Samuel Bible Crafts for Kids

 

 

 

 

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4. Write things that they can do now that they are getting bigger.

5. The teacher can measure their height and write it on the sheet.

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They tape a smaller coat pattern with the inside cut out over the larger pattern. And then tape an even smaller coat pattern over that one. As they lift each coat pattern, the coat gets bigger and bigger revealing more and more of the design below.

Children love this lesson because they can relate to Samuel and how he learned to do more and more things as he grew. They enjoy sharing with the class what they have learned to do over the past year.

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For our craft, instead of making a picture, we made a book. We glued a piece of textured fabric onto the back page (half sheet of construction paper), fitted the three coat patterns on top of each other (in the correct order) and covered the book with another half sheet of construction paper that had the scripture verse printed on it. We stapled it three times down the left side. When the children returned to the church, I saw some of them telling their Moms and Dads the Bible story using the book. Theresa Bostick

 

 

Talk About Babies

When babies are first born they can't do very much. They can cry, and drink a bottle and grab on to things. They can't talk or walk, or even sit up, and they can't even see very well. It isn't long though before they can sit up by themselves. Ask the children what they can do now that they couldn't do when they were a baby. Make a list on the board. Ask them what they know now that they didn't know before and write those on the board. Or let each children share something.

 

 

Pretend to Be Babies

Younger children will have fun pretending they are babies again. Tell them to roll over, scoot on their stomachs, get up on their knees, rock back and forth, then crawl, then stand and hold on to things, then walk.

 

 

Young children will not only enjoy organizing the coats, but will also enjoy seeing all the different patterns and feeling the different textures of the different materials in this activity.

Before class print out the patterns and cut them from card board. Then cut the same patterns from patterned paper such as wall paper samples or material. Glue the material or patterned paper to the card board patterns. Glue on buttons and other decorative items if you wish.

In class have the children place the coats in order according to size. Starting from the smallest to the biggest. If you have older children, you can play a game to see who can organize them the fastest.

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Make Samuel's Coat

Precut coffee filters in the shape of a coat and have the children drop diluted food coloring on them with an eyedropper. (You could also use heavy duty paper towels if you don't have dryer sheets.)

 

 

Written by Nancy Foss
(Sing to I'm a little Teapot)

Samuel's a boy short and stout.
Watch him grow inside and out.
When he gets all grown up, look about
Praise the lord and give a shout. (Shout)

 

 

Samuel Grew Inside & Out

Written by Theresa Bostick
(Sing to the tune of "I Will Make You Fishers Of Men")

Sam - u - el Grew inside and out (begin by squatting and stand all the way up, pull hands into chest and move them out)
Inside and out (pull hands into chest and move them out)
Inside and out (pull hands into chest and move them out)
Sam - u- el grew inside and out (begin by squatting and stand all the way up, pull hands into chest and move them out)
He learned to please God (touch temple with finger, as if thinking and then to God)

I am growing inside and out (begin by squatting and stand all the way up, pull hands into chest and move them out)
Inside and out (pull hands into chest and move them out)
Inside and out (pull hands into chest and move them out)
I am growing inside and out (begin by squatting and stand all the way up, pull hands into chest and move them out)
Learning to please God (touch temple with finger, as if thinking and then to God)

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Measure Up

Measure the height of each child using yarn. Stretch out the piece of yarn on the floor. Have the children hop, skip, and jump to the other end of the yarn. Save each piece of yarn in an envelope for each child to take home. Print on the outside "Measure up like Samuel" and the Bible verse. You may also want to include a note to the parents telling them about what the children learned.

 

 

Provide a picture or object for each rhyming word below. Place them on the floor in the front of the room. As you recite the rhyme, point to a child to come up and choose the object you are saying. Keep repeating the rhyme until all the children have had a turn to pick up an object.

 

 

Guess the Baby Game

Tape all the baby pictures the children brought in on the wall. Tell all the children the name of one of the children who brought in a baby picture. Have the children look at the pictures and decide which one they think is a picture of that child. Keep going until all the children who brought in pictures are named.

 

 

Memory Game

Divide the children up into groups with one adult. Separate them so that they can't hear each other. Give each group one minute to see if they can write down the five things that Samuel told Hannah he could do: Open the doors, sweep the floors, say his prayers, clean the stairs, and do his chores.

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Sing Hannah, Hannah

Written by Nancy Foss

Hannah, Hannah bring me a goat!
Hannah, Hannah bring me a boat!

Hannah, Hannah bring me some soap!
Hannah, Hannah bring me some rope!

Hannah, Hannah no time for rhymes,
Bring me Samuel's coat this time.

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I teach a Sunday school class of 2 to 6 year olds. This week I continued in the Samuel series and used the lesson "Samuel Grows Inside And Out". We began the lesson by talking about the things that the children can do now that they could not do when they were babies. The children had lots of suggestions. I made the three coats out of textured wall paper samples, and they got so excited when it came time to see and feel the next coat that Hannah made for Samuel. They also enjoyed saying "Look, Mommy, Look! Look what I can do." The lesson was a little bit longer than what I usually have, but it went well, and the children did like it.

The thing that impressed them the most was at the start of the lesson, I measured each child using adding machine tape. I cut them the proper length while the child stood straight against the wall. Then they wrote their names on them and taped them on the wall. After the lesson, I pulled out adding machine tape of the length they were at birth. (I asked their parents last week, but if you don't know, you can just make them all 20" which seemed to be the average in our class.) On these strips I had written, "Baby Courtney." We taped them up next to their other strip of paper. They couldn't believe how much they had grown! I read somewhere that 5 year olds have doubled their birth length and it was true this morning! One little girl, who is very small, was encouraged to see how much she had grown because she is usually the smallest in a group. I think this was a great lesson to kick off our month's theme of "I Grow." Thank you for the great lessons and crafts!