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31 Days of Bible Crafts

Monday, September 30th, 2013

Bible-crafts

Here is an index for the 31 Days of Bible Crafts, to help parents teach their children the Word of God with joy. While describing how to do many of these crafts, I will be drawing spiritual significance from the project itself. I’ve chosen many symbols to represent spiritual truths.

These crafts begin in Genesis and go all the way through Revelation. Feel free to sign up at the bottom of this post for the printable version that includes color photos of each craft.

1. Bible Costume in Five Minutes
2. Garden of Eden Terrarium
3. Model of Noah’s Ark
4. Lego Tower of Babel
5. Lot’s Wife: Knock Over the Salt Doll
6. Sand and Stars: Abraham’s Descendants
7. Jacob’s Ladder
8. Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors
9. Ten Commandments Clay Craft
10. Tabernacle Model
11. Breastplate of High Priest
12. Sheep Craft
13. Hebrew Alphabet and Acrostic
14. Proverbs Puzzles
15. The Altar of Elijah
16. Ezekiel’s Scroll
17. Fiery Furnace Craft
18. Daniel and the Lion’s Den
19. Prophetic Statue from Daniel
20. Clay Oil Lamp Craft
21. Roman Coins Craft
22. Three Kings Craft
23. Homemade Nativity
24. A Farmer Sows Seeds
25. Crown of Thorns
26. Cross Mosaic
27. Resurrection Garden
28. Paul’s Jail Cell
29. Sword of the Spirit
30. Tree of Life
31. New Jerusalem Model

Sign up below for a free printable e-book of this Bible crafts series!

Find lots more hands-on activities for studying the Bible inside the Unit Study Treasure Vault!

Passover Jewish Dancing Outtakes

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

I snapped some photos of my kids doing their Passover Jewish dancing. As you can see, they had a ball!
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Reading Through the Bible

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

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My 10-year-old son just finished reading through the Bible on his own. It took him eight months to complete the entire Bible. He colored in a square for each chapter that he read. We sometimes would talk about what he was reading. He had a deep desire to read God’s Word on his own.

Now my 9-year-old son has started reading the Bible. He’s only been reading for about two months. A week ago when I was pouring myself some coffee, my son shouted, “I love Leviticus! It is my favorite book! Besides Revelation, I mean.”

“Why do you like it so much?” I asked.

“All the chapters about leprosy are so interesting!”

Go figure. My son thinks leprosy is interesting. I walked off with my coffee, totally perplexed.

Free Online Bible Resources

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Bible-resources-1One of the fun Bible resources online to help you and your children love the Bible is the Bible on audio. Max McLean has a deep, luxurious voice as he reads the Bible and brings it to life. Here is the link for free Bible on audio:

http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/

Bible-resources-2Another fun resource is to listen to the Bible in Hebrew or Greek. Back when we were studying Israel, it was fun to hear what Hebrew sounded like. You can choose a familiar Psalm, for example. Now that we are studying Ancient Greece, we can listen to the New Testament in Greek, to see what it sounds like. Here is the link for the Academy of Ancient Languages:

http://www.aoal.org/hebrew_audiobible.htm#Isaiah

Bible-resources-3If you have young children, you can have your children listen to Bible stories and do other activities that go with the different Bible stories. Here is the link for the Garden of Praise:

http://gardenofpraise.com/bibl1s.htm

Bible-resources-4The last fun link for Bible class would be “Art and the Bible,” which shows lots of famous artwork that goes with Bible stories. If you click on “Old Testament,” and then “Genesis,” you will see the first chapter of Genesis along with five famous works of art, for example. Here is the link:

http://www.artbible.info/

These are the only four links I have kept in my “Homeschooling: Bible” bookmarks on my computer. I consider them the best in what they have to offer, especially since they are free!