Using famous women in the Bible, your kids will create Mother's Day crafts or use them with Bible stories to make learning fun. These crafts are for older children.
Harvest Bags: Story of Ruth
Materials:
- Brown lunch bags
- Yellow pipe cleaners
- Magazines
- Glue
- Candy
Directions:
- Cut pictures of fruit, vegetables and fall items out of magazines.
- Glue them onto the lunch bags to form your harvest bag.
- When the children have completed the bags fill them with assorted candy to take home.
Hot Chocolate in a Baby Food Jar: Hannah Gets a Baby
Materials:
- Baby food jar (clean really good)
- Hot chocolate powder mix (Swiss Miss, Nestle, etc.)
- Miniature marshmallows
- Hershey Kiss candy
- Fabric scraps
- Ribbon
- Glue
Directions:
- Pour in one package hot chocolate mix into the baby food jar.
- Add mini marshmallows to fill the jar the rest of the way up.
- Fasten the baby food jar lid tightly.
- Place a fabric scrap on top of the lid and secure by tying ribbon around the neck of the jar, holding the fabric in place.
- Glue a Hershey Kiss candy on top of the jar.
Optional: You can add a memory verse or small note to the ribbon before you tie it to the jar by putting a hole punch in the card and stringing it onto the ribbon.
Castle Craft: Queen Esther
Note: A few children can work together to make a single castle, if you like.
Materials:
- Large cardboard box
- Four strips of carboard (cut battlements in them)
- Glue
- Four toilet paper tubes (cut battlements in them)
- Scissors
- Paper towel tube (cut battlements in it)
- Paint (various colors, but definitely silver)
- Paint brushes
- Sheets of colored paper
- Straws
Directions:
- Use a large box for the base of the castle. Spread glue along the base of each strip of battlement (your four strips of cardboard) and glue them around the top of the box, so the battlements stick up from the box.
- For turrets, use the four small tubes. Cut two slits in the bottom of each tube. Slot them onto the corners of the castle.
- Use the long tube for a tower. Make a cone shape from paper and glue it into the long tube for a roof for the tower.
- Using the same concept as above, make various other buildings for the castle using smaller boxes.
- Paint your castle with silver paint. Add doors, windows, and other designs as you like with other colors of paint.
- Glue your smaller buildings to the castle and let dry.
- Make a flag from folded paper triangles and tape them to straws.
Fabric Angel: Angel Visits Mary
Materials:
- Fabric of any color or design
- Two different size circles to trace around
- Thread
- Lace
- Ribbon
- Foil garland or pearl strings
- Hot glue
- Needle and thread
- Cotton balls or stuffing
Directions:
- Using two different size circles, cut one circle of each size from fabric for each angel. The larger circle is the body and the smaller circle the wings. Sew lace around each circle.
- Put a cotton ball or small amount of stuffing in the middle of the large circle. Using a piece of thread, tie the material to make a head.
- Take the smaller circle, and tie tight a piece of thread in the middle to form wings. Tie the wings around neck of the body.
- Take a piece of ribbon, and tie it around the neck to hide the thread. Make it into a bow.
- Glue a halo, using pearls or garland, onto the head.
- Sew a small loop of thread to the back of the angel to hang her by.
Helping Hands Wreath: Dorcas
Materials:
- Construction paper (various colors)
- Crayons or markers
- Scissors
- Glue
Directions:
- Give each child a piece of construction paper, markers and scissors.
- Help the children trace both of their hands on the construction paper.
- Cut out the traced patterns with scissors.
- Have the children color their hand cut-outs and write their name on them.
- Help the children arrange the cut-outs into a circle to create a wreath, overlapping each cut-out.
- Glue cut-outs into place.
Offering Can: The Widow's Mite
Materials:
- White Paper (for copies)
- Empty and clean aluminum can
- Construction paper
- Crayons
- Scissors
- Glue
Directions:
- Draw a simple church shape on construction paper and duplicate it for each child.
- Give each child a church to color and cut out.
- Glue a piece of construction paper around the can to cover it.
- Glue the picture of the church to the can.
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