Crafts Ideas for Kids

This is an amazing craft that can be used year after year in Sunday school /Children`s Church at Easter.

Instruction :
1. Have a small paper plate(6″) for each student.
2. I first had them smear the plate with a little chocolate frosting (soil)
3. Then sprinkled the “dirt” with green tinted coconut (grass)
Give each student a “snowball” cupcake. (cupcakes upside down can work also) They place it on the plate as the tomb….4. Take a spoon and make a hollow spot in the snowball (Like the empty tomb)
5. Place a small sign in the hole that states “He is not here! He is Risen”
6. Take a wafer cookie (nilla wafers work or 1/2 sandwich cookie) and set it over the hole to hide the sign and so that it can be “rolled away”
7. I let them finish decorating with tinted marshmallow, sprinkles, gum drops, whatever I had available to finish decorating around the tomb.(flowers)
8. I would finish the scene with a large gum drop or marshmallow rabbits punctured with a toothpick bearing a small sign that announced: The Easter story.

Once the creation was done, they were sent back to their parents/family/friends with the directions that they could eat their creation…but only after they had shared with at least three adults the story that they had learned that day. And that, of course was the lesson of Easter that was discussed before and during the craft. It is great to watch them excited about sharing the faith… and many were quick to do just that.