Ollie Sword and Shield

Gather supplies.  You will need a cereal box (or any other box you have on hand), scissors, crayons (you can use stickers, markers, paint, etc… to decorate with), tape

Cut all vertical lines on box to create 4 pieces.  You will only need one large and two small pieces, unless you are making more than one shield. (see photo)

You will use one of the side pieces to create a sword.  Cut a sword shape, as shown.

Decorate sword and shield however you would like!

Tape other “side” piece from cereal box to the back of the shield to create a handle.  See picture.

Finished product.

David & Goliath Sling Shot

Gather your supplies. You will need a stick or tree 

branch that is Y shape (this will be a fun hunt for you and your 

child/children), 2 rubber bands, a piece of fabric or felt, aluminum 

foil, scissors and tape (not shown). 

Cut slits in sides of fabric. Pull rubber bands through 

the slits. See picture. 

Tape rubber bands to the “Y” section of the branch. 

You can use any type of tape. 

Make 5 “rocks” out of aluminum foil by crinkling into 

balls. 

Finished sling shot!

Handprint Sheep

Gather your supplies. You will need blue construction paper, 

black construction paper, cotton balls, glue, scissors, markers/crayons and 

a googly eye. 

Trace your child's hand on black construction paper with pencil. 

Cut traced hand out of black construction paper.

Glue hand to blue construction paper (your hand will be smaller 

because we used an adult hand). Make sure hand is facing down! 

Glue cotton balls to hand to create a sheep! Do not place cotton 

balls on thumb and make sure you leave some space on the fingers for 

legs! Glue googly eye to thumb! (You can draw an eye with a white crayon 

if you do not have a googly eye)  

Decorate outdoor scene for sheep to be standing in.

David and His Brothers

9 popsicle sticks, glue, marker, any supplies you want to use to decorate to 

make people! 

Decorate your popsicle sticks to be David and his brothers. Make sure you 

have a crown for when Samuel crowns David king! 

David and his brothers and Samuel. Use your popsicle stick creations to 

act out the story from 1 Samuel 16! 

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Gather supplies. You will need wax paper, orange and red 

tissue paper, glue, a box lid, a flashlight or battery operated lights, black 

construction paper and scissors. 

Cut four people out of the black construction paper. 

Tear a piece of wax paper the size needed to fit in your box lid. 

Glue people to wax paper. Three together and one to the side. Fill in with 

tissue paper squares. 

Front of what photo 3 looks like completed. 

Cut out window in box top. 

Glue (or tape) wax paper with people into hole in box top. Cut to 

fit, if necessary! 

 Shine flashlight or place battery operated lights behind the box!

Variations:

This could be done with wax paper and tissue
glued together as listed in instructions or wax paper and crayon shavings
and melted together with an iron - adult supervision. stick people cutouts or
sharpie drawn.

Pillars of Fire and Cloud

Gather supplies. You will need two paper towel tubes, glue, 

scissors, cotton balls, orange, red and yellow tissue paper

Glue cotton balls to one of the paper towel tubes. Cover the 

entire tube. 

Cut out small pieces of tissue paper (orange, red and yellow). 

Glue orange, red and yellow pieces of tissue paper to second 

toilet paper tube. 

 Cloud and Fire!

Bag a Burning Bush

Gather your supplies. You will need a small paper lunch bag, glue, 

scissors, yellow, red, orange and green tissue paper. 

 Cut strips, as shown in bag. 

Stand back up straight. 

Grab bottom uncut part of bag and twist. 

Twist two of the cut pieces together all over the bag to form tree branches.

Cut small squares of tissue paper. You can stack all colors together and 

cut at the same time! 

Glue tissue all over tree branches for leaves! You can glue as many as you 

would like! 

Finished Product!