Jesus heals the paralyzed man

Here are Kadie and Hannah with their crafts of the paralyzed man being lowered to where Jesus could heal him.

The lesson. This is an abbreviated version of the story as told in DLTK's Bible Stories for Children, from

 http://www.dltk-bible.com/cv/jesus_heals_the_paralyzed_man.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Craft

I again apologize for not being able to figure out how to insert pdf files into my blog to make it easier to do the crafts.  But, if you can transfer this page to your pictures and then pull it onto a page and enlarge it, that would work as well.  If your kids are old enough to cut them out themselves, that's great.  They love working with scissors and it will save you a lot of time in preparation.  The mat is below left with places for holes with the hole punch.  The long strips to cut out are to make Jesus and the paralyzed man into paper dolls.  Just cut those slits and insert folded strips so that they will stand up.

The paper dolls of Jesus and the paralyzed man and the mat.

Miss Lisa working on her craft.

Kadie with her craft.

Hannah with her craft.

 

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.

The First Miracle- Jesus turns water into wine!

Jesus turns water into wine

This was a fun and pretty simple craft to do for this lesson.  I'll include a jpeg of the page I made out of card stock and the lesson itself.  I wish I could include pdf files that you could easily use to make your own, but I haven't figured out how to do that on blogger.

The other teachers and I enjoyed thinking about how Jesus told His mother it wasn't His time to start doing miracles, but He obeyed His mother anyway.  Funny to think of that, isn't it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully you can download this picture onto your computer and place it on your own desktop publisher software and stretch it out to fill a page.  Print on card stock and cut out.  Cut out the insert on the circle with the jar so that when the pages are twisted, you show how Jesus turned water into wine.  Water is blue... Wine is red or purple...

God Makes You Fishers of People

Christ Picks His Disciples and makes them Fishers of Men

 

This was a fun craft to do for a wonderful lesson.  Jesus picks His Disciples.  He doesn't pick the most well-known, the wealthiest, the most talented men in the community.  He picks men who might not have been thought of as being prospects to be the Messiah's closest confidantes.  He chooses the ordinary people.... like us.

The craft is pretty time-intensive.  It took about 3 hours to put it all together, but the kids love it and play with it even after that day in Sunday school, which is in itself pretty remarkable.

I have collected pictures of the kids throughout our ministry together, so I lined up their their pictures in about 1 inch squares and printed them on card stock.  After cutting them out, I applied magnets strips to the back.  I got the magnet strips in the fabric department of Hobby Lobby.

I found dowel sticks very inexpensively at a well known discount store, Ollie's, along with the magnets I used for the tips.  I hot-glued those together and put a little bit of card stock around it to make it a little sturdier.

The kids fished for the people in their class.  I played this game with my 3-year-old grandson and it loved it.  We would pick up a person's square and lay it to the side, announcing to the world that we had fished that person for Jesus.

Here I am, enjoying the game myself!

Even little 3-year-olds can enjoy the game and catch the meaning.

So much fun!

You'll see some of the kids fishing for their peeps with the faces down, but the magnet can pick them up either way.

Here's the fishing pole

Little 1 inch squares of the kids' pictures.

What fun!

Just looking at the pictures of their friends is kinda cool.

Fishing on the floor...

 I hope you are interested in doing this craft and lesson for your kids in Sunday School.  It's a good bit of work, but well worth it.