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Creation Activity Pack

May 29, 2018 By Crafty Team Leave a Comment

Learning about the Days of Creation is always a fun lesson for your homeschool or Sunday School classroom. Today, we’ve released a special K-5 Activity Pack that includes TONS of fun for teaching the Days of Creation to your students.

This Creation Activity Pack is the perfect accompaniment to your Creation Bible lessons! K-5 students will find lots of fun hands-on activities, games, scripture tools, copywork pages, mazes, worksheets, activity pages, craft projects and more! Includes fun take-home resources for students to memorize the seven days of creation. 32pgs

This Days of Creation Bible Activity Pack is just one of many No-Prep, Holiday Bible Activity Packs available in our store. These are some of our best-selling titles for good reason! Each pack includes games, crafts, activities, worksheets, scripture copywork, take-home activities and more for multiple age levels. We get feedback from parents and teachers who continue to use these packs year after year with their thematic units.

Anyway, here is a peek inside our New Days of Creation Pack,

We’ve packed it full with tons of hands-on and interactive activities:

Days of Creation Worksheets: Creation Crossword Puzzle, Word Search and Word Scramble

Days of Creation Wheel

Students cut out and assemble to create their own story retelling set.

Creation BUMP!

Bump is a favorite game with my children and this version helps students memorize what God made on each of the days of creation.

Creation Puzzles and Mazes

Fun, thematic Dot2Dot and maze pages you can use when learning about the days of creation.

Days of Creation Necklace

Print one set each to make a necklace for students to take home.

Creation Bible Verse Copywork (KJV)

Each page features a different day in creation along with a key scripture references. These would be fun to use each day to build a book at the end of your unit.

A Cursive set is also available for older students, also KJV.

The Creation Game!

A fun, multi-player game you can use during your Creation Bible lessons. Collect each day of creation to WIN!!

All God’s Creatures Matching Worksheets

Each page offers a fun way to get your younger students involved in learning the days of creation.

God Made Me Bible Crown

Our Bible Crowns are LOVED by children everywhere, and we’ve added a fun God Made Me Bible Crown to this set. What a fun way for students to take home this important message.

Days of Creation Song

A simple opening song for circle time or for easily memorizing the days of creation.

This would pair nicely with holding up visual cues or by using the Creation bracelets for reference.

Days of Creation Bracelets

A simple way for students to retell and memorize what God made on each day of creation.

Creation Geo Art for Older Students

Days of Creation Bible Bookmarks

As you can see we’ve included so many fun games, activity pages, art projects, copywork, puzzles and more!

It’s ALWAYS a good time to learn about the Days of Creation, but this set pairs especially well with an Earth Day unit as well.

The Creation Activity Pack

$5.00

Thanksgiving Bible Activity Pack

November 8, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving is on the horizon and today I’ve got an amazing Thanksgiving Bible Activity Pack to share with you.

If you’re not yet familiar with our Holiday Packs you’ll want to check out these titles as well:

Christmas Bible Activity Pack

Valentine’s Day Bible Activity Pack

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Activity Pack

Easter Bible Activity Pack

New Release!!

Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Bible Activity Pack

This Thanksgiving activity pack reminds children that God calls us to have a thankful heart. Christ-centered activities point students in the right direction as they learn key scripture and ways to GIVE BACK to their community in this Bible-based, Christian Activity Pack. Includes 35 pages of multi-age activities, games, worksheets, songs, crafts and more. Designed to be low-prep and hands-on to keep little hearts and minds engaged.

Want to take a peek inside? Here is glance at what you can expect:

As with all of our activity pack, the first couple of pages outline the variety of games, activities, worksheets, and crafts. There are plenty of options for multiple grades and ability levels so this is a perfect fit for homeschooling families or small church settings. With this set you’ll have something for everyone to do!

Scripture Pumpkins

Scripture Memorization is fun with these printable pumpkin verse cards and coordinating pocket. This set features six different verses for students to learn. Available in color or black and white (print on orange paper). These make fantastic take-home items for your Sunday School kiddos.

