Jesus Without Language

It can be easy to focus on the idea of Jeremiah’s age or the physical touch of God, but this craft refocuses on the purpose of Jeremiah’s call. This papercraft physically puts God’s words into Jeremiah’s mouth.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, a craft knife, glue, and scissors.

Cut along the slit line in the background and remove the white rectangle from the mouth with a craft knife. Then add colour if required.

Cut out all the pieces.

Fold the small white rectangle along the dotted lines.

Push the folded shape through the long slit, so the words are visible, and it freely slides along the line.

Thread the words into the mouth until they are not visible.

Add a small drop of glue onto the slider and attach the hand to the slider mechanism.

Slide the hand all the way towards Jeremiah to find the starting position.

Read the text as you slide the hand away from Jeremiah.

Layered image crafts are simple and yet lovely keepsake crafts. This one for Young Jesus shows him in the temple talking to the crowd. This moment is really significant because here Jesus is showing us that while he is still almost 2 decades away from his main ministry time, his earthly relationship with God as his father is not something that just develops overnight.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout and scissors. You may want to use spacers (foam or cardboard), and a hole punch.

Colour if required, then onto cutting. Use a hole punch to start the kids cutting the space in the middle of the frame.

This craft will look as good as your cutting skills but is forgiving if you skirt around small details like the indents on the pillars.

Add foam spacers (or cardboard pieces) to the back of the large step piece first and position.

Next add the small step, this goes at the base, not in the middle.

Add a spacer to the back of Jesus and put him in the middle of the picture. This will ‘squash’ the top step.

Next, add the pillars, we do these last so we can move around the Jesus figure more easily.

Lastly, add spacers to the frame, then position.
(I found it better not to add any spacers to the crowd pieces.)

The scene is complete.

There is a real ‘potential’ focus within the Young Jesus story, and this craft ties into the idea that this child is developing into the man who will one day fully claim the title of Christ.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, and some paper glue.

Add any colour you want, then cut out the two rectangles.

Fold the long strip in half, blank sides touching.

Fold back each side, the folds should go along the dotted lines.

Add glue to the two inside sections.

Glue them together – doing this first will make the cutting easier.

Cut along the dotted lines to separate the middle three ‘flaps’

Glue this piece to the background. This will add stability.

Enjoy transforming young Jesus by adding wisdom, stature, and favour to see who he will fully become.

Wake up Samuel from him slumber with this simple split pin craft.

Both colour and outline templates are free to download at the end of the post. The template includes a photo, materials list and instructions or follow along the step-by-step photo’s on this post.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, a craft knife, hole punch, and a split pin (brad).

Use a craft knife to cut along the dotted line.
(For younger groups, do this before you start.)
Then, cut out both pieces.

Make holes where the small white circles indicate.

Thread the tail end of the Samuel piece through the slit.

Attach the two pieces using a split pin through the holes.

Move the tail piece to wake up Samuel.

There are no shortage of sheep-based stories in the bible, and this little sheep craft could serve so many of them well.

Lydia opened up her house to welcome others, in the same way we can use our spaces to welcome those who come our way. This is a simple craft that is suitable for younger groups.

Moving crafts are always a hit, and this one swipes from a very plain heart into one full of colour. It’s not got any tricky cutting, either! The hope, faith and love tie nicely into the passage, leaving the opportunity to use the piece as a conversation starter as to why Paul chose those 3 words.

This is a super simple craft idea, but it takes a little concentration to pull off. Like so many things about the Body of Christ, the best picture is only revealed when every part is precisely where it should be.