Tracing, drawing, coloring, cutting, gluing, sorting, counting, sequencing,… and much more!

The pack consists of 45 worksheets with simple and clear instructions. They are all based on the life and work of Jesus Christ (for instance the motivation for practicing straight vertical lines: “Trace the lines and then draw your own lines to create the shine that the shepherds saw when an angel appeared to them and told them about the birth of Jesus.“).

All mathematical worksheets that work with number concepts also come in a version without numerals – if the child does not yet know how to write numerals, his/her assignment is to draw the corresponding number of lines or dots.

The sequence of pre-writing skills goes from the easier to the more difficult elements.

Some of the worksheets are available in two versions:

1. easier version is marked with I. - the assignment is easier, mathematical sheets do not use numerals (instead, corresponding number of dots or lines is used: five dots instead of the number 5, etc.

2. more difficult version is marked with II. - the assignment is a little bit more difficult, mathematical sheets work with numerals

All worksheets are black and white. Almost all of the worksheets are double-sided.

LIST OF WORKSHEETS:

1) THE ANGEL TALKS TO MARY AND JOSEPH: visual perception

With a red pencil color all the pictures in which the angel talks face to face to Mary and to Joseph. With a green pencil color all figures that are standing facing us. With a yellow pencil color all the figures whose backs are turned to us.

Find and color in each frame the picture that is different from the others.

2) JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (I.,II.): visual/spatial perception + mathematical thinking

Find the path that Joseph and Mary took to get to Bethlehem. / Which path did Joseph and Mary take? Color their path: Three rocks to the right. Three rocks down., etc.

3) JESUS IS BORN: perception of time

What happened first? What next? What last? Cut the pictures out and put them in the right order to make the story of how Jesus was born.

4) SHEPHERDS: pre-writing skills + mathematical thinking

Trace the lines and then make your own lines to create the shine that the shepherds saw when an angel appeared to them to tell them about the birth of Jesus.

The shepherds ran to see the new born baby. As they were coming back, they told everyone about what they saw and what the angel told them. Make a line from the shepherds in the middle to everyone they met and told about Jesus (all the people on the paper). Make as many lines as there are people in each group. Who was not happy about the news? Who was surprised?

5) WISE MEN FROM THE EAST: pre-writing skills + visual perception

The wise men came to see Jesus from a far land. They followed a big shiny star. Trace the straight lines and then draw your own straight lines to create a path of the wise men, following the star.

The wise men brought presents for Jesus. What could the presents be? Match the big and small chests that are the same. What would your present to baby Jesus be?

6) FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: pre-writing skills + considering weight

Trace the lines and then draw your own lines to create hills on which Joseph, Mary and little Jesus had to flee to Egypt.

Joseph and Mary had to quickly decide what things they should bring to Egypt and what things they have to leave behind because they wouldn’t be able to carry it all. Will you help decide what is heavier? Circle the lighter and cross out the heavier object.

7) JOHN THE BAPTIST: pre-writing skills

John the Baptist was interesting not only because of what he said and did but also for his lifestyle. He lived in the desert, he wore uncomfortable clothes made of camel hair and he ate grasshoppers with wild honey. Draw short camel hair on his clothes and trace the paths of bees and grasshoppers.

8) JESUS IS BAPTIZED (I.,II.): mathematical thinking + fine motor skills

Do you know what happened to Jesus in the Jordan River? Cut out the small pictures from the other paper (attachment) and glue them into the gray shadows in this big picture. The numbers/the lines and dots will show you where the small pictures belong.

9) JESUS IS TESTED: visual perception + fine motor skills

Cut out the puzzle pieces at the bottom of the page and glue them on the right places to create three pictures of Jesus being tested in the wilderness. What did the devil want from Jesus and what did he promise him? What was Jesus’ answer and what did it show to the devil?

10) HEALING THE SICK: visual perception + fine motor skills

Jesus healed lots of sick people. How can we help the people in the picture? Can you draw the missing parts of their bodies?

Can you bring the sad people back to their feet? Cut out the pictures from the other paper (attachment) and glue the people right where they belong. Now they are not sad anymore, they are joyful! Just like many people who were saved by Jesus.

11) DISCIPLES OF JESUS (I.,II.): spatial + auditory perception

Can you find out who is who? Peter is the man IN THE VERY MIDDLE, color him with a GREEN pencil. Andrew is the man IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER, color him with a BROWN pencil., etc.

Jesus’ disciples are standing in a line. Who is who? Peter is standing IN THE MIDDLE, color him with a GREEN pencil., etc.

12) WATER TO WINE: mathematical thinking

Match the water jars in the left column to the same amount of wine jars in the right column.

