Nicodemus and how to be born again

We had a lot of fun making our caterpillars... which wove around themselves a chrysalis... and then emerged as a butterfly.

I wish I could say I was original in making that a wonderful example of what it means to be "born again", but alas, I am not.

I found the craft at www.cutesycrafts.com     Go to that site and you can upload the pdf files for the chrysalis, butterfly and caterpillar.

I simply printed the chrysalis and caterpillar on green construction paper and then printed the butterfly on plain while paper.

Here was my lesson:

I'm sure just about every child has at one time or another read "The Hungry Caterpillar".  What a wonderful example of what it means to be born again.  When Jesus comes into our hearts, He doesn't just make us a better person.  He makes us a new creation!

Hannah and Kadie working on their butterflies

The lesson with our craft

Kadie's butterfly.  You'll notice I printed off pictures of each of the kids to use as their butterfly face.

Me and my butterfly

Hannah and her butterfly

On www.cutesycrafts.com,  she put the caterpillar on one page.  I was able to put several on one page to make printing easier.  You may be able to save this picture and drag it over to your own print shop publisher software to print a page of several caterpillars at one time.

I love seeing the caterpillar peeking out of his chrysalis.