Teaching Bible Verses Using Crafts
Use Crafting to Make Learning Scripture Fun
Glue, scissors and crayons for Bible study? Yes! Learning scripture verses has never been more fun for children than when they become crafters.
Children love crafting, and combining this love with learning of scripture is a sure recipe for success. This article presents activities that are fun, inexpensive, easy and designed to reinforce the learning of Bible verses by keeping them within view of the child each day.
- Stick Puppies-Cut 5 colored sponges into circles and have child decorate each like a puppy face using glue, markers, pipe cleaners, fake fur or felt, construction paper, etc. Punch a hole in the bottom of each face and glue onto a craft stick. Have the child print favorite Bible verses on the sticks, and put them in a small basket on a bedside table for reading each night.
- Heavenly Kite-Stretch a metal clothes hanger into a triangle by pulling down the bottom. Have the child use colored tissue paper and tape to cover the hanger. Bible verses may be printed with colored markers or crayons on the the front of the kite and a ribbon or yarn tail attached. The kite may be hung by the curved metal hook from the ceiling of the child's room.
- Flyswatter to Love-A new plastic flyswatter is needed for this activity. Have the child decorate the wide end with a likeness of himself or a friend. Hair may be added by weaving yarn through the grids on the swatter. Print favorite Bible verses about God's love on strips of paper that are the same width as the swatter handle and attach with glue. Punch holes in the other verse strips and use the left over yarn to tie through the hole at the end of the swatter.
- Pocket Verses-Cut a poster board strip about 1 by 3 inches. Punch a hole in the end of the strip and have the child print the Bible verse for the week on it. Hang the verse card on a metal key ring small enough to fit in the child's pocket. A new verse can be added each week and the ring will keep them all handy for reading whenever the child likes.
- Scripture Holders-Glue small magnets to colorful clothespins and put them on the refrigerator to hold the scripture verses to be practiced. These can be read each day as dinner is prepared for the family.
Memory Verse Crafts offers many other wonderful Christian crafting ideas as well as Bible Verse Cards with graphics that can be printed online.
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