Paper Doll Craft for Cubbies Bear Hug 14
This week’s AWANA Cubbies craft focuses on the verse, “Let the little children come to Me…” – Mark 10:14 The Bible story is about the children wanting to come to Jesus. Other adults are trying to get the kids to leave Jesus alone, but Jesus will have nothing to do with that idea. “Let the little children come to Me.” Doesn’t that create a beautiful picture of our Savior? In a time and society where little honor was brought to children or women for that matter, Jesus demonstrated a different opinion. He showed value in the children. He reached out and obviously has a great love for children. In Matthew 18:3 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” He sees a child’s faith and hope. It was set up as a standard to obtain. I wanted to demonstrate to the Cubbies this week that they are valued by God. I wanted them to be able to create a paper doll of themselves.
With most of the crafts on my site I want to create them with my kids. However, this Cubbies series is different. Because my daughter will be doing it at Cubbies and I have just volunteered to come up with the crafts and prep them for the teachers, I just do these samples on my own. They are obviously made by an adult and a child’s version will look different. It has actually been really fun to have my daughter come home from Cubbies each week with her own version. I should take a picture of them and add them to the posts.
My wonderful husband, who serves well and has a gift in working with technology, created these created these great paper doll silhouettes for you as a free printable. Here is the boy outline printable. Here is the girl outline printable.
It is now time to raid the craft closet. You can use yarn, stickers, buttons, google eyes, sequins, puff balls, ribbon, lace, foam, felt, beads, markers, crayons, feathers, popsicle sticks or any other kinds of craft supplies the kids might enjoy using to create garments for themselves.
The kids will glue cut and glue down whatever they want to decorate their own paper dolls. This can be a reminder of how Jesus loves children. Jesus loves them. You could also write the Cubbies verse on these printouts.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am over my church’s nursery ministry and had an idea to do a lesson with paper dolls based on these same scriptures and was just searching for a paper doll to use, not expecting to find the exact lesson idea. This is perfect, so I really appreciate your sharing this.
I’m so glad this was helpful. I absolutely love that finding this made it so easy for you. I hope the kids really enjoyed it. Thank you for how you are serving them.
This is so great! I was searching the internet for a blank paper doll template, and this is exactly what I needed. My plan is to make little paper doll kits that I can donate to a local hospital. Thank you!
I love that this project is going toward that. Thank you for your heart and doing something outside yourself. Blessings.
I am delighted with your blog. I was searching for a boy doll pattern for my 3 guys in the Bible story of “The Fiery Furnace. I colored some Jewish robes for them and they fit in my diorama perfectly. I teach second grade and love my little creative angels so much. I am just envisioning lots of fun ahead. Liz – would love to know more about your pattern designs for the paper doll kits. We participate in Franklin Graham’s Christmas Shoe box gifts delivered to children in third world countries and this sounds perfect. My kids always bring colors, markers,construction paper to pack in the boxes. Wouldn’t a little case full of paper doll templates with some patterned paper for clothes be so perfect!. You two precious christian ladies are such a blessing sharing all your wonderful talents. Thank you so much.
I’m so glad you found me. I really hope you’ll check out all the Bible resources I have available. I love your idea for doing the paper dolls for the Franklin Graham Christmas shoe box gifts. If the patterned paper isn’t too thick, I imagine you could hold it up to a window to trace your own clothes kind of like we did here: https://meaningfulmama.com/day-271-personalized-magnetic-paper.html – Let me know if you end up doing this. I’d love to hear about your experience putting it together with your students.
Thank you so much for making the boy and girl templates available! Every other site wanted me to download programs, etc. to be able to print. I was so glad to find your site and be able to easily print these. I am using this with my Sunday School class.
So glad to help. I intentionally try to make downloading very easy. Thanks!