Purpose: To think about what influences life.

Material: Noisemakers

Lesson: Did any of you stay up last night (or whenever New Year's Eve was) until midnight? ... Many people do this. They stay up until that time so that they can welcome in the new year. And very often people welcome in the new year with noisemakers like these. (Share whatever noisemakers you can find. Let them make noise together.) This is a very old custom. It goes back to the time when people thought that there were bad spirits about and t…