This week we have been talking about love in our character development series.
Most people are familiar with 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 that says, “Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” Last year we made a heart garland with this verse. The scripture is just so good that I wanted to review it again. As we were going over each description of love, I let the kids tell me what they thought it meant. When they didn’t know, I explained it. I also explained that we try and love like this, but only one person does it perfectly. They knew I was talking about God’s love. What we experience from humans on earth can never compare to this perfect love given from God alone. We can catch glimpses of it and try to live it out as much of it as we can, but we never know it completely until we know God completely. We’ll understand someday I’m sure. I wanted to think of a new way to present this verse to the girls. This is the craft I came up with, and I’m really happy with the results.
I first made you a printable. It’s my hand drawn heart and peacock body shape. Sorry it’s a little rough around the edges, but it will work for you just fine. All you do is print these images onto card stock paper and use it as a template.
I did the preparations for my kids. Your older kids could probably trace and cut out their own hearts and peacock body. I had 4 different tones of reds and pinks. I cut out a total of 16 heart feathers so that I could fit all the scripture on the peacock. We only made one peacock and worked as a team.
The next step was to glue it all together. The girls were gluing at the base and where the hearts crisscrossed. When all glued together, it looked like a heart fan (center picture), which we all thought was pretty cool in and of itself.
The next step was to glue the peacock body right in the center of the heart fan.
The final step I did, which was write out love in the middle of the peacock and then all the different components to love on the heart feathers.
As you celebrate love this Valentine’s day, I pray that you realize that this holiday is not about being in love, but it is a celebration of the love that has been given to us by our Heavenly Father. St. Valentinus new this love, which inspired his story and the birth of Valentine’s Day.
Wow, this is wonderful! I will have to do this with my five year old.
Wow, this is wonderful! I will have to do this with my five year old.
I love this idea and could see adapting it many ways!
Love this Valentine’s day bible craft. Shared it on my facebook page!
I just worked on Valentine crafts for our 4th grader’s class at school – I wish I’d seen this sooner it is so cute and a great way to incorporate that wonderful verse! Next year 🙂
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I love this! Thank you for linking it to Mom’s Library!
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Thank you so much. A lot of children here in the philippines will love this. We are going to do this on Sunday.
I am so glad you are going to do this. I’m glad you found my site, and I’m so glad it is going to be helpful to teach kids at Sunday Bible School across the globe. That really warms my heart. Thank you! Blessings on you too!
May God Bless You. I will constantly visit your site for more ideas for Sunday Bible School.
I will soon open a kid’s small group and the scripture we are doing for the 1st 6wks is 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. I’m breaking it down by 1 scripture a week. I was looking for a craft that we could build upon and this is perfect. Each week they can add their feather to their peacock. Do you have anything like this that could be used for boys?
That’s so great! I’m so excited that this craft will be used in this way. The only other craft I have on my blog for 1 Cor. 13 is https://meaningfulmama.com/2015/05/1-corinthians-13-diy-heart-garland.html. I’m not sure the age of the kids in your class. I tried to sit here and brainstorm about a more masculine idea for boys, and I’m not coming up with anything. If I think of anything, I’ll check in again. Blessings!