Pro-Life 3-D Coloring Art Project {Teaching Kids about the Beauty of Life}

Explaining abortion to kids is hard. My kids just couldn’t understand why someone would want to kill a baby! So the best way I could explain this to them was by using bugs!

Weird, yes, but it worked. I told them this story:

As a child I loved to play in the woods. I loved seeing all the beautiful flowers and trees, I loved all the neat colored rocks, and all the little creatures that God created. But I was like any child. If I found a strange unfamiliar bug it scared me and I would kill it. I often saw a bug that looked like this:

So as a child, this “mini alligator-like” creature freaked me out! Confession time: Sadly, I killed a lot of those little “alligator-like bugs”.

Several years ago, I ordered a batch of ladybug larva as a school project for my kids. The day they came in the mail was an eye opening moment! As you may have already guessed those little “alligator bugs” were really ladybug larva! Oh I was heartbroken! Had I known as a child that those bugs were ladybug larva I would never have killed a single one!

What does this have to do with abortion? Well, after I told this story to my kids I explained that some things may look bad or gross to people but to God it is beautiful and it’s meant to turn into something wonderful! Many moms and dads can be scared of a baby. They may not know how to take care of it, or they may be afraid of how they will have to change their lives because of it. Or they might believe that a baby will cost too much. Whatever the reason is they can’t see what God plans for this new little life. They only see fear, but if they could see what God has planned they could see that God has a wonderful and beautiful plan for each baby, just as He does for us. So really these moms and dads just don’t realize what they are killing. Just as I didn’t realize what I was doing when I killed the “alligator-like bugs”.

To see more images of the larva, pupa and ladybugs… Click on the images to enlarge them:

Just like a caterpillar which is meant to turn into a butterfly, babies are meant to grow into beautiful souls! God has a beautiful plan for these little lives.

Give life a chance! It can be beautiful!