Bible Crafts for Kids

Bible crafts for kids are the perfect thing for Sunday School, vacation bible school, homeschooling or just individual craft projects. There's no better way to learn about the bible and religion than injecting a little fun into it, and making bible crafts for kids is certainly both fun and educational.

A quick and easy bible craft for kids is to make a coloring book featuring scenes from the bible, verses, angels and other symbols of Christianity. Bible printables are very easy to find and because you're using them for coloring, you don't even need to have a color printer to make a wonderful bible coloring book.

If you want to get really fancy you can do double-sided printing and make a cover for your book out of card stock, but that's not really necessary. For a quick and easy way to bind your bible coloring book, just punch holes in all the pages and put them in a three-ring binder (or punch one hole and put them on a single ring, especially for left-handed kids). This will make it easy for you to take out and display the masterpieces and to add new uncolored pages to the collection.

Here are some sites where you can find bible printables for your own bible crafts for kids:

• DLTK
• Teacher Help
• Christian Coloring Pages
• Coloring Page
• Papa Jan

A cross can be made out of anything, from cardboard to twigs. it can be cross-stitched on a bookmark, made out of crochet, drawn, beaded or just about anything else.

Even the youngest kids can color or decorate a cross, slightly older kids can cut a cross out of construction paper, and older kids can make crosses in just about any craft form they like.

One great idea is to cut crosses out of plastic canvas and use yarn or ribbon to decorate them. These make nice Christmas tree ornaments. Or cut a cross shape out of fun foam and use the foam sticker shapes to decorate it. You could also buy pre-cut door-knob hanger foam pieces and decorate them with smaller cut out crosses, hearts and simple messages spelled out in foam letters or written on with paint pens.

Another fun craft that even young kids can make is a "stained glass" cross. Take a sheet of white paper and fold it up multiple times. Unfold the paper and go over the folds with a black marker. Have the child color in each section (different colors are nice, but that concept might be hard for very young ones to understand). Then paste a cross cut out of black construction paper on your "window." You could even cut the paper into a sort of church window shape if you like.

If you're planning crafts for a whole Sunday School or vacation bible school group, you might want to consider the option of kits that make bible crafts for kids that much easier. These kits can help you orchestrate a craft for a bunch of kids and are not usually that much more expensive than they would be if you bought all the materials separately.

There are a wide variety of bible crafts for kids available in kits, from beading projects to foam items, sun catchers to magnets. The kits allow you to buy exactly what you need for your bible crafts for kids, so setup is easy and you don’t have any excess supplies as you might when buying items individually.

Here are some sources for kits for bible crafts for kids:

• Brandine Crafts
• 2 Blockheads
• S&S Worldwide
• Oriental Trading Company
• Crafter City

Even if you're looking for bible crafts for kids on a budget, theses pages can give you some inspiration for less-expensive crafts you might want to make.

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