Bible
Crafts and Activities for Kids
Jonah
and the Whale Bible Lesson,
Crafts and Activities for Kids
How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Jonah Including: Bean Bag Toss Game, "Hide
and Seek" Bible Lesson, "Find Jonah" Card Game, Sing
a Song and Act It Out, Face
Puppets, Emotions
Booklet, Envelope
Fish and Jonah Paper Doll , "What Did the Big Fish Eat?" Game
Scripture
Reference: Jonah 1 - 4 Concepts - God knows where we are at all times. You can't
hide from God.
"Pin Jonah in the Whale" Bible Craft and Game for Sunday School
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What you willl need:
Card stock, crayons or markers, scissors, tape, and a bandana.
What to do:
1. Before class tape two pieces of cardstock together and draw a large whale shape covering the entire sheet. (See diagram to the left.) Also draw a picture of Jonah that will fit inside the shape of the whale and make copies or use clipart. (A pattern for this craft is available to members.) |
2. In class have your children color the pictures of Jonah.
3. Tape the whale picture on a wall so that your children can reach it easily.
4. Blindfold the children and have them take turns trying to tape Jonah inside the whale. Once each child has taped up his or her Jonah, take off the blindfold and showthat child where his or her Jonah picture ended up on the whale.
Play a Bean Bag Toss Game
  Make bean bags that look like Jonah
and toss them into the mouth a whale. Use the pattern and directions
provided to make Jonah
bean bag dolls.
Make a whale out of a plastic milk jug. Let the children take turns throwing their
dolls into the whale. Or make a whale for each child and let
them try to catch the Jonah bean bag in the mouth of their whale.
"Hide
and Seek" Bible Lesson for Older Children
In this lesson children learn about Jonah and how he tried to hide
from God. They learn that they can't hide anything from God. When
they do something wrong, instead of trying to forget about it, or
hiding from it, God wants them to tell him about it, and to ask him
for forgiveness. This lesson is available on The
Resource Room a
subscription site.
"Find Jonah" Card Game
Play "Find Jonah" Card Game by turning over Jonah cards
and seeing if Jonah is hiding behind the card. If he isn't, they
act out part of the story defined on the card. Card pattern available
on The Resource Room.
Sing
a Song and Act It Out
Younger children will enjoy singing
a song about Jonah while they act out the story. Prepare a large
appliance box to look like a whale. Have a child enter the box while
the other students sing the song. At the end of the song when it
says Jonah was spit out, the child in the box should come out of
the box pretending to be spit out. Keep singing the song until all
the children have had a chance to act it out. This song is available
on The Resource Room.
Face
Puppets
 Older children make face puppets on which different
emotions are depicted. They use the puppets during the lessons by
raising their puppet to indicate when they think Jonah may have
experienced the emotion their puppet depicts.
Emotions
Booklet
 Younger children make a booklet with pictures of the different emotions
Jonah may have experienced. They practice making the same faces
during the lesson.
Envelope
Fish and Jonah Paper Doll
 Small children will love playing
with the envelope fish puppet. The put their hand inside and make
his mouth open and close.
Color
Sheet
 Jonah and the Whale Color Sheet and Bible verse
card.
Jonah
and the Whale with Jonah Paper Doll
Children can use the
craft "Jonah and the Whale and Jonah paper doll" to tell the story of Jonah.
"What Did the Big Fish Eat?" Game
 This big fish has
swallowed many things including Jonah. Your children answer questions
and then reach into the fishes mouth and pull out a piece of paper
with a picture of something the fish has swallowed. They will be amazed
and entertained by all the different things he has eaten. The child
who pulls out the picture of Jonah wins.
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