The Lion's Den

I borrowed this craft from here so thank you very much Artesanato Criativo!

 

Craft Supply List

 Clothes pegs (2 for each child)

Googly eyes (2 for each child)

Yellow and Orange Card

Short strips of yellow, orange and red wool

Glue sticks

Put it all together and you get this lovely Lion who stands on his own and can also be a little note holder!

Ringing in the New Year

So I'm a bit late posting this one but this is what we did on Sunday December 30th 2012.

 Instead of new years resolutions we got chatting about what we are going to pray for in 2013.

These were the answers of a few of the 9-12 year olds.

I like how her "hope" got changed to "will"!

After chatting about it for a while I gave them all a print out of a smiley face and laid out lots of different craft materials; coloured card, pencils, colours, crepe paper etc. and then just left them to their own devices designing a picture of themselves in a party hat celebrating the arrival of the new year!

"I hope for the new Barcelona Jersey and I pray that I change" !!

"I hope all of my friends and family are safe in 2013"

   

Thankful Hearts

One Sunday morning I asked the children to draw or write something to finish this sentence:

"Thank you God for......"

love this - truly from her little heart

Flowers and Sausages!

We hung them on the wall to remind us of all the wonderful things God has given us!

Saint Patrick

On St. Patrick's day we taught the children about the truth of St. Patrick

We taught  how God used a young Welsh slave boy to bring the gospel to our small nation. How God used the worst  occasions in Patrick's life, being a slave boy, to change his heart forever. We learned together how no-one is unimportant to God, that God can use any of us.We learned how God spoke to Patrick through dreams and visions. We learned how Patrick was obedient and followed the call God put on his life.
And we learned about Patrick's rich passionate love for the triune God. To remind the children that our God is three in one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit we then made shamrock sun catchers to take home.

Before the lesson you need to cut out the shape of a shamrock on black paper for each child(just draw three hearts!).

Each child needs a square of some light transparent foam for the back. I used the protective wrapping from new drinking glasses I had bought! But you could easily buy some or use baking / grease proof paper.
Anyway, let the kids go crazy sticking lumps of crepe paper on their foam or whatever and when they are done glue/tape it to the back of the black paper.

Punch 2 holes in the black paper, add some ribbon and extra decorations if you wish and voila! A lovely eye catching shamrock sun catcher!

10 Ways to be Perfect

I told the story of the 10 commandments from the Jesus Storybook Bible for a group of ten 4-8 year olds.

Before the story the children made their own little Moses which they each had in their hands during the story too. They used him like a puppet to act out the story as I told it - holding him up high when Moses climbed the mountain etc.

 I got the template from "Sunday School Crafts" which has a lot of fun, free resources like this so check it out! All the kids had to do was colour him in, cut him out and stick him onto a toilet roll insert (you could use rolled up card if you don't have TP inserts but the thicker the card the better). 

The children loved the finished product.

How cute is he!

I wanted to something to give the children an idea of what the tablets Moses would had would be like so I made these super easy little props which the children took turns holding up for the others during story time.

First I cut out the shape I wanted from a cereal box

Then I scrunched up some baking paper / grease-proof paper
I un-scrunched the paper and stuck it on to the card.

Then I wrote the commandments on with a sharpie.
Easy!