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illustration by Dennis Jones. photo of book by me.

Last week I introduced the See With Me Bible to Asa. He is absolutely enthralled with it and wants me to “read” it to him every day. One of his favorite stories was Moses. Mainly because of Moses’ staff. Remember Asa’s walking stick? As we read we got to relate it to his walking stick and his story.

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illustration by jago. photo of book by me.

At this same time, we were reading The Jesus Storybook Bible (we just re-started it for the 58th time for bed-time stories) and the story that we landed on was the Exodus with Moses. It was really cool to talk about the Passover and the blood of the lamb on the door with the actual Passover and the Resurrection (Easter) coming up soon.

THEN. I got an email from Veggie Tales about their new Blu-ray movies. They have just re-relased six classic movies as Blu-rays. (Which, by the way, I did not have FOUR of these! FOUR!) Well, this Blu-ray doesn’t mean all that much to me but my husband loves his Blu-ray player and will only rent Blu-rays at the Redbox even if it does cost more. Hmph. I think we were buying Blu-rays even before we had a Blu-ray player!

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The first new Veggie Blu-ray we watched was Moe and the Big Exit which just happens to be the story of Moses and the exodus of God’s people from slavery in Egypt! And it’s the sequel to Little Joe which is my very favorite Veggie Tales movie. Of course, I kinda had to remind Asa the Veggie story was mirroring the story of Moses we had just read. After all, vegetables dressed like western cowboys retelling a Bible story can be kind of confusing.

Anywhoo. The Blu-ray shows the Veggies in all their computer-generated glory. It’s crisp, clear, bright and saturated with color. There are fun extras, cute menus and my kids like it because the whole movie shows up as an icon on our tv instead of a basic DVD graphic. What can I say? They inherited their tech-savvyness from their father. Oooh, and the Blu-ray comes with a DVD, too. So you can put that one in the mini-van and keep the Blu-ray in your house!

It was just cool to read and see the story of Moses and talk about it 3 or 4 times in one week. We got to look at it from different angles, discuss small parts of the story and think about it more than if we had just heard it at church. I love when we surround our kids with God’s Word. From a wordless storybook, a bedtime story to a silly Veggie Tales movie we can give our kids the small bites of God’s Word they need. The small bites that will fill them up and lay a foundation of God’s Word in their lives.

So dig out your Bible storybooks from the bookshelf, put your Bible on the coffee table and grab some new Veggie Tales Blu-ray’s to keep the stories of God’s plan and love in front of your kids’ eyes. In fact, I think we might just don our cowboy costumes today and let Asa part the backyard with his walking stick this afternoon! 🙂


Oooh! Wanna get your hands on Veggie Tales Blu-ray RIGHT NOW? Veggie Tales is giving away a FULL set of SIX Blu-ray’s to one happy Impress Your Kids reader today! That’s Pistachio, The Wizard of Ha’s, Moe and the Big Exit, LarryBoy and the Bad Apple, Big River Rescue, and Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella all on Blu-ray! Delivered to your front door! FUN, right?! You’re gonna love it. Just the cases make your old DVDs look like a VHS!

I’ll make it easy peasy for you. Just leave a comment telling me which Bible story you’d like to see turned into a Veggie Tales movie and you’ll be entered to win. (Or some other interesting Veggie Tales, Bible-story, kid-friendly comment is fine, too!) I’ll pick a winner on Saturday, March 17th! Contest closed!!

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Disclosure: Veggie Tales sent me the Blu-ray’s to review. Words and ideas mine.

Comments

  2. My 3 yr old’s favorite right now is Daniel and the Lion’s Den. I haven’t looked to see if Veggie Tales has done that story yet – I should. My almost 2 yr old always ask for baby Jesus when we open our Jesus Storybook Bible.

  3. I haven’t go to see all the movies just yet but would love to see one about sharing, or as James talks about to slow your anger or one about being fishers of men.

  4. I’d love to see something on Paul.

    My daughter is OBSESSED with veggie tales and would LOVE this!!!!

  5. Our toddler loves Veggie Tales! He is having a Western Veggies Birthday in October! Everything at our house is Larry “the Cumber” and BOB! 🙂

  6. I’d love to see something on Zaccheus! My kids love Veggietales & this would be a great gift!

  7. We love VeggieTales! My daughter loves the story of Noah. I’m not sure if there’s already one made of that or not. I’ll have to check!