Thanksgiving Bible Activity Pages

This set comes with three Bible verse puzzle pages; Thanksgiving Crossword, Thanksgiving Word Search, and Thanksgiving Word Scramble. Each puzzle sheet features key scripture about being thankful and grateful to God.

The Giving Back Game

Being thankful is more than just saying, “thanks.” We can show God that we are thankful with our actions. This Thanksgiving look for ways you can GIVE back to your community and begin to build a heart full of thanksgiving. When we help others we learn to be thankful for what we have. Students roll the dice and make their way around the board collecting different suggestions for ways they can make an impact in their community.

Thanksgiving Bible Verse Mazes

This set also includes two Thanksgiving-themed Bible verse maze activity pages. Younger children can practice their lettering by tracing the letters of each verse.

Compassion Cootie Catcher

Students catch compassion cooties with this fun foldable that encourages students to reach out and look for tangible ways to impact their communities. Pick and number and start to play!

Thanksgiving Acrostic & Bible Verse Dot-2-Dot

Two simple worksheets you can hand out to students during the month of November. The first is a Thanksgiving Acrostic for older students to think of things that they are thankful for starting with each letter of the word, “Thanksgiving.” The second is a fun activity page for younger students to complete the dot-2-dot and learn the bible verse.

Community Blessings Wreath

This is cut and paste paper plate wreath for older students. Each piece of the wreath features a way for students to give back to their community. Simply color, cut-out and glue to a paper plate. Staple a string to the back to hang on the door on in their room. Encourage students to look at the wreath for ways they can help others.

Roll a Turkey Activity Page & Turkey Circle Time Song

Students can play this super silly table side game with two dice and a sheet of paper. Each student takes turns rolling the dice and adding each turkey part to their paper. First one to roll a complete turkey (body, head, eyes, hat, 2 wings, 2 legs, beak, and at least one feathre wins!) Turkey Circle Time Song is a simple song to sing with younger students learning how to count.

Thankful Turkey Craft

A simple template for studetns to cut out and create their our thanksgiving turkeys. Each turkey reads, “Lord give me a thankful heart.” Students write things they are thankful for on each of the feathers.

Thanksgiving Feast Cut & Paste Craft

This is a simple craft for younger students. Students color and cut out each food item and arrange them on their Thanksgiving plate. They can write or dictate what they are thankful for on each item.

Fall Leaf Tracing Pages

For younger students we’ve included two different fall leaf tracing pages. These are fun for students color and it will build fine motor control skills as well. One page reads, ‘Thank you God,” and the other a verse from Ecclesiastes.

Thankful Heart Paper Plate Pumpkin Bible Craft

This is a fun craft if you don’t mind painting or even using Kwik sticks in the classroom. Students paint the pumpkin orange and cut out a construction paper leaf/stem. Seed templates are provided, each with their own suggestion for how to cultivate a thankful heart. Finish it off by gluing on some white string (as the pumpkin pulp).

Thankful Heart Bookmarks and Thank You God Minibook

Both of these are perfect for take-home resources for your students. The Thankful Heart bookmarks provide students with tangible ways they can cultivate and heart filled with thanksgiving. The Thank You God Minibook is just right for little hands to remember the story of Thanksgiving and why we celebrate.

Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Bible Activity Pack

Thanksgiving Math Games for Kindergarten

October 11, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and you might be looking for fun ways to get your students learning this holiday season! I know my kiddos sure enjoy a little FUN during the holidays and with our brand new Thanksgiving SMART Pack you can still include educational content

Thanksgiving BUMP is a super fun way to work on multiplication facts. Using a paperclip spinner students spin and multiple the number they land on by 10. Then, they cover that number with one of their markers (coin, flat marble) and it’s the next student’s turn. The goal is to get four in a row covered. If a number is already covered by the opponents marker you can, ‘BUMP,’ them off. A fun follow up worksheet is provided to reinforce skip counting by 10’s.

