Crafts
Option 1: Create in Me a Clean Heart
white cardstock, black construction paper, scissors, tape, paint, paintbrushes, cups
Gather supplies. Print the Big Truth or Memory Verse in the center of the cardstock. Make copies (one per child). Cut out hearts from black construction paper that would cover the center words (one per child). Make a sample craft. Fill cups with water.
Give each child a piece of cardstock and a heart. Place paints, brushes, and cups of water on each table. Have the children place the heart over the words and hold (or tape) it in place as they paint over the entire paper (right up to the edges of the black heart). Then have them carefully remove the black paper heart to reveal the white (unpainted) heart and Big Truth or Memory Verse.
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Option 2: Forgiven Heart
red paper, white paper, glue sticks, scissors, crayons
Gather supplies. Make copies of a large heart on red paper and a smaller heart on white paper (one of each per child). Print a cross that has the word Forgiven on it (the cross must fit inside the white heart); make copies on white paper (one per child). Make a sample craft.
Give each child one red heart, one white heart, and one cross paper. Have the children color the cross. Then have the children cut out the two hearts and the cross. Have them glue the cross to the white heart and then the white heart to the red heart.
Option 1: Forgiveness Mobile
cardstock, scissors, yarn, tape
Gather supplies. Print the Big Truth horizontally on cardstock (three per sheet) and cut them out (one Big Truth strip per child). On a sheet of paper draw five simple shapes and write one word in each shape (joy, forgiveness, mercy, love, prayer). Make copies on colored cardstock (one per child). Cut five varying lengths of yarn, and one 15-inch length for hanging (one set per child). Make a sample craft.
Give each child the Big Truth strip, the sheet with shapes, and the set of yarn. Set tape on each table. Have the children tape the ends of the Big Truth strip together to make a circle. Have children cut out the five shapes and use tape and a piece of yarn to connect each one to the Big Truth circle. Add the long piece of yarn to the top of the mobile for hanging.
Option 2: Sin/Forgiven Plates
paper plates, craft sticks, crayons/markers, glue sticks
Gather supplies. Make a sample craft.
Give each child two white paper plates and a craft stick. Set coloring materials and glue sticks on each table. Have them write Sin in the center of one plate and Forgiven in the center of the other. Then have children draw faces on each plate to match the feelings that go with the word on that plate. Glue the two plates together so the faces are facing outward and attach a craft stick at the bottom between the two plates as a handle. Remind children how sin makes us feel bad and separates us from God, but when we repent, we experience forgiveness from God that brings joy and peace.
