Try using this idea when planning your Sunday school crafts. These quick and easy ways of saving money will have you cutting your costs for your Sunday school lesson crafts in no time.
Use Recycled Materials
There is a virtually unlimited number of craft projects you can complete using mostly recycled materials. Cereal boxes, or just the slogans and pictures on them, can be great collage pieces. Milk jugs can be cut and used as the base of a project or the container that it sits in. Aluminum cans can have holes poked in them and be turned into candle holders, with adult supervision of course. Shampoo bottles can be turned into animal art. There is a whole world of recycled crafts that you can use to help save money.
Each of these projects can easily be tied back to a Christian concept or Bible passage, and they will save you tons of money! Instead of putting all these materials into the recycling each week, clean them out carefully and dry them, storing them with other craft supplies.
Using recycled materials is a great way to teach your students about their responsibility to the earth as well. If you ask them each to bring in their own recycled material it will prompt their family to consider recycling if they don’t already. It will also give you a chance to tell kids about the importance of keeping the environment clean and healthy so that we will have it to enjoy for generations to come. Because being environmentally friendly is an important moral obligation, it is a great lesson that you can teach your students that they might not get anywhere else. You can show them the importance of using their materials wisely. They will probably never have thought of another use for a milk jug until you show them what can be done with it.
Use these tips and see your budget stretch farther than you thought possible!