Crafts Ideas for Kids

This activity can help children to learn the Bible.

How to Play:
Each kid takes a turn fishing for fish. Each fish (laying on the floor) has the name of a sin on the bottom side so that the fishers can not see any of the sins. This is because, as a fisher of men (and ladies) we find that, most people hide their sins, but God knows everything. After the fish is caught it is washed clean in the water (a pan of water). And this is like the people that have heard and received the Word. They are washed clean by the Word, and the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Useful Verses:
John 3:16, Heb. 10: 16-26, 1 Cor. 6: 6-11, Eph. 5:26, Titus 3: 1-8, Romans 10: 8 -11

Set-Up:
Using old plastic milk jugs, cut out fish (side view) that are about 4-6″ long. They need to be long enough to write the various sins on. There are some special problems to think about when making this activity. Since the fish are cut outs they will be tall and very thin. When you lay the fish down, one side of the fish will become the top (visible) side and the other side will become the bottom (hidden) side.

Most inks do not stick to plastic very well. Those are the inks that you use for writing a sin on the bottom (hidden) side of each fish. So in order to color the fish you need to find a marker or paint that is especially made to mark on plastic. Only color the fish on the top (visible) side. You may run into a problem if you color the bottom and then write a sin in another color over the base color. Especially, if you then try to wash the sin off of the fish.

After each fish is colored and a wash-off-able sin is written on the bottom side of each fish, put a standard metal (not plastic) paper clip on its mouth. When you are done, only the sin should wash off.

The fishing pole is made with a stick or dowel. Cut a piece of string to a length appropriate for the size kids in the class. Tie a string to one end of the stick, and tie a magnet to the other end of the string. To get a free magnet, go to your local electric motor repair shop. They always have an old junk motor they can take a magnet out of. Test your activity to insure that you have a big enough magnet.