Sea Turtle Puppet $16.99 

 Product #:P:NP8151

This realistic  sea-green sea turtle puppet features a silk-screened shell and moveable mouth and flippers. Make her dive for food or crawl up the beach to lay her eggs. Hand enters from chest area.

Use the sea turtle puppet to tell her story.

 Loggerhead turtles spend most of their lives in the water, but they are not born in the water. The mama loggerhead crawls onto a moonlit beach, almost dragging her heavy body through the sand. With her back legs she digs a hole above the water line and lays her eggs on the beach. She lays almost 100 leathery ping-pong sized eggs. She covers the eggs with her back legs and heads back to the refreshing waters to swim and eat. She lays them and leaves them.

  God put a special alarm clock in the turtles. In about 60 days the tiniest cutest little turtles will hatch out of their eggs at night. Now how do they know to hatch out at night? God made them and He knew that in the daylight more predators could see them and eat them. Birds, crabs and lizards love to gobble the tiny turtles before they reach the water.

  As the turtles hatch one by one they head for the water. But how can they find the water? Some people believe they see the reflection of the moonlight on the water and trudge through the sand toward the light. But environmentalist have noticed in recent years the turtles instead of heading toward their soothing water home, they are traveling toward the bright lights of buildings and roadsides. All the bright lights of homes, roadways and business along the beach are confusing the newborn turtles. Many of the newborns are crushed as they try to cross highways. They are confused by the bright lights. They don't know which light to follow.  

Sometimes the lights can be confusing to people. The bright lights of stardom and popularity can be very appealing. Some people would rather be popular than godly. Sometimes people follow the bright lights of drugs and alcohol, only to end up in a dark lonely gutter. Jesus said "I am the light of the World." Are you following Jesus? If you're not obeying His Word you're not following Him. Jesus and obedience to His Word is the only light that will lead you to abundant life. Following Jesus is the only road to real joy and fulfillment in life. Every other light leads to destruction.

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