Bible Crafts

We have been reading about Ruth of the Bible, and I wanted to share the craft the girls and I did yesterday. The story deals a lot with Ruth's gleaning of barley from Boaz's fields, so we made barley stalks out of yellow construction paper.
1. Cut paper into 1-inch strips.
2. Cut a 12-inch long strip for the stalk.
3. Cut several pieces about 2 to 3 inches long for the heads (Honestly, I don't know my barley terminology, so I'm not sure if "heads" is the right word.)
4. Glue the heads as shown.



Yesterday in Sunday school we came up with an impromptu craft for our Jonah lesson. I don't have any examples to show, but will try to explain how it looks.
1. Draw a figure of a person in the center of a paper plate (on the "food side"). This is Jonah.
2. Fold a paper plate in half. The plate is the fish.
3. In one corner of the folded plate, near the folded edge, draw an eye on either side of the fold.
4. Cut construction paper into small triangles.
5. Glue one triangle on each side of the fish, in the middle of the body (these are dorsal fins).
6. Glue one triangle on each side of the fish, at the tail end of the body (these are the tail fins.

I suppose you could turn this into a biology lesson and draw the fish's internal organs around Jonah. That probably would have been too much for the 4-year-olds in my class.