These little Pentecost spinner crafts are super fun to play with, they require no glue and spin in a beautiful whirl of flames from whatever height. It’s also one of those things that once you’ve made them once, it’s super quick and easy to make again and again!

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

Cut out all three shapes.

(Younger groups: those sides do need to be pretty straight when threading the pieces together, so keep an extra pair of scissors handy for later or pre-cut.)

Fold each strip along the solid black line so the print remains on the outside.

Without opening up, fold again. This time along the dotted black line so the print remains on the outside.
It may help later if you fold this fold both ways.

Open out the yellow strip completely.

Wrap the orange strip around the yellow strip.

Wrap the red strip around the orange strip in the same way.

The yellow strip is going to wrap round the red one.
To accomplish this, sit up your red and orange strips so you form what looks like the corner of a cube.

Wrap the yellow strip around, threading the end with no flame through the loop formed by the orange strip.

Your spinner is complete. Drop it from any height to watch it spin to the floor – the higher, the better!

There are no shortage of sheep-based stories in the bible, and this little sheep craft could serve so many of them well.

To make this craft, you will need the 1-page template printout, a candle, glue, and scissors.
(ignore the stapler that sneaked into this image, it should have been a glue stick – oops!)

Print onto acetate, then cut out all the shapes. Make sure to remove the red edge on the stand piece.

At this point, you can choose to layer your flame pieces while they are flat and skip the next steps with the real flame.

Light a candle. Holding the base of each flame firmly, hover the top edges around 5-10 cm above the lit flame. Move as soon as you see them moving. This is a very inexact science, and you can rewarm and straighten a little if needed.

Repeat for all your flame pieces, then work out your stacking order.

To attach our flame, we are going to use small blobs of glue at the base of the flame pieces. The glue will show, so try to keep it stacked.

Once your flame is together, give it a moment to dry.

To make the stand, fold the strip along the two red dotted lines.

Add glue to the small semicircles at each end, then attach to either side of your flame

To wear your hovering flame, either slide the sand onto a hairband or thread a ribbon through. You can also thread your fingers through the stand and hold on your head.