Exploring God's Character: 'God is...' Play Dough Mat

At Cafe church last week we were talking about the different aspects of God's character and how different people are drawn to different pictures of who He is.  We looked at different images from the Bible...

• A Father (Hosea 11: 1-4)
• A Shepherd (Psalm 23)
• A Mother Hen (Matthew 23:37)
• A King and a Warrior (Psalm 24: 8-9)
• The Creator (Isaiah 40: 28)
• Love (1 John 4: 7-8)
• A Potter (Jeremiah 18:1-6)
• A Fortess, a Rock and A Shied (Psalm 18:1-3)

...and then talked about who God was to us.  

This play dough mat was made to help children to explore their ideas in a hands-on way.

To print the mat click here.

Laminate the mat before use if you want to use it multiple times!

Names of God dominoes game

I've been thinking of how we can turn learning into games wherever possible and this idea came to me!  Last term we did some work on the nature of God and it never hurts to consolidate who God is!  I've chosen some of the attributes we discussed and turned them into domino pieces (see above).  All in all there are 64 different pieces.  I printed them out 2 pages to a sheet and printed 2 sets so we now have 128 (laminated!) dominoes to play with- enough to cover quite a large space!  

If you'd like to print the dominoes yourself, there is a PDF version here.