Bible Crafts and Activities
Elijah Sunday School Lessons - Crafts and Activities
Elijah and the Ravens
 Elijah
and the Ravens Bible Lesson - Polly, a raven puppet, tells the story of Elijah. His great, great, great, grandfather's second cousin was one of the ravens that fed Elijah at the Kerith Brook. Since Polly only speaks bird language, he uses objects, pictures, and body movements to tell the story. The teacher interprets for Polly when he does have something to say. In
this lesson children learn how God took care of Elijah while he was
hiding out from King Ahab. They learn that God will also take care of their needs.
Bible verse:
“My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19
A
complete lesson is available to members
only.
Free Sample Lesson for Elijah
and the Raven is now Available!
 Crafts:
1. Giving
Raven- This raven is made with paper plates and construction
paper. The belly is a pocket in which things can be stored. It will remind your children that God took care of Elijah and he will take care of them. You can place a label with the Bible verse written on it on the raven's belly.
  2. Elijah Fed by a Raven Activity Sheet - Children color the picture
and then glue food (dry cereal) to the hand and the raven's beak. Just make sure you bring enough cereal for both the picture and your children!
3. Elijah Fed by the Ravens Color Sheet - Print out the color sheet and have your children color the picture.
 4. "God Will Supply All Our Needs" Mural - Print out the words, cut them out, glue them together, and staple them to the top of your bulletin board. Have your children draw pictures of things that God has given them using the raven holding a picture printouts, and staple them to your bulletin board under the title. (This pattern is available to members only.)
 5. Make a Sitting Raven holding a sign - This cute little bird can be made from fun foam or construction paper. A pattern and directions are available on The Resource Room.(Shown below)
6. Raven Puppet
Craft - Make
Raven Puppets from brown lunch bags. Directions and patterns for this craft are found on the Puppet Crafts Page. Have your  children act out the story using their raven puppets.
7. Make a Bird Hand Puppet - All you need to make this cute little puppet is printer paper, tape, and crayons.
Your children can pretend to be the ravens in the story and go and find food for Elijah using these puppets.
Activities:
1. Bible Verse
Review -
In this activity the children pretend to be ravens and bring food
to Elijah. Before class draw some pictures of food, color them,
and cut them out, and write one word of the verse on each food.
Hide the food pictures around the room. Pick a child to pretend
to be a raven and fly around the room until he finds some food.
When he finds something, he should bring it back to you. Take the
food from the raven. Ask another child to come up and tape it to
the wall. Then have another child pretend to be a raven and do the
same thing. Pick another children to tape the food to the wall in
the correct order of the verse. Keep going until all the food is
found and the verse is complete.
 2. Elijah Spinner Review Game - Children collect food cards by spinning the raven and landing on "Pick a card" spaces. But not all spaces instuct you to 'Pick a card". Children may also be instructed to "caw like a crow, get a snack (real food), pick a food card from another player, or walk like a bird.
When all the cards have been picked, write the Bible verse on the board. Ask your children to look at
the words on their cards. Point to the words on the board one at
a time and ask the child who has that card to come up to the board
and tape the card underneath that word. Go over the previous words
each time you add a new word. When all the words have been taped
to the board, have your children say the whole verse.
3. Help the Raven find food for Elijah - Send one child out
of the room and pick another child to hide some food. You can use
pictures of food or plastic food. Call the child in or have your
bird puppet caw. As the child searches for the food make your puppet
caw when he is going towards the hidden food. If he turns the wrong
way have the puppet shake his head no. If he needs to look higher,
have the puppet point up with his beak. When the child is really
close have the puppet caw very fast. Keep playing until all the
children have had a turn to find the food.
4. Pretend to be ravens and feed the class - Have your
bird puppet bring a snack to each child. Have the children put some
of the snack in a Baggie and place it in the paper plate birds they made earlier.
Also make copies of the Bible verse for each child and staple it
to the outside of the Baggie. Tell the children to take their birds
home and have him deliver the food and verse to someone they know
and to tell that person about Elijah and how God cared for him.
You could also put snacks in plastic bags and hide them around
the room. (You may have to use another room that isn't being used.)
Have the children use their bird puppets and go into the other room to look for food.
When they find some food, they should bring it back to the room
and give it to another student.
You will
find even more activities, songs and rhymes and a complete lesson
to members.
Elijah
and the Widow
 Elijah and the Widow Bible Lesson - The widow makes Elijah bread. (1 Kings 17:7-16) In
this lesson your children act out the story as it is being told. They
then use the actions to review the story. A complete lesson is available
to members only. Click on the link above.
Activities:
1. Kitchen
experimentation: Set up different stations in which the children
measure, weigh, smell, taste, and experiment. Before class decide
which of the following activities you will use. Write up a worksheet
using the following questions or your own. Older children can go
from station to station and fill out their worksheets as they go.
