Creation Bible Crafts
7 Simple Crafts to Use with Sunday School or Homeschool Lessons
Here are a few crafts that can be used when you are teaching children about Creation. They are not difficult to make and require few materials with little preparation.
Day 1: Light
Light Switch Cover
Materials:
- Sculpey clay in desired colors
- Rolling pin or dowel rod or plastic pipe
- Wax paper
- Cutting surface
- Craft knife
- Metal light switch plate
Directions:
- Tear off a sheet of wax paper and lay out on craft area.
- Roll out clay on wax paper until thin. Check size needed for height and diameter of switch plate.
- Place wax paper with clay on cutting surface.
- Cut top and bottom edges to fit switch plate.
- Carefully pick up clay and lay over, smoothing as you go, the switch plate.
- Cut the openings on the switch plate.
- Knead and roll out any additional colors to create designs for the switch plate.
- Press lightly into place on the clay covered switch plate.
- Bake according to manufacturer instructions. Let cool.
Day 2: Sky and Water
Ocean in a Jar
Materials:
- Baby food jars
- Hot glue
- Blue food coloring
- Vegetable Oil
- Tiny sea shells (optional)
Directions:
- Combine some blue food coloring, a little vegetable oil, water, and sea shells (if desired) in a baby food jar.
- Seal the jar with hot glue (Adult Only).
- The kids shake it to mix the oil and water and then watch what happens.
Day 3: Land and Plants
Sunflower
Materials:
- Small plain paper plate
- Paper towel tube
- Green construction paper
- Yellow construction paper
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Tape
- Glue
- Stapler
- Sunflower seeds
Directions:
- For the stem, use tape to wrap a piece of green construction paper around a paper towel tube.
- For the petals, trace a child's handprints on yellow construction paper. You'll need about 6 handprints.
- Glue or staple the handprints around the small paper plate.
- Put a small layer of glue in the center of the flower. Sprinkle sunflower seeds in the glue.
- Staple the stem to the flower (you'll have to flatten the top of the paper towel tube in order to staple it).
Day 4: Sun, Moon, Stars
Sun, Moon, Stars Mobile
Materials:
- Small, thick paper plates
- Foam shapes of sun, moon, stars (may have to draw your own and cut out ahead of time)
- Hole punch
- Yarn
- Markers
Directions:
- Cut out foam so that you have 2 stars, 1 moon, and 1 sun for each child, and hole punch at the top of each shape.
- Cut a paper plate in half.
- With the rounded edge of the semi-circle up, have the children write: "Creation Day 4," in the empty space of the paper plate.
- Punch out four evenly spaced holes along the straight edge of the paper plate.
- Tie the shapes to the paper plate, placing them at different levels, so you can see them all and they do not overlap.
- Place a hole at the rounded top of the paper plate and tie a piece of yarn to make a loop, so the children can hang their mobile.
Day 5: Birds and Sea Animals
Baby Birds
Materials:
- 8 cotton balls
- Yellow food coloring
- Wiggly eyes
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- White glue
- Old newspaper
- Orange construction paper or orange pipe cleaners
- Empty egg carton
- Brown or green colored streamers or tissue paper
Directions:
- Cut egg carton so that you have a four egg cup square section. This will be the nest.
- In a cup pour a 1/2 cup of water and 10 or 12 drops of yellow food coloring. Dip each cotton ball into the yellow colored water with a tweezer and place each one on a folded newspaper to dry. Don't squeeze out excess water.
- When cotton balls are dry, fluff each one out again.
- Glue two cotton balls together, one on top of each other.
- Glue two wiggly eyes on the top cotton ball for eyes.
- Either cut four small triangles from the construction paper for beaks or cut a pipe cleaner into four 1-inch pieces. Bend each of these pieces in half to make beaks and glue them on to make the beaks appear open. Glue the beaks on below the eyes.
- Cut up thin strips of the brown or green streamers or tissue paper to be the twigs/grass and place in the egg carton.
- Place each chick on top of the streamers in each egg cup in the egg carton.
Day 6: Land Animals and Man
Piggie Plant Pot
Materials:
- terra cotta pot
- pink acrylic paint, paintbrush
- sheet of pink felt material
- large wiggly eyes
- black marker
- pink pipe cleaner(chenille stem)
- glue
Directions:
- Paint the pot, including the inside rim. Let dry.
- Cut out a circle from the pink felt for the pig's snout and draw two black lines with the marker in the center of the circle for nostrils.
- Cut out two large pink triangle shapes from the pink felt for the pig's ears. Glue the bottom edge of the pig's ears to the inside rim of the pot.
- Glue on the wiggly eyes and the pig's snout.
- Twist a pipe cleaner a few times for a curly tail and glue onto the back of the pot.
Day 7: Rest
Lemonade
Place 2 quarts of water in a pitcher. Add juice of three lemons. Add 1 cup of sugar, depending on how sour the lemons are and your taste; stir with each addition until the sugar is dissolved. You can add the sugar gradually, tasting as you go, until the desired sweetness is obtained. Enjoy!
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