Flame: Creative Children's Ministry

If you are exploring the story of Jesus the Good Shepherd (and the Gate!) this Sunday in John 10, then this play dough mat may help! This mat helps children to think about what the Good Shepherd might look like, do and say.   Click here to print out the mat, put in a plastic folder for repeated uses and have fun!

This is the second play dough mat in the Nativity story series I am putting together: Angels and Shepherds! Print out the mat, laminate it for future uses and get creatively thinking about peace on earth... Click here to print out the mat.

Kylé and I are starting to get ready for Messy Church in a week and a half and I thought we'd let you into one of our crafts- candy cane shepherds! As there's a bit of a health and safety veto on using toilet roll tubes, we made our own coloured tubes with A5 sheets of coloured card.   We then stuck on a face, threaded a pipe cleaner through the tube (it's easy to just push it through!) and put a piece of fabric and string on top for a head dress.  The pipe cleaner's bendiness makes it easy for the shepherd to hold his candy cane crook.  With older children, the candy cane might even lead to discussion of the symbolism of the white (purity) and red (Jesus' blood) and his role as the good shepherd in our lives.