Thanksgiving SPIN and FRAME is another fun game for younger students. Children spin with a paperclip spinner then frame the number in the ten frame below. Provide students with fun holiday candies, such as candy corn or candy pumpkins to use as counters. A simple follow-up worksheet is provided to show mastery.

Turkey Trot is a FUN game for students learning to count to 100! Students take turns rolling the dice, adding their number and moving their marker across the hundreds board. Land on a multiple of 10 and you get to roll again. First one to 100 wins! A simple follow up worksheet is included for students to work on number value.

Roll a Turkey Printable Game is a fun drawing activity that also builds basic addition skills. Students roll two dice, add the value and then draw the corresponding turkey feature on their paper. Lots of silly turkeys will be made with this printable game. A follow-up worksheet provides students the opportunity to build addition equations, or work on number dot patterns.

Thanksgiving BINGO isn’t your average BINGO game! This game works with multiples of 10 so the calling cards are multiplication problems. The bingo caller will call out the problem (10 x 7) and the students will mentally solve the problem and find the correct square on their bingo board. The first one to get a bingo wins!

Find these 5 Thanksgiving Games and more in our new Thanksgiving SMART pack:

Let us do your holiday planning for you! SMART stands for Science, Math, Art, Reading and Take Home Review. We’ve included FIVE full days of thematic games, worksheets, and activities for your students covering all the bases. Everything prints in the order needed, simply print and go! Click Here for More Sample Pages.

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Activity Pack

February 22, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Where did the time go? It’s almost March and you know what that means…….St. Patrick’s Day!!

St. Patrick’s Day is a great time to teach children about the Holy Trinity and we’ve added our own spin on things by touching on the Beatitudes and storing our treasures in heaven.

Our Holiday Packs are some of our most popular teaching resources because they are NO-PREP, available in an instant download and include TONS of hands on activities, games, crafts, printables and teaching resoruces for K-5 students. Each set comes with special take home activities too, making them perfect for Children’s Ministry and Outreach.

You can purchase any or all of these sets in our Teachers Pay Teachers store here.

Here is a sneak peek inside our St. Patrick’s Day Activity Pack:

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Worksheets

This set features the eight beatitudes and includes crossword, word search and word scramble.

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Bingo

This set includes six different bingo cards featuring the beatitudes, scriptures and different colored shamrocks.

Shamrock & Rainbows Bible Verse Coloring

Each coloring page features a key scripture reminding children of God’s wisdom

St. Patrick’s Day Mazes

A collection of FUN St. Patricks Day Mazes with Bible verses.

St. Patrick’s Day Bookmarks & Tic-Tac-Toe

Print up these colorful bookmarks for take home treats. Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Chocolate Coins.

Beatitudes Game

A fun and easy multiplayer game. Be the first to collect all 8 beatitudes to win!

Cut & Paste Trinity Shamrock (Younger Kiddos)

A simple Cut and Paste Bible Craft for children to make a Trinity Shamrock

Cut & Paste Trinity Shamrock (Older Kiddos)

This trinity shamrock is perfect for older kiddos and involved a little bit of art. Children uses colored pencils or markers to design a plaid pattern across the shamrock.

Beatitude Scripture Coins

Colorful, printable coins you can print each featuring a different Beatitude. These are great for memorizing and can be sent home with children in a small envelope.

Treasures in Heaven Bible Craft

This is a simple craft that produces a colorful result. Provide children with strips of colored construction paper or colored streamers. Cut out and assemble together. You might even punch a hole in the top and hang them from your classroom ceiling.

St. Patrick’s Day Songs & Chants

These simple tunes are great for early morning circle time and children love to sing along.

This pack is filled with multi-age resources which are sure to be a hit in your homeschool or Sunday School classroom.

St. Patrick’s Day Activity Pack

$5.00

Saint Patrick’s Day Preschool Printables

March 9, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner (March 17th), I’ve got just a few more printable resources to share with you.

I’ve added a handful of new thematic teaching resources on Preschool Mom including;

-St. Patrick’s Day Number Bond Game
-St. Patrick’s Day Pattern Cards & Coins
-St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Cut & Paste Craft
-St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Activity Pages (Color Words)
-St. Patrick’s Day Mazes & Coloring Pages

Print these resources Free from Preschool Mom.

