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Bible town scene to make

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

Square paper plate (needs 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 (wooden block) 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 (as of 2023 I don’t think they sell it anymore.)

Holiday Bible Club Craft (2)

We used a wooden spoon based craft for the bible story about Jesus healing a man who had leprosy. You can read the story in Matthew 8.

The children drew a sad face one side of the spoon and a happy face the other. We used kitchen roll for the clothes – a fairly good quality brand that the children could decorate with felt pens. The arms and belt are pipe cleaners. Use a slighty longer pipe cleaner for the arms.

To make –

Draw the faces on the spoon and write name on the spoon handle

Colour/decorate the square of kitchen roll – I cut the kitchen roll squares into quarters which made them just the right size for our small wooden spoons. Once coloured fold the quarter in half and then in half again and make a small cut on the fold. Slide the spoon through this and then add the arms. Finally add the belt.

This basic idea can be used for retelling lots of Bible stories. Large wooden spoons make great puppets too. Have a look at this idea here.

Holiday Bible Club Crafts (1)

Do you remember our HBC scenery? We bought the picture for the scenery from http://www.creativeforkids.com and so we were able to use the picture of a Bible time scene in miniature to make a craft.

The base is a square paper plate. The house is a rectangle block of wood painted with emulsion. Tissue paper makes the grass/sand.

Make your own scenery!

It’s possible to buy scenery and large pictures to decorate a space but you can make your own. This is great if what you want isn’t available to buy.

You need to photocopy the scene you want to use onto acetate ready to enlarge. We used an OHP (so glad we kept it!) to enlarge the picture onto material. To do this we drew the outline as it was projected on the material (use a size of material that suits your space – a large sheet is fine) and then painted the picture with poster paint. In between the drawing and painting I hemmed the top to make it possible to slide a curtain rail through so we can attach the whole thing to the wall on hooks. You could do this onto paper but for a large scene material can be a better choice.

This is a great way to make a background scene but you need a lot of space and make sure you cover the floor with plastic so that if the paint seeps through it won’t matter! An empty hall is ideal!