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 - Coin in Fish's Mouth

 Today, we are going to make this "Coin in Fish's Mouth" craft. Who's excited?

I found this little fishy on a Google search for "fish coloring page." I added the verse Matthew 17:27.

You need: cardstock, (scrap paper--optional), crayons, glue, silver coins, (and tissue paper--optional)

So, basically, what you do is print out the fish picture (last picture in this post), and then cut a slit along the bottom lip of the fish with an Exact-o-Knife. (Do this part before-hand if your children are too young to use a knife...which, I'm guessing they probably will be.)

Then, with a blank piece of cardstock (or a piece of scrap paper, like I have below), glue the way I have below: One line of glue down the left-hand side; one line of glue along the bottom, and then quite a bit of glue on the top and right-hand side. If you can't see, click on the picture to make it bigger.

Then, stick the picture on top and press the two sheets together.

You can either have the kids color them with crayons, or you can cut pieces of tissue paper and glue those on like scales. Then, slip a coin into your fish's mouth. The plastic coins we had on-hand from a prior craft, but you could also use those chocolate coins that are wrapped in tin foil. The verse does specifically say "silver coin," and most of those chocolate ones are wrapped in gold paper. If you are a stickler like me, I would unwrap each one, turn the foil inside out, and re-wrap them!

...But that's just me!

Have fun!

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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:

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Sunday School Craft - Jesus Walks on Water

For this craft you will need: cardstock, crayons, scissors, cello bags (or any clear/lightly tinted plastic), and a stapler.

This is what I did. I had cello loot bags. You may use whatever you have as long as it's clear-ish. Tinted cello tissue paper or even plastic wrap might work.

First, I cut the words off the bags.

Then, I opened the bag out.

Then, I slid the disciple boat picture into the crease.

Then, I folded up the plastic. (Notice that the plastic only goes up to about the top of the boat.)

Then, I stapled the plastic in place on both sides.

Then, I cut out a Jesus figure and put him into the plastic.

And there you have it. And you can make him walk on the water to the disciples!

Ta-da!

Here are the templates I made by modifying a Pinterest coloring page and adding a verse in the cloud.

I was able to fit four Jesus-es onto this page to save paper.

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