Expand your St. Patrick’s Day learning with our Color Science Activity Pack

Color Science for Kids Activity Pack

Color Wheel Paint Card
Simple Experiment Coloring Page
Warm & Cool Colors Art Page
Exploring Color Blends Art Sheets (x8)
Color Splat Bookmarks
Color Award Chart
Rainbow Spinner Wheel Template
and more…. Click Here for Samples

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Crafts

March 1, 2016 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner I wanted to make a couple of new items you can use with your students this year!

Now, if you missed our facebook update or our newsletter last week, you should know that Christian Preschool Printables will be under construction during the first couple of weeks of March. (If you’re planning on grabbing anything for St. Patrick’s Day or Easter please get it downloaded ASAP as during the update some of the links might not be working and I don’t want anyone to be stuck scrambling right before the holiday).

With that out of the way, here are some adorable new St. Patrick’s Day printables for you!

Treasures in Heaven Bible Craft: A simple yet stunning Bible craft for children to complete this St. Patrick’s Day. Children add rainbow paper or streamers to create a beautiful rainbow coming from the cloud. A scripture card is glued to the back to remind children that their treasure is in Heaven.

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Verse Bookmarks: A set of colorful St. Patrick’s Day Bible Verse Bookmarks for children learning to store their treasures in heaven. Print on cardstock and laminate for durability.

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Verse Cards: These take home cards share a special Bible verse from Matthew 6:20, “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” There is room to tape on a small chocolate gold coin as a special treat.

3 in One Shamrock Coloring Page: A simple shamrock coloring page for little hands. Children can color and learn the rhyme, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit……3 in 1

Love Bible Verse Bookmarks

March 21, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Today I have some simple Love Bible Verse Bookmarks for children.

Each bookmark features a quality of love as described in 1 Corinthians 13, and the last bookmark reads, “God is Love” These are very simple yet beautiful and your older children might appreciate a few for their bookshelf. Use during Valentine’s Day or Easter or anytime you want to treat your children.

Find more Bible Bookmarks Here

Find more Valentine’s Day Bible Printables Here

Easter Cross Bookmarks

March 17, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

If you need a small item to place in your children’s Easter Baskets next month, today I’ve got a great resource for you!

Easter Bookmarks

These free printable Easter bookmarks feature two different sayings, “Happy Easter,” and “He is Risen!” There is a beautiful image of a cross, some flowers, butterflies and the sun’s rays.

Looking for an Easter experience for your entire family?

Try A Sense of the Resurrection Today!

Find More Easter Resources Here

Find More Bible Bookmarks Here

Japanese Carp Kite Craft

Our Japanese Carp Kites (or more accurately windsocks) make some really beautiful projects for children to make when learning about Japanese culture. This would be a wonderful end of the unit project for your students or co-op
groups. Older children might prefer to make these out of fabric see our fabric painting tutorial here.

Materials:

Construction Paper (we used 12 x 18)
Tissue Paper (Dollar Tree)
Crepe Streamers (Dollar Tree)
Scissors
Glue
Hole Puncher

Suggested Resources for a Unit Study:

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

We picked up some inexpensive tissue paper from the Dollar store. Cut U shapes for the scales through all colors.

Step 2

Optional: Get your glue ready on a paper plate, and use a brush to apply it

Step 3

On the long side of the paper, apply a strip of glue, and show children how to glue down their scales.

Step 4

For younger children, you can draw lines for them to follow, so that they're scales overlap nicely.

Step 5

After you finish the first row of scales, add in second row of scales on top of the first. You want each layer to slightly cover the previous one.

Step 6

Continue to add in additional layers of scales, overlapping each previous row. Stop when you're a little over halfway full.

Step 7

Glue a thin black strip of construction paper on top of the final row. This is optional, and just makes the scales look a bit more "Cleaned-Up."

Step 8

Cut out two eyes for your carp, and glue them on your construction paper, spaced as shown in the photo.

