Decorative Stones

• According to the Biblical story of David and Goliath, David defeated the Philistine warrior with one of the five stones he drew from a creek nearby the Israelite encampment. As a class craft activity, your students can decorate a rock like the one David used in his sling. Tell your students to find a stone that would be suitable for skipping across water and bring it to class. At the beginning of your class, have the students paint the stone with a base color to act as a primer. After the primer dries, have the students paint symbols or patterns on the smooth stones.
  
  

Textured Picture

• In addition to the fact that Goliath was a giant warrior and David was just a youth, one of the striking aspects of the battle was that Goliath was wearing armor while David was not. A craft project that focuses on this aspect of the battle is to make a textured picture of the two adversaries. Have the students draw Goliath and David on a piece of construction paper. After they finish their drawings, give the students a variety of materials to glue to the paper to show Goliath's armor and David's lack of armor. Include materials such as aluminum foil and pennies for Goliath, and cotton balls and fabric for David's clothes.
  
  

Papier-Mache Masks

• Another craft that first graders can make in conjunction with learning about David and Goliath is to make papier-mache masks of the two combatants. After you have helped the students make the basic mask from newspaper strips and paste layered onto a balloon, let the masks dry overnight. The next day, let the students paint David and Goliath faces. David should look youthful, while Goliath would bear battle scars and facial hair.
  
  

Collective Drawing

• The Book of Samuel does not give a precise description of Goliath. Different cultures have taken artistic liberty with his height and appearance, and your class should be no different in imagining their own version of him. Tape several pieces of construction paper together so you have a canvas large enough to draw a life-size man, and then split your students into groups. Assign each group to draw its own vision of what Goliath head, chest, arms or legs, respectively, would look like. The groups will then come together and draw their respective part of Goliath on the life-size canvass, creating a single image of the Philistine warrior.