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Jesus changes water into wine craft and lesson

January 7, 2015 Ticia 12 Comments

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.

Jesus changes water to wine lesson

What I learn from Jesus changes water into wine story

There’s 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 videographer is not the best of ideas).

Jesus respsects 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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Jesus changes water into wine craft and printable

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

Jesus turns water into wine craft

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.

Jesus changes water into wine craft

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.

Jesus changed water into wine math problem

From there we worked out how much water Jesus changed into wine.  Batman worked it out counting by 25’s (based off of 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 walks 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.

Jesus changes water into wine mapwork

First we found where Jesus was baptized.

Jesus changes water into wine mapwork

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.

Jesus changes water into wine mapwork

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 editting 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 lesson

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

Next up Jesus feeds the 5000

Bible gospels, New Testament

Comments

  1. Almost Unschoolers says

    January 7, 2015 at 10:07 am

    Love this! Perfect craft, too. The video is great – thanks for letting us join you class 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 9, 2015 at 8:42 am

      You’re welcome. It was kind of on a whim video-taping the lesson, which is why the video and audio quality isn’t the greatest.

      The craft makes me smile, it’s so simple but speaks to it so well.

  2. Lindsay @ BytesofMemory says

    January 7, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    I loved getting to be a part of your class! I love the demonstration! I think this would have a wonderful impact on the kids!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 9, 2015 at 8:42 am

      It’s funny I’ve done videos of lessons before and no one has commented on them, maybe because this one is shorter?

  3. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    January 7, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    Love the food coloring trick. You have a great teacher voice.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 9, 2015 at 8:43 am

      It was a lot of fun to pull that one off.

      I’ve been accused of using my teacher voice on friends and once or twice on Jeff. It didn’t go over well….

  4. Claire says

    January 11, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    Ha! I wanted to wave at you as soon as I started the video! What a great teacher you are.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 11, 2015 at 10:42 pm

      Awww, thanks.

  5. Natalie PlanetSmartyPants says

    January 11, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    This is really cool. I am now thinking which chemical reactions could be used to do something similar 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      January 11, 2015 at 10:42 pm

      There’s one I’ve seen done for a gospel lesson using iodine and bleach powder (I think). It absolutely fascinated me how they did it.

  6. Michelle says

    January 15, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    What a great idea. Thank you for sharing my project as well 🙂

    Reply
  7. Della Price says

    June 21, 2021 at 5:35 pm

    Thank you for sharing. It was very educational and fun.

    Reply

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