Fruit Inspectors

You may want to do this for a quarter such as June-August.

• Make fruit inspector badges for each person in the family.

• Assemble a colorful paper tree with Psalm 1:3 written on the trunk. Display it on the refrigerator and attach a new fruit each week. (See below)

• Use the fruits of the spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 and represent each one with a different fruit such as: pear = love (1 Cor. 13:8); orange = joy (Lk. 15:7,10); apple = peace (Isa. 48:18); banana = long-suffering (Eph. 4:1-2); peach = gentleness (1 Thess. 2:7); cherries = goodness (Hosea 6:4); lime = faith (Rm. 10:17); plum =meekness (1 Peter 3:4); lemon = self-control (1 Cor. 9:25).

• Each person can cut out and label their own fruit shape to keep.

• Use the fruit as a centerpiece the first day. Eat it as a snack when it is ripe.

• Highlight a different fruit of the Spirit each week for which each family member will look or "inspect" during the week. During family time share observations of seeing the fruit displayed during the week. This will take two to three months, so you may want be consistent for a month and use some of the later fruits once a month until all are covered.

• Begin a grape vine and add small leaves for each observed fruit the first two weeks, larger leaves for each observed fruit the next two week, then bunches of green grapes and finally bunches of purple grapes as the weeks go by.