  9. I would like to see the story of Ruth! My kids are currently obsessed with the wizard of has…and I laugh at all the parallels to the wizard of oz!

  10. I’d have to say I’d love to see one about God’s Grace! Not sure if they’ve done one that really focuses on Grace but I think it’d be great!

  12. My daughter is just starting to watch tv, so I don’t know all of them. But I’d love for her to hear the stories of Joshua and Daniel.

  13. Maybe when Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind or when he was fed by Ravens or just about Elijah in general. Lately we’ve been listening to Larry-boy and the bad apple (that we got free from chick-fil-a) every time we ride in the car. My son just can’t get enough of it and we just discovered that he can quote almost all of the words. He just turned 4 last week so it’s pretty amazing!

  14. I don’t have ANY of those Veggie stories AND we just got a blu ray player for the first time! Please pick me! 🙂
    I would love to see the story of Elijah’s standoff with the prophets of Baal. My son’s name is Elijah, and it would be awesome to show him that story!

  15. I’d love to see more old testament stories. Hannah and Samuel, Elijah, Noah, Ruth… the old test has the best stories!

  17. I’d love to see one on Elijah or more audio cd’s. My son loves listening to the ones we got free from chick-fil-a!

  21. My girls love the Wizard of Ha’s. I’d love to see one on Dina or Naomi (if there isn’t one yet). But Timothy would be a good one too. I’m doing a study on Esther and enjoyed watching the veggie tales Esther story with my girls. They are just sooo good at what they do!

  22. My daughter is currently scared of Veggie Tales (crazy huh?) but I know she’ll grow out of it and I’d love to have these ready for her when she does! 🙂

  24. We LOVE both the Jesus Storybook Bible and Veggie Tales. We currently own one DVD and would love to add to our collection!

  25. My first thought was Elijah and the prophets of Baal…and I see I wasn’t the only one with that idea!

  28. I actually have not seen any of these!!! I can’t think of one that I’d like to see – but I could tell you that when I first became a Christian, I was teaching 5th grade Sunday school at my church and I learned more from watching VeggieTales with them than in my previous 23 years of living! I love VeggieTales!!

  29. I would love to see the parable of the Prodigal Son as a Veggie Tale- done in Snoodles preferably. (I love the Dr. Seuss style rhyme.) I love me some Veggie Tales!

  30. Kiddos and I LOVE our Veggie Tales! Would love to see Noah or a Veggie -take on Proverbs 31 – showing a Biblical family working well together 🙂

  31. Would love to see the story of Zacchaeus – of pride swallowed to climb the tree, of Jesus’s undeserved love & acceptance, and of repentence. Veggie Tales rock!

  33. We love the Jesus Storybook Bible! My son’s still too young to pay attention to veggietales so I’m not that familiar with them. But I do see them in our future!

  34. I love veggieTales and I want my daughter to enjoy them too! {we still very much enjoy the Hermie books we won last time :)}.

  35. I would love to see more veggie movies featuring Jesus – Jesus walks on the water, Jesus feeds the 5,000, Jesus and the sermon on the mount.

  36. we love love love veggietales in our house! i would love to have a veggie storie about jesus feeding the 5,000. learning about miracles, or serving others!

  38. I would like to see a Veggie Tales movie on Jesus performing miracles or one on creation!

  39. I think a “thankful” one would be great including the story of the healing of the 10 and only one came back to be thankful. There are lots of instances of thanksgiving in the Bible, but that could be a jumping off point!

  40. I would like to see a Veggie Tales movie about God’s grace. We had “grace” as one of our daily themes at VBS last year and it was the hardest word for the kids to define on their own.

  43. My kids get a kick out of Balaam and the talking donkey. I think that Veggie Tales could make it an uproariously funny story for children.
    Pauls conversion or shipwreck would be entertaining and a good lesson on obedience.

  45. I would love to see a Veggie Tales on the ten men that Jesus healed and only one came back to thank him. What a great giveaway, thanks!

  49. Hmmmmm….has there been a veggie tales story done about Paul? Would love to see one about Saul’s conversion, I think they could get super creative with that one! Thanks for the giveaway!

  50. Just found your site and I love it already!! Amazing resource for parents and also for teaching children at church. Thanks for the giveaway!

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