Step 9

Cut a variety of colored Crepe Paper Streamers, about 2 feet in

Step 10

Turn your paper over, trim the sides of any extra overhanging scales. Don't trim the bottom, just the sides.

Step 11

Apply a layer of glue along the bottom edge of your paper.

Step 12

Glue on your Crepe Paper Streamers.

Step 13

Roll up your paper (with the scales on the outside) Staple or glue along the edges to keep it together.

Step 14

Punch holes on each side of the paper, and tie a piece of yarn to each hole.

All Done!

Hand your windsock in a nearby tree. When a breeze gets going your windsock and streamers will come to life.

Christmas Printables

December 8, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 6 Comments

As you plan your Christmas lessons this year,
we’ve got some great printables to help you out!

New this year we’ve added a set of printable Bible Verse Ornaments,
that would make great take home projects for children.

And here are some links to our most popular printables:

Christmas Coloring Pages

Luke 2:11 Bible Verse Printables

Psalm 72:11 Bible Verse Printables

Names of Jesus Printable Ornaments

Also don’t forget to download your FREE 75 page holiday pack!
This is an exclusive offer for subscribers of Christian Preschool Printables!

Happy holiday planning!

Veteran’s Day Printables

November 11, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

Do you homeschool through the holidays?
We usually continue class as usual for most of the Monday holidays,
but we do try to incorporate so holiday themed activities for that day.

I just can’t DO a four day week.
I’ve tried in the past, and a four day week quickly turns into a three day week,
and then a two day week…and then eventually I give up and say,
Hey let’s just start FRESH on Monday.

A whole week gone, and I’m scrambling to figure out
where we’re going to make it up later!

So, I’ve since learned to do something else for these one day,
beginning of the week holidays.
Here is my magic formula:

-Drop everything except the three R’s.
-Include a special craft, activitiy, or field trip.

There. That’s it.
Impressive huh!

So tomorrow we’ll be reading about Veteran’s Day,
and making some special Thank You Cards.

Of course I made plenty to share.
And of course like a good little procrastinating Homeschooler,
I’ve posted it the night before Veteran’s day.

I realize that’s not the best plan.
I almost just waited until next year to share it,
but then I realized that there is at LEAST one of you out there
who is scrambling for something to do on Veteran’s Day tomorrow.
Obviously, I speak from experience.

Ahem.

So it’s not a fancy set, but I think it will get the job done!
There is a set of printable Thank You badges for children to color,
and use as the cover of a Veteran’s Day card.

I also included some easy to cut decorations,
which would be great for little ones just learning scissor work.
For children who are showing readiness, I also added in some ABC practice
and a small copywork page.

Pretty simple stuff.
You can print the Veteran’s Day Printables here.

Pssssst……
Be Sure to Stay Tuned!!

I have lots more Holiday Printables coming out soon,
They will be available on Christian Preshool Printables
so be sure you are subscribed if you’re interested in more simple sets like this!

Mayflower Craft

November 24, 2009 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

This is actually a craft we did a few years back, but I’ve finally put up a photo tutorial for how to make it. They turned out really colorful too, because this time we used paint instead of markers.

Additionally, I thought it might be fun to have children draw pictures of different items and resources that were aboard the Mayflower and put them into the pocket.

If you haven’t already noticed, for each craft I offer some “Discussion” ideas. (You’ll see them to the right of the “Materials” list) These discussion questions are meant to be things you can be thinking about and teaching on as you complete the craft. It’s my experience (what little of it that I have) that my kids are very receptive to information when it is paired with hands on activities, and they actually commit it to memory easier when we’re having fun learning about it. It’s also useful to have something tangible for the visual learner in all of us, and I think crafts are a great way to fill that need when they are paired with educational topics.

Blah Blah, right? You know, just in case you were wondering what all that discussion stuff was.

Anyway,

Here are the Photo Instructions

I’ve paired this with the book, “If you sailed on the Mayflower” which has more then enough information to teach children all about the Separatists, and they’re journey to the New World, in search of religious freedoms.

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