Here are a few crafts that can be used when you are teaching children about Old Testament stories. They are not difficult to make and require few materials.
Decorated Pharaoh Collar
Materials:
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Thick Paper (16 x 12 in.)
- Scissors
- Paint (various colors)
- 2 safety pins
Directions:
- Place paper with long edges top to bottom. Fold in half from left to right.
- Measure 5 in. along the top left-hand edge. Mark the point with your pencil. Now mark 3 in. down the left-hand side. Draw a curved line between these points. Draw a curved line from the top right-hand corner to the bottom left-hand corner. Cut along these curved lines. Open the paper and you will see a collar design.
- Decorate the collar using paint.
- When the collar is dry, pin it to your clothes at the shoulders with two safety pins.
Clay Pot:
Materials:
- Hard-drying clay
- Paints (various colors)
- Paint brush
- Popsicle stick
Directions:
- Break of lumps of clay and roll into ropes.
- Coil a rope around to make a base of your pot. This base should not have any holes.
- Coil more rope around the base and build up the pot to shape. Make the clay stick by wetting it a little bit or pinching the joints together.
- Use the Popsicle stick to smooth the surface of the pot. Let dry.
- When the clay is hard, you can paint it. You can make patterns, if you like. Let dry.
Ancient Pyramid
Materials: (Makes one pyramid)
- 10 Paper cups, all the same size
- Play sand
- Tape
- Glue
Directions:
- Make the base for your pyramid by arranging six of the cups in a triangle shape. Use pieces of tape at the tops of the cups to hold them together.
- Make the middle layer of your pyramid by arranging three of the cups in a triangle shape. Tape them together the same way.
- Carefully turn the six-cup base of your pyramid upside-down. Spread glue around the rims of the three-layer cups. Turn them upside-down and press them in place on the six-cup base in the middle.
- Spread a layer of glue around the rim of the last cup. Turn it upside-down and press it in place in the middle of the three-cup layer. Let dry.
- Spread glue all around your pyramid once it has dried and sprinkle play sand to give your pyramid an authentic texture. Let dry.
Wriggly Snake
Materials:
- Medium or large twisted stick (no straight sticks!!)
- Paint
- Paint Brush
- Sand Paper
Directions:
- Ask an adult to smooth the stick with sand paper, including making the ends rounded and smooth.
- Paint on the snake's face at one end of the stick and some stripes and dots down the stick for its skin.
- This is simple, but kids love it.
Owl Craft for Wisdom
Materials:
- Toilet paper tubes
- Scrap construction paper in orange and brown
- Brown paper grocery bags
- Craft feathers
- Markers
- Glue sticks
- Scissors
- Tape
Directions:
- Before class cut small, 1/2-inch triangles from orange and brown construction paper. Each child will need one orange triangle and two brown triangles. If you don't have toilet paper tubes, make 6-inch tubes from poster board.
- Set out markers and glue sticks. Give each child a tube. Have children draw eyes on the top half of the tube. Mention to the children that they're going to make hoot owls.
- Distribute the orange and brown construction paper triangles. Tell children to glue an orange triangle below the eyes for the beak then glue the bown triangles as ears.
- Set out craft feathers. Show children how to glue craft feathers to the bottom half of a tube as chest feathers for an owl.
- Let children tear wings from the paper grocery sacks then tape the wings to the owl.
Other crafts you might enjoy: Names for Jesus Bible Crafts and Noah's Arks Crafts! More preschool Bible crafts are located at Preschool Sunday School Central.
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