Object: A toy tractor.

Good morning, boys and girls. I thought we'd do a little farming this morning. I brought my tractor with me so I could drive through the fields. Do you think this tractor is big enough for me? (response) No, of course this is just a toy tractor. How many of you have a tractor like this? (response) Do you think they had tractors like this when Jesus was on the earth? (response) No, they didn't have toy ones OR real ones. They did all their farming by hand. Farming was a very hard job then, just as it is now. What kinds of things, besides tractors, do we have now that they didn't have in Jesus' time? (Let them respond. If you live in a farming community, you may have more knowledge of this and so will your children.) We have special fertilizers to help the plants grow…