Let Your Light Shine Lantern

 Let Your Light Shine Lantern

 

Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.  

Supplies:

• Card stock
• scissors
• glue or tape
• markers
• stickers
• etc.

 
  Cut a one-inch strip off the 8 ½ inch long edge for the handle. Fold the piece of card stock in half along the long edge.  Cut evenly spaced slashes along the folded edge (Cut through both layers) leaving about 1 inch uncut on the open edges. Decorate with stickers, markers, etc.  Open the paper up and then roll it into a tube lengthwise so the slashes run up and down.  Glue or tape the edges of the paper together.  Press down on the top of the lantern so it bulges out a little in the center.  Attach the one inch strip to the top of your lantern for a handle.

If you do not have card stock, any sturdy paper will work.

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Rebekah's Pasta Jewelry

Rebekah's Pasta Jewelry 

Genesis 24:53-  And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

• Bright yellow yarn
• Tape
• Alcohol
• Food coloring
• Small cups
• Pasta of various shapes that can be strung
• Spoon
• Paper towels

    Pour alcohol into small cups.  Add several drops of food coloring.  Make one cup for each desired color.  Drop pieces of pasta into the cups.  Be sure the pasta is covered.  After two or three minutes, scoop the pasta out with a spoon and drain on paper towels.  Repeat until you have colored all the pasta you will need.  Check to see if the pasta is colored as dark as you want.  If not, back in the cup it goes. 

     Let the pasta dry 30 minutes.  Cut yarn to desired length for a necklace or a bracelet.  Wrap tape around the ends of the yarn to make it easy to string the pasta.  Let the children choose colors and string the pasta to make their own designs.  Tie the ends of the yarn and cut off the tape.  White pasta works better than whole wheat for this craft.

More lessons, crafts, recipes, coloring pages at Church House Collection.

Dirt Worm Lesson

• Dirt Worm Lesson
• Dirt Worm Toilet Paper Roll
• Dirt Worm Paper Lunch Bag Craft
• Dirt Worm Maze
• Dirt Worm Cake
• Gummy Worm Ice Cubes
• Dirt Worm Coloring Page
• Dirt Worm Find The Difference
• Dirt Worm Crossword Puzzle
• Dirt Worm Cupcake Template

This is a fun Dirt Worm Lesson "God Made Dirt. Kids will really enjoy learning that God made worms and dirt. Teach them about the scripture in Genesis 1:9-10 where it talks about God making dry land. From ice worms to dirt cake this is a winner!

 

 

Mother's Day Sunday School Lesson

Church House Collection has a Mother's Day Sunday School Lesson. It has activities to go along with this. Use this lesson in Sunday school or Children's Church. Teach the children the scripture from the Bible in Matthew 19:19 where it says to honor thy father and thy mother. Teach the children how they should treat their mother and what they should do for her on Mother's day. Mother's day is a very special day to let your mommy know that you care.

We have some cute Mother's day marshmallow flower snacks that your kids can make in class to give to their mom or you can make it for them and hand them out during class time to go with their lesson. Try making the cute Mother day paper lunch bag craft. The kids will have fun putting the little fork arms on and adding her long brown yarn hair. We have Mother's Day Cup Craft that is sculpted into your very own mom.

Mother's Day Cup Craft

Mother's Day Cup Craft 

Matthew 19:19-Honour thy father and thy mother...

• White Styrofoam Cup
• Bow
• Sticker Eyes or Goggle Eyes
• Red Marker-for mouth
• Black marker-for eyebrows and writing scripture
• Yarn-for shirt
• 3 Brown pipe cleaners
• Tape
• Scissors

Take your 1 of your brown pipe cleaners and cut it half. Then cut those two pieces in half. Now you should have 6 small pieces. Stick them in the top of the cup. Just poke them down in there. Bend them down or position them how you would like for her hair. Do the same cutting technique with the other 2 pipe cleaners and stick those in.

Now take your yarn (we used multi- colored yarn) and wrap it around the bottom of the cup for her shirt. Be sure to leave the bottom rim of the cup exposed so you can write the scripture Matt 19:19 on it. Use some tape to tape down the yarn in the back. Stick your eyes on if you are using stickers. If you are using google eyes then glue them on. Draw your mouth and eyesbrows on. Add a bow. You can make your own out of the same yarn and just tie it in her hair or you can buy bows in bulk at walmart. Now get your black marker and add that scripture down at the bottom.

Have the kids give this to their mommy for Mother's day.

Use our Mother's Day Lesson that has other activities to go with it.

Mother's Day Flower Snacks

Mother's Day Flower Snacks

Matthew 19:19- Honor thy father and thy mother....

• Very Large Marshmallows
• Jelly Beans
• Sixlets Round Candy
• Wooden Sticks (optional)
• Frosting (for glue)

Take one sixlet and dab a little frosting on the back and stick it down in the middle of the large marshmallow. Take 5 jelly beans and dab frosting on the back of those and lay down around the sixlet. This will make it look like a little flower. You can make a whole bunch of these up and lay them on a pan and take them to church. If you want you can take some wooden sticks and stick them through the marshmallow to give them a flower stem. You can add those sticks to it when you are passing them out to the kids at church. These would not work out well if you try to add that stick and then take them to church.

Another idea would be that you could stick that little flower arrangement on top of a cupcake. If you wanted you could also dip those marshmallows into some candy melts and coat the marshmallow real good and then stick those candies on top. This will make it taste really good.  If you don't have sixlets on hand then you could use other round candies like skittles, round candy balls, or just anything that resembles a round shape that is small.
Use our Mother's Day Sunday school lesson to go with it. We have other activities that go with it.

