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Sunday School Crafts: Tongues of Fire Headband
After taking a few weeks off from using The Jesus Storybook Bible with my Sunday school class, I read a story from it yesterday to help the children understand more about Pentecost since yesterday was Pentecost Sunday. I decided to have the kids make headbands to make it look like they had tongues of fire [Read On]
Learning ABC Order with Letter Stickers
A couple of weeks ago I decided to pull out all of my foam alphabet stickers for my 5 year old to use to make something with. He, on his own, started looking for each letter of the alphabet. So, I gave him a large sheet of foam (after we realized a half sheet was [Read On]
Sunday School Crafts: Mother’s Day Handprint Flowers
Since yesterday was Mother’s Day I had my Sunday School class make something for their mothers. First, I helped the children trace their handprint onto a piece of green construction paper. After cutting them out the children glued a flowerpot, the handprint, and the top of the flowerpot (a thin rectangle) to another piece of paper. [Read On]
Playing in the Mud
When I was little I remember playing in the mud and dirt. My mom would sometimes have to hose me off before I could even go inside to take a bath, and I loved every minute of it. I truly believe that kids need to be allowed to get outside and get dirty. And, since [Read On]
Sunday School Crafts: Prayer
It’s been a few weeks since I posted a Sunday school craft idea. We had some sickness and didn’t go to church two Sundays and I had only my kiddos in Sunday school another week. However, the past two Sundays we have been talking about prayer. Last week we started trying to learn the Lord’s [Read On]
Using Vinegar & Baking Soda to Extinguish a Candle
My 10 year old son checked out a book of science experiments from the library. The book was quite old, but he really enjoyed reading it. There was one experiment he wanted to do more than any other, probably because it involved fire. Yesterday we gave it a whirl. Here’s how we did it. Supplies [Read On]
{Letter I} Inchworms & Inches
Today my son made this lowercase letter I craft. It is an inchworm crawling up a letter i tree. He used a printable I made to color a leaf and a lowercase letter i. Then we cut them out and glued them to a piece of construction paper. If you would like to download and [Read On]
Sunday School Crafts: Cross on a Hill
On Sunday my class made this cross on a hill to help them remember the true meaning of Easter. I chose to do this craft 2 weeks before Easter so that the children would be able to display the cross during the weeks leading up to Easter and hopefully remember that candy and eggs aren’t [Read On]
{Letter I} Ice Cube Painting
This morning my two youngest children had a lot of fun painting with ice cubes to go with our study of the letter I. We actually made the ice cubes yesterday and they were frozen and ready for painting this morning. Here’s what we did. I put 6 drops of food coloring per compartment of an [Read On]
{Letter I} Igloo
This afternoon my son made this letter I igloo craft. He colored all of the capital I’s on the igloo to form a capital I. I hand drew this igloo a few years ago and, while it isn’t perfect, he had fun with it. If you would like to print your own igloo, click the [Read On]
