Jelly Bean Prayer Tutorial

As my sisters and I have mentioned before, 4 out of the 7 of us work in a program for kids called Cubbies. It is at our church and we all work in the 4 year old classroom. Once a week we spend time with all these little four yearolds and teach them about Jesus. Around every holiday we try and do something special for the specific kids at each of our tables. I have four little girls at my table and needed to think up something for Easter. I decided to do a project with the Jelly Bean Prayer. I love how each color of Jelly Beans tells the story of Christ, and kids seem to love it. I found a great printable from Mama-Jenn, check it out, it is my favorite so far out of all the ones I've seen. Now this project is very simple, but a great and fun way to teach kids about Resurrection Sunday.

Materials:

Jelly Beans

Canning Jars

The Jelly Bean Prayer Printable

Scissors

Hole Punch

Ribbon

Jelly Bean Fabric (found mine at Joann's)

Step 1: Cut out your Jelly Bean Prayer Printable

Step 2: Fill your jars with Jelly Beans (I like to do rows of colors to go along with the poem)

Step 3: Cut out square swatches of fabric and place them on top of the canning jar lid, screw on the lid.

Step 4: Hole punch a corner of the printable and with your ribbon secure it around the lid.

 TA DA Finished!!

John  11:25,26,

 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and 

the life: he that believeth in me, though he were 

dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Drab to Fab ♥

I hit the jackpot at Goodwill this past week! 

Here is a shot of all the treasures I found...

 

...all these (seemingly hideous) items will be transformed into beautiful things, and I want to take you along for the ride, one transformation at a time!

We're still buildin' stuff so I want to save the re-model pics for later, and show you these small projects that all play a part in the bigger picture (and to what seems now like a "new" house to us!)

Once Upon A Time...there was an ugly chair, from Goodwill, for only $7.99 folks!

...that was originally from Sibley's, made in 1969 (that's what that little piece of paper says anyway)

...the two awesome 5000 aunts were hard at work removing many layers of fabric and 14 thousand staples and some yucky foam (wow, these aunts know how to get down 'n dirty!)

 

...we then traced and glued 3 inch thick foam to the seat of the chair 

which was finally free of all debris...

 ...then came the awesome 5000 fabric (that i ♥) 

covering the foam and stapling on the bottom of the free from debris base...

 

 ...we used burlap to cover the exposed wood, to make it look nice 'n neat...

 TA-DA! a nice thick new chair covered and ready to rock some spray paint!

 

The End ♥...

(I love the end result...and especially love how well they fit with a newly painted black dining set...the spray paint I used is by Rustolem/ Metallic Antique Bronze, printed fabric & burlap were from Joann's)

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