Sunday School Craft - New Year - "This is the year that the Lord has made" Party Stuff!

So if you are like me, you were planning all this stuff for Christmas and COMPLETELY FORGOT about New Years! So. . .here is a craft for the procrastinators and overly-busy!

First step, go to Dollar Tree and buy some party hats and blowouts.

Next, print out my template (at the end).

Then, glue the 2018 sign. . . 

And stick it to a hat!

Now, let your kids run around and be sure to give them a lot of sugar before you send them back with their parents! ;)

Happy New Year!

Template:

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Sunday School Craft - Burning Bush (Moses)

I tend to use tissue paper and glue sticks a lot. That's because we already have them in the craft closet, so I try to use what we got! 

Today, the lesson is about Moses and the Burning Bush.

You need: cardstock (or regular paper), tissue paper, scissors, glue sticks, and crayons.

First, print out the template at the end (which I totally ripped off from Google). Then, let the kids color everything except the leaves of the bush.

Then, glue over the "leaves."

Then, attach cut up pieces of tissue paper. (It looks best if you crumple the pieces and kind of push them together on the glue-y surface.)

Pushing the pieces together creates a 3D effect.

Done!

Template:

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Sunday School Craft - "Let There Be Light" Creation Glow Bracelets

So. . .our children's curriculum is starting over again which means. . .

I had to think of another Creation craft!

I have done three different crafts for the days of Creation (you can see them here, here, and here), and I knew I could probably get away with just reprinting one of those older ones for the kiddies this week, but. . .let's be honest. Little kids know what crafts they have done, even if the parents have forgotten! I had to think of a new one!

So. . .I took a trip to Wal-Mart.

There I found glow bracelets five for a dollar, so. . .let there be light!

You need: cardstock (colored is optional), hole punch, scissors, and glow bracelets.

I made a verse sheet (Genesis 1:3) in Publisher, and you can print it out at the end of this post if you want to do this craft too.

Cut out the verses.

Punch a hole in either side.

Insert the bracelet into the holes and. . .you're done!

If you do this craft during the day, be sure to turn out the lights and cover the windows so the kids can all see the bracelets glow!

Template:

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Sunday School Craft - Feeding the 5000. . .Five Loaves and Two Fish

So the little kids are going to learn about "The Feeding of the 5000" in a week or so. I searched Pinterest and Google for theme-worthy crafts. Most of them just showed five loaves and two fish with a pertinent Bible verse. . .which is fine. . .but I wanted to show the multiplication aspect of the miracle!

You need: cardstock, regular paper, glue, and scissors.

So if you scroll to the bottom, you will find my templates I created from Google graphics. You need to print out the same number of each page.

Then, you need to cut out the loaves and fish into vertical strips like this. (If you use a paper cutter like I have in the picture below, it works better if you cut the pages upside down as the fish column is wider than the loaf column, and won't get stuck under the cutting guard--yellow part.)

It helps if you print the basket page out on cardstock, but regular paper will work too. I only used the colored cardstock you see below because we have a ton of colored cardstock and I'm trying to get rid of it!

Next, you need to fold each fish/loaf column EXACTLY like the picture below: With the fish/loaf facing OUT. Don't start by folding the fish/loaf inward or your craft won't make any sense.

Then, make the next fold like this:

And the next like this (keep folding until the whole column is folded up):

The folded columns.

Then, glue the "bottom" fish/loaf of each column and stick them on the page.

*NOTE* The effect is more dramatic if you glue them in such a way that they will jump out from the center of the page. This will make more sense in the next pictures:

Here, I have lightly taped the sides of each folded column down, so you can see the five loaves and fish.

And here they are unfolded and "multiplied"!

UPDATE: Shortly after I posted this to Facebook, my friend, Lisa, printed the craft out for her son, Jaren.

He loved it!

Templates:

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Sunday School Craft - House Built on the Rock vs. House Built on the Sand

This one is straight-forward. I found this picture in a Google search and added Matthew 7:24, 26 to the top.

You need: Cardstock, cotton balls, glue sticks, crayons, and glitter pens/ jewel stickers (optional)

Glue the cotton balls onto the clouds. Use the glitter pens and jewel stickers to make the rain. The kids can color the houses. And you're done! Easy!

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Sunday School Craft - Daniel in the Lion's Den Lion Paper Bag Puppet

I realized that most of my Sunday School crafts only work if you have a printer, so I decided to do one that you could do completely free-hand.

You will need: Paper lunch bags, orange and yellow tissue or construction paper, black marker, and crayons.

I did print out the verse and glue that at the bottom, but it's optional. If you want it, I have the template at the end.

First, I drew a lion face on the bag so that it's mouth was split at the fold as you can see below.

Then, I opened the folded part and drew an oval with teeth and a tongue.

Then, I took one sheet of yellow and orange tissue paper.

I folded them up.

Then, I cut them like this: In threes with the middle part twice as long as the outside pieces. (This is because the outside pieces are folded. This will make all three sections the same width.)

Then, I stacked the three sections and cut them into strips.

Then, I started gluing the pieces around the lion's head.

That's it! Now you can make the lion shut his mouth like the verse says!