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
Category: Toddlers – we are wonderfully made
funny face craft
This craft is suitable for all ages - all you need is collage materials, facial features cut from magazines or pictures from the internet, glue, face shapes and sugar paper. Older children can cut out the facial features they want to use. You can either go for proper likenesses or make some funny crazy faces.… Continue reading funny face craft
Thank you God book – for toddler group
Over the past term at our Toddler Group we have made a 'thank you God book' - this is an overview of what we did Title page 'our thank you God book' Then the following pages - with pictures added from google images. Each page was A3 and was laminated. 'I am wonderfully made' Psalm 139… Continue reading Thank you God book – for toddler group
Easter decorations – eggs and more eggs
Children of almost any age can decorate these simple egg shapes. We used them at toddler group today, 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… Continue reading Easter decorations – eggs and more eggs
Palm Sunday – Palm leaf craft
Easter is nearly here! In toddler group we have been learning about being 'Wonderfully made' and have already talkied about our mouths that shout, whisper and taste' and our ears that can 'hear shouts and whispers'. The Bible story that we are using to develop this is the Palm Sunday story that we read in… Continue reading Palm Sunday – Palm leaf craft
Jar of perfume craft – mary anoints Jesus
There are Bible stories that tell us what happened just prior to Jesus' death and ressurection. One of these stories tells us about mary annointing Jesus' feet with expensive perfume. As the children had been learning that we are 'Wonderfully Made' we started with the familiar - we thanked God for our noses and how they help… Continue reading Jar of perfume craft – mary anoints Jesus
Zacchaeus craft
A few weeks ago in toddler group we learnt about our feet. To build on that we have done a Bible story that includes feet - in Luke 19 we read that a man called Zacchaeus 'wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he… Continue reading Zacchaeus craft
Wonderfully made!
We are all wonderfully made! David writes in Psalm 139, 'I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made'. There are lots of different crafts you can do that are all about people. Here's a couple of ideas.. Use people shapes! For this craft you need to make or buy people cut outs. (The… Continue reading Wonderfully made!
Tabitha -T-shirt craft
 Tabitha -T-shirt craft is a really lovely simple collage based craft. It is great to have a stash of fabric off cuts to use for craft - adding a different texture to paper and lots of colours. The story of Tabitha (Dorcas) is found in the Bible in Acts 9:36-43. She was a follower of… Continue reading Tabitha -T-shirt craft
Our feet craft and song ideas
In our amazing body series at Toddler Group we are thinking about our feet. Here's a craft and song ideas to use with under fives that are all about feet. Our focus Bible verse is Psalm 139:14. Story time In the story time we used our feet to jump, stand, run on the spot, walk… Continue reading Our feet craft and song ideas
Our Amazing bodies! – our mouths
At toddler group we've been learning about our amazing bodies during story time. This week it's the turn of our mouths. We think about two things in the story, songs and craft - we use our mouths to speak and we use them to eat. Our focus is, 'I am wonderfully made'. Story time- our… Continue reading Our Amazing bodies! – our mouths
Scented flower craft
This is a scented flower craft for young children to make. There is some preparation needed but it's worth the effort! Craft time This is an idea for under three's that we used at toddler group. Older children could also make this and could be allowed to do more of the cutting out but if… Continue reading Scented flower craft