The Wordless Book

by Lois Breneman, © 2009, Heart to Heart

The Wordless Book was created by Child Evangelism Fellowship.  It is a wonderful tool to teach the gospel story in living color.  This is the song that goes with the book.  The five colors or words standing for certain colors are highlighted.  The word, blood, is demonstrated by the red page.  The green page stands for growing in Christ. 

My heart was black with sin, until the Savior came in.

His precious blood, I know, (red)

Has washed me white as snow.

And in God's Word, I'm told, I'll walk the street of gold.

To grow in Christ each day, I read my Bible and pray. (green)

A Wordless Book is very easy to make out of black, red, white, gold and green felt.  It can be made in any size, but I'll give you the dimensions of the books I've made.  The book cover is cut 2 3/4" x 4" and can be cut in any color.  The five colors are cut 1 7/8" x 2 1/4".  

Inside the wordless book cover which is folded in half, place the five pages in this order: page 1- black; page 2 - red; page 3 - white; page 4 - gold; page 5 - green.  Fold the cover over the five pages and sew down the folded edge about 1/4" from the edge with a hand running stitch or a straight stitch on a sewing machine.

A very young child (under 2) can easily learn this song or poem.  My grandson has learned how to read in kindergarten this past school year, and I showed him how to read the wordless book as I gave him one.  He was so fascinated and loved it!  I wrote the words to the song on a piece of paper for him and put the paper and wordless book in a sandwich bag just before their trip home last week.