HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMEONE PULL AN April Fools’...April Fools’ JOKE ON YOU? OK, this story is...
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M aybe your brother put sugar in the salt shaker, or your friend said that your school was cancelling recess for the rest of the year. Think those are the best April Fools’ jokes ever? How about this one? In 1957, a news reporter in Britain announced that Switzerland was experiencing a really good crop of spaghetti. Spaghetti trees were growing LOTS of spaghetti because the temperatures had been warm and the spaghetti weevil had left the crops alone. Spaghetti weevil?! There were even pictures that showed workers harvesting the spaghetti from the trees. Talk about a big April Fools’ joke! Get this – hundreds of people called the TV station after the report was given. They wanted to know how they could buy spaghetti trees so they could grow their own spaghetti! Evidently, spaghetti was not an everyday food in Britain at the time. It was considered a very special treat. Before you start laughing, do you know where spaghetti comes from? If you say it’s made in factories and comes in boxes, you’re right! If you think spaghetti really grows on trees, maybe you should do a little research! (And yes, you can look the story up on the Internet to see that we’re not fooling you. This TRULY happened.) HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMEONE PULL AN April Fools’ JOKE ON YOU? OK, this story is really funny and very interesting, but let’s talk about something a little more serious for a bit. Psalm 14:1 says that the person who says there is no God is a fool. This isn’t an April Fools’ joke. It’s right there in the Bible. So maybe your unsaved friends don’t run around school yelling, “There is no God!” But if they don’t trust Jesus as their Savior, they’re not acknowledg- ing that God sent Jesus to save us from our sins. So in a way, they ARE saying that there is no God. It’s important for you to tell others about Jesus so that they can trust Him and have eternal life in heaven! Hell is not funny. It’s not an April Fools’ joke! Whom can you share the gospel with today? April 2015 ©2015 Awana ® Clubs International. This newsletter may be reproduced only by churches registered with Awana. Visit us at awana.org. PAGE 1
Transcript of HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMEONE PULL AN April Fools’...April Fools’ JOKE ON YOU? OK, this story is...
Maybe your brother put sugar in the salt shaker, or your friend said
that your school was cancelling recess for the rest of the year. Think those are the best April Fools’ jokes ever? How about this one?
In 1957, a news reporter in Britain announced that Switzerland was experiencing a really good crop of spaghetti. Spaghetti trees were growing LOTS of spaghetti because the temperatures had been warm and the spaghetti weevil had left the crops alone. Spaghetti weevil?! There were even pictures that showed workers harvesting the spaghetti from the trees. Talk about a big April Fools’ joke! Get this – hundreds of people called the TV station after the report was given. They wanted to know how they could buy spaghetti trees so they could grow their own spaghetti! Evidently, spaghetti was not an everyday food in Britain at the time. It was considered a very special treat.
Before you start laughing, do you know where spaghetti comes from? If you say it’s made in factories and comes in boxes, you’re right! If you think spaghetti really grows on trees, maybe you should do a little research! (And yes, you can look the story up on the Internet to see that we’re not fooling you. This TRULY happened.)
HAVE YOU EVER HAD SOMEONE PULL AN
April Fools’ JOKE ON YOU?
OK, this story is really funny and very interesting, but let’s talk about something a little more serious for a bit. Psalm 14:1 says that the person who says there is no God is a fool. This isn’t an April Fools’ joke. It’s right there in the Bible. So maybe your unsaved friends don’t run around school yelling, “There is no God!” But if they don’t trust Jesus as their Savior, they’re not acknowledg-ing that God sent Jesus to save us from our sins. So in a way, they ARE saying that there is no God. It’s important for you to tell others about Jesus so that they can trust Him and have eternal life in heaven! Hell is not funny. It’s not an April Fools’ joke! Whom can you share the gospel with today?
April2015
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Sometimes Easter takes place in March, and sometimes it’s in April.
This year, Easter is on April 5.
Think about one way your family celebrates Easter.
What is Easter? Why is it special?
Just think about it …
What do you call an elephant at
the North Pole?
Lost?
Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York
Harbor?
Because it can’t sit down.
Who designed Noah’s ark?
An ark-itect.
Why was the doctor mad?
Because he had no patients (patience).
APRIL BIRTHDAYSApril 13 - Thomas Jefferson (U.S. president)
April 16 - Charlie Chaplin (English comedy actor)
April 27 - Ulysses S. Grant (American general and then U.S. president)
Photography by Joe Biafore
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April 2015
Figure This Out!Look at the April Fools’ Jokes listed below.
Some of them REALLY happened! Check off the ones that you think really happened.
One April Fools’ Day, THE GOVERNMENT reported that it found life on Jupiter.
April Fools’!! These are ALL real April Fools’ jokes!
A FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT advertised a left-handed burger. It was made especially for left-handed people – to make it easier to eat.
A GROCERY STORE announced that it created a new carrot. This new carrot grew with holes in it so that it could be played like a whistle.
A PROFESSOR announced that he invented a TV that allowed you to smell what you saw on the screen.
A NEWSPAPER announced that there were to be sharks put into the local lakes to see how they handled a cold win-ter. These sharks were a new kind of freshwater shark.
A picture of a man flying through the air was put in NEWSPAPERS. The man said he used a motor that made the air from his lungs powerful enough to help him fly.
Photography by Ljiljana Pavkov
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Of course, most importantly, April 5th is Easter, the day when we truly celebrate the biggest event of history (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
April is Brussel Sprouts and Cabbage Month, and National Frog Month.
Holidays in April include:April 3 – Good Friday April 5 – International Pillow Fight DayApril 5 – EasterApril 12 – Big Wind DayApril 16 – High Five DayApril 23 – Talk Like Shakespeare DayApril 25 – World Penquin Day
