Mr Keep Going is the story of Nehemiah who organised the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. It was a difficult task with plenty of opposition and problems but he kept going! In the storybag - Dolls/puppets/Pringle people to represent Nehemiah and Sanballat and some builders tools/tool box Mr Keep Going - Bible Story Say… Continue reading Mr Keep Going
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The Philippian Jailer
The Philippian Jailer Bible story is found in Acts 16:25-34. Paul and Silas are in prison at midnight at the beginning of our story. By the end they are having a meal with the jailer and his family. For young children a few details have been ommitted or simplified. The Philippian Jailer Bible story idea… Continue reading The Philippian Jailer
In the beginning God made – days 1-3 – craft ideas
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… Continue reading In the beginning God made – days 1-3 – craft ideas
Easter egg with cross symbol craft
Easter egg with cross symbol craft ideas for children of all ages! The basic printout of the symbol of the cross hidden in an egg shape can be used in several different ways. Very young children can decorate the egg with crayons and tissue paper. Older children (10 plus) can trace the picture onto tracing… Continue reading Easter egg with cross symbol craft
Abram leaves home
Abram leaves home is part of our Story Series ‘What’s in God’s Big Book?’ We started by making a Big Book and then each week we take out a page for our story. So far we have done God made everything , First sad day, Noah built the Ark and The big tower to Heaven ( I tell the story first… Continue reading Abram leaves home
Hannah Prays Story and Craft
Hannah Prays story and craft for young children. A Bible Story all about talking to God and how God hears us when we talk to him. The Story is from 1 Samuel 1:1-20 Hannah Prays - Story Bible Truth for Toddlers - God hears us when we talk to him In the story bag we… Continue reading Hannah Prays Story and Craft
David defeats Goliath
David defeats Goliath is a well known Bible Story found in 1 Samuel 17. This is a simple retelling of the story for toddlers Bible Truth for Toddlers - God helps us God's people were in a lot of trouble! They were hiding in their tents! Every day their enemy laughed at them. Their enemy… Continue reading David defeats Goliath
W is for Water from the Rock
The People of God were in the wilderness. They had escaped from Egypt but were thirsty. They moaned! God told Moses to strike the rock and out came water. The story is from Exodus 17:1-7 W is for Water from the Rock - story idea Have you ever felt hungry? God's people had been hungry… Continue reading W is for Water from the Rock
Samuel heard God’s Voice Story and Craft to make
Samuel heard God's voice. At first he thought it was Eli calling to him. But, after hearing his name being called three times and running to see Eli the priest realises it is God calling Samuel. The story is found in 1 Samuel 3:1-10 Samuel heard God's Voice story idea In the story bag have… Continue reading Samuel heard God’s Voice Story and Craft to make
The Wheels on the Bus Craft
The Wheels on the Bus is a well known and often sung song at Toddler Group so we made a fun craft to go with the song. The Bus can be decorated with collage materials and crayons. We added some fun face stickers too. Some ideas for collage materials Tissue paper squares (lots of colours)… Continue reading The Wheels on the Bus Craft
Make a beautiful picture for Spring
Make a beautiful picture for spring using stickers and colours! There are loads of great stickers suitable for young children and if you don't feel like using glue they are a good alternative. It also saves you from having to find lots of pictures to cut out so a really useful time saver. When you… Continue reading Make a beautiful picture for Spring
Treasure in a Field – Stories Jesus Told
This Story is from Matthew 13:44. It's all about finding treasure in a field. It's just one verse but one clear meaning too - being in God's kingdom is worth more than everything else. Treasure in a field story Idea You need some treasure in a box, a green blanket/cloth and a trowel or spade… Continue reading Treasure in a Field – Stories Jesus Told
Parable of The Builders – Stories Jesus Told
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links which means if you click on the link and purchase the item I will receive commission at no extra cost to you. This parable of the builders is from Luke 6:46-49. It's a great story to tell as you can dress up as a builder,… Continue reading Parable of The Builders – Stories Jesus Told
The Lost Sheep – Stories Jesus Told
Lost Sheep Bible Stories with two craft ideas for different age groups.
