Sunday School
Crafts and Activities
Bible Crafts Including: Labor Day, Lazarus, Leprosy, Light, Lord's Prayer,
Mary and Martha, and Mother's Day
Labor Day Sunday School Lesson
Crafts and Activities
Work for the Lord Sunday School Lesson
The Israelites Build the Tabernacle - The Israelites used their talents and wealth to build a temple for God. God gives everyone special abilities and wants us to use our talents to work for him. God wants us to work hard at whatever we are doing, not for the praise of men, but of the Lord. The following Crafts and Activities come from the Sunday School Lesson, "Work for the Lord" on The Resource Room
Talk About Work
Ask your children what jobs their parents have. Ask them what they would like to do when they grow up.
Make a Craft Stick Picture of the Ark of the Covenant
 What you will need: Jumbo, mini, and regular-sized craft sticks, round 1" wood pieces, gold trim, and gold spray paint or acrylic paint.
How to Make the Ark of the Covenant:
1. A Pattern for this craft is available to members of The Resource Room.
2. In class have your children glue the craft sticks on the paper. Then glue on some gold trim to finish.
 If you have preschool children or don't have the mini craft stick, you can use this easier pattern. This activity sheet only uses the jumbo and regular-sized craft sticks. A Pattern for this craft is available to members of The Resource Room.
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Make a Replica of the Ark of the Covenant (Older children)
What you will need: Small boxes such as jewelry boxes, gold paint, gold trim, gold paper, skinny craft sticks or straws, small twigs, and clay.
How to Make the Ark of the Covenant:
1.  Paint a small box, inside and out, with gold paint. Paint craft sticks gold and then glue them to the box to make the poles.
2. Print out the angel patterns or draw angels or onto gold paper, cut them out, and then glue them onto the top of the "ark". A Pattern for this craft is available to members of The Resource Room.
3. Glue gold trim around the top of the box.
4. Make the Ten Commandment tablets out of white clay, and the bowl out of gold Fimo clay, and place them in the box. Place a small stick in the box to represent Aaron's rod. For more information about the Ark of the Covenant go to this page http://www.domini.org/tabern/arkcovnt.htm
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Play "Important Jobs" Charades Game
Place your children into teams of twos and give each child a piece of paper with a description of the work being performed. Let the teams take turns acting out the scene and have the other children guess what they are doing. Remind your children that they can't say anything while they are acting. (If you have very young children, have older children or adults act out the scenarios and let the children guess what they are doing.) Note: My first grade class did an excellent job on acting out the jobs and guessing what they were. I gave them a few ideas of what they could do before they started.
1.Teacher teaching a student.
2.Doctor examining a patient.
3.Window washers.
4.Taxi car driver taking someone some place.
5.Office workers answering phones and typing.
6.Fast food worker and customer.
7.Grocery store clerk and someone buying food.
8.Garbage men picking up trash.
9.Delivery truck driver delivering package to home.
10.Repair man coming to a person's home to repair something.
11.Construction workers building a house.
12.Assembly line workers.
13.Cooks in a fast food restaurant.
14.Lifeguard and a swimmer.
15.Police officer arresting someone.
16.Crossing guard and student.
17.Mother feeding baby a bottle and burping the baby.
18.Gymnastics instructor and student.
19.Coach and student.
20.Farmer feeding animals.
21.Firemen fighting a fire.
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Work for the Lord Color Sheets
These color sheets are available on The Resource Room.
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Lazarus or Leprosy Bible Lesson
Crafts and Activities Ideas
Lazarus Paper Doll
 This paper doll can be used as a prop during your lesson or you can have your children make them for a craft to reinforce the lesson.
What you will need: Card stock (heavy paper), scissors, colored pencils, paper glue, and strips of white or off-white material.
How to Make a Lazarus Paper Doll:
1. Print out the paper doll patterns and loosely cut them out. Patterns for this craft are available to members only on The Resource Room.
2. Glue the patterns together on the white sides so that when you turn the paper doll over you see a different view of Lazarus.
3. Tape strips of material around the paper doll as you explain that when people died in Bible-times they would cover the body with strips of material. Place the paper doll in a "tomb" (You can use a box or something similar.) and then tell them the rest of the story. When Jesus tells Lazarus to come out, bring out the paper doll, turn it over so the side with his eyes open is facing toward the class, and unwrap the cloth.
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Lazarus Come Out Bible Game
 Bring in wooden clothespins and have your children wrap strips of material around the bottom of the clothespin and draw faces on the top part to make Lazarus. They can glue pieces of yarn on the head for hair. Give each child three styrofoam cups. Have them crinkle up old newspaper to make rocks to fit in the tops of the cups.
