The Assumption of Mary

This is a really simple activity you can make without needing many materials at all.

You will need:
Coloured paper - green, blue and white
Cardboard (thin card like cereal boxes)
White pencil
Glue
Scissors
Craft or stanley knife

Instructions: Cut your card to A4 size and glue blue sheet of A4 paper on top. Rip a strip of green paper and glue to bottom of blue paper to form the land. Rip or cut out white paper to make clouds and glue on, then using your white pencil draw on lines to form a light coming from Heaven to represent God's assuming of Mary into Heaven. Then mark out a line running through the middle of your work like this:

And cut with your knife.
Next print out the template of Mary:

Colour and then using a strip of card about 3cm wide and 20cm long fold and attach to the back of Mary so that it looks like this:

Now you can simply push this through the slit on your background and you are right to go. For little hands clipping a peg onto the cardboard makes it easier to control Mary as she travels up and down your work.
Enjoy!