Candle – colouring stained glass craft. This is a very simple candle craft – you can choose whether to cut out the flame and glue tissue paper to the back for a stained glass effect or just colour in the flame or add some glitter!
And you can choose whether or not to add a Bible verse to the heart shape. Sometimes it depends on how much time we have for preparation and the age and stage of the children who are making the craft.
One of the downloads for the candle craft comes with the words from John 8:12 printed on the heart, the other is left blank.
In the picture the bible verse is written by hand but I felt the downloadable version needed an upgrade!
The picture is made up of
- a candle – to represent light,
- a heart – to remind us of God’s love, and
- the Cross – to remind us that Jesus died for us and in doing so showed his love for us.
This would make a great Memory Verse craft to help children learn John 8:12.
What you need to make the candle colouring stained glass craft
- Wax crayons or blendable colouring pencils are great for adding colour to the candle design; they can be layered and blended (you can use felt pens but I’m not sure that they would have such a good effect as sometimes you just end up with a streaky effect! If young children are using felt tips it’s best to make sure they are water based pens )
- Glitter (optional)
- Yellow tissue paper if cutting out the flame and adding the stained glass effect
- Glue if doing the above
- Printouts of the design
