It's been quite awhile since I've shared a Sunday School craft with you, and this one is actually not for Sunday School, but for our Ladies Bible Study...however, I think it could be used with Sunday School kids who are studying the Tabernacle.
Our Ladies Bible Study has just finished studying Beth Moore's A Woman's Heart- God's Dwelling Place. The entire (10 week!) study is about the Tabernacle and God's Holy Presence. This is a great study packed with amazing, eye-opening information...the problem...too much information. In fact, that is why I came up with this idea in the first place. I needed something to help us remember this information. Something to remind us of what we've learned. Something to turn to, read over, remember and be encouraged. (As a former school teacher, I'm always looking for ways to retain what we learn after reading a book or completing a study.)
I call this the Tabernacle Reminder Kit
It's basically a 9 pocket sheet protector with a Tabernacle element in each compartment.
On the front side is the name of the element and a corresponding item inserted in the pocket.
On the back side are the corresponding scriptures of how Jesus fulfilled every single element in the Tabernacle. (That was God's plan all along!)
It's powerful just reading it!
Supplies:
-Baseball Trading Card Protectors (affiliate link)(9 compartments- each pocket is 3 1/4" x 2 1/2")
(My husband was redoing his baseball card collection and was actually throwing these out! Gasp! I had to come up with a use for them, right?!)
-Tabernacle: foam cross (These crosses were found at Hobby Lobby, they're stickers.)
-Altar of Burnt Offering: match (I used a box of kitchen matches. If doing this with children, cut off match tips and then color an end of the remaining stick with a red marker.)
-Basin: piece of soap (Cut a bar of soap into tiny pieces.)
-Veil: linen piece & embroidery thread in blue, purple & scarlet
(Cut white linen fabric into squares. Cut a 3-4 inch piece of blue, purple & scarlet embroidery thread.) Cherubim were embroidered into the veil's curtains with blue, purple & scarlet.
(The tabernacle's lampstand was an oil burning lamp, not a candle.)
-Table for the Bread of Presence: computer printout of 2 stacks of 6 loaves. (These represented the 12 tribes of Israel.) Click here to print out your own bread print outs.
-Altar of Incense: incense sticks (I found a box of incense sticks at the Goodwill or click here for a source. affiliate link.) Take a few sticks and break them to make them fit in the pocket.
-Mercy Seat: gold (yellow) feather (represents the golden cherubim's wings that guarded the Mercy Seat.)
-Ark of the Covenant: (All of these pieces go in one pocket.)
-gold metallic paper
(cut out in urn/vase shape that held the manna),
-gray paper (cut out in 2 stone commandment tablet shapes),
-2 inch piece of a fake flower stem (Aaron's budding staff). 
I picked off the flower blooms of a long stem and cut the stem into small pieces.
-Printout of the Tabernacle cards and Jesus' fulfillment cards.
Click here to print your own Tabernacle cards.
Click here to print your own Tabernacle cards.
**Yes, I realize this is a ton of supplies...many of these items could be substituted with a student drawing the items or a computer graphic. You choose to do what works for your class, your time and your budget.
Ahead of time:
Make copies of the printouts.
Gather supplies and prepare them so students can easily take each item and insert it in the pockets.
Instructions:
1. Cut apart the cards and insert them in the pockets.
Tabernacle cards on front, with Jesus fulfillment cards facing the back side.
1.Tabernacle /Jesus is Our Tabernacle
2. Altar of Burnt Offering/ Jesus is Our Perfect Sacrifice
3. Basin/ Jesus is Our Basin
4. Veil into the Holy of Holies/ Jesus is Our Veil
5. Lampstand/ Jesus is Our Lampstand
6. Table for the Bread of Presence/ Jesus is Our Bread
7. Altar of Incense/ Jesus is our Altar of Incense
8. Mercy Seat/ Jesus is Our Mercy Seat
9. Ark of the Covenant/ Jesus is Our New Covenant
2. Slip each item into the corresponding pocket.
3. Review each item, remembering key points that were learned about the Tabernacle.
4. Read each scripture telling how Jesus fulfilled every part of the Tabernacle.
5. Finish lesson reciting what the Bible says about our body being a living Tabernacle.
Want to see some more of my Sunday School Crafts?
Baby Moses Craft and Lesson
Craft for the Book of Ruth
Feeding the 5000
Shield of Faith with Balloon Battle
Phillip and the Ethiopian
Parable of the Lost Sheep Sunday School Craft
Valentine's Day Sunday School Craft
Palm Sunday Craft
Easter Sunday School Craft
May Day/Mother's Day Sunday School Craft
Old Testament Tabernacle Review Craft
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