Make your own Icons

This is an easy inexpensive craft for any time of the year. Have your kids make their own icons.

First find an icon that you want the kids to frame. You can find quite a few images online that you can cut and paste over on to a word document. You will want to have two icons on a page. One of them being right below the other one and both on the right side of the page. You will need to turn these into cards so that they open to a blank page inside. After you have printed out the cards and cut them you will need to cut ribbon for the top so that the kids can hang their icons.

In class have the kids glue the ribbon ends into the tops of the icons and have them frame the icons with pop sickle sticks.

Materials

8 1/2" x 11" paper
Printer with color
Icon image

or.......
a card with icon on it

Medium sized pop sickle sticks

Glue

Ribbon
Scissors

Pig Craft for the Prodigal Son parable

I made these one year in my Sunday school class for the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Materials:

-Miniature pots
-A small acrylic bottle of pink paint
-Pink foam
-Googly eyes
-Pink pipe cleaners
-Black permanent marker
-Glue

To prep this craft for classroom use you will need to do a few things......


A)Paint all of the pots using the pink acrylic paint giving them plenty of time to dry.
B)Cut the pipe cleaners in half and give them a nice curl to give them that nice piggy tail look.
C)Cut out two ears out of the pink foam material ( they should look like long skinny ovals that have been cut in half).
D)Cut out a small oval for the nose and use a permanent marker to make the nose holes.

Have the children glue on the eyes, nose, and ears and then stick the tail through the bottom hole of the pot.