Lord's Prayer Craft

There are so many resources out there and so much you can do for this teaching. It is therefore easy to find crafts that will last over the six weeks.  My preference is to have a craft that at the end of the six weeks they will have something quite lasting to take home.

Therefore I like to have the children make something that goes towards a booklet of some sort that they can keep at the side of their bed or somewhere in the home which can be used to say the Lord’s prayer often.

The best way to do this is to scour your local craft supplies shops and decide whether you want them to have a small book where they will colour in the words of the prayer each week and then stick them onto the pages and then at the end of the six weeks they have the book to take home. (You can tell them the remainder of the pages can be used to do drawings in or get mummy or daddy to write down their prayers to God.

Alternatively, (and I have done this often) the children can colour an A4 pre printed sheet and then theses can be bound in the top left corner with a ring and then taken home.  Likewise the words of the prayer each week can be added to wooden sticks and then taken home at the end of the 6 weeks, I have used the one below often.  Daniellesplace.com (see below) is a fantastic resource that I have used and been blessed by so many times.

If you decide to make the A4 booklet, I like to use the following colouring in sheets from WayCool BibleSchool, they are great.

Once again, not an original idea, but a beautiful one, the children of this age can make a lovely pattern on a jar by sticking and drawing etc, you can have the words of the Lord’s prayer already written out and then they can pop them in.

During the six weeks, I find that they can get through the craft quite quickly so I like to have lots ready for them to make and take home with the lord’s prayer on.  Bookmarks are something I make with children often, getting them to stick and glue the prayer on card, and then decorate the reverse of the card.  I get them to punch a hole and try and tie a ribbon.

This next idea is a great one, you have the prayer printed or written ready, the children stick it to a piece of card, and then they stick another cross on the top and then they decorate the cross.  Once again it can be taken home or laminated and hung in their bedrooms, a great way to do Faith at Home.

Finally, I like to do a heart chain also, this is easy you cut out lots of hearts and join them together with ribbon or string and then the child cuts out parts of the wording of the prayer and sticks it to the hearts and then once again this can be hung up when taken home. This is an example of one similar without the hearts.

 As I said the craft section for this lesson plan is huge, you can do a different take home every week or you can work on completing one section of the prayer per week building up to one take home at the end of the six weeks.  This allows for those classes with lots of time and those without much time.  The important thing is that every week the children are learning a new part of the prayer that will set them up for a life of praying that one wonderful prayer that Jesus gave to us.