If you haven’t introduced your kids to the fun of playing with real clay, I encourage you to buy some at your local craft store. Don’t get the play clay or the colored clay strips, but the real gray clay potters use.
Take your kids outside and spread out a plastic tablecloth or something that can be easily wiped down. Place a bowl of water where your kids can periodically wet their hands to smooth their creation. Cut off a block of clay and encourage them to create a pot or dish.
As they work, share with your kids that in Bible times people couldn’t go to Target and buy dishes when they needed them. Everything was created by them from clay or by a local potter. They would have been very familiar with how a potter formed dishes and pots, as they probably had to go to a pottery studio more than once to commission or purchase pieces. The ideas the Bible shares about God as the potter and people as the items he creates from clay would have made perfect sense to them.
Unless your kids work with clay, they may never understand all of these verses on the level they were meant to be understood. Here are some of the lessons you can share with them as they work with their clay:
Still on the search for quality summer reads for your teen? I have already had a couple of teens I know ask if I am aware of any good books for them to read. I think the new book 
Summer often brings reading lists for kids and teens. Sometimes, they are given specific books to read, but often there is a lot of freedom. Wouldn’t it be great if some of that extra reading time could be spent reading books that will encourage your children to live godly lives? There are actually quite a few good Christian/positive secular books for kids and teens on the market.
When people talk about serving others, you will often hear comments about how “good” it made them feel. While at times that feeling may be a part of serving, I don’t find anything in the Bible that talks about that as our goal or the measure of whether our service was actually meaningful. In fact, many times true, godly service is hot, smelly, dirty and can even feel unfulfilling.
If you have been a parent for more than probably five minutes, you have realized humility and parenting often go together. When those rare minutes occur that allow you to think ever so briefly you might actually be a half way decent parent, something will happen to remind you to be humble. (My personal list is very long!)