Sometimes it can be easy to skip over the most basic of lessons with our children, and Jesus loving the little children is almost as basic as it gets! These crafts and activities for Christian kids are based on the song about Jesus loving all the children of the world, so it includes some diversity crafts and activities as well. Let’s dive into these resources about Jesus loving the little children! 🙂
Jesus Loves The Little Children: Alternative Lyrics
This is an adorable song and so easy to pick up on! First I will share some lyrics for the song with you that are more sensitive to cultural diversity.
Jesus Love The Little Children Song
Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world.
morning evening day and night,
they are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Diversity Craft Supplies For Kids
We can’t expect to make some diverse crafts with kids without the right supplies, can we?
Ya’ll… I am going to go ahead and share something personal here. All. the. time. my kids tell me they don’t have the right colors of markers for skin tones. They ask me several times a week to borrow my marker pack. Sometimes I let them, but sometimes I’m like “make do with the colors you have”… and you know what? I am done with that mentality.
Children constantly draw people, and I think having markers and crayons in our home that can match any skin tone is important. I just ordered the following supplies for our crafting stash, and I would encourage you to have these colors on hand in your home and classrooms as well. Even if you have just one set that the kids share, I think these supplies are well worth the investment!
Diverse crayons in all skin tones for kids
Diverse markers in all skin tones for kids
Now that you are armed with the supplies you need, let’s check out some diverse Christian kid crafts! 🙂
Jesus Loves The Little Children Crafts
After learning the song, you may like to make a craft with your kids to match! Anything with different colors of children representing thaty they come from all over the world, handprints, or worlds could be good. Here are some that looked particularly perfect to me.
“Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to me
and do not stop them, because the Kindom
of heaven belongs to such as these.'”
– Matthew 19: 14
Crafting The Word Of God has this adorable suncatcher craft and a free printable template to make your own!
Crafting The Word Of God also has this free printable craft for Jesus loving all those children of the world. So cute!
The All Kid’s Network has this adorable fingerprint craft for kids.
This “shape people” art project for kids looks perfect, and you could stamp their bodies out of almost anything! Project found at Apex Art.
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My free printable notebooking pages with Jesus and the children is great for coloring, and your kids fill in the “speaking bubbles” with things that Jesus said about loving each other.
Gourmet Mom On The Go has some great directions for making these adorable handprint cookies! Perfect for this lesson.
Children’s Bible Lessons has directions for this cute craft for kids to teach them about Jesus loving the little children.
This art project from Art Paper Scissors also looks perfect, and you know how I love a good handprint craft!
You may also want to check out this Jesus loves the little children microwave puffy paint craft. I love this microwave puffy paint!
My “How To Draw Jesus” video for kids is a non-white Jesus, and I do briefly let the kids know that Jesus wasn’t white because that’s not the part of the world he was from. Try your hand at this fun how to draw using the video below.
Also, you can find my collection of picture books here that address racism and diversity for Christian kids.
No color, no religion, no nationality
should come between us.
We are all children of God.
-Mother Teresa
Hey Lacy,
Thanks for all this great material. I’ve used so many of your ideas in the past in my Lutheran Sunday School (grades 3 – 5). Just want to bring up something that’s been very important to me for years and probably is even more pertinent now – the fact that, although we can’t know what Jesus really looked like, we can pretty certainly say he was not fair-skinned. I have a small poster in my classroom that I made showing how Jesus is typically portrayed (fair to pasty white skin and long flowing hair) and the way researchers say he most probably looked (brown-skinned with short wiry hair). Here’s an article that I found really interesting; thought you might be interested, too. Keep up the great work! https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35120965