Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

Today I'm really excited to bring a  guest blog from Adam at Illustrated Children's Moments .  This is a new resource that will really help children to engage with the Bible.  There are free resources too!  Be sure to check out the website... I’ve often come to Flame Creative Kids for ideas and resources for my ministry in the past, so it’s a great honor to be here today sharing with you about Illustrated Children’s Moments. Through this new venture, I’m creating original artwork for use with children’s ministry and helping to bring the Bible to life for kids. On November 16, we are releasing four brand new products: 1) Advent materials and resources for churches, 2) engaging and interactive Advent materials for families to use at home, 3) Five Advent coloring sheets, and 4) an Advent Coloring Poster pack. I wanted to share with you about two items today that will hopefully give you an idea of what we’re all about. Illustrated Children’s Moments Children’s M...

This is the next in the series of Holy Communion colouring sheets, to go along with the Gathering  and 'We are one body. '   This sheet shows in a symbolic way some of the stories that flow out of the Bible.  Have fun working out which stories are shown! Click here  to print out the sheet and get colouring...

This is an idea I got from Pinterest and have adapted for our 8-11s.  It's turned into a bit of a 'must play' now because they love a challenge! A while back I realised that we needed to work on a bit of Bible familiarity as children were really unsure of where to look in the Bible to find a certain book.  So...  Plastic shot glasses can be bought from the pound shop, 40 for £1 and, as they're smaller than other cups, they don't take up so much space when you pack away! I used a permanent marker to write the names of each book on the bottom of each glass (along with a number to help with ordering the books when we reach that stage!)  Writing on the bottom, means that names can still be seen when cups are stacked. The first time we played, we let the children study the list of Old and New Testament books for 5 minutes and then set the cups out randomly and got them to sort the cups into Old and New Testament piles.  When they had finished, we counted up...