Holiday Bible Club ( part two)

We started the planning for the craft by looking at the stories. Three of the stories - Nebuchadnezzar's dream, the fiery furnace and Daniel and the lions den leant themselves to crafts easily.
We decided on a giant statue for the dream, built out of boxes with each team decorating a number of boxes. This is not a craft they take home but it engaged all the children and they loved the finished result. The materials were all obtained from the re-cycling store so this was a very low cost craft which helped the overall budget.

For the fiery furnace we made lanterns using fake tea lights, this was probably our most costly craft but the kids loved it and had great fun pretending to blow out the candles.

For Daniel in the lions den we made lion cup cakes using yellow chocolate for the face, popcorn for the mane and decorated the face with white chocolate chips and piping gel.

The remaining stories were a challenge, we like to have the children make things they will want to keep and though there were a few ideas kicking around none were particularly inspiring. After much thought we decided to simply use the space element for these days.

The first was a snow globe style rocket using glycerine to suspend the glitter. The bottles were a travel pack from pound land which gave me three suitable bottles for £1. Although we could have recycled small plastic bottles the advantage of these was the quantity of glycerine needed was much less. The photo doesn't really do these credit but they were fun and when all the attachments fall off they still have a sparkly bottle to play with!

The second was a UFO. Made using the domed tops that fit on cream topped drinks ( these were from viking sold in packs of 100 ) and circles of card. The aliens were made using yarn Pom poms and fluorescent pipe cleaners from hobby craft and self adhesive eyes from Baker Ross.
Looking back the craft that the children enjoyed most was the statue which was a surprise but they were fun and hopefully will escape the re-cycling bin -for a few days anyway!

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