That busyness is also why I'm sharing this post now, instead of a week ago, when you could have actually made plans to use something like this on Easter Sunday. (sorry!) Luckily, cross crafts are helpful things to include no matter what time of year! This is one of my favorite crafts I've done with the kids at my church.
We read The Garden, The Curtain and the Cross, on Easter Sunday. What a fantastic book--if you don't have it, I would highly recommend ordering a copy. As an OT scholar, I love how it relates the sin in the garden to the temple curtain to Jesus death on the cross. It's such a beautiful snapshot of the biblical story from beginning to end.
To remind our Children and Worship students (age 4-2nd Grade) that Jesus' death on the cross allows us to once again be in relationship with God, we made relief crosses afterward. This was a fun combination of process and project art--I made a ton of different art supplies available and let kids pick which ones they wanted to use. Options included:
- Pastels (Amazon affiliate link)
- Chalk (Purchased at Target)
- Paints (Amazon affiliate link)
- Crayons (I used Twistable Crayons because the kids love them!)
- Markers
I was amazed how evenly spaced the kids were--there really was someone who wanted to do everything. I taped the crosses to card stock ahead of time, using this painters tape (affiliate link), but you could also have the kids tape them. After the kids were done filling the paper with color, we peeled the tape away and voila! Beautiful cross picture!
