Welcome to Danielle's Place where you will find thousands of crafts and activities designed to make learning fun.
Many of the crafts and activities are Bible-based and are great for use in Sunday school, preschool, home school, and on special occasions.
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What to do: 1. Print out names for Jesus using colorful letters and interesting fonts. Patterns for the following names are available to members on The Resource Room: Mighty God, Lord, Savior, Son of Man, Prince of Peace, Messiah, Mighty God, Christ, and Son of God. (Some are pictured above and to the right.) 2. In class have your children glue the letters to a piece of construction paper. Give them stickers or fun foam shapes to decorate the rest of the page. 3. If you have younger children, don't cut the letters apart. Just have them glue the whole name the construction paper and then decorate. If you have older children, cut the letters apart and mix them up. Have them try to put the letters together to figure out what they spell and then glue them to the paper and decorate. You can buy religious fun foam shapes from Oriental Trading Company. Go to Oriental Trading Company and type in 48/21010 in the search box at the top of the page to find them on th web site. I think the fun foam shaped pictured where purchased from Wal-Mart. ©2004, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information
Scripture Reference: Isaiah 7:14 I teach 4 - 6 year olds and they are so much fun. Two weeks before Christmas, I gave a Sunday school lesson incorporating Isaiah 7:14 and how Isaiah had predicted so many years before about Jesus' birth. I tried to get them to predict what they thought would happen on earth 100 years from now. I got so many responses like: living in glass bubbles in the air, living on the moon, thinking of where you want to be and then appearing there, no more hunger anywhere, no sickness, etc. We made the scroll (Go to Christmas Crafts Page 2 for directions and a pattern) and it was so easy for them to do. They were astounded on how a clean white sheet turned into an old-time scroll. Using the concentrated tea was easy and not too messy for cleanup. I heard a few parents' comments on how genuine they looked. The kids got to put them up on their Christmas trees. Sent in by Anita ©2007, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information Scripture
Reference: Matthew 2:1-12 1.
See Moses
lesson
for activities about babies. ©2007, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information
This pattern is available to Members Only. What you will need: Letter-sized envelope, yarn or straw, crayons, pencil, and glue. What to do: Use the pattern available to members only or cut out a manger shape as shown from an envelope. Color the envelope to look like a manger. Draw a picture of baby Jesus, cut him out and place him in the manger with cut up pieces of straw or yarn. ©2004, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information Poem about Jesus - Look on the Christmas Page for poems about Jesus
Scripture
Reference: Luke 1:26-56 Crafts and Activities
Jesus Grew and I am Growing Too Scripture
Reference: Matthew 2:19-23, 13:55-56 and Luke 2:4-7, 40, 51-52 1.
Outline each child's body on a big piece of paper (butcher paper used
to cover bulletin boards) and then let them color it. Write
the scripture verse Luke 2:40, "And the Child continued
to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of
God was upon Him," on each sheet or paper before class. We used this project for a lesson about Jesus' love for us. We tapped two-feet pieces of butcher paper to the wall all around the room one right next to the other. On the top of the paper we wrote, "Jesus loves ______" whomever we happened to be tracing. We traced the child's body and had them use crayons to draw in the face and clothes. Most of the children seemed to enjoy the project. Some of the children spent at least 20 minutes on the project others were more interested in the play dough. We probably should have put up the play dough first. Carolyn
Jesus Goes to Church - Honor Your Parents Crafts: 1. Make a church and play with finger puppets - Draw a simple church outline with a mirror image of the outline above the roofline of the church. You are going to fold the outline on what would be the peak of the roof so that the church stands up on it's own. Have children color the church, then fold. Attach it to a piece of cardboard for the floor. If you make each outline large enough you can make simple stick figure puppets out of craft sticks and card stock people shape cutouts for Jesus, Mary and Joseph for the children to play with in the church. Sent in by Bethany Davis 2.
