Can you see the pips inside this apple? What are pips? If they were planted, what would they grow into? Can you stretch up and show how high an apple tree can grow?

An apple tree can grow considerably taller than a person.

Jesus once asked the people listening to him to think about an even tinier seed which would grow into a big tree.

Matthew 13:31-32

Jesus told them another parable: 'The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man takes a mustard seed and sows it in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches.'

We also have a saying: 'Tall oaks from little acorns grow.'

What do you think Jesus' story and our saying mean?

Here's an extention of the story....

"Noah and his family were tired and sad. The animals and birds were tired and sad too. They had been in the ark for a very long time. When at last the door was opened they slowly made their way outside. The sky was still cloudy and dull. Smelly black mud covered everything in sight. Everyone was unhappy at what they saw.

But God hadn't forgotten Noah and all the creatures. To make them feel better, he decided to put a rainbow into the cloudy sky. 'I shall make a rainbow,' God said, 'and it will be one of the most beautiful sights in the world.'

So, first of all, God made a stripe of red. 'In my new world,' he said, 'red will be the colour of bright poppy flowers, ripe apples and robin's chests.'

Then came orange. God said: 'Orange will be the colour of pumpkins, autumn leaves and ginger cats watching goldfish!'

Yellow was next. God decided that yellow would be the colour of buttercups and the honey made by busy bees. '

'Here's a nice colour,' God thought, as he mixed green. 'I shall make lots of things that are green, like cabbages and caterpillars, grass, and grasshoppers too.'

And next to green God put blue and indigo. 'Blue and indigo will be the colour of the sea and the sky,' he decided.

Finally God added purple. 'Purple,' he said, 'will be a very special colour. I will use it for butterfly flowers and hills covered with heather. It will be the colour of delicious grapes and juicy plums.'

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple all shone brightly together in the rainbow. Noah smiled when he saw the colours in the sky, and the animals felt happy too! It was God's promise that the world would soon be new again. "

What would you chose to represent the colours in your rainbow?

Let's hope we see a rainbow today!