Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers Shadow Story

Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers

Luke 17:11-19

This story is told using an overhead projector.  

1. Print the pattern pieces.
2. Cut out the people.  Print six of the people standing in a group with their arms down.
3. Using a hole punch, punch leprosy dots out of four of those pictures of people standing in a group with their arms down.
4. Turn the overhead projector on and show only the pieces listed above when telling the story.
5. Pulling the overhead projector backwards makes the people look more life- size if you want.  

Click on the top picture to print out the instruction page.

Special thanks to Beverly Scott for permission to share the Shadows of Imaginality patterns!

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What is a Miracle?

My friend, June Hill, was attempting to explain to her students what a miracle is.  In an effort to demonstrate a miracle, she performed this magic trick.  At the end, she explained that what she had done was a simple magic trick. She showed them how she had done it.

She told them that miracles may look like magic tricks because they are surprising, but they are not magic tricks.  Instead, miracles are surprising events that take place due to supernatural powers from God.  She went on to teach a series of lessons on the miracles of Jesus.

The first thing she did was put a penny in the middle of a blank sheet of white paper.

Then she got a clear drinking glass and a rolled up a black piece of construction paper (that had been taped to stay rolled up).

She put the rolled up construction paper over the drinking glass.

Then she picked up the glass (with the paper still on it) and placed it on top of the penny.

When she took the piece of black paper off the drinking glass, the penny had disappeared!

The trick to this illusion is that she had attached a piece of white paper to the bottom of the drinking glass before she set the drinking glass on the larger rectangle piece of paper.  When the glass was set on the larger white paper, no one could see the white paper attached to the drinking glass.  Placing the black paper over the glass helped keep the children from seeing the white paper on the bottom of the glass when she moved it and placed it on top of the penny.

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Baby Moses Pop-Up Page

Baby Moses

Exodus 2

Everywhere I go, I look for pretty bulletin board borders that can be used for various things.  I found some beautiful grass border and used it to make a pop-up page the children can make and take home. See instructions on how to make a pop-up page.

Instructions:

• Cut two strips of the grass border the same size as the width of the page.
• With a glue stick, glue one piece of the grass border to the back of the page. This one will sit right above the pop-up piece shown in the pop-up page instructions.
• Glue the other piece of the grass border to the small square that pops out (see instructions page).
• From a strip of border that looks like wood, cut a small basket.
• Set the basket between the two layers of grass border but do not glue it.
• Children can pretend to float the basket down the river between the reeds.

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God Descends Like a Dove on Jesus

Jesus' Baptism

Matthew 3:13-17

Children enjoy moving the dove on this wooden movable craft project.  I found the wooden cloud and blue bird (already painted) at Michael's and Hobby Lobby.  Since the bird was blue, I used white acrylic paint and painted it white to be the dove.  I hot glued a string to the back of the dove.  To enable the string to move on the back of the cloud, I used two pieces of Scotch tape. Where the string is going to pull through, I overlapped the tape so that there was a smooth surface (rather than a sticky surface) in the middle section. Then I stuck the leftover edges down to the back of the cloud.  Just pull the dove or pull the string to make the dove move.  

The bird project could also be used as the dove that Noah sent out (Genesis 8) or the ravens that feed Elijah if painted black (I Kings 17).

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Achan's Sin Takehome

Achan's Sin

Joshua 7

Movable pages can be a fun way for the children to retell the story.  Children can make one of their own and discover the robe, shekels of silver and bar of gold under Achan's tent.  

Instructions:

• Get one piece of brown construction paper.
• Turn it portrait style.
• Cut out a tent from the brown construction paper and glue it close to the top of the page. (The pattern is smaller than the tent pictured.)
• Cut a small piece of fabric to be the robe.
• Cut a small piece of gold paper to be the bar of gold.
• Hole punch several small circles from silver paper to be the shekels.
• Glue them into place between the two folds.  (See pictures above.)
• Fold the tent over the pieces to hide them.

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Peter and John in Front of the Sanhedrin

Peter and John in Front of the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Pop-up books like these are always a favorite of the children.  The jail is the first part that pops up.  

Instructions for making the pop-up jail:

• Fold a piece of blue construction paper in half.
• Cut a small rectangle from black paper and cut slits to be the bars. 
• Fold the black paper in half.  
• Fold each end of the black paper under about 1/4 - 1/2 an inch. 
• Glue one fold to the top half of the blue page. 
• Glue the other fold to the bottom half of the blue page.  
• Fold the blue page in half again while the glue is still wet to make sure it will close correctly.

Instructions for making the people stand up:

• Cut a small rectangle about 2 inches by 1 inch.
• Fold one end of the rectangle about 1/2 inch.
• Glue the folded end of the rectangle to the page allowing the rest of the rectangle to stand up.  (See pictures)

I made the people using a Sizzix little body die cut machine.  A coloring page pattern or other small person pattern will work. 

When reading about Peter and John sitting in prison, set the men in the prison.  When reading about them standing in front of the Sanhedrin, lean them up against the small blue standing rectangles.  

When letting the Kindergarten or First Grade children make one, I put a mark where they should glue the jail pieces.  It makes it a little easier.

Other stories that the pop-up jail craft could be use with include Paul and Silas in Prison (Acts 16) and an Angel Frees Peter from Prison (Acts 12).

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Jesus Loves the Little Children Pop-Up

"Let the little children come to me."
Matthew 19:14, Luke 18:16, Mark 10:13-16

Children love to make pop-up pages.  Print or view the instructions for creating a pop-up page.

Instructions for this page:

1. Cut one piece of grass border to match the width of the paper.
2. Cut out 8 little children and clothes.  I used a Cricut machine.  
3. Cut out 1 Jesus and clothes.  I used a Cricut.
4. Glue 3 children to the back of the left side of the grass border.
5. Glue 3 children to the back of the right side of the grass border.
6. Glue the Jesus figure to the middle of the top page.  Have him stand on the piece that pops out.
7. Glue one child on either side of the Jesus figure.
8. Glue the grass border with the children onto the piece that pops out.
9. Fold it while the glue is still wet to make sure it folds correctly.

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