Pipe cleaner People Puppets - Make 3 taller pipe cleaner
people and 1 shorter pipe cleaner person. The shorter one would
represent Jesus, of course. Cut out a circle for the face from construction
paper. The children will draw a smiley face on it and then glue
it to the pipe cleaner head on each figure. Also, cut out robes
for each figure out of construction paper. The children will glue
these to the pipe cleaner bodies. Tape each of the pipe cleaner
people to a Popsicle stick. Purchase a small block of Styrofoam.
Cut out a "wall" from construction paper and draw columns
on it to represent the temple. You could even surround the Styrofoam
on 3 3. Sticker Fun - Oriental Trading Company has "Build a Church Stickers" (12 sheets for $2.95) that would work great for this theme. Type in 36/451 or "church stickers" in the search box on the left to find them.
Even very young children will enjoy this project. Two and three year old children will enjoy making the stained glass window paper and coloring the church. You can complete the rest of the project for them. Go to Church Crafts Page for a pattern and directions.
Note: If you have small children, do all the cutting and just let them the glue oo the tissue paper. What to do: 1. Fold a piece of construction paper or card stock in half (hamburger fold). Cut a shape out of the center with an Exacto knife. You can use any shape. 2. Cut out a lot of the small pieces of multicolored tissue paper, store in Ziplock bags. You will need about 50 pieces for each project. 3. Cut a cross (All you need for a cross is a long and short strip.) or any other shape that will fit in the center of the cut out window. I used construction paper. Metallic paper would also look great. 4. Cut two pieces of the transparency so it will cover the center hole but not be larger than the construction paper half. 5. Spray one
side of each piece of transparency with the spray glue. 6. Let the children
place the color tissue paper all over the transparency so they are
overlapping (Put tissue on one piece of transparency only, the other
piece is to sandwich the tissue in between). 7. Glue the cut
out cross or other shape you have in the center of the transparency. 8. Place the
other piece of transparency over the tissue paper and cross, 9. Place both
of these in between the large cut out shape so the cross shows in
the center of the cut out center and glue the two folded halves
of the construction paper together 10. Punch a hole
in top center and put in the yarn to hang. 11. Glue memory verse on if you want. ©2002, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information
I used the "King of Kings" banner. I copied it to my paint program and erased the "King of Kings" and replaced it with "Always Do Right". I am going to have the children make the banner out of fun foam or felt and have them glue the words onto it and then decorate with glitter glue and other sequins and cording. Go to Crafts Page 6 for a pattern and directions on how to make this craft. ©2003, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information Jesus Bingo Song Using the tune from BINGO try this song. Have one letter each on
a sheet of cardboard or construction paper to spell the name Jesus. "I have a friend who's always there, (remove a letter and sing again, clap for missing letter-s) After all letters have been removed, 5 claps are given for the letters then slow down and help children return all letters to finish the song and sing "And Jesus is his name-o" Jesus and Children Crafts:
What you will need: Blue and black construction paper, yellow printer paper, brads, celestial fun foam shapes from Oriental Trading Company (Type in 48/21030 in the search box at the top of the page.) or star, moon, clouds and sun stickers. You can also cut these shapes from fun foam. 2. Cut the black construction paper in half and glue the half sheets onto the blue construction. 3. Punch holes through the middle of the clock and the background paper, and the clock hands. Stick a brad through the hands, the clock, and the background paper, and spread it out on the back of the paper.
2. Make a Bible Verse Review clock game - See the crafts and activities section below for directions and a pattern.
What to do:
What to do: 1. Have your children decorate one of the water bottles with foam stickers and write "Jesus has time for me" on the other bottle. 2. Fill one water bottle 2/3 full with bird seed, rice, or beans, and place the empty water bottle upside down onto the filled water bottle. 3. Use duck tape to tape the bottles together. Snacks 1. Clock Cookies - Have your children decorate round cookies to look like clocks. These ideas were sent in by Patty Jackson ©2003, Digital by Design, Inc. -* See Copyright Information |
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