Easter Garden to make at home

Posted in Craft, Easter, Easter at home, Easter crafts, Easter Garden to make, Easter Garden to make at home, Family and friends craft, Family craft idea, Family Ideas, Make at home, Paper plate craft, Primary Age Group, Resurrection garden, Seasons, spring craft, Stay at home craft, Stay st home Easter craft, sunday school craft, Things to make at home by Rachel Ball

Easter or Resurrection Gardens are a great way to celebrate Easter. They are a reminder of the Easter story and are fun to make. Traditionally they would be made using soil, moss, flowers etc but this version is made entirely from paper and card – if you haven’t got easy access to soil and plants this is for you!

I’ve used – paper plate (a piece of card would do too), cereal box to make the cross (make two cross shapes and glue together so it will stand up), paper ice cream tub for the tomb ( a roll of paper with card glued over an end would be fine), a paper circle for the stone, tissue paper for the path and grass and pictures of flowers from magazines/garden catalogues.

To attach the cross add a fold and glue the tab

Add the tomb – this might need to be glued and then held in place till it has stuck. Make a fold on the edge of the circle for the tomb then glue the tab that you have made and glue down. If you want to add the words do that first.

30Jan2020

Fish in the sea craft

Posted in Craft, Fish in the sea craft by Rachel Ball

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.

29Jan2020

Man with four friends craft

Posted in Bible story, Bible story for toddlers, Bible Story Theme, Bible storytelling, Craft, homes Jesus visited, Houses Jesus visited, Man through the roof, Man through the roof craft, Man with four friends, Man with four friends video, The Crowded House story video, The Crowded House Video by Rachel Ball

Sometimes it’s nice to make a craft that you can also use for telling and retelling the Bible story.

The story is from Matthew 9:1-8; Mark 2:1-12 and Luke 5:17-26.

For the craft we made the man’s mat by decorating sugar paper with large pieces of tissue paper and then we made a man – on one side he was happy and on the other side he was sad. We used fabric for clothes and wool for hair.

When telling the story I pretended to carry the man up the steps to the roof of a house and then lower him down to the feet of Jesus. The paper mat was rolled up as part of the story too.

The people shapes are from Baker Ross via Amazon

This is a short video of this story

There is another craft idea here..https://lettheirlightshine.com/2018/01/08/man-through-the-roof-craft/

18Nov2019

Angel!

Posted in angel craft, Christmas, Christmas characters, Christmas craft, Craft, family Christmas ideas, Paper plate craft, Toddler craft, Toddler Group, Tree topper angel to make by Rachel Ball

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 want to cut them in half and fold them), doilies (not too large and cut or folded in half), wool for hair, stars and shiny paper to decorate, glue and crayons to draw on features and glue.

If you are making these in a toddler group do all the cutting out prep beforehand and have a made angel to give an idea. If you want to do the folding of the plate ahead of time you could.

Enjoy!

21Oct2019

Bible town scene to make

Posted in All age craft, Bible time house to make, Bible town scene to make, Craft, Holiday Bible Club, Paper plate craft by Rachel Ball

This is one of my favourite Holiday Bible Club crafts that I’ve done. It fits with so many stories as it is just a scene of a town. It’s fun to make and 3D.

All you need is

Square paper plate (need to be quite sturdy)

Tissue paper/sugar paper

Background scene printed onto card – same size in width as the centre of the paper plate with about an inch of card that can be folded to make a flap which will be glued so the scene stands on the paper plate

Felt tips for colouring the scene

Square block of wood to make a house – doors and windows and outside steps to be added by the children

To Assemble the children need to –

Colour the background scene and stick onto paper plate to make a back drop
Add doors, windows and steps to house and glue onto the plate in the foreground
Add tissue paper/sugar paper to make paths/grass/sand

We bought the background scene from creativeforkids.com

8Jul2019

Lollipop stick weaving!

Posted in All age craft, Family and friends craft, Weaving craft for older children by Rachel Ball

Most things on my blog are for toddlers but this is something for older children and adults! We’ve been having a go at this weaving at our after school Bible Club and at our church fete. Lots of concentration required at first. But once you get the hang of it it’s really relaxing.

You need: lollipop sticks or similar (You can glue them together or just hold them together.) Yarn and scissors.

The above photo is what the weaving should look like from the back. Once you’ve got off to a good start trim the end that was near to your knot.

End result! You can change the colour of the yarn if you wish.

19Sep2018

The Wise Builder craft idea

Posted in Craft, New Testament Bible Stories, Parable, Story Jesus told, Toddler craft, Wise and Foolish builders by Rachel Ball

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 house on the rock’ you should find a couple of versions at least.

The craft that we made was a house on rock made from cut out shapes. The sequin rain is optional – depending on how much mess you wish to make!

26Jun2018

Let’s just make!

Posted in Craft, Craft Table, Toddler craft, Toddler Group by Rachel Ball

Sometimes at toddler group the craft is simply a table of collage materials, paper and glue…

18Jun2018

Moses paper plate

Posted in Moses, Moses hidden in a basket, Uncategorized by Rachel Ball

We made these over two weeks at our after school club. The first week we made the basket and baby Moses and today we made the hand shaped reeds and tissue paper water. The four year olds did a great job of using scissors. I never use scissors with preschoolers but the children today are already in year one so it’s good for them to use their skills.