Ezekiel Bible Crafts and Activities for Sunday School

How to Make Crafts and Learning Activities
Relating to the Story of Ezekiel

Skeleton Cup Puppet Craft

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What you will need:

9 oz. White Paper Cups, White Card Stock (Heavy Paper), 1/3" Brass Fasteners, 1/4" Hole Punch, Scissors, Yarn or String, Craft Stick or Dowels, Tape and Paper Glue

How to Make the Skeleton Cup Puppet:

1. Print out the pattern onto cardstock (Heavy Paper).

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2. Cut out the pieces.

3. Punch a hole at the middle bottom of the cup.

4. Glue the rib cage piece to the side of the cup as shown in the picture.

5. Punch a hole in the tab of the head piece and then fold back the tab. Glue and tape it to the bottom of the cup so that the holes match up.

6. Punch a hole at the top of the pelvis piece and then fold it down.

7. Insert a twelve inch piece of string or yarn through the hole in the bottom of the cup down through the center of the cup.

8. Tie the end of the string that comes through the cup to the pelvis piece. Place glue on the folded tab at the top of the pelvis and pull it up through the cup so that the glued tab touches the top of the cup. Hold it there until the glue dries. Pull the other end of the string and tape it to the back of the head. Tie the end of the string to the middle of a craft stick or dowel.

9. Punch holes in the leg bones and attach them to the pelvis piece with brass fasteners.

10. Fold the tabs back on the arm pieces and glue and tape them to the sides of the cup.

11. Punch holes on the knees of the skeleton and tie lengths of yarn to the holes and then attach the yarn to the craft stick.

Valley of the Dry Bones Bulletin Board Display

valley of dry bones bulletin board display

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Valley of the Dry Bones Craft and Activity Sheet

"Dry Bones" Activity Sheet

"Dry Bones" Moveable Skeleton Craft

Pasta Skeleton Craft

What you will need:

Dry Pasta Noodles of Different Shapes, White Clear-drying Glue, White Paint (Optional), Printer Paper, and Dark Colored Paper

What to do:

1. Before class print out the Bible Verse Sheet and cut the verses apart.

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2. In class have your children glue the Bible verse papers to the bottom a sheet of colored paper. The glue the dried pasta to the colored paper to make skeleton shapes. When the glue it dry they may want to paint the pasta white.

Handprint Skeleton Craft

What to do:

Dark-colored Paper

White Paint or White Colored Pencils

Markers

What to do:

1. Print out the patterns onto dark colored paper.

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2. In class help your children trace their hands onto the verse sheets. Show them pictures of the bone structure in the hand (printed from the Internet) and then have them paint bones inside the hand shape.

Valley of the "Dry Bones" Bible Verse Review Game

1. Before class print out bones patterns onto card stock and cut them out. Write one word of the Bible verse on each bone. Make enough sets of the Bible verses so that you have at least one set for each team. Write the Bible verse on the board.

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2. In class mix up all the bones and spread them out on the floor. Tell your children that it is the "Valley of the Dry Bones". They will pretend to be Ezekiel and prophesy to the dry bones.

3. Place your children into teams and line them up at one end of the room on the opposite side of the bulletin board. On the word go the first child in each team should run up and find a bone with the first word of the Bible verse and place it on the bulletin board.

4. When the last word of the verse is placed on the board the last child should race back to line and the whole team should shout, "Come alive dry bones!". The first team to get all the bones in order and shout the words wins.

"Jesus Makes Our Dry Bones Come Alive" Craft Stick Plaque

Ezekiel Dry Bones Craft Stick Bible Craft for Sunday School www.daniellesplace.com

What you will need:

Ten Woodsies Mini Jumbo Craft Sticks 4.5" for each child

Two Small Dog Biscuits

White Acrylic Paint and/or Spray Paint

Black Markers

What to do:

1. Before class paint the dog biscuits white with acrylic paint or spray paint.

2. To make the plaque line up eight craft sticks in a row to make flat surface, and then glue two craft sticks perpendicular to the row of crafts sticks, one on each side.

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3. Turn over the plaque when it is dry and paint the surface, glue the dog biscuits on the plaque and paint on dancing arms and legs, and then write the saying with a black marker.

4. You can also add a string to the top for hanging.

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Make Dancing Bones Necklace

Ezekiel Dancing Bones Necklace Bible Craft www.daniellesplace.com

What you will need:

Small Dog Biscuits

White Pipe Cleaners

Ribbon

Hot Melt Glue

White Paint

What to do:

1. Before class paint the dog bones white. You can use white acrylic paint or spray paint them.

2. In class show your children how to bend the pipe cleaners in half to make a loop for the head. Make two more loops on each side of the head loop to make the arms. Fold up the end of each pipe cleaner to make the feet.

3. Glue the dog biscuit to the pipe cleaner figure, and draw a mouth and eyes on the bone with a black marker.

4. To attach the ribbon cut a piece about twenty inches long. Fold it in half to make a loop. Place the loop through the pipe cleaner man's head and then bring the ends of the ribbon through the ribbon loop and pull the end tight. Tie a knot in the ends of the ribbon.