Object to Go

Hold up the costume beard or the image. Lead a discussion with the comments and questions below:

● Who is the man in this picture from the Bible story? Abraham.

● What do you see on his cheeks and face? A beard.

● Raise your hand if you know someone who has a beard. Children respond.

● Was Abraham young or old? Old.

● Abraham has a white beard in the video. What other color beard might an older man have? Gray, brown, silver, etc.

● In the next video, one of the robots glues a gray beard on his face. Who do you think it is? Doodad, Grip, Gears, or Gizmo? Children guess.

● Let’s watch the video to see who guessed correctly and why he did it!

Leave the question unanswered until it is revealed in the video.

Play Video (Gears Grows Up)

Gears Grows Up

After the video, ask the following discussion questions:

● Raise your hand if you guessed Gears had a gray beard. Children respond.

● Why did Gears want to be old? So he could be in the engineers club (organization).

● What did Miss Tina tell Gears about wanting to be older? Not to be in a hurry to grow up. Enjoy the fun things he can do now.

● Where were Miss Tina and the other bots going that Gears wanted to go too? To the playground.

Gears was happy he could still go to the playground with the others. It is difficult to be patient watching what an older friend, brother or sister can do. But, as Miss Tina said, don’t rush it, enjoy all that you can do at your age now. Growing older will come quickly enough!