Giant Goliath 

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You will need :  Large cardboard boxes, silver and gold  spray paint, bubble wrap, tubes from  wrapping paper, pizza package bases  (optional), paper plates, small foil cake  cases, silver foil, parcel tape, glue sticks,  coloured card or felt-tip pens, scissors 

To make Goliath’s body, open out a large  cardboard box and spray one side silver.  Attach wide strips of card behind the  body as arms and legs. Attach a large  circle of card or a polystyrene pizza base  as the head. Goliath’s helmet is half a  paper plate sprayed gold and decorated  with silver foil and coloured card; use  whatever you have to hand. The top part  of his armour is decorated with small  foil pie cases that have been squashed  (children love doing that) and stuck  on. Glue sticks work best on the spray  paint. The lower half of the armour is  bubble wrap sprayed silver and the belt  is a strip of parcel tape with a cardboard  buckle. The shield is a polystyrene  pizza base decorated with card, and  the spear (or you could make a sword)  is two cardboard tubes taped together  with a foil covered spearhead taped to  the top. At our Messy Church we fired  marshmallows at Goliath – I’ll leave that  up to you! 

Strong Stones 

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You will need :  Stones with a flat surface, acrylic  paints, paintbrushes, pots for water,  plenty of newspaper and kitchen towel  and highlighting coating. 

The stones that David used were  smooth, probably like the ones that  we use to skim on water. If you can’t  find stones like that, you just need  one flattish surface. Clean the stones  thoroughly beforehand. Invite the  children to paint something on the  stone that reminds them of the story.  The one in the picture has an initial J  (for the child’s name) + G (for God) =  STRONG. The paint should dry quite  quickly. If you like, you can then paint  the surface with highlighting coating to  give a shiny appearance. 

David and  Goliath figures 

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You will need :  Cardboard tubes from a roll of kitchen  towel, crayons or felt-tip pens, scissors,  glue and the downloadable template found at premierchildrenswork.com 

Cut some of the cardboard tubes in half.  It’s best to avoid using the insides from  toilet rolls for reasons of hygiene. Colour  in the figures of David and Goliath and  cut round the dotted lines. Stick David to  a small tube and Goliath to a tall one.