Object: A large number of twigs or small sticks of wood and cord to tie the sticks, making a cross of wood. It should be rough and not very pretty or neat

This morning, boys and girls, I'm going to let some sticks tell you a story. They're not even very pretty sticks. They're not painted or cut evenly. Most of them don't even have the bark removed. In a way, they're kind of ugly. A long time ago, men cut down some trees that looked like these sticks and put them together with nails and rope and made a ____ . (let them finish the sentence by supplying the word "cross")

They took the cross and put it on a hill and one day they took a man who had not done anything wrong a…