Bible Crafts and Activities

 Daniel - Dorcus

Daniel - Crafts and Activities

Daniel and the Lions Bible Story -

1. Play a “Spin the Lion” Game - Before class make the lion craft (available to members only) pictured with paper plates. Make up some cards with questions about the story written on them.  Add some cards with activities written on them such as “Roar like a lion”, “Walk around the outside of the circle acting like a lion”, etc.  Have the children sit in a circle around the lion. The teacher will spin the lion.  The child who is directly in line with the lion’s face has to answer a question or do something that is written on the cards.  If you would like, you can place the cards in the lion’s mouth and clip them on with a paper clip or clothes pin and have the children remove one card when it is their turn.

2. Set the scene - First of all, to get the kids in the spirit of things, we covered our windows with black garbage bags. On one of our walls we put up poster board pictures, we had painted with florescent paint, of Daniel and the lions. Then we brought in a large back light and turned off the lights. It kind of gave you the feeling you were in the den with Daniel. We did our craft first because we wanted them to have time to dry. We turned the lights back on and made the stuffed lion as you directed. However in keeping with our environment, we let the kids use neon paint to lightly color them so they would glow in the dark under our light. Thus adding more lions in our dark den as we turned off the lights and told our story. For an ending we played the spin the lion game. Of course we had painted it florescent yellow to make it glow in the dark as we spun it. We gave it a card stock tail and used that as the spinner. It worked great. Also, being a great lover of the easy way out method, we chose to use a florescent post it note tablet for our questions. You may have to glue it in the lions mouth, but it seemed to look better than the other options. We simply wrote a question on each piece of the tablet and pulled it off as they answered it. We gave them a little piece of candy for each correct question. I don't think they'll soon forget this lesson. We highly recommend using the back light. We have used it several times and the kids love it. Thanks for your great ideas. Kandy

3. Lessons and Crafts about Daniel on The Resource Room

“God Saved Daniel From the Lions” - In this lesson children learn that they can trust God to help them. God will help them be strong and stand firm against what is wrong when they ask God for help. (Available to members only.)

Crafts

1. Make a Lion Visor Craft -  Children will love wearing this cute visor and acting out the story. (Pattern available to members only.)

2. Make a Stuffed Lion Craft - This little lions is made from plastic Baggies and yellow pompom balls or tissue paper. (Pattern available to members only.)

3. Make a Lion Face with a Noodle Mane. This is a fun, cheap, and easy craft for young children. Just print out the pattern, dye some noodles yellow and orange, and have the children glue them around the lion face. (Pattern available to members only.)

The lesson also includes a Daniel in the Lion's Den Color Sheet and Bible verse card.

4. Make a Folded Paper Lion Craft - This craft is available to members only.

Scaredy Cat Sunday School Lesson - (Available to members only.) In this lesson children learn about how to overcome fear through this make-believe story about a little, scaredy-cat lion who meets Daniel in the lion's den.

Crafts and Activities:

Practice printing and writing - This lesson was designed to go along with ABC worksheets using the Bible verse. Children practice writing the letter C in print or cursive or write the complete verse in cursive.

3. Make a Scaredy Cat Puppet and act out the story - (Available to members only.) Go to Craft Page 19 for a pattern and directions for this craft.

4. Make a Scaredy Cat Book - This little book is in the shape of a lion. The tail is made from yarn. Children can print Bible verses inside that will help them not to be scared.

What you will need: card stock, orange yarn, stapler and paper.

What to do:

1. Draw a picture of a lion or use the pattern (Pattern available to members only.)

2. Cut out the lion picture and use it as a pattern to make the inside and back cover.

3. Braid orange yarn for the tail and glue or tape it to the back of the cover.

4 . Staple the pages together at the top of the head.

5. Print the following verses on each page of the book:. 1 John 1: 5, Psalm 27: 1, 2 Timothy 1:7, Joshua 1:9, Psalm 46:1-3, I John 4:18, and Hebrews 13:6 . Tell your children that if they every feel scared like the little lion in our story, they can open the book and read the verses.

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, or home use only. It is illegal to copy this material and publish it on another web site, news group, forum, etc. even if you include the copyright notice. You must have permission to copy the material. To request permission to copy this material for any other use contact me by email.

Other uses for this book:

1. Write a word rhyming with cat on each page.
2. Have children write their own story in the book.
3. Have a child dictate their own story to you to write for them.
4. You can also write other words that start with the C sound in the book.
5. Make it a prayer book. Help the children come up with a prayer they can pray when they are scared.

Make a Lion's Den

I was searching for ideas for our VBS program this year and thought of our "Daniel in the Lion's Den" program last year. This activity is time consuming, but oh so worth the effort! We needed a lion's den so we used a large walk in closet (with the doors removed) for the depth of a den. Next we hung chicken wire from the ceiling (attaching it to the recessed frames with wire), slopping down to the floor. We used large T pins to secure the wire to the carpet. Next we took plastic grocery bags and stuffed them with paper. Then we tied the bags to the wire using the flaps of the bags. Next we took yards and yards dark brown material (we dyed ours using old donated cotton sheets), and soaked them in the liquid starch mixed at half strength. After wringing out all the water we draped the fabric over the bumpy stuffed bags, securing with pins and clips underneath so as not to show. The bumpy bags covered with material make it look like the outside of a stone cave. When the fabric dried it made the rocks feel real because the fabric had hardened. We blew up a picture of Daniel in the lions' den using an overhead projector, and then colored in the picture using good markers. We placed the Daniel mural against the back wall of the closet. For the floor of the den we took shredded raffia and scattered it across the floor. We took a few night lights and using extension cords, we hung them over and to the sides of the mural. When it was finished the kids came in to a dark room, lit only by the lights coming from the lion's den. There is just enough light as to make it look so real. The kids were told a story in front of the den and they thought it was awesome! We also made a very large paper mache boulder and placed it in the opening to the lion's den to seal it as the King had.

