Joseph's sack of Grain

To make: Buy brown lunch sacks...one per student. Fill with popped popcorn. Before class, spray paint cups silver. (We used an 8 oz. plastic cup in this class...I may try to find small flutes or small Dixie cups because this cup seemed a little big for the bag) Kids tie bag closed with black yarn. Then they can search through the bag for the silver cup. The black thing on the bag is a die-cut of a wheat stalk that was die-cut on adhesive-backed felt. Money is from party store.

Samson's Hair

This was SO fun to make and so silly to wear!!!

To make Samson's hair, you need one sentence strip and 2 9x12 sheets of black construction paper per child. Staple sentence strip to fit your head. Then cut slits up the black paper leaving about 1 inch solid at the top. The more slits you cut the more hair Samson will have. After you are done cutting the slits to make hair, staple the black to the sentence strip. Staple in the 1 ince border at the top of the black and make sure that the bended part of the staple is on the outside so that it will not get caught in the kids real hair. Leave about 1/3 of the sentence open at the front for face to show thru.

WARNING - Do not let kids cut Samson's hair!!!

Personal Sized Daniel and the Lion's Den

To make this personal-sized Daniel and the Lion's Den, start saving your cocoa cans today!

Use fun foam and die-cut angel, man, clothes and hair. Use adhesive backed brown fun foam to cut out "stone" to go on top of the lid to "seal the den."
On the inside of the cocoa can, have 2 adhesive-backed yellow fun foam lions die-cut. Kids stick one lion on each side of the cocoa can.
Kids tell story with the fun foam figures. Copy a song or brief story to keep in the can.
Seriously, how cute is this!!! :)

PIllars of Fire/Cloud

These stick puppets are TOO cute and easy! Cut out 2 clouds from card stock per child. One one cloud, glue cotton balls to God as a pillar of clouds.
On the other cloud, glue torn red, orange and yellow tissue paper or crepe paper to be God as a Pillar of Fire.

Then tape a tongue depressor to the back of the Fire and glue the Cloud onto the back of the fire.

Pillar of Fire/Cloud craft

These stick puppets are TOO cute and easy! Cut out 2 clouds from card stock per child. One one cloud, glue cotton balls to God as a pillar of clouds.
On the other cloud, glue torn red, orange and yellow tissue paper or crepe paper to be God as a Pillar of Fire.

Then tape a tongue depressor to the back of the Fire and glue the Cloud onto the back of the fire.

Day one...God made light!
This sun can be used for various stories... Joshua and the day the sun stood still or Day One or many more!

To make, cut triangles off edge of paper plate before class. Kids tear yellow crepe paper into small pieces then glue on the paper plate. Glue tongue depressor on the back.

Gideon's Torch

To make, buy a New Year's horn blower then stuff red celophane in it! Easy as pie! :)

Our First Workshop

We did it! We taught our first teacher's workshop at our home congregation at the end of March. There were about 15 ladies eager to learn and we had a wonderful time presenting "Powerful Presentations and Practical Products." (Those who know us well, know we LOVE alliteration!) Here is the foyer before we began.
And here are the table tops with some samples!



Overall we were very pleased and thought it went well. The best compliment was seeing 4 of the ladies use the ideas the next morning in their Sunday School classes. We are thankful for the opportunity to share a few of our ideas and look forward to more times like this! :)

Romans general

We went over this poster at the beginning of each lesson. Would be good to do with any letter.

Romans 4

Romans 4 - Faith "walk in the steps of faith of Abraham"

Review Abraham/Isaac sacrifice story
Make a chart "Faith is..." (see in photo below)

Choose from these "walk/feet" activities:
1. Each child traces their own foot. On it write "I will walk in the steps of faith like Abraham." Could also use a stamp pad and stamp foot or paint foot (for the really brave teachers!)
2. Have footprints on the floor. Write one word of key phrase per foot. Kids walk on the line of footrintsa dn say verse each time.
3. Use foot hapes and tape in hall leading to classroom.
4. Samll Die cuts of feet - "Walk" written on one, "in" written on one, "faith" written on another foot. Kids swequence wrods to say "walk in faith." Glue on blank paper and decorate with self-portrait.
5. Buy dollar store frames. Kids draw a photo of thier family. At the top child writes "We will walk in the steps of faith of Abraham." Put in frame. (We did this and the parents LOVED it!!! Forgot to take a photo though - sorry! )
6. Each child traces their own foot - cut out. Make a class wreath of the feet. Walk "Walk in steps of faith" at the top on a bow shapes piece of paper.