Sharing the Faith Through Crafts

My church located in Miami lakes, FL, Northwest Dade Seventh Day Adventist church is having an evangelist crusade with Bill Waters. It will be six weeks long on Fridays, Sabbaths and Sundays; the covering topic will be prophecies. See the flyer below.

 

During the presentations, parents have the opportunity to allow their children to be in a separate room. I have the privilege to be a part of the church members who will be involved in preparing an hour long presentation for the children while the Holy Spirit moves upon their parents without distractions. The program for the children includes music, bible story, and a craft section. Of course I am so happy to hear them say crafts.  So over on pinterest I have found some really fun crafts to create. I have been testing out how to make some of the crafts and here are a few that I have done.

 

 (ß I cut # them out, it looks really cool)

 

I plan on making a tree and then use the basket as well as the fruit of the spirit as an activity for the children. I plan to have the children make their own baskets and then pick the fruits from the tree; there will be "rotten" fruits too. Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Below are download links so you can print or edit the pictures better

Disciple download link

Fruits of The Spirit download link

 Baby Buggy Tutorial!!!ツ✍

 Supplies

·         We R memory keepers Crop-A-Dile

·         Mini brads 3/16 in (not shown here)

·         Craft dowels (not shown here look below in tutorial)

·         Basicgrey designer chipboard stickers (not shown here look below in tutorial)

·         Fiskars paper trimmer
Aleene’s original tacky glue

·         Scotch ATG ¼ in gun

·         Tim holtz scissors

·         2 ½ in circlepunch

·         Small heart punch by stampin’ up

·         K&company designer paper (double sided)

·         Heidi grace specialty paper 

 Sides of the buggy
v  2 ½ inch circle punch for 3 circles
   Ø  Two of the same color using double sided paper and one in a different color (blue                      for me)
v  Cut the circles in half
v  Punch a heart shape in two of the half circles (double side halves)
v  Glue the two blue half circles underneath the two heart punched half circles
v  Punch a 1/8 inch hole using the Crop-A-Dile in the left and right corners of the half circles.
Handles of the buggy
     You can use two pieces of scrap paper (that match the sides of the buggy) fold them in half        and then cut a P shape. Glue the folded pieces together. 

 Middle part of buggyMatching paper cut at 3&7/8 inch by 2 ½ inch scored at ½ inch from both sides.
ü  Make crocodile teeth up to the score lines on each side as seen in the picture above. If using double sided tape place the tape on both sides first then cut the crocodile teeth.

ü  Glue or with double sided tape adhere the half circle to both sides of the crocodile teeth as shown above.
ü  Next place more glue or double-sided paper and at this time adhere the handles then place the other half circle on top (Not shown here).

 Baby buggy canopy top
v  I used the same blue pattern paper that was used on the side of the buggy.
v  This paper is cut at 2in by 4in and scored at 1 ¼ in as shown above.

•  I used the Crop-A-Dile 1/8 in hole to punch out circles along the edge of the paper

• Make sure to leave enough space between the circles because you will need to cut a straight line between each of them up to the score marks as seen above.

• Next, you will adhere the canopy top to the sides of the buggy as shown above.

I used a craft dowel as my handle bar and I cut it using my Tim Holtz scissors 

 For the wheels I used the Basicgrey designer chipboard stickers. The chipboard pieces have a adhesive backs so I just cut off the part I needed in order adhere it to the baby buggy.

Here is the final productÜ and feel free to ask any question or requests.♡

Baby buggies I made using no die cutting machines and simple craft tools. tutorial to come soon #LoveWhatYouDo

Question of the day brought to us by www.zingbroadband.com :

How have you or do you plan to change the lives of others by utilizing the Internet?

Great question I plan to utilize the internet through my blog that I have recently started in order to spark the creativity of others. When individuals come to my blog and see the crafty goodness that I have come up with, I hope to conjure up their own creative juices that are inside of them. Creativity in the form of crafts helps other feel appreciated, special, welcomed, and an overall joy to see the works of their hands. So get out there and try a new craft but remember creativity is not something you learn.