This is a craft and something to read and think about from the Bible. It’s an idea to help families to look at the Bible together. Enjoy!
You need a Bible, glue, paper/card, flower photos from catalogues/magazines, scissors (adult supervision required) and some time to do this together! If you want you can seperate this acitity into two halves – do the cutting out one day and the sticking on another.
To make – use photos from gardening catalogues
You will also need a blue piece of paper or card as your main piece of paper and a brown pece of paper (or any colour you like) for the flower pot. Cut out a flower pot shape that is as wide as your paper (or almost – you will be able to fit more flowers in)
Before you start sticking, place your flower pot on the paper and draw along the top with a pencil (you don’t have to do this but it will make things neater)
Then remove the flower pot and start arranging the flowers. You can stick them straight away or try out different arrangements. If you have drawn a pencil line then make sure that it is covered enough for there to not be a gap between the edge of the pot and the flowers.
Once you have glued the flowers in place add the pot. You can add a couple more flowers so that it looks like your palnts are tumbling over the edge.
The Sarah Raven catalogue had a beautiful photo of one flower
You could also have a go at covering the piece of paper – this can be quite a challenge for children
This is a great activity to talk about colours – name them, talk about favourite colours, what do we have at home that’s a similar colour.
It’s a good activity to practise skills – using a glue stick or glue spreader and for older children scissor skills.
Thinking spot – looking at the Bible together.
Read about how God made the plants from Genesis 1
And God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit in which is their seed…And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11,12b
God made the plants and the trees just by speaking. When a plant flowers it starts the process of producing seed!
When Jesus walked on the earth he did lots of things. He healed the sick, he spoke to people individually, he answered questions, he calmed the storm. He also taught his followers how to live and taught them about God. In Matthew’s Gospel we are told that Jesus went and sat down on the mountain and his disciples came and sat with him. Then he started to teach them.. one of the things he said was about the flowers..
Jesus taught his followers not to worry about what they should wear because of the flowers.
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil or spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matthew 6:28,29
Toil and spin are words that mean work. The flowers don’t work but they still look beautiful. Solomon was a great King. The flowers look even better than his expensive clothes. It is God that takes care of the flowers. Therefore Jesus doesn’t want his followers to spend time worrying because he is able to care for them and give them what they need.
Say thank you to God for the clothes you have.