Crafts
Option 1: Forgive/Forget Goat Puppet
brown lunch bags, copy paper, crayons, cotton balls, googly eyes, glue sticks, scissors
Gather supplies. Search online for a goat face drawing and sketch (or print) a simple face on a piece of paper (roughly 4" x 6"). Make copies for each child. Open the bottom flap of each brown bag (one per child) and write “Forgive and Forget” inside the mouth. Make a sample craft.
Give each child a brown bag and goat face paper. Place crayons, cotton balls, glue sticks, and googly eyes on each table. Have the children color and cut out the goat face and glue it on the bottom flap of the bag (to create a goat puppet). Have them glue the googly eyes and cotton balls to the goat face. Remind them that the goats were a symbol that our holy God will forgive and forget our sin by means of a substitute sacrifice.
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Option 2: Forgive/Forget Wheel
paper plates, brass fasteners, watercolor paints and brushes, markers, straws, cups of water
Gather supplies. Set aside two plates for each child. With one plate, cut a wedge (one-sixth of the plate) out (without cutting to the very center). On the other plate, write orgive on one side (write the letters from the center to the edge so they will show when the wedge plate is placed on top of it), and orget on the other side (in like manner but with the word written upside down). Make a sample craft.
Give each child their two plates. On the plate with the words, have children make dots of red paint on the plate, and then blow on them with a straw so the paint (representing blood) spreads around the plate. While that dries, have them write a large F on the other plate, just to the left of the cut-out wedge. Have them attach the F plate to the other plate by attaching the brass fastener in the center. The wheel will form the two words Forgive and Forget and remind them of the blood sacrifice (first with a goat and finally with Jesus) that made a way for us to be in relationship with our holy God.
Option 1: Forgive/Forget Goat Puppet
brown lunch bags, copy paper, crayons, cotton balls, googly eyes, glue sticks, scissors
Gather supplies. Search online for a goat face drawing and sketch (or print) a simple face on a piece of paper (roughly 4" x 6"). Make copies for each child. Open the bottom flap of each brown bag (one per child) and write “Forgive and Forget” inside the mouth. Make a sample craft.
Give each child a brown bag and goat face paper. Place crayons, cotton balls, glue sticks, and googly eyes on each table. Have the children color and cut out the goat face and glue it on the bottom flap of the bag (to create a goat puppet). Have them glue the googly eyes and cotton balls to the goat face. Remind them that the goats were a symbol that our holy God will forgive and forget our sin by means of a substitute sacrifice.
Option 2: GOAT Acrostic
paper, colored pencils or markers, stickers
Gather supplies.
Give each child a paper. Set markers and stickers on each table. Explain that GOAT stands for “Greatest of All Time.” Jesus is the true GOAT. Have children write GOAT in large letters vertically on the left-hand side of the paper. Then have children come up with adjectives for each of the letters in GOAT to describe Jesus (e.g., Gracious and forgiving, Only Savior, Absolutely perfect, Totally amazing). Children can decorate their acrostic using provided materials.
