Free St. Patrick Clip Art and Craft from Charlotte's Clips

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Free Shamrock - Trinity Craft from Charlotte's Clips

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Pringles and Prophets

This week I presented a mini-workshop on teaching Bible stories to young children 

and completed my first week of school with 24 new kindergarten students.

I want to share with you what the teachers in my department created during the workshop.  

It was so much fun, some of them did not want to stop.

We gathered Pringles cans, felt, markers, yarn, buttons, pipe cleaners and burlap. 

I found champagne color felt at Hobby Lobby for the faces.  

We used hot glue guns to attach the felt.  

Rubber bands worked great to shape the head pieces. 

Then thick yarn, raffia, etc. was tied around the bands and waist.

What did I learn from this project?  

It probably would be a good idea to add some weight inside the bottom of the can. 

I got the idea for this project from Pinterest:

From A day in the life of a Preachermans Wife

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Free Ascension Craft

Free Ascension Printable Download

How to Make:

1.  Copy image onto card stock.

2.  Color image of Jesus and clouds.

3.  Glue or staple a 2nd piece of card stock to one side.

3.  Glue streamers to the back of each piece of card stock.

4.  Glue cotton for clouds around the top.

5.  Curve the paper into a circle and staple it together.

6.  Add a card stock handle or strings to the top.

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Trinity Craft and Poem Tag

Free Shamrock - Trinity Craft from Charlotte's Clips

Download includes:

 poem, shamrock template, and images to glue onto shamrock.

Fishers of Men

I will make you Fishers of Men

Free Poster from Charlotte's Clips at TPT

Short Youtube Clip from Gracelink.net

Craft for Bulletin Board

These fish were made using small paper plates with no coating.

Students scribble with magic markers all over the paper.

Then spray the plates with water to blend the colors.

When they are dry cut of edging leaving a tail only.

Cut out the mouth in a triangle shape.

Use the remaining plate trimmings to make fins.

Add goggly eyes and glue on fins.

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Re-enacting the Bible Story

We Re-enacted the story with a boat made from Legos,

a net purchased from Hobby Lobby,  fishing hats, and soft stuffed fish.

Students took turns being fishermen and fish swimming around the boat.

When the Jesus puppet came and told them to throw their net to the other side, 

the students with the fish dropped them into the net.  

We actually made it into a movie using the Fisher Men Song.

Due to copyrights and protection of children's identity, you will have to use a little imagination.

Here are some samples of songs that I like to use for this lesson.

Game to Teach the concept of Fishers of Men

Download Printable from Christian Preschool Printables

Students can decorate and write their names on fish

Then they can catch them with magnets, clothes pins, etc.

Internet Finds

Great images for demonstrating how to make 3D fish

Lenten Cross Project for Kids

When I first started teaching in the wonderful Catholic School in which I teach, I had one of those awesome parents who was always there when I needed an extra hand and always had a smile on her face when she was in the classroom. During the time that she was with me, she shared this sweet Lenten cross project that I do every year. I think of her every time I get the materials out- what a sweet memory!




This project is easy and if you are looking for a striking bulletin board, this fills that need! (Click the picture above to get a Google doc of the project!)

The first thing I do is teach my students the meaning of the colors:
BLACK - We all sin.
RED - Jesus died.
WHITE - Jesus wiped our sins away.
GREEN - Jesus gives us new life.
YELLOW - We have new life in Heaven with Jesus.

To do the project,  children trace the cross onto purple construction paper and glue onto a half sheet of black construction paper. Children cut small pieces of black, red, white, green, and yellow construction paper and glue onto the cross in a mosaic pattern. Glue the words onto the other side of the black paper. Voila! An easy craft with a BIG meaning!

When my students finish their crosses, they make a fun Lenten bracelet using the Lenten colors.

 Until next time!

Blessings,

Ash Wednesday Craft

Hello! This is Cindy, otherwise known as Kinderkay from Love Those Kinders!
It is so hard to believe that Ash Wednesday is almost here! It seems that I just finished putting away my Christmas decorations! Whew!

 I thought I would share with you a little activity I do with my kinders to prepare them for Ash Wednesday. I hope it is not too late for you to use! Click HERE to download the Google Doc.

(Please note that many school districts block outside sites. If this is true of your school, please download from home. If you receive a request for me to "allow access", your school district is probably blocking this download. The settings for this freebie are set for unlimited access to anyone. Try on a computer not connected to your network or at home.)  
  
Here are some images created by my students.

Enjoy!

Christmas Nativity

I know, I know.... I am a little behind posting this Christmas project! But, as everyone knows, Christmas time can be really busy especially if you teach in a parochial school - whew! So, maybe you can bank this idea and do it next year! :)

We do this Christmas nativity every year. I have revised it and revised it until now it is pretty streamlined! Our school purchases paper cups for us from Hobby Lobby and Wal-mart which is wonderful. We ask each parent to provide six (3 inch) Styrofoam balls for their child. We use skin colored Tempera to paint the balls that will be the heads. When dry, we attach the heads to the cups with hot glue. The children attach the eyes with glue and the mouth is a sequin attached with a straight pin. The head pieces are felt and attached to the head with straight pins, too. A small piece of red yarn creates the mouth. School glue does not work for this project; it must be tacky glue. Gold craft stems are pushed into the back of the heads of Mary, Joseph, and the angel to create a halo. The angel's wings are heart shaped doilies and attached with tacky glue to the back of the cup. To create the stable, we use Clementine orange crates. The children cover the outside of the box with pieces of brown construction paper. The children water color a background of Jerusalem and when dry attach it with glue to the bottom of the box. The box sits on its end. A star is attached to a wooden craft stick and taped to the back of the box.

If you would like the background picture of Bethlehem, click on the picture!

Happy New Year! May God bless you with His peace!