Craft: Daniel in the lion’s den (Dan 6)

First day of holiday! Let’s make the kids work for my Sunday School Project.

All you need:

1. Glue stick

2. Colouring papers

3. Toilet rolls

4. Crayons or colour pencils

5. Scissors

6. Black marker or Googly eyes

7. Finger paint

Instructions:

1. Cut two semi circles front and back and cut another two rectangles to make four legs for the lion

2. Colour the toilet roll using finger paint (see how much fun the kids have)

3. While the rolls dry, draw simple tiger shape face

4. Cutout from coloured papers

5. Decorate with colour pencils, put Googly eyes

6. Paste face on roll

Have fun!

Craft: Three Kings look for Jesus (Matthew 2:1)

The wise men or the three kings were the group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. To share this story during our toddler Sunday school, I’ve prepared the following craft.

All you need:

1. Glue stick

2. Colouring papers

3. Star stickers

4. Crayons or colour pencils for decoration

Instructions:

1. Prepare 3 different type of triangles, 3 circles and 3 crowns (I did these using a combination of stencils and my son helped with the drawing of crowns)

2. Paste the triangles, circles followed by the crowns. (A good type to teach shapes)

See how much the kids enjoyed this activity in class today.

Salt Painting

Successfully ran the craft class for toddlers’ Sunday school with this simple craft work.

All you need:

1. Salt

2. Colouring or Water colours

3. Brushes or droppers

4. Dark art papers

5. Glue, normal emulsion type or glitter ones to more colours

Instructions:

1. Print an outline on the dark paper. (Optional: easier for younger kids to trace than draw from scratch)

2. Trace the candle with glue. Keep the glue thick so more salt would stick.

3. Sprinkle the salt on the glue.

4. Prepare the coloured water for painting. (Use drops of food colouring for a small plate of water)

5. Drop the colour onto the salt and watch how it spreads!

Sunday School

Finally got Samuel registered for Sunday School. He was not enthusiastic about the whole thing. I think the crowd scared him. I didn’t expect to see 50 kids in one classroom singing together either. Everyone was in their Sunday best. I made a mental note to put more dressy shirt on him next Sunday.

Sunday school is very different from what I remember. It was just all bible or daily bread discussion during my times. Now they have all these hand signs for piquing the kids’ interest. Even cutout props for kids on whiteboard and snacks to reward those who finished their work.

Still Samuel refused to do his colourings or rather he insisted they are done because they are supposed to be white in colour.

And every time when everyone closed their eyes for prayers, he would try so hard to pretend to keep them closed. I remember doing that myself when I was young.