Jesus changes water into wine craft and lesson

When last we saw Jesus and his disciples, Jesus had picked his 12 disciples, well now Jesus and his disciples are going to travel up to Cana for Jesus’ first public miracle, and you can have some serious fun discussing this in your Sunday School class, or at least I do.

What I learn from Jesus changes water into wine story

There are a couple of big things for me, and you’ll hear me talk about this in the video I had the kids take (as a side point, having your kids as a videographer is not the best of ideas).

Jesus respects and obeys his Mom.

Mary comes to Jesus and says, “Fix this,” and he tells he it’s not his job right then, but she insists on it.  So, he does as she asks because he respects his Mom.  [Watch the video for a side note on the term woman]

Jesus and by extension, God cares about the small things

It’s not a life-ending thing to run out of wine at a wedding, but it is embarrassing.  It could be very embarrassing for the family.  But, Jesus solved the problem for them.  He made it all better by giving them more wine and helping them.  That was a huge deal for them.

Jesus changes water into wine lesson

Video quality as always is not the best.  The trick at the end is done by putting a few drops of red and blue food coloring in the bottom of the cup, but not letting the kids see that.  The measuring cup just has water in it, and as you can see it has a nice effect.

Jesus changes water into wine craft

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My Jesus changes water into wine craft is vaguely based on the one by Mommy’s Adventures (also linked at the bottom).

You just need a couple of things for this craft: the printable, card stock (or index Cards), brads, Markers

1.  Color your cardstock half blue and half purple.
2. Cut out the top of your jar.
3. Punch a hole at the dot through both the paper and the card stock.
4. Put a brad through the papers and watch it spin.

I had these grand plans of getting step-by-step pictures, but I got like two steps, but it’s pretty self-explanatory of how to do it (I  hope).  Here’s Batman putting it together all on his own.

From there we worked out how much water Jesus changed into wine.  Batman worked it out by counting by 25’s (based on quarters), and figured out if there were 6 jars of 25 gallons each then that was 150 gallons of wine!  That’s a lot of wine.

Jesus changes water into wine mapwork

We read all of the stories of how Jesus walked around Israel, but I don’t think we often think about how much Jesus had to walk.  So, I wanted the kids to get a chance to see a little bit of this.

First we found where Jesus was baptized.

Then we found where Jesus was tempted and followed the path up to Galilee where most of his ministry was.  We found Nazareth where Philip says Jesus is from.

Finally, we found Cana where the miracle of Jesus changing water into wine happened.  Oh, and I took some time to explain that Galilee isn’t just a lake, it’s also a province in Israel at the time.  It’s kind of like a state in the United States.  Which set off all sorts of fun conversations there.

And, I’m finally done writing this.  I’m just waiting for the video to finish editing and I’m done.  Only 4 days after I’d intended to be done, stupid migraine.  In case you’re wondering migraines are stupid and I don’t like them.

Jesus changes water into wine resources

• Jesus changes water into wine printable lesson
• Water to wine paper plate idea
•  Water to wine learning stations and sensory bin

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