Prayer Hands

Materials needed:

• Markers and/or crayons 

• Construction paper 

• Scissors 

Why I did:

Draw their hand with a pencil or crayo o a piece of construction paper. Next, go over and write down the order in which the prayer should go IN DIFFERENT COLORS ON EACH FINGER. Do not forget the closing in the palm. 

Cut out the hand. Then flip the hand over and construct a sample prayer following the guidelines on the front of the hand and utilizing the different colors correspondingly in the prayer. 

Goldfish/ Fruit Loops Collage

Materials Needed: 

• Goldfish crackers 

• Fruit loops, Apple Jacks, or Cheerios (any circular cereal)

• glue

• construction paper 

• Markers or crayons or colored pencils 

What I Did:

I personally drew the fish bowl and the verse on the paper. Then I had the students glue the Apple Jacks onto the bottom of the paper. I informed them that they shouldn't glue Apple Jacks all over the bowl, but at the bottom of it because that's how normal fish bowls are. And then they glued the 4 goldfish to the paper. 

Don't forget to write names on the papers! And I also bought some extra snack size bags of goldfish for a fun snack after! 

People I'm Praying For Hands

Materials Needed: 

• construction paper 

• markers/pencils/writing utensils

• scissors 

What I Did: 

I had the students trace their hands on the colored construction paper. I had provided the white paper with the "People I'm Praying For" written on it beforehand. Then the student cut out their hands and glued them together, pinkies facing each other. Then they glued the white paper with writing on top of the hands that were glued together. 

Finally, they wrote ten people they can pray for on each individual finger. 

Pom Pom Christmas Trees

Materials needed: 

• Glue 

• Pom poms 

• Brown construction paper 

• Large popsicle sticks 

What I Did: 

First I glued the tree trunk to the underside of one of the large popsicle sticks. Then I glued the sticks into a triangle. Then put dots alongside the popsicle sticks and put a pom pom for every dot of glue. 

Artsy "Snow Globes"

Materials needed: 

• clear plastic plates 

• white paper or white plates (for underneath) 

• markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc. 

• glue (I preferred hot glue) 

What I Did: 

I drew a circle (the size of the clear plate) on white paper and drew and colored a picture in the circle I drew. Then I hot glued the clear plate to the white paper. Then I cut AROUND the hot glue. 

Voila! 

Bald Eagle TP Rolls

Materials Needed: 

• Yellow construction paper (feet and beak) 

• Feathers 

• Toilet paper rolls 

• Markers or crayons (for eyes or decorations) 

What I Did: 

I cut out all of the individual pieces to be glued onto the TP roll for the students. I also drew the eyes on but you can use googly eyes or something different. I glued the feathers on with a glue stick and it worked fine. 

Wreath of Thankful Hands

Materials Needed: 

• Construction paper 

• Writing utensils 

• Scissors 

• Glue

What I Did: 

Trace 12 hands on construction paper. Then cut out all hands. 

On one side of the hand, write the 12 months of the year. On the other side, write what you're thankful for for that month, or something that has changed your life that you want to remember during that month.

Then glue all hands, in month order, in a circle or wreath pattern.