How to Make Bible Crafts Using Food

If you're teaching about the Bible, you're not limited to simply reading stories out loud. Crafts are fun activities that can help you teach Sunday school lessons, and some crafts even use food. Expect some preparation before letting the children take over. These Bible crafts are best for those age 6 and older. Think about the children you teach, and decide if you need to adapt the food crafts for your group.

Things You'll Need

• Paper plates
• Fruit leather in a variety of colors
• Clean scissors
• Candy fruit straws or licorice strands
• Drinking straws
• Stapler
• Blue plastic wrap
• Goldfish-shaped crackers
• Mini people-shaped cookies or crackers
• Crayons
• Markers
• Colored pencils

Instructions

Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

1. Use the scissors to cut the fruit leather into 1-inch-wide strips.

2. Divide the strips among several plates, sorting them by color.

3. Give a clean paper plate to each child.

4. Tell the children the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.

5. Let the children make Joseph's coat by choosing fruit leather strips in several colors and making a rectangular box. A single strip of fruit leather will be put on the plate, with another strip in a different color slightly overlapping it. The children can overlap the strips until they create a rectangle shape taller than it is wide. Each child will use 10 to 12 strips of fruit leather, depending upon how much the strips overlap.

6. 

   Gently fold over the top corners so they point downward, but do not touch each other. See the picture for the way that the finished coat will look. Remember to not crease the folds. Let the fruit leather stand up in the fold. The folds are marked on the sides with dotted lines.

Fishers of Men

1. Tell the children the story of Jesus recruiting his disciples. Jesus told the disciples that they would be fishers of men.

2. Cover the paper plates with blue plastic wrap.

3. Give each child a candy straw and a drinking straw.

4. Have the children put the top 2 inches of the candy straw into the end of the drinking straw. Use a stapler to staple the drinking straw closed to keep the candy straw in place.

5. Give the children markers or crayons to decorate their plates, if desired.

6. Pass out several goldfish-shaped crackers to the children. Give each child at least 2 people-shaped cookies. You can use elf-shaped or teddy bear-shaped cookies, if they are easy to find.

7. Tell the children that the candy straw inside the straw is a fishing pole, their plate is a lake, and the fish are fish. The people-shaped cookies are men. The men will be put on the plate with the goldfish. Remind the children that Jesus promised his disciples they would be fishers of men, and the children can use the fishing poles to pretend to fish for both goldfish and men.