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Lost sheep
You will need: kitchen roll tubes cut into three pieces, cardboard circles the same diameter as the tube, cardboard faces (there is a template online at www.premierchildrenswork.com ), cotton wool, black card for legs, PVA glue and spreaders, scissors, newspaper to protect your work surface and lots of hand wipes.
This is a messy one! Stick the circle of card over one end of the piece of cardboard tube. Cover the tube and closed end with cotton wool (a roll of cotton wool is easier than cotton wool balls). Draw a face for the sheep on another circle of card then stick the face onto the other end of the tube. For the feet, cut two strips of black card about 5cm long and 1cm wide. Fold the ends to meet in the middle. Then stick one folded end to the sheep’s tummy. We’ve found they work best in a sitting position with just two legs. Try ‘losing’ them by hiding them and having a lost sheep hunt!
Lost son spoon people
You will need: wooden spoons, pieces of fancy and plain fabric, brown, black, yellow or orange wool for hair, googly eyes (optional), glue sticks, scissors, felt tips, lengths of narrow ribbon.
These spoon people are very easy to make and can be used to act out lots of different Bible stories. Draw a face onto the back of the wooden spoon. We have given the father a happy face, the son a sad face and the brother an expression somewhere in-between. Cut lengths of wool to stick on as hair - glue sticks work fine for doing this. Each puppet has a robe which is just a piece of fabric about 20cm wide and the length of the spoon handle. On top we have put a cloak made from a smaller piece of fabric. Use plain fabric for the son to make him look a bit ragged. The robe and cloak are fastened just by bunching them up at the top and tying a piece of ribbon or wool around the top. Maybe your group would like to act out the story as you read it, using the figures.
Lost coins
You will need: plain biscuits, writing icing and other pre-made icing, assorted cake decorations.
Coins usually have someone’s portrait on. Invite the children to ice a self-portrait onto the biscuit to help them identify with the lost coin which was so important that it just had to be found. Alternatively they could use sugar letters to spell their name. We have also iced a pound sign onto each of ours and small lines around the edge like the lines on the side of a pound coin. Tubes of ready-made icing and blocks of pre-made fondant icing can be used to create the decorations.