Where are more jars? Circle in each frame the group of jars that has more.

13) AT THE WELL: visual perception + mathematical thinking + fine motor skills

What did Jesus say to the Samaritan woman about the living water? Cut the strips out, mix them well and put the picture back together. The numbers at the bottom of the strips will help you. Glue the picture on a different paper.

14) JESUS CALMS THE STORM: pre-writing skills

How did the sea look during the storm? Trace the lines and then make your own lines to create wind and stormy waves. Use a cotton swab dipped in a blue paint to create rain drops all over the paper.

And how did the sea look after the storm? Trace the lines and then make your own lines to create calm waves. Draw one octopus, two fish and three sea horses into the still sea.

15) FISH AND BREAD (I.,II.): mathematical thinking + pre-writing skills

The disciples picked up lots of leftovers. Count how many loaves and fish are in the basket and write the number in the lines/draw that many lines in the frames.

Trace the lines and then make your own lines to create a loaf and a fish.

16) TWO BUILDERS: fine motor skills

Jesus told a story about a wise and a foolish builder. One built his house on a rock, the other one on sand. When the rain came down, one of the houses crashed down. Which one and why? Cut out the shapes from the other paper and make a house. Glue it on the spot where you would want to have your house – rock or sand.

17) THE GOOD SAMARITAN: visual perception

What happened in the story of the good Samaritan? Match the small cut out pictures to the big pictures in frames.

18) THE WEDDING FEAST: pre-writing skills

Jesus told the parable of a king who prepares a wedding feast for his son. Although the king invited many people, only a few chose to come. What does the parable mean? Draw a crown with diamonds for the king on the opposite page. Before you do, practice drawing the shapes here.

19) LILIES OF THE FIELD (I.,II.): pre-writing skills

What did Jesus say about the lilies of the field? Trace the lines and then draw your own lines to create petals of the lilies on the opposite page. Before you do, practice drawing the shape of petals here.

20) THE SOWER: visual perception

Match the seeds with their shadows. + Where did the seeds fall? Match the seeds in the middle to the pictures on the sides. What happened with the seeds later on?

21) THE LOST SHEEP: pre-writing skills

What did Jesus say about the shepherd who lost his one sheep? Draw many curls to the lost sheep on the opposite page. Before you do, practice drawing curls here. (Always start from the center.)

22) THE LOST SON (I.,II.): visual perception / mathematical thinking

How will the lost son get back to his father? To show him the way, color the letter that you hear at the beginning of the word GRACE. / How will the lost son get back to his father? To show him the way, color the squares that show 3.

23) THE LOST COIN (I.,II.): visual perception + mathematical thinking

Jesus told the story of a woman who had ten coins and lost one of them. Can you help find the lost coin? It’s the one with a star. Color the whole coin red.

Color the other coins as well. Coins with the emperor are made of gold – color them yellow. Coins with the emperor’s wife are made of silver – color them gray. Coins with the horse are made of bronze – color them brown. When you are done coloring, count the coins according to their type and write the numbers in the lines at the bottom of the page / write as many lines in the frames at the bottom of the page.

Color as many coins as the number indicate / number of dots indicate.

24) TEN BRIDES (I.,II.): visual perception + emotions

Match the brides with their lamps. (finding the same shapes and shadows)

Who was ready? Can you see which brides are prepared for the groom and brought oil with their lamps? How do they feel? Color them green. Can you see which brides are not prepared and did not bring oil with their lamps? How do they feel? Color them red.

25) THE MUSTARD SEED: mathematical thinking + fine motor skills

Jesus told a story of a tiny seed that will one day grow into a huge plant. Cut the pictures of the plant out and put them in the right order from the shortest to the tallest. The mustard seeds were the smallest seeds that farmers knew in Jesus’s time and place. Which one is the mustard seed in the round pictures here? Cut them out and put them in the right order from the smallest to the biggest. Glue them on a different paper.

26) JESUS WALKS ON THE WATER: pre-writing skills

Draw wavy water around Jesus on the other side of this paper. Before you do, practice drawing lines here.

27) HEALING THE BLIND MAN: visual perception + fine motor skills

What did the blind man see after Jesus healed him? Can you see it? Name the pictures and trace their lines, each in a different color.

Cut out the pictures from the bottom of this page and glue them in the frames where they belong (according to the rules of the puzzle game Sudoku).

28) TEN LEPERS: visual + auditory perception

Jesus healed ten sick men but only one came back to say thank you. Who was it? Look at the picture. It was the one who....

1. ...is smiling in the picture. (Cross out all men who are not smiling in this picutre.), 2. ...has a beard. (Cross out all men who do not have beards.), 3. ...has his eyes open in the picture. (Cross out all men who have their eyes closed in the picture.), etc.

