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This is a great Vacation Bible School craft for your group. The printable crown can be colored and decorated. I’ve used three rows of four fish for the 12 Disciples. Children can write the names of the Disciples or their own names on the fish. To add color and separation between the fish, plastic beads or even snipped sections of a plastic straw would work. To attach the fish, I used a two foot section of fishing line.
Supplies Needed
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- Fishing line
- Tape
- Crayons or markers
- Plastic beads, or sections of a plastic straw
- Printer paper for the crown – Card stock works best
- Printer paper for the fish – Different bright colors of paper
- Jesus Crown template
- Jesus Fish template – 4 print per page
Instructions for Jesus Crown and Fish
- Start by printing out the Jesus Crown template on card-stock paper. Another option is to print the crown template on regular printer paper. Children can then cut out the crown and trace onto construction paper.
- Next, print out the Jesus Fish template on different colors of bright printer paper. For younger children, an adult may want to pre-cut out the fish and let children select from a variety of different colors for their project.
- Cut out the crown and punch out three holes where indicated. Then with crayons or markers, trace or color in the letters spelling Jesus.
- If not already done so, cut out the fish and snip into the rectangle on the lines shown.
- Line up the rectangle pieces and pierce the papers on the two dots (adults only) to create a small hole for threading the fishing line.
- Curl the rectangle so that the two cut lines can be joined to make the fish.
- Knot one end of the fishing line and thread through the fish, adding a few beads or cut straw pieces between each fish.
- Once the desired number of fish are added, bring the fishing line through one of the holes on the crown and attach to the back of the crown with tape.
