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DLTK's Bible Crafts for Kids
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego Paper Craft
I've found the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego a hard lesson to
find crafts for, so thought I'd at least add a paper craft for it to the
site. This can be a basic paper craft (cut and paste type project)
for preschool children or a 3D paper craft for older children. There
are also some different options for making flames. |
3D paper craft
with construction paper
option for flames
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Materials:
 | printer |
| paper |
| scissors |
| glue |
| something to color with (B&W version)
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| option 1: red, orange and yellow construction paper
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| option 2: red or orange tissue paper
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| option 3: kitchen sponges cut into rough triangular shapes and red
or orange tempra paint |
Directions - Basic Paper Craft:
| Print out the template of choice.
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| Color the pieces (as appropriate) and cut them out.
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| Assemble the craft as follows:
 | use markers to color some flames inside the furnace (the large shape)
or see the OPTIONS section for different ideas for making flames (in the
photo above, I used the construction paper option) |
| glue the belts onto the bodies |
| glue the heads onto the bodies |
| glue the people into the furnace |
| glue the rock border on top of the whole thing (line the bottom edge
of the rocks up with the bottom edge of the furnace |
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Directions - 3D Paper Craft:
| Print out the template of choice.
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| Color the pieces (as appropriate) and cut them out.
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| Assemble the craft as follows:
| use markers to color some flames inside the furnace (the large shape)
or see the OPTIONS section for different ideas for making flames (in the
photo above, I used the construction paper option)
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| glue the belts onto the bodies
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| glue the heads onto the bodies
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| make 3 squares from 4 inch x 1 inch pieces of construction paper
like so 
(make 4 folds in each piece and then tape the ends together to make a
square) and glue one on the back of each body. Glue the
other side of the square to the paper. This will make the bodies
pop out from the furnace about 1 inch
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| Make 4 squares from 8 inch x 1 inch pieces of construction paper and
glue them to the tops and corners of the rock border. Glue the
border to the furnace so the bottoms line up. This will make the
border pop out from the furnace about 2 inches.
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| NOTE: instead of making little paper squares, you can glue a cotton
ball on the back of each of the pieces to give the 3D effect. |
Options - Construction Paper fire:
| tear pieces of red, orange and yellow into various sizes of "flame
shapes" (rough triangles)
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| Basic paper craft
| glue the larger pieces onto the fiery furnace before assembly |
| glue the smaller pieces on top of the people before gluing on the rock
border
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| 3D paper craft
| glue the larger pieces onto the fiery furnace before assembly |
| make small squares of construction paper in various sizes
(4"x1", 6"x1" and 8"x1") and glue them on
the back of the smaller flames |
| glue the flames onto the craft so they're popping out at various
levels
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Options - Tissue Paper fire:
| tear pieces of red and/or orange tissue paper into various sizes of
"flame shapes" (rough triangles) -- really bright yellow can
be used too, but a pastel yellow isn't colorful enough to work. Make
sure you aren't using faded tissue paper.
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| print the B&W version of template 1
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| before you start gluing things together, lay the pieces of tissue paper
all over the furnace and spritz with water with a spritz bottle or dab water
on with a sponge
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| set aside and let dry completely
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| remove the dried pieces of tissue paper and throw away
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| You should have died remnants of the tissue paper showing inside your
furnace (the tissue paper coloring should have stained the white
paper).
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| Assemble the craft as instructed in the directions |
Options - Sponge Painted fire:
| print the B&W version of template 1
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| use a small triangular shaped sponge to sponge paint on red and/or orange
and/or yellow tempra or acrylic paint
| I usually just roughly cut a kitchen sponge into the desired shape |
| I usually pour a little red and little orange and a little yellow
together on a paper plate and just dip the sponge into the paint, not
worrying about the colors mixing a bit. This gives it a nice mixed
flame look.
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| set aside and let dry completely
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| Assemble the craft as instructed in the directions |
| Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
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| Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER
SETUP in most browsers). |
Template 1 - Furnace
(color)
or (B&W)
Template 2 - Other pieces (color)
or (B&W)
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