Bible Memory Verse Cards

Tissue Cards: Church Staff Appreciation

Materials:

  • Card stock
  • Tissue paper (variety of colors)
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Glue
  • Yarn
  • Ribbon

Directions:

  1. Fold a piece of card stock in half. Use a pencil to draw a large flower (leave room at the bottom for a yarn stem) on the front of the card.
  2. Cut out 30 to 40 squares of colored tissue paper. Have children scrunch the squares into balls and glue onto the flower. Continue until flower is covered.
  3. For stems, glue pieces of green yarn to the card stock, extending from underneath the bottom of the flower. Make leaves with green tissue paper.

Paper Bible Buddies: Any Bible Story

Materials:

  • Cardboard boxes
  • Pencil
  • Glue
  • Safety scissors
  • Assorted craft supplies (decorative paper, doilies, cupcake liners, ribbon, fabric, yarn)
  • Markers
  • Self-adhesive Velcro coins (craft store)

Directions:

  1. Draw a paper-doll on a sturdy cardboard box or a piece of cardstock, then cut out.
  2. Draw your own clothing on scraps of decorative paper or fabric, and cut out. You lots of browns, tans, and blues for usual Bible clothes. Decorate clothes with ribbon, doilies, and rickrack.
  3. To make it easy to change outfits, attach self-adhesive Velcro coins to the doll's body and to the backs of the clothing.
  4. To create several faces, cut out a circle sized to fit the doll's head. Use a marker to make a face, glue on yarn for hair, and attach with self-adhesive Velcro coins.

Sun Prints - Creation (This craft has to be done over a weeklong period.)

Materials:

  • Colored construction paper
  • Leaves (not crinckled)
  • Glue stick
  • Masking tape
  • Picture frames

Directions:

  1. Put some glue onto the back of a leaf, and attach to a piece of construction paper.
  2. Tape the paper to a sunny window, with the leaf facing out. Leave up for a week. The paper's color will fade a bit over this time period.
  3. Remove from window and gently peel leaf off to reveal the print. Frame and hang.

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