Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

This is a storytelling idea that is easy, portable and flexible for many stories. You will need:  4 Card strips (judge size depending on how close the children are going to be and how big the group is.  You will probably need bigger strips for a bigger group, but expriment with what works best for you!), paper fasteners (split pins), something to make a hole with. Make a hole in the end of each piece of card and join the pieces with split pins so that it looks as shown.  You now have your storytelling equipment! This is how you might use the strips to tell the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho. The walls of Jericho were closed to God's people.  No one could get in or get out. The walls were very tall so no one could climb them either! God told Joshua that there was no need to worry.  He would give the city to Joshua and the Israelites if they trusted Him and did what He said.   God told Joshua and his army to walk around t...

We had a great time yesterday in Sparks!  The children are really enjoying the time to play and respond around the theme of the story and we, as leaders, are able to get to know them a lot better by having time that is less directed. Here's what we did to tell the story of the walls of Jericho... First we all decorated some sheets of paper and rolled them into cones.  These were our trumpets for later! Then we built some walls with mega blocks and acted out the story with little playmobil people.  The children enjoyed moving their little person round and round the walls and then knocking them over! After that, to reinforce the story, we all marched 7 times round the carpet area, blew our paper trumpets and pretended to be the walls falling down. We played a game of 'do what I say', with all the children having to do the spoken action such as jumping or clapping.  They then took turns to choose the action.  This helped us to talk about Joshua d...