In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas suitable for using at toddler groups and with young children in church or at home. Genesis 1 tells us how God made the world. Everything was made in a precise order and all of creation was good!
These crafts are easy to make. You need a variety of craft supplies and some preparation is needed. Below is a list of everything you need but be creative and use what you have. Magazines are great for finding pictures for crafts so have a look at what you have at home and ask people to be on the lookout for pictures on calendars and greetings card. It’s much easier than printing pictures from the web! The star shapes I have used were from a box of craft items that I found in a charity shop.
If you are running a toddler group or church group ask for donations of wool, fabric, greetings cards and used calendars. It’s like collecting treasure in the form of craft materials!
In the beginning God made – days 4-6 – craft ideas – everything you need
Tissue paper (various colours)
Paper plates – cut into moon and sun (see photo)
Small cup cake cases (I used metallic – brightly coloured would be fine too)
Small pasta stars
Star shapes
Pictures of birds cut from magazines
Pictures of animals cut from magazines
People shapes
Wool and fabric
Crayons
Glue (if using the pasta stars you will need PVA glue and glue spreaders. Glue sticks are fine for everything else)
Fish shape printed out
‘In the beginning God made…’ labels printed out
Animal stickers
A3 paper
Black A4 paper or card
In the beginning God made the sun, moon and the stars
In the beginning God…crafts days 1-3 for toddler groups and young children to enjoy making. In Genesis 1 we learn all about days of creation. These crafts cover the first 3 Days of Creation from Genesis 1:1-13.
All you need
Patterned muffin cases and cup cake cases – trim these to look like flowers
Blue paper
Large lollipop sticks
Shiny paper
Black paper – A4
Cotton wool shapes (make up remover pads are great!)
Blue and green tissue paper
Red dot stickers
Tree shapes
Cardboard rolls (toilet rolls or you can buy cardboard rolls if you prefer)
Blue paper – A4
Blue paper, different shades cut into waves
Brown paper cut into hill shapes
Glue sticks
Crayons
In the beginning God made light
To make ‘In the beginning God made light’ use the black A4 paper and put the label in the centre. The children then add the shiny paper shapes and can use white crayons to decorate.
To make ‘In the beginning God made sky and sea’ use the blue paper and tissue paper to make the sky and sea (different shades work well) and then add the label.
In the beginning God moved the water and there was land
To make ‘In the beginning God moved the water and there was land’ you need some blue paper for the sky and sea plus some brown for the land. You can add some clouds too.
God made the land on Day Three, when he also made the trees and plants. You could add cut outs of plants and trees to the above picture or make some extra crafts.
Here’s a download for the tree shape. It’s best to print it onto card. Ahead of time make two slits opposite each other in the cardboard roll. After the tree shape has been decorated it can be slotted into the tree trunk.
The next three days of creation include the sun, moon and stars, birds and fish and animals and people! When God saw everything he had made it was very good. 🙂
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