- Have the children decorate small boxes with markers, paint or stickers. The boxes have a practical application. Whenever each child has a bad attitude such as jealousy, laziness, anger or resentment, the child writes it on a piece of paper and places it in the box. Explain that this symbolizes how they can "take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:5). Putting the bad attitudes in the box gives them to Jesus, and helps remind children to have good attitudes.
- Many crafts can be made using a memory verse as the theme. Bookmarks, pencil holders, paperweights and door signs are some possibilities. Write the verse on the craft item for younger children to decorate or let older children write the verse themselves. Older children could even learn to embroider, cross-stitch, or write the verse with calligraphy. Some good verses about attitudes include 2 Thessalonians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Philippians 2:2-3 and Romans 12:2.
- Jesus' sermon in Matthew 5 encourages certain attitudes with a promise of blessing for those who have them. Blessing in scriptures has been illustrated with the image of an overflowing cup. Children can decorate plastic cups with themes from the beatitudes, such as having a pure heart, humility, mercy, peacemaking and hungering and thirsting for righteousness. They may choose to write the scripture on the cup, illustrate it with designs or do a combination of both.
- According to Galatians 5:22, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control." Have the children cut fruit shapes from construction paper and write each of the fruits of the spirit on a different fruit. For a good variety of fruits, use the shapes of apples, bananas, grapes, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, limes and blackberries. Then, punch a hole in each fruit and hang them by strings from a coat hanger for a simple mobile.
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