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Catch a Jonah Craft for Jonah Runs from God
Scripture: Jonah 1-3
You’ll Need:
Jonah Runs from God How-to video
Blue solo cups - one per child
Sharpies
White balloons - one per child
String - one yard per child
Sand
A knife (for adult use only)
Get Ready: Before class, use the knife to make a hole on the bottom of each solo cup.
Do This:
To make the Catch a Jonah craft, have kids follow these steps:
1. Give each child a blue Solo cup and a sharpie.
2. Invite kids to decorate the cup to look like a large fish, with the open end being the mouth.
3. Give each child a white balloon and ask them to draw a stick Jonah on the balloon.
4. Fill up the balloon with just enough sand to make it the size of a golf ball. 5. Tie it off.
6. Give each child a yard of string.
7. Thread the string through the hole in the bottom of the cup. Pull it through about six inches.
8. Wrap the string coming out of the bottom of the cup around the outer side of the cup and tie it to the string coming out of the inside of the cup. (You will have a string wrapped and tied around one edge of the cup.)
9. Tie the Jonah balloon to the other side of the string.
10. Invite kids to hold the blue cup and try to swing Jonah into the fish only using one hand.
SAY: See how many times in a row you can catch Jonah in your fish. (Allow kids to try.) Jonah’s disobedience landed him in the belly of a big fish. He ran from God and then he tried to hide from God. As you take this game with you, remember what happened to Jonah when he disobeyed God and tried to hide from Him.
