2 Easy & Fun beatitudes activities and crafts for preschoolers

The beatitudes are a must in Sunday School or children’s church.  They may seem a little intimidating and hard to understand. But when you dig deeper, they are perfect to talk about with kids at an early age! And honeybees make the first part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount SO fun and engaging!   

Here is a look Beatitudes activities and crafts that I reach for first from our BEEatitudes unit in our preschool Sunday School curriculum.

Bee Hive Beatitudes Craft

I love a good craft to work on and add to each week during our Sunday School units.  And this beatitudes craft is UH-dorable, ya’ll, and soooooo easy!

All you need is yellow paint, an old pencil with the eraser still in tact :), a yellow ink pad, and a thin, black marker pen.

The first week, we paint the hive using the yellow paint and the pencil eraser.  Simply dip the pencil eraser in the yellow paint and dab the paint all over the hive. We just dot the hive without painting over the words. Q-tip painting (like we used for our Fall tree painting) also works great for this if you don’t want to mess up a pencil!

Then, each week, we add just one new bee to the hive.  We find the blessing we learned about that week and add a bee beside the blessing to show the beatitude that brings that blessing.  We used a thin, Sharpie pen to write the beatitude by the bee.

To make the bee, simply dip a thumbprint in yellow ink or paint. (I like an ink pad better for this because it’s thin and you can draw over it faster!) Then use the thin sharpie to add black stripes, wings, legs, antennae, a face, and, of course, that stinger! Then, we write the trait under the bee that coordinates with the blessing on the hive.

For this example, my son used the directions from Ed Emberley’s books for making the bee!

Here’s a look at the finished beatitudes hive craft!

Beatitudes Activities With Review Game

I love this Beatitudes review game because we can use it each week during the entire Beatitudes unit and just change out the questions for each Beatitudes lesson.  Print, laminate, and post the flower cards around the room with velcro dots on them.  

Then, I cut the circles out for the lesson we were working on and put velcro on the backs of those.  There are multiple circles for each of the Beatitudes lessons. The prep for this each week is super fast and easy.

I attached all of the circles to a flower around the room and we were ready to play!

To play, I partner kids up and say, “Bees, Buzz!” and they buzz around the room.  A few seconds later, I say, “Bees, Land!” and the bees “land” near a flower.  

Next, I ask the review question from the Beatitudes unit game. One of the circles inside of the flower is the correct answer to my question. The bee with the correct answer buzzes!  If they tell us the correct answer, they get some sort of honey-themed snack like honey teddy grahams or honey nut cheerios! 🙂

The next week, I keep the flower posters and just change out the circles, and we are ready to play a new version of this same Beatitudes game without my having to reteach how to play! Easy to prep each week, and a familiar routine makes for a quick, successful review game!

You can find these Beatitudes activities for preschoolers and more in this Beatitudes Unit