Category: Craft
Angel tree topper instructions that are easy to print. We made these angels last year in our toddler group. There are some instructions here on the blog in a previous post but this printable instruction leaflet is much easier to print and share. It can be handy to have some instructions for the adults to … Read More “Angel tree topper instructions” »
Zacchaeus story video and craft idea
A couple of colouring pages … to colour or decorate with tissue paper, crepe paper etc. A few years ago I made a bus colouring page with the words, ‘wherever I go God is there’. (You can find a story and bus colouring page here) But when we are at home and can’t go to … Read More “When I am at home, God is there (colouring sheet)” »
Spring song to make and sing. This made up spring song is to a well known tune – always a safe combination. The tune is ‘the wheels on the bus’. At the bottom of the post there are pictures you can print out to colour and/or decorate. The song is about these guys. Spring song … Read More “Spring song – to make and sing at home” »
Easter garden to make at home is a great way to celebrate Easter. The garden is a reminder of the Easter story and is also fun to make. Traditionally an Easter Garden would be made using soil, moss, flowers etc but this version is made entirely from paper and card – if you haven’t got … Read More “Easter Garden to make at home” »
Easter egg colouring printables! These A4 Easter Egg designs can be coloured or made into collages. Whatever you feel like doing! I’ve used wax crayons (you can blend the colours!), felt tips, tissue paper and some sugar paper circles. Cut out the egg shape after you’ve decorated it. If you want to paint the eggs … Read More “Easter egg colouring printables” »
Children of almost any age can decorate these simple egg shapes. We’ve used them at a toddler group, but they would be great for older children who would be able to do more intricate designs or pictures. To make them you need to start with a salt dough. This is very easy. You need 2 … Read More “Salt dough egg decorations” »
This leaf craft for Palm Sunday is to make at home. All our groups are closed – so this is somthing to make that uses a cereal box, crayons, pens, green pictures cut from magazines (I used a gardening catalogue) and some glue. Hopefully these are things that we have at home. If you don’t … Read More “Palm Sunday Craft to make at home” »
The story is from John 12:1-8 Jesus had almost arrived at Jerusalem! He had travelled a long way. How lovely that he was able to go to his friends house. Lazarus and his sisters Mary and Martha were good friends of Jesus. They wanted to do something special for him so they had a dinner … Read More “On the Way to Easter…Mary” »
Jesus is now in Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. Last time he met Bartimaeus. Now he meets Zacchaeus. Two very different people! To tell the story… from Luke 19:1-10 Have a tree – you can make one from a pringle container or draw one – and a person to represent Zacchaeus. Place Zacchaeus in … Read More “On the Way to Easter…Zacchaeus” »
This is exactly the same basic idea as the blossom spiral that I posted about here https://lettheirlightshine.com/2020/02/20/spring-is-coming/ Instead of blossom I’ve used tissue paper for the sky – you could use anything blue including paint or crayon. But the lovely thing about tissue paper is that I’ve made the strips long so they hang down … Read More “God made the stars spiral” »
Where I live there is already blossom on the trees! So next week at toddler group our craft will be on a spring theme. We are going to be making some spring blossom spirals. There is some prep for me to do beforehand but not too much. The paper plates will need to be cut … Read More “Spring is coming!” »
Next Thursday we’ll be making Valentine cards at toddler group. I buy blank cards with envelopes from Amazon, Hobbycraft or Poundland. The hearts are cut from coloured paper with paper punchers. I like to use pinks, purples and yellows to make the hearts. You could use any colours that you fancy. It’s entirely up to … Read More “Valentine craft” »
Every now and then we do a series of toddler group stories about women. Most of the adults in our groups are women and it is easy to tell stories each week that are all male! So we intentionally include the women. Here are five Bible stories about women with a craft…
There are several Bible Stories that you could use this craft for – creation, calling of the first disciples, the large catch of fish.. It is mini fish cut out of sugar paper, tissue paper water and sea weed, some cellophane, blue, green and yellow crayons and a piece of sugar paper.
