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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Fun Foam Ravens

Elijah Fed by Ravens

I Kings 17:1-6

Fun Foam Raven Craft Instructions

Fun Foam Raven Craft

Instructions:

Cut out a raven from black fun foam.

Cut circles out where the fingers will go.

Let the kids glue or draw the eyes on.

When telling this story, I like to use oyster crackers.  I set up a cave using a table and some butcher paper folded up around it to look like rocks or a table with a blanket over it.  One of the children pretends to be Elijah and goes in the cave.  The other children are ravens. They pick up an oyster cracker in their "beak" and take it to Elijah who then gets to eat it!  This is repeated so that everyone has a turn to be Elijah.

Below is another way to make a fun foam raven used in telling the story the same way. This raven is made from 2 circles that are the same size cut out of fun foam. 

To make the wings and the tail, cut the circle like this.

After gluing on the wings and tail, cut one hole for the fingers to go in to be the beak and glue on eyes.

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