Sunday School Craft - Days of Creation....In the Beginning

I searched Pinterest and Google and wasn't thrilled with the "Days of Creation" Sunday School crafts there, so I found one I could modify, and modified it. 

This is my finished craft:

What I didn't like about most of the ones I found is that they used big words like "atmosphere" and "heavenly bodies." The classes I am responsible for are 2-year-olds and 3's & 4's. That means that the days needed to be overly-simplified. Also, since it was a craft, I kept wondering how I could make it tactile and 3D....Then I realized: DOLLAR TREE!

I went to Dollar Tree and bought a bunch of stickers. I found jewel stickers to represent "light" and then found foam stickers of the following kinds: flowers (plants), circles (planets), glitter stars, birds, land animals, and people (sports athletes). I also found some Finding Nemo stickers to use for fish. Then, I stuck them all on the corresponding days. I used a glue stick and a spread-apart cotton ball for the clouds on "Day Two." Pretty straightforward!

Little kids love stickers! Plus, there is barely any mess to clean up!

Here is my template:

The End!

Sunday School Craft - Jesus Calms the Storm Spinning Wheel

I am particularly proud of this one because, even though I ripped the idea off a Oriental Trading craft. I actually made it all myself by clipping and pasting Google clip art and Pinterest coloring pages all together. I made the wheel myself...Anyways, enough about me!

You will need: cardstock, crayons, brad fasteners, glue sticks, and scissors.

This is what it looks like. The verse about Jesus calming the storm is in the cloud on the back piece. There is a circular wheel with storm clouds on one side and sunny clouds on the other on the middle piece. The front piece is the water and the boat with Jesus and His disciples.

All I did was create, print, and cut out all three templates (at the very end). Then, I took a pen and poked through the designated holes in all three pages like this:

Then, I sandwiched the pieces together connecting them all with a brad fastener.

The back.

Then, I glued the front and back pieces together on either side.

Right side:

Left side:

(Don't glue the wheel!!!)

Here you can see the wheels with the top being calm and the bottom being stormy.

And here are the templates! Have fun!

The front:

The middle:

The back:

The End!