This Jacob’s Ladder paper craft scene with it’s curved sky and layered clouds allows the child to look at the image from various angles. Peering down through the clouds from heaven or up from the ground through Jacob’s eyes.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, and some paper glue.

Add colour if printed without, and then cut out all the pieces.

Fold the tabs on Jacob and the stone backwards

Glue Jacob onto the background, avoiding the dotted boxes.

Add glue to the tab on the stone and also the top of the stone.

Stick the stone to Jacob’s head and then attach the tab to the base. — Jacob should be laying down, but not totally flat.

Gently crease the tab on the small cloud so it does not lay flat.

Attach the small cloud to the background piece, avoiding the dotted box.

Fold the tabs on the ladder. The end that splits had folds going in opposite directions.

Attach the base of the ladder besides Jacob in the dotted boxes on the template.

Attach the top of the ladder to the top of the scene.

Your creation is complete.

Turn it round and talk about how the angels saw it and how Jacob saw it?

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There are many Jacobs ladder crafts out there for this passage, and that’s great, but when reality hits and the dream is over, this craft captures Jacobs’ response. He wants to mark this place as holy, mark the experience and promise with something tangible. The practice of marking things with stones or piles of stones (cairns) is well practiced in many cultures.

This uses packaging card, but you could just as easily use craft foam, or real stones. Make sure your glue suits your chosen materials.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, some paper glue, and some packaging card.

Roughly cut round the pieces you need to back onto thicker card.

Cut out the Jacob piece. This piece has a dotted line guide as the white border is intentional.

Fold along the dotted line to stand Jacob up.

Cut out the stones. You don’t need to follow any lines exactly for these, stones are not exact shapes!

Stack the stones up to make an altar, or a cairn to mark the place as holy.

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The star in this story is no so much either brother and their dim-wittedness or cruel bargain, but a lumpy bowl of red lentil stew. Make your own bowl of stew in this 3-dimensional papercraft. You could make it extra authentic by sticking some lentils inside.

NOTE: Graphics have been updated!

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, and some paper glue. Once made, you may want some additional materials to place inside and represent the stew.

Cut out all the pieces.

Fold the tabs on the base of the bowl upwards.

Glue the rim of the bowl together.

Using the glue tabs, attach the base to the rim.
Photographed this upside-down for clarity, get a better result working the other way around.

Glue the characters and small bowl of stew onto the base of the bowl.

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Jacob and Esau have this strange little passage in Genesis where the birth-right is sold for something as insignificant as a bowl of stew. It’s got all the hallmarks of a family ‘in-joke’ and yet, this odd little conversation of two young men handing over birth-rights like a candy bar will echo down thought Jacob and Esau’s story. This simple papercraft captures the moment it happens.

NOTE: Graphics have been updated!

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, scissors, and a craft knife.

If you want a ‘neater’ looking craft, then you may want a piece of acetate too!

Cut out the two pieces and use a craft knife to remove the two small white rectangles.

If you are using acetate, trace the long thin piece with a bowl on it onto acetate, cut the bowl out and fix it onto in the middle.

Thread the bowl piece from the back though the hole in Jacob and back through the hole in Esau.

Slide the tab each way to hand the bowl of food back and forth.

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There is an important moment in this story when Rebekah sees Isaac covers herself with a veil. Why she does this is debated. Some say it’s because she wants to soften or hide her face from her betrothed because it is his place to unveil it. Others claim it was a sign of a free woman, no slave could do such a thing, nor one already taken in marriage. Veiling the bride however is something that’s familiar with even modern day wedding customs. This very simple colouring page craft allows the child to attach the veil. here I’ve used baking parchment but you could use fine tissue paper or even lace if it’s avalible.

 
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Isaac and Rebekah have this lovely moment when dusty and tired Rebekah spots Isaac from her camel and picks him out at the handsome man in the field! This may seem a contrived tale but at it’s heart is a love story orchestrated through prayer. This super simple paper craft will be wobbling all over your craft table.

 
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This is such a classical image, the basket and the lamp-stand, the light spilling out. This simple spinning craft which shows the basket being removed from the light is lovely for any age group though younger groups may benefit from the pieces being pre-cut.

 
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For the play post this time round there are a couple of games that requie this set of cards. There are 21 cards in total spaced over 3 pages of printout. They are designed like the popular game ‘Dobble’ or ‘Spot it’ but have only 5 images rather than the usual 8. Every card in the pack had one image in common with another card.

 
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