- You can pick up unfinished wooden picture frames from your local craft store or hobby shop. You'll also need a variety of acrylic paints, natural bristle paint brushes and protective covering for the table. Have each guest paint pictures, designs or patterns on their frames. Let them dry thoroughly and then you can glue other embellishments and decorations to the frames. Before guests leave, slide in a picture or note that says "Thank you for sharing this special day with me."
- Craft vendors that deal specifically with faith-based crafts and activities often sell kits for making baptism crafts. Oriental Trading Company, for example, sells sets of crafts bundled into groups of (usually) 12; in one easy order, you can purchase enough supplies for 12 children to make a baptism key chain craft. Best of all, they're individually wrapped, so that each child gets a loop, a lanyard (cut to the perfect length) and each child gets a prescribed number of beads, as well as their own instruction card.
- You can use your desktop printer to print out several different baptismal scriptures and then make bookmarks. For kids who are old enough to understand the meaning of baptism, this craft will be more special if you allow them to choose their own verse. Cut out several verses and spread them out on a table. Allow the kids to choose the one that they find most beautiful, inspirational or meaningful in their life. Then, instruct them to use markers, crayons or stickers to decorate their choice of pre-formed bookmarks that you made simply by cutting a width of card stock and punching a hole at one end. After they're decorated, adhere the scriptural verse with a glue stick and, finally, supply lengths of yarn and possibly beads to assemble the bookmarks.
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Make a Gods Eye CraftThis one is popular with vacation bible school students and is easy enough to be executed by the youngest preschoolers, all the way up to the high school students. Create a cross from Popsicle sticks by gluing them together; you can pre-glue if you think you'll be short on time, otherwise, use hot glue or patience. The patience method means that kids are to apply a small amount of white craft glue, then press the sticks together and count to 100; this will only work if they're coordinated enough to keep the sticks from sliding. Once the crosses are dry, they wrap them with yarn, circling each stick and then moving on to the next in a spiral pattern. Be sure to offer several different shades of yarn. Older kids might want to make theirs larger; consider having paint-sticks, dowel rods or long straight twigs handy.
