In the parable of the Vineyard owner, the men collect the grapes, and that’s as simple as this craft linking idea is. It’s wonderfully open-ended. Fill your bunch of grapes with coins that the men will be paid, scrunch tissue paper, dab paint, use glass beads or sequins, or anything you have on hand.
To make this craft, you will need the 1-page printout and some art materials.
If you want to recreate the exact version pictured here, you will need some glue, purple paper, a circle punch and green tissue paper.
Cut off the top of your page that has the instructions on.
Gather your art materials and get decorating. Try folding or scrunching flat elements to give your design depth. Here I’ve used purple circles folded in half.
Decorate the leaf and stalk with a complimentary colour so they stand out.
Fill in your grapes and you are done!
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In the parable of the Vineyard owner, each man receives a single coin, a denarii, a day’s wage. Alone it seemed insignificant, but when the men in the parable compared their wages they saw the level of unfairness. This craft gathers all those coins, each equal, and puts them together to represent something much bigger. This craft is simple but a little time-consuming.
To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, and some paper glue.
Start cutting all those circles.
Start folding along all the straight lines – you can fold either way but folding with a valley fold (ink to ink) makes it easier to construct later.
(Tip: use a ruler and a push pen to score the lines if you want to be exact)
Start joining the pieces together by glueing the tabs. The easiest way is 2 glue tabs at a time and pinch them between your fingers until they are dry.
Rather than making the entire ball at once, it’s better to make two halves separately.
Join your two halves together and you have a fun little ball to twist and play with.
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Within the parable of the vineyard owner, there are two distinct themes you can pull out for games: the idea of the grape gather’s task and that of the fairness of the wages. I’ve tried to give you a selection of games to represent both, and that can also suit various setups and spaces.
Basically, a beanbag toss game. You can use grapes or other small items, and you need to toss them into various containers. For one child, have them try to reach every container, for groups, have each group assigned a different container to fill.
Back of the line
All Ages
Small group
Requires setup time
Noisy game
Space needed
A simple dice game where you draw a line on the floor and challenge the child to get to the end. They can move forward the number of steps (fairy steps, heel to toe) that they roll on the dice, but if they roll a five or six they must restart. Reward all kids at the end if they made it or not. Talk about the frustration of being sent back and how the position on the line didn’t really matter.
Gather
Under 7’s
Small group
Requires setup time
Noisy game
Space needed
Mirroring the workers, have the kids gather things from around your space. These can be anything you have a large amount of similar items: e.g. ball pit balls, plastic fruit etc. If you have multiple kids, start them at different times but reward them with the same reward.
Grape bunch
All Ages
Any size group
Requires setup time
Noisy game
Space needed
Use packaging tape to a circle around one member of each team with sticky tape: sticky side out. Have the rest of the team stick balloons to them to make them into a grape bunch. The winning team is the one with the most balloons.
Order
Ages 7+
Any size group
Requires setup time
Quiet game
Can be seated
Print the game page by clicking on the picture. We order things to help us understand the world and how to act. In this game, you are given 5 random images and told to order them. How you order them is entirely up to you and no answer is wrong, but you must give a reason why. Are they in value order? Age order? Does the order tell a story? Etc.