If you have younger children, just have helpers at different stations
to ask the children the questions and help them measure and pour.
2. Make bread - Before class prepare some yeast bread and let it rise. (Or buy
the pre-made bread dough and thaw it out before class.) Give each
child a handful of bread. Let them shape their dough the way they
would like. Let the dough rise for half an hour. Bake the bread
dough during the lesson. If you don't have an oven in church, you
can have the children help you make some bread from scratch. Show
them how to knead the bread. Give them each a handful in a plastic
bag and tell them they can take it home and bake it. Write the Bible
verse on the outside of the bag and the directions on how to bake
the bread.
3. Say
a rhyme while kneading bread. Have the children line up in a
row. As you say the rhyme have a child knead the bread. At the end
of the rhyme, he should go to the end of the line and the next child
starts to knead the bread at the beginning of the rhyme.
"The Widow Kneads
some Bread"
by Carolyn
Warvel
One, two, God
loves you!
Three, four, do it some more.
Five, Six, knead and mix.
Seven, eight, God is great!
Nine, ten, say amen!
Do it again.
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4. Decorate a napkin to place in a bread basket.
What you
will need:
White paper towel or white material, bread baskets (you can find
these at used stores for 25 to 50 cents apiece), markers, and pinking
shears.
What to
do: Have the children decorate their paper towels with markers
and cut the edges with pinking shears. Tell them they can write
the memory verse on the napkin and use other Christian symbols.
Have them place their napkins in their baskets. Tell them they can
place a piece of plastic wrap over the napkin and place bread in
the basket. Instead of the paper towels you could use white material
cut into squares and permanent markers so that the can be washed
and used again.
5.  Make
a picture with different types of bread
in a basket. Patterns
available on The Resource Room. In class have the children
color the pictures and cut out the different types of bread. Cut
a slit in the top front of the basket. Have the children place the
breads in the basket. They can put some of them in the slit so that
it looks like the bread is in the basket. Glue the bread in place.
 6. Make
a Bible Cookbook with recipes to reinforce the lessons about Elijah. Each
recipe relates to a part of the story of Elijah and has a scripture
reference so that children and parents can look up the verses to
review the story.
Recipes
include:
1. King Ahab's Crown - (Sugar cookies cut into crown shapes.
Ice and decorate them with candy confetti and small pieces of candy.)
King Ahab was an evil king. He worshipped idols, 1 Kings 16:29-33
2. Runner's Snack - (Gorp) Elijah runs away and hides from
King Ahab, 1 Kings 17:2-4
3. Ravens - made with chocolate wafers and candy corn beak,
5.  Raven's
Food - (Made from won ton wraps) The ravens fed Elijah at the
Kerith Brook. 1 Kings 17:6
6. Dried Earth - (Cookies with crack on the top) It did not
rain, the Kerith Brook dried up and the earth looked cracked and
dry, 1 Kings 17:7
7. Widow's Bread - (Easy to make biscuits) The widow used
the last of her flour and oil to make bread for Elijah, 1 Kings
17:8-16
8.  Elijah's
Altar - (Dough formed into rock shapes, with Chow Mein noodle
wood and fire on top) Elijah built an altar with 12 stones, 1 Kings
18:31
9. Clouds - (Coconut Macaroon cookies) Elijah sent his servant
to go look for signs of rain seven times. On the seventh time he
came back and said he saw a cloud the size of a hand in the sky.
1 Kings 18:44
10. Rain Drops - (Cookies formed into rain drop shapes) After
God sent fire to burn up the offering, wood, altar, and the ground
around the altar, God sent rain.
You will
find even more activities, songs and rhymes and a complete lesson
on The Resource Room.
(God sends Fire) - (Kings
18:21-39) In
this lesson children learn that God gives us everything we need. Children
learn how God took care of Elijah and that he takes care of them.
They act out the story as the teacher reads the story.
Crafts and
Activities:
 1. Build altars - Make some stones by filling lunch bags or
grocery bags with crunched up newspapers and taping or gluing them
closed. In class have the children practice building altars. Explain
what altars where used for.
2. Make
flame banners - Cut off two to three feet lengths of crepe paper
streamers. Use red, yellow, and orange. Staple them together at
one end and cut the ends to a point at different lengths. Tape and
staple the streamers to a craft stick. Have the children use the
banners while singing a song.
3. Make
an Elijah Picture Story Wheel - Children turn the wheel
to reveal pictures from the story of Elijah.
You will
find even more activities, songs and rhymes and a complete lesson
on The Resource Room.
