Transfiguration of Christ

Transfiguration of Christ

I wanted to find a craft to do with the kids for Transfiguration Sunday, so I came up with this...

Print one side on card stock and then turn it over and print it on the other side.  Cut the circular form at the top and cut within the lines so it looks nicer.  I use the scissors to score the light gray lines on the front so it's easier to fold.

 Here's what it looks like.  When closed, it looks like this:

 Then open it up and see what you have.  As well as talking about the scripture story, the kids will paint the picture. I'm going to have some glow-in-the-dark pain to paint Jesus' robes at the end.

Psalm 40- He lifted me out of the mud and mire

I love Psalm 40:1,2  "I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry.  He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;  He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand."

I wanted the children to realize that we are all sinners.  The Bible tells us that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, but over and over again, the Bible tells us that God is there for us, to forgive us and pull out of our sin.  This is simple craft that helps ( I hope) to illustrate that to the kids.

Here's the youtube video I made:    https://youtu.be/uYeijRpyLAU  copy and paste the link into the url address line.

I printed off all the kids faces and cut them out.  There's an outline of a child in a robe, so I had the kids color the clothes and then paste their own faces onto the body.  Paste the body with their face onto the tongue depressor at the bottom and at the top of the tongue depressor, paste God's Hand reaching down.  There's a blue larger piece of card stock and a smaller brown piece of construction paper.  The kids drew rocks at the top of the brown paper so that when God lifted them out of the mud, there was a firm rock to stand upon.  The kids glue just the sides of the brown paper onto the blue paper so that their person on the tongue depressor can be placed into that pocket and lifted out of the mud.  The above jpeg can be copied or dragged into your own print shop software and printed.  I printed it onto card stock, but you can print it on regular paper if you'd like.

Print off the hand of God on card stock and cut around each one.  It doesn't have to be precise.

Print the child's body on card stock and cut out.

This just makes it easy to cut out the blue card stock.

Here are our kids enjoying the craft and hopefully learning that our God forgives sin.