This craft can also be used for story-telling or for use on a sand table.

• 2 litre milk/juice carton (or tissue box or similar sized box)
• Template printed on stiff paper
  • Template 1 - easy - four sides of house
  • Template 2 - doors, windows etc.
• Optional - paint, sand.

• Cut out 2 litre milk/juice carton so that is 8cm high (template pieces are 10cm wide by 8cm high).  Turn upside down so that bottom of carton is house roof.
• Colour in and decorate walls as desired.  Cut out and glue on outside of carton.
• Optional - paint glue on outside and sprinkle sand to give sandstone finish or sprinkle glitter if making house for Heaven.

Method - Template 2

• Paint (if desired) box.
• Colour in doors, windows, steps and plants.  Cut out and glue on house where desired.
• Optional - paint glue on outside and sprinkle sand to give sandstone finish or sprinkle glitter if making house for Heaven.
• Alternatively, if making a two-storey house use template 1 (with milk carton) for top storey and template 2 (using small tissue box) for bottom storey.

Suggested Stories

• Elisha and the Shumemite Woman - make a two-storey house 
• Nehemiah - talk about how God helped Nehemiah rebuild homes in Jerusalem
• The House on the Rock
• Heaven - have children decorate and design their house and discuss how Jesus is in Heaven making us a new home (John 14:1-4)

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