Easter Craft - Day 2 - Jelly Bean prayer tissue paper roll.

Today Alex and I created the Jelly Bean Prayer Tissue Roll craft.  I love this craft because it makes it fun for Alex to learn about the meaning behind Easter on his level and he gets to eat some jelly beans.

I came across this activity at http://www.churchhousecollection.com/jelly-bean-prayer-toilet-paper-roll-easter-craft.php.  I really liked that this site had more religious activities for kids rather just the cutesy stuff.  I love the cutesy stuff but I also want Alex to know that there is more to Easter than bunnies, eggs, and candy.

I started by printing out the black and white template so that Alex could color it himself.
I gathered all of the materials that we would need.  I grabbed a piece of scrap construction paper to make the legs and arms out of and collected all of the colors of crayons we would need.  Alex got the glue and the scissors for out activity.

We colored the toilet paper wrap together first.  He wanted me to help him color all of the jelly beans.  I then let him glue it to the tissue roll.  We then colored the big Jelly Bean that he named Jelly.  (Alex is not the most creative guy when it comes to naming things.  He has a stuffed monkey names money only because when he named it he could not say monkey and a stuffed wolf named wolfie.)  Our new adventure today was having the patience to teach a four year old how to accordien fold the arms and legs. We did that and he did a great job and got that all glued to the roll.  We then colored the little poster for Jelly to hold.  As we did this step we talked about each of the colors and what they meant.  We finally glued the poster into Jelly's arms.

When we finished we talked about the colors again and I let Alex eat some jelly beans.  He wanted the orange ones because that is his favorite color right now.  I enjoyed working on this craft with Alex and talking more about the meaning behind Easter with him.