AHAAARGH!

[PARENTS! The sound quality on the video isn't great - I'm still learning how to use the recording equipment. The passage is Job 28 (NIV-UK), which you may prefer to read out loud as the video is playing instead.]

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Ahoy there, m'little rapscallions! Today we're a goin' a treasure huntin'! Pirates like treasure, and we like a huntin' it. 

My favourite treasure is PEARLS. But some scallywag did hornswaggle (cheat) me and instead of a treasure map he gave me a chapter of the Bible to read! I don't think I'll find treasure there, do you? 

This is the passage he gave me from the Bible, it's Job 28 ...

Shiver me timbers! He didn't run a rig (trick me) after all! Wisdom is the greatest treasure! So that's why he gave me this Pearl of Wisdom and said, "That'll remind you!"



P'raps you'd like to make one o'these, m'little buccanneers?!

Here's how.

1. Get yer mum or yer dad to cut and paste Proverbs 8:10-11 (below) and print it out on a clean sheet of paper. (The font is Viner Hand ITC)

Choose my instruction

instead of silver,

knowledge rather

than choice gold,

for wisdom is more

precious than rubies,

and nothing you desire

can compare with her.

Proverbs 8:10-11

2. Carefully TEAR the paper all around the passage.

3. Stick the passage onto a piece of card. We used the inside of a cereal box. Pirates like cheerios.

4. Using PVA glue or hot glue, stick a small piece of bubble wrap onto your card. Glue a bead pearl inside a sea shell, and then glue the shell to the bubble wrap.

5. To make your Pearl of Wisdom look old and piratey, squeeze the excess moisture out of a used tea bag then 'paint' the card and the edges of the passage with the tea bag. Be careful not to 'paint' the printed words as they will smudge!

Right then, m'hearties! I'm off. I'll not be seeking gold or silver no more. It's not an 'X' that marks the spot, it's a
 


[For a pirate's glossary of terms, click here]