Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

Last week we went into our local church infant school to run a prayer workshop for each class in celebration of the 'Thy Kingdom Come' 10 days of prayer. This was one of their favourite activities! We got the original idea from the cross in this great post at Easy Breezy Sunday School  and then added a few little twists to it :-) We wanted the children to think about God being a provider (linked to the Lord's prayer and 'give us today our daily bread') and to know that God wants good things for us. My friend Charlotte built an amazing cross out of cardboard tubes of various sizes and spray painted it gold to make it extra special. In each of the tubes we put a sweet and then we asked the children to write or draw their asking prayers on a piece of paper, put it into one of the tubes and take a sweet as a reminder that we can ask God for things and that He wants to give us good things. We have done quite a lot of work with the children at the school and th...

We are running a series on parables at the moment so this week I have made a colouring sheet for the parable of the persistent neighbour in Luke 11.  To print the sheet, click here . Have fun!

Here is a game we used to introduce the verse from Matthew 7: Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 The game has two parts... Part 1- getting your cards I printed out enough cards for each child to have a set each and on the back put coloured marks, so we had a blue set, a green set a red set and so on. We then mixed all of the cards up and dealt them out to the children so everyone had equal numbers but all the colours were mixed up.  The children had to choose which colour they were going to collect by looking at what colour they had most of in their hand. Next the children went round asking whoever they wanted if they had a card of the colour they were collecting.  The rule was that if you were asked, for example, for a red card and you had a red card you had to give it to the asker.  If you had 3 red cards though, you only needed to surrender 1!  The children really loved goin...