Making an autumn/fall wreath is a great way to celebrate the change of the season. This uses a home made cardboard ring. You can buy them pre made for larger groups. This is a simple autumn wreath. What you need: A card circle with the middle cut out. You can buy these but I drew round… Read More Autumn/fall wreath to make
A is for Adam! This is the start of our Bible Alphabet. We’ll have a Bible Story connected to each letter each story time for 26 weeks. There will be lots of variety as some letters will stand for people, others for places and some for jobs! a is for Adam story idea A long… Read More a is for Adam
E is for Eve. Although the bible doesn’t say that Eve ate an apple we used an apple to tell the story from Genesis 3 as it’s a familiar fruit for the children. It worked well having two real apples to choose from held by a person pretending to be a tree. Then an adult playing… Read More Bible alphabet – E is for Eve
This lion craft is great when telling the story of Daniel praying to God and being thrown into the lion’s den. We’ve been going through a Bible alphabet and have used Daniel for the letter d. You could also tell this story to teach children about prayer as Daniel prayed each day and didn’t stop.… Read More Lion craft – Daniel
Following on from where Jesus was born – Bethlehem – who took care of him? Mary and Joseph. In this story we concentrated on Joseph and the job he did. With young children I sometimes like to have some objects in a bag – it keeps them interested and watching what is going on and… Read More Bible alphabet – C is for carpenter
B is for Bethlehem where Jesus was born. Although it isn’t Christmas it seemed a good idea to do the story of Jesus’ birth for B. In our craft we made pictures of Bethlehem and for the story we used visuals from a book called ‘A Saviour for you’. The pictures are fantastic. Available here http://cefresources.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=95_97_101&products_id=423… Read More Bible Alphabet – Bethlehem