Ooh this is so fun, especially for you naturally crunchy Christian moms who want to get your 1000 hours outside in 2026 plus instill a love of Bible stories in your children’s hearts.

It’s Old Testament stories told with rock art by Patti Rokus! This is perfect for the Come Follow Christ study this year involving the Old Testament, from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

My fun, darling, amazingly creative and smart Veggie Gal pal Patti Rokus, shown above, is one of my dearest friends. She writes gorgeous picture books illustrated with her rock art.

Watch her below tell the story of Sarah and Abraham. This story is what we are studying this week for my church’s Come Follow Christ scripture study.

Want more of Patti? Watch her below telling the story of Adam and Eve.

Go to her playlist here to see her telling even more Old Testament stories. You can use them this whole year as you do Come Follow Christ with your children.

Did you know the LDS Gospel Library App has a section full of her resources for teaching the Old Testament this year? Watch the video above to learn how to find it.

Patti is also featured in the video below in a Friend to Friend broadcast for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2021. Catch her at the 28 minute mark teaching children how to make rock art.

You can buy her books here on amazon. (I receive a small commission if you buy the books through that link.) She also has a miracles of Jesus book in the works!

Then here is her website so you can get even more resources from Patti!

Below is her story of how she came to find rocks as part of her walk with Jesus Christ.

I hope all this motivates you to find the beauty, wonder, opportunities for play and other blessings from God in the everyday, as you walk with Jesus too.

I love Patti’s idea of using rocks for art for three reasons:

1. Almost anybody has fairly reasonable access to rocks.
2. Looking for rocks gets you outside to enjoy nature, all of God’s creations, all for free!
3. Rocks remind us of Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate rock for us to base our lives on, as it says in The Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ: “And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.” (Helaman 5:12)

May we all feel inspired to learn of God in the ordinary, even rocks, and and feel joy! Rejoice!