The Parable of the Prodigal Son

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

I love this craft.  Help the kids trace their hands and cut them out of paper.  Use a glue stick to apply them to a piece of construction paper.  I went ahead and printed off the heads of each child and cut them out.  Glue the head to the back and then glue the story of the Prodigal Son inside.  Have each child decorate their hands... fingernail polish... rings... watches...  Then, when you put the hands together, glue them into a hug.  Just as the Prodigal Son's Father hugged him when he came back home, so does our Heavenly Father hug us as we enter into His gates.  How wonderful that will be!

What fun!

If you can, pull this off and just apply it to a page.  Print however many you need, cut them out and have the kids glue them within the arms.

I printed these on card stock and cut them out for the kids to apply to their own individual arms.

This is just an additional page.  Print one off and if visiting kids show up, they can draw their own face on the other side and cut them out to apply to their arms.

The Parable of Building Your House Upon the Rock

Print this off on card stock and go ahead and cut them out before the class.  Cut on solid lines and score the dotted lines to fold.

Hopefully you can see how it's folded to make the house.  Also, I put a hole punch on the roof and inserted yarn for the kids to hang their houses.

The Parable of the Sower

The Parable of the Sower

 

I took a regular sized poster board and put in the good soil, weeds, the path and the rocks.  As you can see, the good soil gets 10 points, the others subtract points, and if the beans fall off the poster board, there are no points added.  Divide into teams or as individuals and play the game.  Have the kids toss the beans onto the board and add up the points.

 

 

 

 

Put the board up against the door or a wall.  It's really hard to get the seed onto the board otherwise.  This way it can bounce off the wall and fall onto the board.

Jesus Walks on Water

Jesus Walks on Water

I have the last two lessons out of sequence.  That's what happens when you go on vacation and then try to catch up!  So, Jesus walking on water comes before His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.  I'm not including an Easter lesson because at our church we have a sunrise service and no Sunday School that day.

Here's the lesson on Jesus' Walking on Water.

Print these out on card stock.  I usually cut them out prior to the class because the younger children have a hard time cutting them out.  Then, color your masterpiece!

Ella colors her craft.

Hannah, Mattison and Parker display their completed crafts.

What fun!

 

Palm Sunday: Jesus' Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

Palm Sunday:

Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

Our Palm Sunday School lesson and craft

Finished project:  Way to go, Olivia

Way to go, Ella!

Way to go, Parker!

Way to go, Mattison!

Taken from www.freefuneaster.com

A

Jesus' Triumphal Entry... Palm Sunday

Our lesson:  The Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem

Jesus Feeds 5,000

Jesus Feeds 5,000

Here is the lesson. It's pretty wordy. So, often, while I like having the entire story down, I'll paraphrase the story.

 

The craft, found at the craftingthewordofgod website.  Depending on your kids, either you can cut them out and have the kids just color them, or have the kids color and cut them out.  I used card stock to print this page.

Hannah, Haley, Mattison and Parker enjoy making their baskets for when Jesus fed 5,000

Hannah and Haley

Miss Lisa helps Parker and Mattison in their crafts.

Mattison

Our lesson and craft.  I started off the kids by cutting out the basket parts and using a glue stick to glue the first piece.

Parker and her finished basket.

Parker and Mattision

Hannah and Mattison as acolytes

Way to go, girls!

This is in jpeg format.  If you want to use this, drag it into your desktop publisher and enlarge it to the size of the page.

Lazarus!

What a wonderful story!  Jesus' good friend Lazarus is dying.  Lazarus' sisters Mary and Martha send word to Jesus that His friend is ill, but instead of coming immediately, Jesus takes His time going to their home... and by that time, Lazarus is dead.  Not only dead, but has been in the grave 4 days.

"If only".... That's what the sisters say to Jesus... "If only you had been here, dear Lord, our brother would still be alive."  But, Jesus tells them that Lazarus will live again.  The sisters misunderstand and think He means when they are all together in Heaven one day.  Jesus tells Lazarus to come out of his grave, and he does just that!

 There are so many lessons to learn from this story... God's timing is not our timing... Trust God even in the darkest situation... And, God is all-powerful... omnipotent!  He can do anything!

 My Sunday school kids loved dressing each other up as Lazarus with the toilet paper.  What fun! 

Bring several rolls of toilet paper... because everyone wants a turn at being Lazarus!

Mattison, Parker and Ava make Hannah into Lazarus!

Awesome job, Hannah!  Mattison is the best Lazarus ever!

Parker helps Hannah with her "shroud"

Ava and her Lazarus "shroud"

Miss Candice, Ella, Mattison and Parker watch the proceedings.

Getting out is almost as much fun as getting into it.

What fun!

Hannah, Parker and Ava work diligently.

You're a good sport, Mattison!

If you have a lot of kids in your Sunday School class, you might want to draw lots to see who will be Lazarus in each group.  Here's a page I made.  Just cut the pieces apart and put however many you want in each team... blank notes go to those who help 'shroud" Lazarus and the picture of Lazarus goes to the lucky kid who gets to play that part.

I haven't figured out how to embed a pdf file into the blog, but this is a jpeg.  You can drag it to your desktop publisher piece of "paper" and cut out the pieces.