As I said before, this was a tedious job, but we did the den in two days. The mural took a little longer to color in, but we worked on that as our leisure. Maybe you can use this idea. In fact, everyone loved it so much that we kept the lion's den for future bible lessons. It was put in a class room that was not being used anyway. Bethany Atkins

Daniel Makes Good Choices

Disciples

Divided Kingdom

We have just finished the Kings and are ready to begin the Divided Kingdom. I have noticed there is very little material out there on the Divided Kingdom for this age group so I thought I'd share a thought with you.

I told the kids for the last two weeks that something really, really bad was going to happen to the children of Israel. By now they have come to know these tribes quite well. They keep asking, "What"? I tell them to keep an eye and ear open for the news.  I have taken a full sheet of newspaper and laminated it. On the paper I have written the names of the 12 tribes. On a second sheet of newspaper I wrote the 10 tribes on the top in a large puzzle format and the 2 tribes for the south on the bottom in red also in a puzzle format. After teaching the "News" of the split of the kingdom, I had them to put the tribes back together using the newspaper puzzle. This way they can learn which tribes journeyed north and who remained south. By the way, an easy way to remember this is the "J's" go together Jereboam Journeyed and the "R" go together Rehoboam Remained. I made each of them a smaller puzzle just like my big one for them to take home and review. I hope this idea can help spurn other Divided Kingdom ideas. Connie Henry

DOG Lessons

Depend On God

Crafts and Activities - Use the craft and activities from "Beware of the Dogs" on the Resource Room.

1. Make a dog picture in which on of the ears move and the dog is holding a paper with the words, "Depend on God", or an appropriate Bible verse.

2. Make "Stand Up Dogs". This is a very simple craft. You just print out the pattern, color and fold in half. There are four different types of dogs available.

3. Make a faithful dog - Use this dog for a Bible verse review game. Print one word of the verse on each bone. Instruct your children to try and find the first word of the verse. If they find the correct word, they can feed the dog. Keep playing until all the bones are gone.

4. Play a game with paw prints - Before class cut out some large paw prints. Make enough to have one for each word of the Bible verse. Write one word of the verse on each print. Tape the paw prints in order of the verse around the room. Make it go around in circles, over and under chairs, around tables, and cross paths. See if the children can follow the paw prints to spell out the Bible verse. You may want to have a doggy treat at the end of the path. If you have younger children, write the verse on the board so they can look at it if they have problems.

5. Sing a song to the tune of "How much is that Doggie in the Window" written by Teri Couture

How much did it cost to buy my pardon
To wash and to sanctify me?
How much did it cost my Lord and Saviour?
Just look at the cross and you'll see.

I must give all praise and all thanksgiving
To the great King who rescued my soul
I'll love Him forever and forever
Now my body and spirit are whole.

DOG - Get Your Paws On a Good Book - Bible Reading

I used a daily Bible reading theme by using a dog (similar to the one on your page) holding a Bible. I called it "Get Your Paws on the Good Book." Each child got a weekly "doggie bag"(a brown paper bag) with 7 dog bones (copied onto tan construction paper) with a daily Bible verse and a question about the reading.Each child brought his/her bag back each week with their signature and parent's initial that each passage was read and the question answered. I asked the parents to participate to encourage family devotions. Carol Weddle

Copyright Notice - While many of the crafts on this site are free, they are still copyrighted. They are for personal use only. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, except for local church, school, or home use only. It is illegal to copy this material and publish it on another web site, news group, forum, etc. even if you include the copyright notice. You must have permission to copy the material. To request permission to copy this material for any other use contact me by email.

Dorcas helps the Poor - Dorcas raised from the Dead

Scripture Reference:  Acts 9:36-43
Concepts: helping others, helping the poor,

Crafts: 

1. Sew clothes using fun foam and plastic needles.  See project on fun foam page

2. Make a collage using fabric scraps or use the pattern above or the pattern for the coat of many colors

Ecclesiastes

A time to search -

1. Before class make up treasure maps, (rhymes with missing words for the older kids, pictures for the younger ones) Use bags of candy for the treasure.

2. Children can make up there own treasure maps of their own homes and give them to a sibling or parent to follow.

3. Bring in some "I SPY" books and have your children find hidden objects.

4. We had a great puppet skit about a little girl getting lost and how it feels to be lost.

5. Our lesson was about "Lost" things in the bible, i.e., the lost sheep, the lost coin, Mary and Joseph thinking Jesus was lost when he taught at the temple and then we focused on being lost once ourselves and how we found Jesus.

6. For a snack, we had watermelon. We took
out the seeds and made a path to a cloud of whipping
cream (heaven) and placed a Skittle, our treasure, in
the cloud. We talked about our treasure being in
heaven and how we need to prepare our hearts for the
day we see Jesus face to face.

A Time to Kill -

1. Talk about hating sin and a time to kill sin by being a good soldier in God's army. Use the Armor
of God lessons series on The Resource Room.

Ideas sent in by Teri Couture