Man with four friends craft is ideal for young children to make with minimal help. Sometimes it’s nice to make a craft that you can also use for telling and retelling the Bible story and this craft does just that as you make the man and his mat! The story is from Matthew 9:1-8; Mark … Read More “Man with four friends craft” »
After the Christmas break I like to get back into toddler group crafts in a fairly simple and straight forward way – so, we will be making calendars this week. It’s a good way to use up bits and bobs of craft materials that are left over from last year and to make use of … Read More “Happy New Year!” »
Links to ‘how to make’ the characters (specifically the angels but the same basic idea is used for Mary, Joseph and the shepherds too) and the manger The stable is a cardboard box covered in tissue paper. If you cover the inside of the box with yellow paint or tissue paper the characters will show … Read More “Paper Plate Nativity” »
Luke tells us that shepherds were told that the Saviour had been born! ‘For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord’ Luke 2:11 So here are some shepherds to make … using paper plates
All you need for this craft – paper party bags, shredded tissue paper, stars, baby picture, glue, crayons or material for the swaddling cloths. There is a lot of cutting out to do beforehand and not loads for children to do – they decorate the baby, add the tissue paper and the star – so … Read More “Jesus is born craft” »
There are lots of Bible stories that include angels so this craft isn’t just for Christmas! But obviously we often make angel crafts at Christmas so here is a paper plate angel that stands up and could be used as a tree topper. All you need – paper plates (cheap and quite thin as you … Read More “Angel!” »
‘Jesus stops the Storm’ was another of our weather themed stories at toddler group. It’s from Luke 8. It’s a great story to tell – lots of drama with the wind blowing and waves crashing, frightened disciples, dark skies and Jesus sleeping! Craft Idea This craft is in two parts; the lake made from a … Read More “Jesus stops the Storm” »
Isaac is born craft for young children to enjoy making. The tent opens up to reveal Abraham and Sarah with baby Isaac! We’ve made an Abraham tent craft before – for the story of how Abraham left his home and went to the land that God promised to give him (Genesis 12). Click here to … Read More “Isaac is born fun and easy craft” »
I first made a paper plate stained glass window back in 2015! You can take a look at the blog post and instructions here – click this link There is quite a bit of prep for this craft but it’s so worth the effort. It looks lovely! This year I thought I would add some … Read More “Christmas stained glass – paper plate!” »
There is a page of mini arks all ready for downloading and printing here Basic Noah’s Ark (x 8) We did this craft a couple of weeks ago when we were doing Bible Stories on the theme of weather. We used tissue paper, crepe paper, cellophane wrap, cotton wool and paper clouds.
Making a Bible town scene is one of my favourite Holiday Bible Club crafts. It fits with so many Bible stories as it is just a scene of a town. It’s fun to make and 3D. All you need is To Assemble the children need to – We bought the background scene from creativeforkids.com (as of … Read More “Bible town scene to make” »
Group craft to make! offers an alternative to having everyone make something to take home. Some things really lend themselves to a big group make. For example you can draw a large Goliath to decorate with collage material, make the Tower of Babel either build the tower with cardboard boxes or create a 2D version … Read More “Group craft to make!” »
Baby Moses 3D craft for young children. This is a lovely Baby Moses craft that is easy to make and very effective. It uses easy to find materials that take just a little bit of time to prepare. All you need for this Baby Moses 3D craft – Baby Moses Story (This story is based … Read More “Baby Moses 3D craft” »
Lydia hears about Jesus when Paul and Silas visit the town of Philippi where she lived. The story of Lydia is from Acts 16:11-15. Here are Lydia (with her purple cloth) and Paul and Silas. Lydia hears about Jesus Bible Story Bible Truth for toddlers – Jesus is for everyone Say hello to Paul and … Read More “Lydia hears about Jesus” »
To make – sugar paper, tissue paper, cut up petit four cases, heart shapes, wool, crayons, glue, people shapes (bought from Amazon – girl shapes and boy shapes) These can be cut into individual people. Let the children choose how many people to add to their family and friends picture.
