Joy Crafts for Sunday School for a Fun Worship Time

Fold the paper plate in half. Cut a “v” approximately 3 inches from the top for the top of the plate and round the edges. From the bottom, cut 4 1/2 inches so that the bottom comes to a point.

Use the paper plate heart as a pattern. Draw around the heart on a piece of construction paper.

Cut the paper out. If you cut near the bottom of the paper, you will have some excess. Save this piece.

Take the piece that you saved from cutting out your heart, fold it in half. Draw a 3 1/2 inch circle. When you cut out the circles, you will have two.

Hold the two circles together and punch a hole about 1 inch from the edge. Write “Joy” on one of the circles.

Hold both the paper plate and paper heart together. Starting at the bottom point, punch nine holes in each side, ending approximately 3 inches from the top point.

Thread one of the pipe cleaners through the top hole, leaving a 3-inch tail at the top of the heart. Continue to thread the pipe cleaner through the remaining holes. Thread the other pipe cleaner through holes on the other side.

Thread the end of the pipe cleaner through the hole in the circle. Twist to secure.
Now, place the circle in the heart.

Cut a strip of card stock or thin cardboard 2 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Fold the strip in half.
Glue a Popsicle stick on each end of the strip. You can use white (school) glue or tacky. The tacky is a little thicker and maybe a little less messy.

Decorate the outside of the strip with markers, gel pens, stickers, or what ever you want.
Pinch the strip together to make a noise.

First place some beans in your container (You don’t want to have too many beans, but enough for a good sound when you shake it).

Tie the yarn to the hole that is in the box and place the lid on the container. (You might need to hole punch a hole if yours doesn’t have one).

Cut a blue (or your favorite color) piece of paper 3/4 by 11 3/4 inches. You will need another piece of blue paper 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches to finish the side.

Cut two circles out of paper to cover the top and bottom of the box.

Glue the paper to the side and top and bottom of the box.

Cut out stars to decorate the top, bottom, and sides. You can use a small star cookie cutter to help you make the shape.

If you cannot find the round box, you could use two paper plates. Put some beans on one of your plates.

Top with the second plate. Staple the two plates together. But try not to flatten it!

Now decorate your paper plates by cutting out stars from red and blue construction paper.

If you want to decorate with string, you could make small holes in the rim of the plate. Then thread some string through the holes.

Fold the longer rectangle in half. At the fold, measure 1 inch from the top and make a dot. Do the same at the bottom of the rectangle. From the corners, draw an angle line to the dot on the fold.

Cut on your lines and unfold. Measure 1 1/2 inches from the top of the cross.

Cut off the top.

Fold the shorter rectangle and measure 1/2 inch from the top and bottom. Draw an angle line from the corners to the dot.

Glue the shorter rectangle to the center of the longer rectangle.

On the heart write “Joy”.

Glue the heart to the center of the cross.

Cut a 4 by 5 inch rectangle from construction paper. From one end, measure about 1/2 inch. Then write, “Joy of the Lord”.

Cut a 4 by 9 inch rectangle. Fold in half. Draw a 3 1/2 inch circle.

Cut the circles out.
Find the center by folding in fourths. Poke the pipe cleaner through the center point. Fold the end into a circle so that the paper does not fall off the pipe cleaner.