As I began to think about formulating some kind of timeline for looking at Biblical prophecies and demonstrating that they were quite distant in time from the event prophesied, I really did not stop to think about making an electronic version. I was looking at various types of paper that might accommodate the making of a timeline.
Then came the Easter Conference, which was a Bible conference hosting some hundreds of people at which meals were served. The conference was held in a secondary school, with the messages being given in the auditorium, and meals served between these meetings in the cafeteria. This latter room had many table in it, and to facilitiate the process, white plastic sheeting had been bought to cover the tables for the various meals. The tables could thus be easily wiped down, and, as well, there would be no damage to the wood beneath through staining and the like. These sheets also gave a nice look to the worn cafeteria tables, worn down by generations of students dining at them.
When the conference ended, there was the Big Clean-Up. We wondered where we should put the sheets, etc., etc. We were told not to wipe them down, since they were to be "thrown out." Well, my heart went pit-a-pat, and I thought,a t once, that there would have to be a good use for such relatively unused and serviceable plastic, oh, oh, INCLUDING a possible use for, guess what? a TimeLine.
I asked if it would be all right to take one or two away, and it was. Other people were also collecting sheets that would otherwise be disposed of. Away we went with our treasures.
The point made by all of this is that plastic sheeting, roughly of the type one might utilize as a shower curtain, is a very durable material with which to make a timeline -- especially a pictorial one, which might be done with permanent markers.
My second point is that one wonderful source for the pictures one might use is the "Free Bible Story Coloring Pages" offered by many websites. The Tower of Babel pictured here is one such example.
Of course, it is not possible to throw the plastic sheet into your printer -- at least, not if it is like mine, but what you can do is make a black and white copy of such a drawing, tape ti to the back of your plastic at the appropriate place, then trace it, using, say, a glass table with a light beneath it. I did not have such a table, but used a glass sheet and did a fair bit of acrobatics before getting the job done!
Did find that the BIG permanent markers were rather messy and difficult to use. In addition, when one would try to color, afterwards, the black of the markers tended to mess up the coloring. I found, eventually, that an ULTRA-SHARP marker was ideal for the outline, and did not "run" when the colors were added.
One caution: you will likely have to utilize somewhat unusual colors for filling in the pictures, some of the time, at least. The problem seems to be that permament markers, unlike highlighters, tend to come mostly in the darker range of colors. You may get yellow, but most colors are not that light.
Still, given the fact that most illustrations are mere artists' conceptions, the pictures and their coloring will mainly serve to remind the child -- and the teacher, I'm finding -- of the location of an event in timehey were somewhere there at the border..
I did not try, in many cases, to put the pictures exactly in their time sequence in a century, because the logistics wee such that it was a matter of getting them to fit. I DID try, however, to make sure they were in the right century.
Below, you will find an example of a free coloring page I found on the Web in relation to the Tower of Babel. I ended up coloring it light blue, if you please, because I had no grey or tan or really light brown or such. I did find that the chart looked extremely much better if colored than if not, however.
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| Naomi/Ruth |
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| Jezebel/Ahab |
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| Joseph/Some brothers |
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| Miriam |
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| Pharaoh |
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