Jesus Without Language

Pentecost means tongues of fire, flames hovering above heads and that’s exactly what this craft does. It is made from acetate (think overhead projector transparencies) ad because the stand is clear it really does look like it hovers. To get the best result for this craft you need to use a real flame or something that emits a lot of heat – a hairdryer doesn’t work. For this reason it’s a craft best done in tiny groups with heavy supervision.

 
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Essential Teachers notes:
It’s the churches birthday! It can be tempting to rush to the good bit of this story where there are tongues of fire and the gift of tongues, but we must start with Jesus’s words to his disciples otherwise the events would have made no sense to the believers.
Tell this story or a similar one of your choice from a favourite bible translation or story book. This version is supplied for inspiration, feel free to omit or embellish to give it your personal voice.

Tell this story or a similar one of your choice from a favourite bible translation or story book. This version is supplied for inspiration, feel free to omit or embellish to give it your personal voice.

Main passage: Acts 2
Additional Passages: none specific

If you want the teachers page then please click on the image for the pdf.

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The decision to add Matthias to the apostles was determined by lot. This could mean so many things, drawing straws, flipping coins or rolling dice to name a few. This choosing dice craft for the younger ones makes a dice that determines actions too.

 
…continue reading about Incomplete: A New Apostle (Acts 1) | Craft 2

There is multiple things going on in this story of replacing the twelfth apostle and it’s easy to get lost in the mechanism rather than see why this completion was important. These games look at the idea of completion and the act of choosing.

Completing – A team game where you’re challenged to complete ‘sets’. Teams take it in turns to read out the set title or for younger kids all but one of the set. Examples of sets: compass points, gospels, band members.
Link: The Apostles felt incomplete.
 

…continue reading about Incomplete: A New Apostle (Acts 1) | Games

Here are the images you need for the hero’s attributes linked to ‘Incomplete: A New Apostle (Acts 1)’- where Matthias is chosen to replace Judas as the 12th apostle.
Each hero set contains a high quality graphic of the character, a take home bible card and a colouring page.

The images are displayed small here, click on the image you wish to have, then save the image that loads.
(These images are not copyright free, they are for personal/classroom use only.)

Large image for illustrating the story or putting on a large screen.