Is Song of Songs, in its simplest form, a children's story? Cinderella is. Snow White is. Why not Song of Songs? Song of Songs was the greatest of King Solomon's songs. It's a story song. Kids relate to story songs. It's about a king and a peasant girl and romance that leads to marriage.
Without ever touching the elements of the story that will wait until kids are older, Song of Songs is amazingly full of real concrete images that adults find so elusive when talking with children (sights, sounds, taste, smell). - some of them Middle Eastern sensory experiences that adult westerners haven't even experienced first hand. (the smell of a Henna blossom)
It's full of "outdoors" imagery. Preschoolers love animals. They visit apple orchards and pick apples. Preschoolers learn body parts. They do sensory- identification and sensory memory activites learning to identify, use, and remember objects using their 5 senses . They learn about siblings and friendship. There's a focus in the story on love leading to marriage. There are lots of potential angles.
We can come at it from any of these angles, so why am I still wrestling?
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