The girls talked about how there would be no more bullying, or crying, and you wouldn’t ever lose toys again ‘because your brain wouldn’t forget anymore’.Īll in all, it wasn’t as successful as it could have been but that’s not really the point. We chatted about how frustrating the world can be and how things don’t always go as planned, and how the picture we were trying to make from Revelation was when God was going to make everything right again and things would be just how they should be. The lesson I learned through this one was that you’ve got to make the best of each and every situation-even if you should have chosen the much simpler version of the craft rather than the challenging one! There was a lot of cutting and folding and children’s scissors don’t always lend themselves to getting things done. It turns out that we were a bit too ambitious and I actually can’t show you photos of it, because they never got finished. God gives John a vision of things to come (Revelation 4)Ī particularly craft-loving year two girl and her kindergarten friend chose this one because it looked complicated and they wanted a challenge. The conversation around the craft flowed well with each picture as the person was built up from the bones and when we were done, the boys could explain what Ezekiel 37 was talking about with a whole lot of excitement. Thankfully, his Year 5 friend was there to explain a little bit about how the Bible works and that it doesn’t mean God literally breathed on the bones, just that we’re like bones and God gives us life! How good is it when little kids are taught by bigger kids?! He was more patient than I was about the whole thing and his folds were neater than mine, and as we did it, he talked to me about how he once saw a real skeleton in a museum with school, and also asked about how God would breathe on something if God wasn’t physically there. When we read the passage together he decided it was even cooler that God could breathe life into them and suddenly they’d be alive again. Here’s two quick stories about how this went.Ī Year 3 boy decided he wanted to make something with a skeleton when he glanced at this craft, because ‘skeletons are cool!’. I sat down with a few children from church to work on some crafts over the holidays to see how easy they were to do. There’s both a simple and a complex version of each craft, so different ages (and let’s be honest, leader skill levels) can use whichever version works best for that particular moment. It also doesn’t assume that you’re good at craft. It also covers a whole lot of the Bible so there’s plenty of opportunity to utilise it in your week to week ministries. Big Picture Bible Crafts seeks to give crafts that don’t just engage the children’s hands, but their imaginations and memories of the Scriptures as well. There are a lot of children’s craft books that explain how to make cute crafts that are sort of related to the big idea, but not quite right. That’s why Big Picture Bible Crafts is brilliant for us. Some teams have a craft genius, but we’re more skilled in other areas and we could use a hand with all things crafty. Week after week, we do pretty okay but it’s rare that we hit a home run with craft. Week after week, the children’s ministry team at church are searching for ways to do craft that reinforce the big idea we’ve learned, aren’t too complicated, aren’t too lame, and won’t blow our budget.
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