretty cool tool for teaching kids about salvation. I first saw one when a friend of Aurora's was playing with one and used it to explain salvation to me! (this was a year ago, he was 3!) After that I was sold on these!
I found them at one of the Christian book stores near us a few months later (CBD also has them) and Aurora still loves it. She looks at it all the time, opens it all the different ways to see each picture and tells me what they mean (or mostly, I keep explaining it to her)
Oh, an something funny,
The verse Aurora is working on learning right now is Proverbs 12:22 ("The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who speak the truth") and Aurora loves it, but she thinks it says "lion's lips" not "lying lips". No matter how many times I tell correct her she is convinced it's about lions. :-) It makes me laugh.
My husband and I are both big into memorization, when he was a kid they memorized whole books of the Bible, to this day every Christmas they recite Luke 2 instead of just read it (they read it too though).
Memorization always came easy to me as well and was something I enjoyed, poems and verses alike (and a good amount of Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking Glass, on of my favorite classics )
When Caleb decided to start Aurora on a full length verse I admit I was a bit skeptical, sure she can sing most of Chris Tomlin's songs word for word but that is music and she is still not quite 3. I suggested he shorten it for her but he insisted that she could and would learn it the way it really is so he divided it into 4 parts and worked with her for about 5 minutes on the first part. To my surprise she got it right away so I figured, he must be right.
After about 8 days she could say it perfectly without prompts. She still sometimes makes mistakes, she leaves out the "so" in "so loved" and sometimes she skips over "Whoever believes in Him (which is a pretty important part) but she is getting it and even explained it to her older cousin (4). We will continue to work on it for a few more days and then start her on another one, while reviewing this one.
Here she is saying it, she was a little distracted and not in the mood but with the promise of a treat she let me video tape her saying it. :)