All you need for these crafts …. Sugar paper, glue, pictures cut from catalogues and magazines, felt, feathers, satin type fabric, wool, ribbon, stars, pictures of birds singing, pictures of musical instruments and paper plates. For ‘Things I like to smell’ spray the pictures with perfume beforehand. (If you can have some real items for … Read More “Our five senses craft” »
There’s been a lot in the news about how our planet is in danger. We are losing biodiversity at a faster rate than ever before. We need to be grateful for the beautiful creation that God has given to us. Even young children can be encouraged to value the natural world and care for it. … Read More “God is good! He gives us the beautiful world.” »
Mary and Martha are two grown up sisters that we meet in Luke 10:38-42 . They live in Bethany. They are mentioned three times in the Life of Jesus. You can also read about them in John 11 – when their brother Lazarus is bought back to life – and in John 12 – when … Read More “Mary and Martha” »
I thought I’d put all the animal bible stories and crafts that we’ve done at toddler group in one place! These are all suitable for under fives. We have ravens, bees, big fish, lions, fox and sheep. Of course you could add Creation and Noah to the list for even more animals! Animal Bible Stories … Read More “Animal Bible Stories and crafts” »
Nehemiah was given the job of rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. His enemies made fun of him, ‘if a fox climbs on your wall it will fall down!’ (Nehemiah 4:3) they said. But Nehemiah kept building and with God’s help the wall was finished! In the story bag – wooden bricks for the wall (not … Read More “Nehemiah and the fox! – animal stories” »
Week three of Bible animal stories was Jonah. Craft Idea – Can you spot Jonah? He is hidden away inside the big fish! Here is a PDF of the fish whale (1) Jonah was made from cutting up concertina people bought from Amazon. The sea is crepe paper strips and cellophane strips. You have to … Read More “Jonah and the Whale (big fish) – animal stories” »
We are doing stories based on the theme ‘Animals in the Bible’ this half term at Thursday Toddler Group. We started with creation – lots of toy animals in the story bag that we named. The following week we did Daniel in the Lion’s Den from Daniel 6. In the story basket there were Daniel, … Read More “Daniel in the Lion’s Den – animal stories” »
This year we will actually have our Thursday toddler group on February 14th. Valentines Day is often in half term but not this year! So a special ‘keepsake craft’ is in order. Something special for parents and toddlers to make together, write the date on the back and keep. Baker Ross sell card hearts that … Read More “hearts for valentines day” »
We’re doing stories from the life of peter at Tuesday toddler group. last week it was the calling of the first disciples (Mark 1:16-18. Peter is still called Simon at this point. We have used the name peter to save confusion). The craft was paper plate fish. This week it was the healing of Peter’s … Read More “Healing of Peter’s mum-in-law” »
Christmas star craft
These paper plates can be used to tell the Christmas story and/or as craft ideas. They need some prep so I’m posting them now! The Angel Gabriel visits Mary – Luke 1:26-38 Jesus is born – Luke 2:1-7 The shepherds are told about the birth of the Saviour – Luke 2:8-21 You can tell … Read More “Christmas story paper plates” »
Autumn craft and activities to enjoy! I love making seasonal wreaths. They can be taken home and used to decorate. It is good for children to see their art work displayed and treasured. We’ve used faux leaves for this wreath that were bought. You could use cut out leaf shapes instead and add tissue paper … Read More “Autumn craft” »
A 3D harvest picture made from a cereal box is a different craft to the usual – it takes a bit of effort to prepare but is well worth it. You need a cereal box for each child. We asked our church to donate boxes over several weeks. So to do this craft for harvest … Read More “Harvest – cereal box 3D picture” »
Jesus told the story about the Wise and Foolish Builders as part of his Sermon on the Mount. You can read it in Matthew 7:24 – 27. It’s a great story for using actions as you tell it. And of course there is the song. If you search youtube for ‘the Wise Man built his … Read More “The Wise Builder craft idea” »