Christian Preschool Crafts
Integration of arts and crafts to preschool activities can make learning experience fun and exciting among kids. Christian preschool crafts are also done to inculcate love of God and the teachings of Christianity at an early age.
In Christian preschools, you will always hear children singing. Songs and rhymes are effective methods of teaching kids. More so, if you are going to integrate them with arts and crafts. For example if the lesson is about human body, it’s not enough to just show a picture of a boy labeled with the body parts.
To make your lesson more meaningful and effective, you can introduce the lesson with a song. There are many children’s songs that you can use. You can also modify a few lines of the songs to make it a Christian song. For the lesson proper, be creative in making Christian preschool crafts. Tracing the body is one creative way to make your lesson more interesting.
You will need big cardboards like the refrigerator boxes. Or, you can also buy big rolls of papers. Then ask the children to lie down and trace each other’s bodies on the cardboard or paper. Let them draw faces to make them look like the kids.
You can provide yarns, buttons, lace and ribbons for decorations. They can use the yarns for hair and buttons for eyes. Let the children use their imagination. When everybody’s done, you can now discuss the parts of the body.
Ask the kids to speak in front of the class and tell something about their output. The teacher will directly assess if the student can identify the parts of the body. Another variation of this activity is to make faces using paper plates.
They can draw the parts of the face and try to decorate them with the same materials. You can also provide wiggly eyes instead of buttons. Don’t forget to introduce the craft with an appropriate rhymes or songs.
Christian preschool crafts are very interesting. You will never run out of ideas as long as you have good material to teach. The Bible is a very good source of good stories; you just have to use your creative juices.