29) THE LORD’S PRAYER: fine motor skills

Create the Lambsongs booklet with the Lord’s Prayer.

30) ZACCHAEUS (I.,II.): spatial + auditory perception, mathematical thinking

Why did Zacchaeus climbed up the three? Draw Zacchaeus sitting ON the branch. Draw Jesus UNDER the branch. Draw Jesus UNDER the branch. Draw a flower NEXT TO the tree., etc.

Look at the pictures of Zacchaeus returning money to people. He wants to give the people one coin more than they gave him before. Can you draw the coins to Zacchaeus’ empty money bag? Remember to add one /two more. Then change the people’s sad faces to happy ones.

31) THE POOR WIDOW: pre-writing skills

Draw round coins into the temple treasuries on the opposite page. The poor widow was only able to put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents, while the rich people filled it to the very top. Which offering is more valuable to God?

32) JESUS IS ANOINTED (I.,II.): pre-writing skills + mathematical thinking

Finish decorating this jar of very expensive oil, which Mary poured on Jesus’ head.

Draw as many drops of valuable oil as the number indicates / as the number of dots indicate.

33) JESUS ENTERS JERUSALEM: visual perception + fine motor skills

What were people doing when Jesus entered Jerusalem? Cut out the small pictures from the right column and glue them where they belong in the big picture.

34) JESUS CLEANSES THE TEMPLE: pre-writing skills

Jesus chased the money changers and sellers of animals out of the temple. Why did they bother him? Draw the other halves of the animals. One of them is not mentioned in the Bible, which one is it? Cross it out.

35) THE LAST SUPPER (I.,II.): visual perception + fine motor skills

Cut out the rectangles to create a picture (the black thick lines are a frame of the finished picture). Glue it on a different paper. What is happening in the picture? / What is happening in the picture? Cut it up according to the lines, mix it well and put it back together. Glue it on a different paper.

36) PETER DENIES: pre-writing skills

How many times did Peter deny that he knew Jesus? Trace the one-lined rooster that many times, each time with a different color. Start from the black dot.

37) JESUS DIES AND LIVES AGAIN: perception of time + fine motor skills

What happened first? What next? What last? Cut the pictures out and put them in the right order to make the story of how Jesus died on the cross and was raised from the dead.

38) TEARING OF THE TEMPLE CURTAIN: visual perception

When Jesus died, the temple curtain ripped from top to bottom in two pieces. What was the meaning of it? Split the shapes in two pieces from top to bottom, exactly in the middle.

39) ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS: visual + auditory perception

Jesus explained to his disciples that everything that happened to him was God’s plan written long ago in the Scripture. For instance: 1. „That the Messiah will come from David’s family and that he will be born in Bethlehem.“ Can you see the picture that shows this prophecy? Circle it with a red pencil., etc.

40) THOMAS DOESN’T BELIEVE: pre-writing skills + visual perception

Thomas said that he will believe that Jesus had risen only if he would be able to touch the nail marks in his hands. When later Jesus appeared again, he allowed Thomas to touch his wounds. Color this picture of Jesus’s hands. Can you find 6 hearts?

41) BREAKFAST BY THE SEA (I.,II.): mathematical thinking + space perception, visual perception

The disciples were trying to catch fish when Jesus appeared to them again. They were not successful but then Jesus told them where to put their nests and they caught many fish. Draw a net to each disciple with as many fish as the dots on their clothes indicate.

When you are done, color all the fish that swim to the right with a yellow pencil. With a green pencil color the fish that swim to the left.

Draw what is missing so that all the fish in each frame look the same.

42) JESUS GOES TO HEAVEN (I.,II.): visual perception

What happened just before Jesus went to heaven? Look at the picture. Jesus is blessing the disciples and instructs them to go to the whole world and tell people about what he said and did. However, the picture here is not complete. There are 8 / 12 gray squares that cover parts of it. Draw lines in these squares to fill in what is missing.

43) RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT: pre-writing skills

As the disciples received the Holy Spirit, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. Trace the lines and then on the opposite page draw your own lines to show how the Holy Spirit came onto the disciples.

44) GOOD NEWS TO THE WORLD!: pre-writing skills

After the disciples received the Holy Spirit, they went into the whole world to tell all the people about what Jesus said and did for us. Draw a path of the disciples from Jerusalem to the whole world.

45) GREEK LETTERS: visual perception

The biblical New Testament which talks about Jesus is written in the Greek language. Some of the Greek letters look different from the English ones. Circle the letters that are the same as the letters at the beginning of each line.