DLTK's Bible Crafts for Kids
Paper Plate Whale with Jonah in his belly

Contributed by Leanne Guenther

This is a fun and simple color, cut and paste paper craft that uses a paper plate as a base to make the whale.

grey or blue paint and paintbrush (or you can use your imagination and paint your whale any colour you wish)
paper plate
something to color with (or color printer)
scissors,
glue,
paper,
printer.

Paint the bottom of the paper plate blue or grey (or whatever colour you would like to use).
Print out the template of choice.
Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces. Most of the pieces are simple enough shapes for young children to cut out.
Using the template piece as a guide, cut off the bottom quarter of the plate.
Glue the pieces to the plate to make a whale:
- Glue the triangle on the bottom of the plate and the leftover piece of plate to the tip of the triangle to form a tail. You might want to add a piece of thin cardboard to the back of the tail to make it a bit less floppy.
- Glue the water spout onto the top of the head.
- Glue the eye onto the edge opposite the tail.
- Draw a mouth under the eye (the template has an example of what the mouth might look like).
- Glue on the picture of Jonah inside the tummy of the whale.

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
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).