Mother's Day Lunch Bag Craft

Mother Day Lunch Bag Craft

Matthew 19:19 Honor thy Father and thy Mother... 

 

 

 

• Brown or White Lunch Bag
• Tape
• Bow
• Sticker Eyes or Goggle Eyes-   (or just draw the eyes on with marker)
• Red and black marker
• Crayons
• 2 white plastic forks
• 3 Long strips of brown yarn-  for hair

Cut three long pieces of brown yarn. Tape in each corner to hold the hair in place. Add a bow. You can make your own out of yarn or buy some in bulk from walmart. You can even use a fake flower and glue it to a clothespin and then clip the clothspin on. This bow came from walmart and has a grip clip on the back. Tape a fork to the back on each side of the paper lunch bag for the arms.

Add her sticker eyes, mouth and eyebrows. Now draw her a shirt and dress and color it in with crayons. You can make small dots with marker all over outfit to make it pretty. You can even add glitter to her skirt if you want. Using a black marker write Honor thy mother and Matt 19:19 on her shirt.

Optional: You could cut out a small square piece of paper and write, "Happy Mother's Day" on it and then stick it in between the fork prongs. It will look like she is holding the paper.

Now give this to your mommy for Mother's Day!

Check out our Mother's Day Lesson that has activities to go with it.

Shun Profane & Vain Babblings Picture

2 Timothy 2:16-17- But shun profane and vain babblings:for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker.

This little porcupine was listening to vain babblings, and now he has sores all over his body. His bird friend was curious about what happened to him. The scripture in 2 Timothy 2:16-17 talks about shuning the fruitless talking of others. If it is not profitable for you to be listening to it then shun it. The word says it will eat like a canker.

It is amazing how words will affect you from just listening to it. The Bible says that Death and Life are in the power of the tongue and those that love it will eat the fruit thereof. You need to be careful what you are letting come into your ears. I guess the Lord thought it was pretty important that you hear good things. There is something that happens to you from soaking up stuff that is not good. You might not be able to see it right away on the outside but if I was you I would heed to what the word says.

There are some situations that you might be in that you are not able to shun or get away from. There is a difference when you are doing something on purpose and taking part in vain babblings. God knows your heart and what the situation is. If you love listening to the vain talk then there lies the problem. If you don't like it and perhaps you trying to win a soul or have to work around people that do this then just pray about it and the Lord will take care of it. I promise. It  becomes a canker when you love to be involved in this vain babbling.

Ice Cream Cone "Jesus Is Sweet" Crafts

Ice Cream Cone Sunday School Lesson
Ice Cream Cone "Jesus Is Sweet" Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Ice Cream Cone "Jesus Is Sweet" Paper Lunch Bag Craft
Ice Cream Cone Maze
Ice Cream Cone Word in a Word
Ice Cream Cone Activity Page
5 Minute Ice Cream In A Plastic Bag
Ice Cream Cone "Jesus Is Sweet" Crossword Puzzle

Resurrection Eggs Craft For Kids

You need:

• Template (go to my main website page for the printable templates)
• Empty Egg Carton or (brown or White lunch bag, basket, or anything that will hold the eggs)
• 12 Plastic Eggs
• Scissors
• Tape or Glue
• Crayons (if you print the black and white one)

You may have seen the original Resurrection Eggs and they use real items inside the eggs. Those are fun to do too. But this is just an easier way. You will need to make one yourself to have on hand to demonstrate and tell the story first and then have the kids do their own. This is an Easter story that leads up to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Sit the kids down in a circle. Begin to read to the kids the list 1-12 and open each egg one at a time while you are going through the list. Show the the children the little picture of what was in the egg and explain a short simplified story behind each one. Each egg has a different story.

1. Palm Branch-  this is for the triumphal entry. The palm leaves were thrown down when they saw Jesus coming. Matthew 21:8
2. Bread- this is for the last supper when Jesus broke bread with the disciples. Matthew 26:26
3. Praying Hands- this is for Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane.  Mark 13:42
4. Coins- this is for Judas betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.  Matthew 26:14-15
5. Rope- this is for the rope that Jesus was bound with by soldiers  Matthew 27:2
6. Feather- this is for Peter denying Jesus three times and the rooster crowed like Jesus said it would. Matthew 26:34
7. Thorns- this is for the crown of thorns that was placed on Jesus head.  John 19:2
8. Purple Robe- this is for Jesus robe that was taken away.  Matthew 27:28
9. Cross- this is for the cross that Jesus died on for our sins. John 19:17-18
   
10. Tomb- this is for Jesus being placed in a tomb and rose on the third day.  Matthew 28:5-6
11. Fish- this is for Jesus eating fish with the disciples.  Luke 24:41-33
    
12. Clouds- this is for Jesus going up to Heaven. Act 1:11

Once your are done with the demonstration have the kids go to their seats and hand out the printed sheet of resurrection eggs.

Have the kids color and cut each egg out with the scripture included in it. If you printed the colored one then you don't have to worry about crayons. Give each child 12 plastic eggs to put the paper eggs in. Have the kids put the eggs in order in the egg carton if they are using one.

Tape or glue the 1-12 list to the inside at the top of egg carton. If you are using a brown lunch bag just tape or glue to outside of bag. If you are using a basket then just tape to the side of basket.

Another option is that you could just let the kids color the page and take it home instead. Just talk about each one and what they represent.