Five Halloween Items You Can Use as Bible Props
Post-Halloween sales are a fantastic opportunity for you to add to your growing collection of Bible props! I love taking common items from a holiday that focuses on death and fear and repurposing them to teach the life-giving scriptures. Here are five of my favorites, complete with some Bible story ideas to get you started. The uses go far beyond what I can include in this short blog!
1. Brooms
These brooms are super easy to find around Halloween and can be a memorable addition to your story about Elijah, who sat under a broom tree in despair. While this is certainly a play on words, gathering your students under a planted broom tree is a great reminder that when life gets hard, pray!
You can also use a few brooms to reenact the parable of the lost coin. Before class, hide silver nickels and quarters around your room for your students to find and perhaps even keep as they broom around the room!
2. Skeletons
There are skeletons aplenty in the stores during Halloween! Find plastic flat ones or more three-dimensional ones if it's in your budget. These can be used to create a valley of dry bones.
A small skeleton can also be used behind the scenes for the rattling sound in Ezekiel 37:7. "Suddenly, as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley; the bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons."
3. Sickle
Show students how harvesting barley was done by hand during the time of Ruth with a sickle in one hand and the gathering of stalks in the other. These plastic ones take the edge off worrying about your students accidentally cutting themselves!
4. Cauldron
Place a black plastic cauldron pot on some wood and gather your students around to hear the stories of Eli's sons, Hophni and Phinehas. They violated the priestly laws by thrusting a three-pronged fork into the raw, uncooked portion of the sacrificial meat while it was still boiling and taking it for themselves, including the fat portions designated for God.
5. Plastic Axe
In 2 Kings 6:5-6, Elisha miraculously caused a metal axe head to float to the top of the Jordan River. Simply take the handle off a plastic axe and drop the head into a bucket of water to reenact this amazing miracle!
This is Becky from Experience the Bible Creatively reminding you that props are always better than paper! So, shop those post-Halloween sales and build up your prop closet!
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