If you don't want to use clothespins and cups to make this game, you can use pictures of Lazarus and glue pictures of the tomb on envelopes. Before class print out patterns and have your children color them and cut them out. Glue the three tomb pictures on three different envelopes. Place the Lazarus paper doll in one of the tombs. (Patterns available on The Resource Room)
Show your children how to play a game with the clothespin dolls that they made at the beginning of class. Place a doll in one of the three coffee cups and place the paper "rock" on all the cups. (You can also add a cookie or some other treat.) Quickly mix up all the cups and then ask a child to point to the cup that they think "Lazarus" is in. He then should say, "Lazarus, come out!" Open up the lid to find out if he picked the right cup. If he didn't pick the correct cup, have him try again. Let all your children have a turn. Tell them to take their game home with them and tell their parents and friends about Lazarus, and play the game with their families. You can also play this game with the "Lazarus" paper dolls and envelopes.
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Lazarus Sunday School Game
Divide your children up into teams of twos. Give each team a roll of cheap toilet paper. On the word "go" see which team can make the best "Lazarus" in one minute by wrapping the toilet paper around one of their team members.
Bible Verse Review Game
Print the Bible verse on a piece of long material in big letters. Wrap up a child with the material starting with the end of the verse. Hold the material at the beginning of the verse. Have the child turn in circles as you pull gently and back up to reveal the verse. Have your children say the words to the verse as the words are revealed. If you have room on your floor, you can place the material on the floor with the verse showing. Have a children lay down at the end of the verse and hold onto the end of the material and then roll towards the other end of the fabric to wrap himself up. Have someone hold the end of the fabric as the child unrolls revealing the verse. Have your children say the words to the verse as the words are revealed.
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Unwrap Lazarus Review Sunday School Game
Divide your children up into two teams. Pick one child from each team to be Lazarus. Wrap up both children with TP. Take turns asking your children questions from the story and previous lessons. If a child answers correctly, they get to remove ten squares of TP from the "Lazarus" from their team. The team who unwraps their "Lazarus" first wins.
Lazarus Come Out, Lazarus Go In
 Place a line of tape down the middle of your playing area. Designate one side "inside the tomb" and the other side "outside the tomb". Have the children stand anywhere they would like. Tell them that when you say, "Lazarus Come Out", they should all jump to the "outside of the tomb" side of the room. When you say, "Lazarus Go In", they should all jump to the "inside" side of the room. You will try to trick them to jump on the wrong side depending on what you say. If a child jumps to the wrong side, he is out. Keep playing until only one child is left. When you say "Lazarus go in or go out" always jump to the opposite side. The children may automatically follow you to that side even though you said something different.
Comment: Hi, Just to say we used the Lazarus story, crafts and games for our Sunday club last week ,which has children aged 3 - 10 years. We asked the children to make a cave from blankets and chairs and then played the "Lazarus come out, Lazarus go in game". All the children loved this game and we didn't have time to do any of the craft activities as they were having so much fun! We have recently joined your site and it is so refreshing to have some new ideas. Thank you very much!! Vanessa
A complete lesson about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is available on The Resource Room. This lesson includes Bible verse cards, printable displays to go along with the lesson, and printable crafts.
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Leprosy Drama
In Bible class this week we did a short drama about Miriam and Aaron
rebelling against Moses' leadership and God striking Miriam with leprosy. After God "talked" to Miriam and Aaron, I quickly sprinkled some baby powder
on Miriam's face and arms, and, "poof!", she white with leprosy! The clean-up was a quick dust off. Sent in by Kelia Ballou from
Houston, Texas
Lazarus Cookies
One of our other teachers taught the Lazarus Lesson last week to our 3 - 5 year olds and she had such an interesting craft/snack idea I wanted to share it. She made gingerbread men that the children pretended were Lazarus and then they wrapped them in strips of fruit roll up (fruit by the foot would also work well). The kids loved it so much they didn't want to eat their Lazarus' until they had brought them downstairs and showed them to their parents. This week when I asked them about last week's lesson they were able to retell it well. Thanks so much, we have really enjoyed your curriculum, Krista Sparrow
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Light Sunday School Lesson
Craft and Activity Ideas
Lighthouse Picture and Frame Craft
 At the bottom the picture it says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." This craft goes with the lesson "I Am The Light of the World" on The Resource Room.
What you will need: Paper, color printer, card stock (Heavy paper), sea shells or starfish, and glue.
How to Make a Lighthouse Craft:
1. Print out a lighthouse picture from clip art and cut it out. The Picture Shown is available on The Resource Room for members only.
2. Glue the picture to a piece of cardstock that is about one inch bigger on each side.
3. Glue the picture to the cardstock. Glue sea shells or star fish to the frame to finish.
Buy Tiny Seashells from S& S Worldwide - Small Colored Shells, 1-lb (bag of 4500)
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Paper
Lighthouse Craft
 This
lighthouse is made from poster board, paper and plastic cups, a paper
plate, and a screw band from a Mason Jar (canning jar). It was painted
with acrylic paint and small rocks were glued to the paper plate base.
What
you will need: White
poster board, 1 - 9 oz paper cup, 1- 5 oz. juice/dessert plastic cup
(It should be much wider at the top than at the bottom, 1- 6 oz. juice/dessert
plastic cup (It should be pretty straight.), a heavy duty paper plate,
a regular size screw band from a Mason Jar (canning jar), acrylic paint,
hot melt glue, and some rocks.
