Beatitudes Crafts and Sunday School Lesson for Children
Recipes for Happiness Beatitudes Bible Lesson for Children's Ministry
Scripture References: Matthew 5:1-12 - The Beatitudes, Psalm 146:5, and John 6:1-14
The following ideas come from the Sunday School lesson "Recipe for Happiness" on The Resource Room.
In this lesson children learn that the happiness the world offers doesn't last very long, but true happiness comes from God and obeying his words. This lesson goes with the lesson "Taste and See".
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Beatitudes"Recipe for Happiness" Picture
Children color the cookie pictures to help them remember the Beatitudes. You can also use this picture to go along with the Bible lesson. As you talk about each beatitude, children can color the corresponding character in the picture.
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What you will need:
Cookie-colored Paper
Card Stock
Tape
Wiggle Eyes or Eye Stickers
Small Magnets
What to do:
1. Print out cookie patterns onto card stock and cut them out. Print out hands and feet patterns and Bible Verse Patterns onto card stock and cut them out.
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2. In class have your children color the hands and feet patterns to match the cookie pattern and tape them to the back of the cookie pattern to make a cookie man.
3. Tape or glue the Bible verse card to the cookie man's hand.
4. Glue a magnet to the back of each cookie man so your children can stick them to their refrigerators at home.
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Color Pictures of the Beatitudes to be Used During the Lesson
Before class print out each Beatitude Sheet and have your children color them. Tell your children that the will be used during the lesson. If you have more than eight children, make extras. You can use more than one picture during the lesson.
To make this craft even more appealing use Kool-Aid paint.
Empty a Kool-Aid packet into a cup and add just enough water to make it runny.
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Before class make paper and craft foam cookies. Write one beatitude on each cookie. Place them on a cookie sheet. Present the sheet of cookies to the class wearing an oven mitt and pretend the sheet is hot. During the lesson pick a student to use a spatula to pick up one of the cookies. Tell the student to be careful not to touch the sides of the cookie sheet when picking up a cookie.Read the word on the cookie and then discuss that beatitude. Have the children take turns picking up a cookie until you have discussed all the beatitudes.
Cookie Bible Verse Review Relay Game
You can also use these as a game to review the Bible lesson.
Preparation:
Place two sets of cookies on the cookie sheet or use two cookie sheets. Write the Bible verse with all the Beatitudes on the board. Go over the verse.
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To Play:
1. Break your children up into teams and give the first person on the team a spatula.
2. On the word "Go" the first player on each team should run up to the cookie sheet and remove one cookie in the order of the verse and then run back to the other end of the room and place the cookie in order to make the Bible verse.
3. The first team to complete the verse in order wins. If a cookie is picked up out of order, team members can rearrange the cookies when placing them in order, but no player may touch the cookies with their hands, only the spatula.
Chef Wooden Spoon Craft
What you will need:
Wooden Spoons
Paper
Yarn or Fake Fur for Hair
Googly Eyes
Pompoms for Nose
Glue
What to do:
1. Before class print out the clothes and hat patterns onto card stock and cut them out. (Instead of using the Bible verse cards that are on the hat pattern use the Bible Verse Card Patterns from the cookie man craft.)
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2. In class have your children color the patterns and then glue them to the spoon.
3. Glue on hair, googly eyes, and a pompom nose.
4. To finish cut a slit just above the thumb and place the card in the slit so it looks like the chef is holding the card. Glue the card to the hand.
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Decorate a Potholder
What you will need:
Bold Tip Brilliant Color Fabric Marker Set or Sharpie Markers (I like the fabric markers better because the colors are brighter)
How to Make:
1. Have your children write the memory verse on one side of the potholder and decorate the rest of it with permanent markers both back and front.
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What you will need:
Sugar Cookies, Icing, Mini M&M’s, and Black Icing in a Tube
How to make:
1. Before class make a batch of sugar cookies.
2. Bring in icing to decorate the cookies, mini M&Ms for the eyes, and use black icing in a tube to make the smile.
Bible Verse Review Concentration Game
Before class print out cookie men cards and cut them apart. Patterns available to members only.
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In class place the cards face down on the table. Have your children take turns turning over two cards at a time trying to find matches. If you children are too small to read, read the words on the cards as they turn them over. They will help them to remember the verses and what they mean.
If a child finds a match, have him read the words on the card and give an example of what is written on the card.
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"Taste and See" Bible Verse Review Cookie Game
1. Before class make cookies and cookie jars from card stock and cut them out. Patterns available to members only.
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2. Write one word of the verse on each cookie.
3. Prepare the Cookie Jar. Fold the Cookie Jar Pattern in half and tape along the side and bottom edge.
4. Hide the cookies in the room.
5. After the lessons write the Bible verse on the board and go over the verse. Then have your children go and find one cookie each. Tell them to go back and sit down when they have found one cookie. When all the cookies have been found go over the verse again, one word at a time. Ask the child with the cookie with the word you are looking at to bring his cookie up and place it in the cookie jar; or have him tape it to the wall.
You can also make a set for each child to take home and practice his or her Bible verse during the week. Use only the first half of the verse for younger children.
"Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:" Psalm 146:5
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