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As for Me and My House Craft for Kids

An easy As for Me and My House craft for kids in three levels: Joshua's great stone under an oak, and a house where kids draw their family. Free template.

Preschool–Grade 5

As for Me and My House Craft for Kids
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Ages
Preschool (3–5), Early Elementary (K–2), Upper Elementary (3–5)
Time
15 to 30 minutes
Scripture
Joshua 24:14–28
Bible story
As for Me and My House

What you need

  • The printed template (page 2), one per child (cardstock is sturdiest)
  • Crayons or markers in light blue, green, brown, light green, gray and light brown, plus any colors for drawing the family
  • Scissors and a glue stick
  • The printed harder page (page 3), one per child (harder level)

Steps

  1. Color the card: the sky light blue, the oak's leaves green, its trunk brown and the grass light green. Leave the two dotted shapes white.Color the card: the sky light blue, the oak's leaves green, its trunk brown and the grass light green. Leave the two dotted shapes white.
  2. Color the stone gray. Color the walls of the house light brown and its flat roof brown.
  3. In the window of the house, draw your family, the people who live in your house.
  4. Cut out the card, the stone, the house and the verse strip on the dashed lines.Cut out the card, the stone, the house and the verse strip on the dashed lines.
  5. Glue the stone on the dotted stone shape under the oak. Glue the house on the dotted house shape.
  6. Glue the verse strip on the back of the card. Read it together.
  7. Tell it: Joshua said, "choose you this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15). Point to the stone: Joshua set up a great stone under an oak to be a witness of the people's promise to serve the LORD (24:26–27).Tell it: Joshua said, "choose you this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15). Point to the stone: Joshua set up a great stone under an oak to be a witness of the people's promise to serve the LORD (24:26–27).

This As for Me and My House craft turns one printed page into the day Joshua asked Israel to choose. Joshua said, "choose you this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15). Kids set up the great stone under the oak, the witness of the people's promise (24:26–27), and draw their own family in the window of a house beside it.

The finished craft, easy and medium level

The finished craft, harder level

What it looks like finished: easy and medium (first photo) and harder (second photo).

Why this craft works

  • Cheap and simple: one printed page, a glue stick, crayons and scissors.
  • Kids put their own family in it: every child draws the people in their house, because Joshua said "as for me and my house" (Joshua 24:15).
  • It remembers a promise: the people said, "The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey" (24:24), and the great stone was a witness (24:27).
  • It carries the verse home: Joshua 24:15 (KJV), the memory verse for the whole set, is glued on the back of the card.

Three ways to make it

  • Easy (preschool, ages 3–5): you cut out the pieces. Kids color, draw their family and glue the stone and the house on the card. No scissors.
  • Medium (grades K–2): the craft in the first photo. Kids color, draw, cut out the pieces and glue them.
  • Harder (grades 3–5): the craft in the second photo. Kids add two doors from page 3 that open to show the family inside the house.

Questions to ask

While kids work, ask where Joshua gathered the tribes (Joshua 24:1), what he told the people to choose (24:15), what he said about his house (24:15), what the people promised to obey (24:24) and where he set up the great stone (24:26). Then read Joshua 24:15 together.

Tips for the classroom

For preschoolers, cut out the pieces ahead of time, so all they do is color, draw and glue. Some children's families don't go to church: Joshua said "as for me" first, so every child can choose to serve God and pray for their family.

Teaching the story first? Use the free As for Me and My House lesson and the word search.

Frequently asked questions

How do you make a simple As for Me and My House craft for preschoolers?

Cut out each child's card, stone, house and verse strip ahead of time. Preschoolers color the card, the stone and the house, draw their family in the window, and glue the stone under the oak and the house beside it. It takes about 15 minutes with no cutting by the kids.

How much does this As for Me and My House craft cost?

Under 50 cents a child: one printed page, a glue stick and crayons you already have. The template is free to print. The harder level adds a second page.

What Bible verse goes with this craft?

Joshua 24:15 (KJV), "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." It is the memory verse for the whole set, printed on the verse strip that kids glue on the back.

How can older kids make this craft harder?

Use the harder level for grades 3–5. Kids add two doors from page 3 that close over the house window and open to show the family inside: "as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15).

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