 How to make:
1. Cut
the poster board to form the base of the lighthouse. On a piece of white
poster board draw a quadrangle. To make the quadrangle draw a rectangle
that is 13" wide and 12" high. Measure 3" in from the
top on each side of the rectangle (as shown in the illustration). Draw
lines from the 3" marks down to the bottom corners as shown in
the picture. The top of your quadrangle should be 7" wide and the
bottom should be 13" wide. Cut the quadrangle out. Glue the sides
together to make a cone shape. Cut the bottom so that it sets on the
table flat. (If you are going to add stripes, you may want to paint
them on before you glue the sides together.)
Glue the bottom of the base to the middle of a heavy duty paper plate.
2.
To make the railing, cut 1" off the top of the 9 oz. paper cup.
Discard the rest. Place the screw band and inside the the paper cup
top so that the rim of the screw band and the rim of the paper cup are
both facing up. They should fit snugly together. Glue
them together. Slide them down over the
top of the lighthouse poster board base. Glue them in place.
3.
To make the windows where the light comes through place the 6 oz. plastic
cup upside down inside and on top of the screw band and lid and glue
down.
4. To make the roof of the lighthouse, glue the 5 oz. plastic up upside
down over the 6 oz. plastic cup.
5.
To finish paint the lighthouse and base with acrylic paint. Glue on
rocks to the base.
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Lord's Prayer Bible Crafts and Activities
Lord's Prayer Bible Lesson Craft and Activity Ideas
 Including: Four Kinds of Prayer Cup Puppet Craft, Type of Prayer Fill-in Comic Book Activity, National Day of Prayer Craft, Praying Hands Picture, The Lord's Prayer Coloring Sheet, Songs about Prayer, The Lord's Prayer Sandy Candy Craft
See the Bible Crafts and Activities - Bible Themes Obey - Purpose Page for ideas on Prayer
Love Bible Crafts and Activities
See Bible Themes - Love
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| "United in Love" Paper Chain Paper Doll Bible Craft |
Love Is - Spinner Game |
Manna - Sunday School Lesson,
Crafts, and Activity Ideas
See Bible Themes - Moses
Mary and Martha - Sunday School
Craft and Activity Ideas
Mary and Martha Sunday School Lesson
Do the Right Thing at the Right Time - You can find a complete lesson with crafts and activities on The Resource Room.
Bible
Reference: Luke 10:38-42 and Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Teaching Concept: Sometimes doing the right thing is not always the right thing to do if you do it at the wrong time.
Crafts:
1. Clock Picture with Moving Hands - Children glue pictures that relate to each season in the appropriate place on the picture. (Patterns and Pictures for this craft are available on The Resource Room.)
Activities:
1. The Right Time Activity - Have your children hold hands in the middle of the room and form a circle. Two adults hold hands to form a tunnel. The children walk around in a circle passing through the tunnel as they sing the song below. When the last word of the song is sung, the tunnel comes down and captures a child. The child then must answer a question (below) to be freed. Keep playing until all the children have had a chance to answer a question.
Do You Do the Right Thing?
Written by Carolyn
(Sing to the tune of "Do Your Ears Hang Low?)
Do you do the-right thing?
At the time you're supposed to do it?
Do you listen to your mom?
Do you listen to your dad?
Do you do it at the right time or do you wait to long to do it?
Do you do the-right thing?
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Questions:
1. When is it the right time to brush your teeth - in the morning or before you eat?
2. When is it the right time to comb your hair - before you go to church, or when you're sitting at the dinner table?
3. When is the right time to clean your room - when your mother tells you to, or when you feel like it?
4. When is the right time to do your homework - when you get home from school, or on the bus on the way to school?
5. When is the right time to interrupt - when you mother is on the phone and you want to ask her a question, or when there is an emergency?
6. When is the right time to talk - when your teacher is talking, or at recess?
7. When is the right time to have dessert - before dinner, or after dinner?
8. When is it the right time to yell - when you are in the car, or when you are outside playing?
9. When is it the right time to stay home from school - when you don't feel like going, or when you are sick?
10. When is the right time to be quiet - during the church service when the minister is talking, or when you are asked a question?
Older Children
1. Act Out the Story - Act out the story from the Bible or have your children place it in modern times and then act it out.
2. Play Charades Using Eccl. - write the verse on pieces of paper. Have your children take turns picking a piece of paper and acting out what is written. The person who guesses correctly gets to take his turn next. Let each child guess only one time.
3. Bible Verse Review Game - - Read Eccl. 3:1-8, and then hold up the pictures that your children have drawn one at a time. See if the children can identify which pictures go with which part of the verse. Place all the pictures in order and see if the children can say the complete verse by looking at the pictures.
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Jesus Miracles - Sunday School Lessons
Craft and Activity Ideas
See the Miracles Crafts and Activity Page
Moses Bible Lessons, Crafts, and Games
Mother's Day Bible Lesson, Crafts, and Games
Mothers Day Crafts
1. See the Mother's
Day Craft Page for Craft ideas.
2. See Bible Themes - Mothers for Bible Lesson Ideas.
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