Bible stories, crafts and creative ideas for toddler groups, children's ministry and families
Following on from where Jesus was born - Bethlehem - who took care of him? Mary and Joseph. In this story we concentrated on Joseph and the job he did. With young children I sometimes like to have some objects in a bag - it keeps them interested and watching what is going on and… Continue reading Bible alphabet – C is for carpenter
B is for Bethlehem where Jesus was born. Although it isn't Christmas it seemed a good idea to do the story of Jesus' birth for B. In our craft we made pictures of Bethlehem and for the story we used visuals from a book called 'A Saviour for you'. The pictures are fantastic. Available here http://cefresources.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=95_97_101&products_id=423… Continue reading Bible Alphabet – Bethlehem
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
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
 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