4.God
Sends Rain Bible Lesson - (Elijah Prays for Rain on Mt. Carmel) 1 Kings 18:43-46  In
this lesson children learn that God is the one and only God, he controls
the rain and can do anything. Children participate in telling the
story by repeating a rhyme in which the servant comes back to Elijah
each time after looking for rain and tells him he sees nothing. There
are many activities, games, crafts, and songs, and rhymes to go with
this lesson. This
lesson comes with a printable Bible verse and color sheet.
Decorate your
room with clouds and balloon raindrops. Use the display for a Bible
verse review game.
Crafts
and Activities:
1. Make a cloud picture - Children can glue cotton balls
on a picture with clouds and raindrops. Pattern available on The
Resource Room
 2. Make
a play dough raindrop in a puddle.
3. Discover
how many drops of water will fit on the top of a quarter while discussing
and reviewing the lesson.
You will need
a quarter and an eyedropper. (You may also want to have extra eyedroppers
available for the children to experiment with later.) Before class
practice dropping drops of water on a quarter. Discover how many
drops a quarter will hold before it runs off. It is really interesting
to watch as the water begins to bulge over the sides of the quarter.
You will be amazed at how much water a quarter actually holds. I
counted about 40 drops.
You can use
this activity as a review game or just use it as an experiment.
Experiment - Ask the children how many drops of water they think will fit on
the top of the quarter without running off. Drop a drop of water
on the quarter using the eyedropper. Add a few more drops. Keep
adding drops until the water runs off the quarter.
Review Game - Ask the children how many drops of water they think will fit on
the top of the quarter without running off. Drop a drop of water
on the quarter using the eyedropper. Add a few more drops. Divide
the children into teams. Tell the children that you will add one
drop of water for every correct answer they give. Take turns asking
the teams questions about the lesson. Add a drop for every correct
answer. The team whose turn it is when the water runs off wins.
 4. Play Bible verse review games with balloon raindrops. Make
some raindrops by filling some balloons with flour. Use heavy duty
balloons, blow them up to stretch them out and then let the air
out. Use a funnel to fill the balloons with flour. Place the balloon
on the end of the funnel. I used the eraser end of a pencil to push
the flour into the pencil. When the balloon is full pull it off
the funnel and tie the balloon closed. (Warning: Keep an eye on
the children as they play with these and make sure they don't puncture
them with something sharp. Do not give them to young children who
might put them into their mouths. They could puncture them with
their teeth. They are very sturdy and will tolerate a lot of abuse.
I would use these only in class and not give them to the children
to take home. They would not make a safe toy for young children.)
You will find games and Bible verse review activities on The Resource
Romm using these cute raindrops.
 5. Raindrop Roundup
Review - Before class cut out a lot of raindrop shapes from
blue paper. Write the Bible verse, one word per raindrop, on each
raindrop shape. Make enough sets of raindrops so that you have one
set for every child in your room. It is okay to have extra. In class
write the Bible verse on the board and go over the verse several
times. Have the children sit in a circle around the room. Ask the
children if they have ever seen it rain inside. Throw all the raindrops
up and let them fall to the floor. Tell the children on the word
go, they should go and look for one raindrop with the word "He"
written on it. Show them the word. Once every child has found a
raindrop with the word "He" on it, tell them to find a
raindrop with the word "gives" on it. Keep going until
the children have found all the words to the Bible verse. Make a
cloud shaped pocket (pattern available on The
Resource Room) by gluing two cloud shapes together and writing
the Bible verse on the outside. Have the children place their raindrops
in the cloud pocket so they can take them home and study the Bible
verse. (This activity can be done with nonreaders. They can just
compare the words written on the board to the words written on the
raindrops.).
6. Make
rainsticks - Enchanted
Learning Web Site has instructions on how to make a fun and
easy rainstick out of a paper towel tube and aluminum foil. Young
children will love making this rainstick. Have your children use
their rainsticks during music time. To make this rainstick, you
crunch up a sheet of aluminum foil into a long thin shape and then
bend it into a coil shape by winding it around a dowel. Stick the
aluminum foil into the tube and tape one end closed. Place some
rice, popcorn, or dried beans into the tube. Or use different things
in different rainsticks and compare how they sound. Tape the other
end closed. Cover the tube with construction paper and decorate
the tubes with stickers, crayons, or markers. You could also write
the Bible verse on stickers and have the children stick the stickers
on the rainsticks.
You will
find even more activities, songs and rhymes and a complete lesson
on The Resource Room.
Copyright Notice -The craft patterns, ideas, songs, etc. on this web site are copyrighted. You may not publish a copy of them on any other web site, but you may publish a picture of a finished project from this web site on another web site as long as you state where you got the project and include a link back to the project on this web site for the directions and patterns. For example, you may publish a picture a lapbook in which you used a craft from this web site as long as you state where the project came from and include a link.
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