I came up with this really simple craft to go with our lesson about Jesus calming the storm. The kids had the option of making a storm scene with either paint or colored pencils. We made some lovely storm clouds with dark blue paint (I thought we had black and could mix it to make […]
I love how cute these little paper snails are! And what’s even neater is that they remind us to be slow to speak and slow to get angry. Don’t we all need that reminder? Younger kids will probably need help with some of the fine-motor skill tasks. Thanks to Make and Takes for the original […]
This post contains an affiliate link. I try to bring faith discussions to the table when we’re having dinner. Everyone is there and it seems like the kids are more willing to slow down and talk. I bought the Our Daily Bread Promise Box. It’s a small plastic loaf of bread with little Scripture cards […]
Here’s a fun activity that gets the kids looking up Bible verses. Ask people ahead of time for their favorite Bible verse. Then make up little slips like this, with treasure chest clip-art and the person’s name and favorite verse reference. Find a box that looks like a treasure chest, or get one at the […]
For our lesson on the Holy Spirit, I wanted the kids to have a good overview of who the Holy Spirit is and what he does. It’s a hard concept for adults to understand, let alone kids. I found a whole bunch of Bible verses that talked about the Holy Spirit, and typed them up. […]
Another activity we had for our hands-on Bible lesson was this Scripture puzzle. We started with a large piece of card stock and the kids looked up their favorite Bible verse, or paged through until they found one they liked. Then they wrote it on the paper. Little kids had help from a teacher or […]
When we did our lesson on Joseph, the theme was forgiveness. Obviously Joseph had a lot of opportunity to practice forgiveness in his life! For our craft, I quickly free-handed some jackets on paper (some kids chose to draw their own). Then the kids got to have fun decorating their coats as colorfully as Joseph’s. […]
This is the craft we had planned for the older kids back when we did our Sword of the Spirit lesson. They ran out of time and never got around to making it, so I finally did it myself. I really wanted to see how it would turn out because I thought the idea was […]