Easter Craft – a paper Easter Garden
Easter Garden Craft Easter Craft - a paper Easter Garden that is easy to make. Easter Gardens are lovely but if you don't have the time to make a garden with soil and real plants then this is a simple alternative. It is a great reminder of the Story of Easter. To make the Easter… Continue reading Easter Craft – a paper Easter Garden
The Man with Four Friends – A Bible Number Story
The Man with Four Friends is our next Bible number story in the series. We are up to the number four! For the other numbers we have told stories about have a look at these links - Number One, Number Two, Number Three This week the Bible Story is from Mark 2:1-22. The Bible Truth… Continue reading The Man with Four Friends – A Bible Number Story
Jesus and Three Disciples – A Bible Number Story
Jesus and three disciples is our next Bible number story. We are up to the number 3. This Story is from Matthew 17:1-13. (We have already thought about Jonah and One Big Fish and Noah and Two of Every Animal.) This week's Bible Truth for Toddler's is, 'We can listen to Jesus.' To tell the… Continue reading Jesus and Three Disciples – A Bible Number Story
Candle – colouring stained glass craft
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… Continue reading Candle – colouring stained glass craft
Noah and two of every animal – A Bible Number Story
Noah and two of every animal is our second bible number story. Last week we thought about the Number One and Jonah and the One Big Fish. This story is all about counting to two! The Bible Truth for toddlers is, 'Those who trust in God are rescued'. You can read the story from Genesis… Continue reading Noah and two of every animal – A Bible Number Story
Jonah and the One Great Big Fish – A Bible Number Story
Jonah and the One Great Big Fish - A Bible Number Story. We are thinking about counting in toddler group. So we have some Bible Stories with numbers. First up is Jonah. The Bible truth for toddlers in this story is 'God always knows where we are'. The story is from the book of Jonah.… Continue reading Jonah and the One Great Big Fish – A Bible Number Story
Elisha and the Widow’s Oil craft ideas
Elisha and the widow's oil is a story from 2 Kings 4:1-7 where we read about Elisha helping a widow who needed to pay her debts. He told her to borrow as many empty jars of oil as she could from neighbours and then go inside her home and close the door. What happened next… Continue reading Elisha and the Widow’s Oil craft ideas
‘Thank you God for yummy food’ craft
To Make You need A4 card with holes punched at the top (landscape) centre and thread added Stick on lots of pictures of fruit and vegetables (from gardening catalogues)Add the ribbon/banner. See download below. banner-thank-you-god-for-yummy-food-1Download Hang up in the kitchen! While you are making talk about the names of the fruit and vegetables, their colours… Continue reading ‘Thank you God for yummy food’ craft
How to make a shepherd
How to make a shepherd printable instructions. You can make a shepherd to add to a Nativity display or use when telling the Christmas Story. Below is a photo of a nativity to give you an idea of how you can use paper plate Christmas characters to build a Christmas scene. In the picture we… Continue reading How to make a shepherd
Angel tree topper instructions
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… Continue reading Angel tree topper instructions
Zacchaeus story, video, and craft
Zacchaeus story video and craft idea
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 then maybe print the shape onto… Continue reading Easter egg colouring printables
On the Way to Easter…Palm Sunday Story
Jesus rides into Jerusalem
On the Way to Easter…Zacchaeus
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… Continue reading On the Way to Easter…Zacchaeus
Jesus is born craft
All you need for this craft - paper party bags, shredded tissue paper, stars, baby picture, glue, crayons or material for the swaddling cloths. A free download of the baby baby-jesus-x-8-1Download There is a lot of cutting out to do beforehand and not loads for children to do - they decorate the baby, add the… Continue reading Jesus is born craft
Noah in the Ark – a weather themed story
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.
Our five senses craft
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… Continue reading Our five senses craft
The Last Supper – Luke 22
The Last Supper. As part of the bigger Easter Story we've told the story of Jesus' last meal with his disciples from Luke 22:7-20. The props are very simple -see the pictures below. The craft is straight forward too and there is a free printable. The Last Supper story idea The big city of Jerusalem… Continue reading The Last Supper – Luke 22
Animal Bible Stories and crafts
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… Continue reading Animal Bible Stories and crafts
The Parable of the Mustard – craft
The mustard tree grew so large that the birds could nest in its branches. This craft idea is to represent our toddler group children and their families and carers being made welcome to come and 'nest' in the tree of God's Kingdom. (Matthew 13:31-32) To Make the birds you will need Bird shapes printed out… Continue reading The Parable of the Mustard – craft
Nehemiah and the fox! – animal stories
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… Continue reading Nehemiah and the fox! – animal stories
Autumn craft
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… Continue reading Autumn craft
Harvest – cereal box 3D picture
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… Continue reading Harvest – cereal box 3D picture
Joseph – fancy coat and camels!
This past week our Bible Story was all about Joseph, his special coat and how his brothers sold him to people travelling on camels to Egypt. The camels were donated to the group about a year ago and normally live in our 'Vet' box. They come in very useful for several stories. Craft - Joseph… Continue reading Joseph – fancy coat and camels!
shepherd and sheep printable
There are lots of Bible Stories about people who were shepherds - Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and his brothers, Moses, David and Jesus is the Good Shepherd. I'll be using this colouring page as the craft for the story about Moses and the burning bush. (Exodus 3). As we do the craft before and… Continue reading shepherd and sheep printable
dinosaur craft
There are lots of versions of this in my house (!) - this is my favourite How to make - paper plates cut in half. You can easily cut the dinosaur spikes/plates a few plates at a time. Older children who can safely use scissors can do this part themselves. Each dinosaur needs a tail… Continue reading dinosaur craft
Easter with toddlers
Easter with toddlers! There are some lovely Easter Garden ideas in this post and if you read to the end an Easter Story video. A simple Easter garden is a great way to introduce young children to Easter. You can use natural materials such as soil/compost and leaves or you can make a garden like… Continue reading Easter with toddlers
Baby Moses paper plate craft
Here's some simple instructions for making the Baby Moses paper plate craft. I've made a baby Moses paper plate craft before (you can find it here) but wanted something a little simpler for our Holiday Bible Club as we don't have a lot of time per age group. So this time there was no drawing… Continue reading Baby Moses paper plate craft
Springwatch inspired song!
A new song to a well known tune - always a safe combination. The tune is 'the wheels on the bus'. The song is about these guys. As you can see, I've been watching Springwatch. The owl in the garden goes twit, twit, twoo, twit, twit, twoo, twit, twit, twoo The owl in the garden… Continue reading Springwatch inspired song!
Easter chickens – paper plate craft
I found this via Pinterest - it's originally from this website http://krokotak.com/ which is full of absolutely great ideas. The idea for my simple chicken came from here http://krokotak.com/2012/11/cut-away-some-paper-animals/. My version is a bit simpler as I was cutting out quite a few for our toddler group. If you wanted to you could place these on the breakfast… Continue reading Easter chickens – paper plate craft
Jesus enters Jerusalem – Palm sunday
To make these pictures I started with a roll of paper from Ikea and drew a road. The buildings and trees were added. As you tell the story you can add all the things you need. The cloaks were cut from material, the donkey has pegs for legs. The people were copied from this book… Continue reading Jesus enters Jerusalem – Palm sunday