Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

This week we took a look at the story of God calling Samuel when he was a child in the temple.  We were very busy! Games: We thought about having to listen so we had a great game of musical statues.  Next we got the boomwhackers out and took turns to tap out a rhythm and get everyone else to copy. Another game we tried was shaking containers of dried food (rice, pasta, sugar) and asking the children to guess what food was in the tub from what they could hear.  After telling the story, we thought about how God talks to us and how we talk to God.  We then tried out lots of different ways of praying! Reflection bottles We made prayer stones to hold when we spoke to God Prayed with Skittles...  Prayed for our friends and family... Tried out forgiveness fizz... Did some reflective colouring.. And asked God to forgive us!

This Sunday, we are continuing our look at prayer with our 3-5s.  Last week we thought about how we can speak to God about anything and we made some fun  microphones .  This week we are going to think about speaking and listening- God listens to us, but we can also listen to God!   This is quite a hard concept to get across to this age group so, as with last week, we're going to use a lot of play with phones, stethoscopes etc.  We'll tell the story of Samuel being woken in the night by God's voice and then we'll play with some yoghurt pot telephones and decorate our own to take home! Because our 3-5s are not really able to tie knots, we've made these up ready for them to decorate... Use 2 clean pots and poke a hole in the bottom of each.  Thread a string (about 2 arm lengths) through to connect the pots and tie a knot in the bottom of each pot to secure the string. Use PVA glue and tissue paper to decorate the pots and then play!  The string...