Here are a few crafts that can be used when you are teaching children about Noah's Ark. They are not difficult to make and require few materials with little preparation.
Easy Bible crafts when teaching about Noah's Ark!
Hanging Chickens
Materials:
- Styrofoam egg (craft store)
- Wooden skewer (grocery store)
- Yellow paint
- Brush
- Scissors
- Colored pipe cleaners
- Glue
- Elastic
- Bead
Directions:
- Push a wooden skewer into the base of the egg, then paint the egg bright yellow, holding onto the skewer. Anchor the skewer until the paint has dried.
- While drying, cut up colored pipe cleaners. You will need two small blue bits for the eyes, orange for the beak and comb, orange and black intertwined for the legs and tail. Push the eyes, beak, and comb into position, once the paint has dried.
- Thread a bead onto a length of elastic or string, securing it with a knot. Make a hole in the top center of the egg with a skewer and glue the bead into it.
- Push in pipe cleaners for the legs and tail.
Big Cat Mask
Materials:
- Regular round balloon
- Newspaper
- Liquid laundry starch
- Plastic bowl
- Paintbrush
- Tempera paints
- Pipe cleaners
- Construction paper
Directions:
- Blow up the balloon and tie a knot in the end.
- Tear the newspaper into strips that are about six inches long and two inches wide.
- Pour about two cups of laundry starch into the bowl.
- Dunk a strip of newspaper into the starch, and make sure it gets soaked.
- Lay the wet strip on the balloon, and smooth it out with the paintbrush so there are no lumps or big air bubbles. Keep dipping strips in the starch and continue placing them on the balloon, but only cover one half of the balloon. Smooth the strips out as you go with the paintbrush.
- Let the half-covered balloon dry overnight. Repeat steps 2 to 5 if you like to give your mask extra strength and let dry overnight again.
- Pop the balloon when it is all dry. What you have left is the mask to cover your face.
- Paint it to look like your favorite cat. Attach the pipe cleaners as whiskers, and cut half-circles out of construction paper to paste on as ears. You can also make the mask any other animal you want!
Giraffe Spots
Materials:
- Orange paper in the shape of a giraffe
- Black paint
- Small sponges or cotton balls
- Clothes pegs
- Styrofoam meat tray
Directions:
- Use the clothes pegs as handles and attach to the giraffe shape a cotton ball or sponge to theend.
- Put the paint on a styrofoam meat tray and using the cotton ball/sponge to dip into paint and dab spots onto the giraffe.
Lady Bug
Materials:
- Empty walnut shell (one shell will make 2 ladybugs)
- Red and black paint
- Magnet
- Small wiggly eyes
- Garbage bag ties
- Small cardboard box (thin cardboard like a shoebox)
- Tacky glue
Directions:
- Paint your walnut shell red. Let it dry.
- Now paint on black dots and a small circle for the head.
- Glue on two small wiggly eyes.
- Turn your ladybug over after it is all dry.
- Glue three garbage bag ties across the bottom of the walnut shell.
- Turn your ladybug upside right and bend the ties ends that stick out up to look like legs.
- Now put your ladybug on top of a thin box and put a mganet under the box.
- Move the magnet and your ladybug will crawl!
Noah's Ark
Materials:
- 2 paper plates
- Hole punch
- Ribbon or string
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paint
- Animal crackers
Directions:
- Cut one paper plate in half.
- Cut a half circle from the top of the other plate, leaving at least a 1" edge for the roof of the Ark.
- Punch evenly spaced holes along the bottom, going through both plates. Thread ribbon through holes, tying knots at both ends (or staple the plates together).
- Paint the Ark.
- Paint animal crackers to look like "real" animals and glue pairs of them to the Ark.
Find more great Bible crafts at Preschool Sunday School Central.
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