Helping families meet God together
If you have some candles, you can create your own home Advent ritual, lighting one candle in the first week of Advent, two in the second and so on up til Christmas. If you can get your hands (carefully!) on some holly, you could make a simple wreath around your candles too. Light your candles… [Continue Reading]
As the nights get darker, and we get closer to eating our evening meal in the dark, it’s the perfect time to try out a candle prayer. You could use – a large, chunky, church candle which will last a long time – a long, thin candle in a candle stick which will raise the… [Continue Reading]
WITH coloured balls as in a ball pool 1 Have fun throwing the balls in the air and seeing how many you can catch. 2 Gather them all into the pool and sit around the edge of the pool. 3 Use your hands in the pools to move the balls around then each take it… [Continue Reading]
WITH a teddy 1 Pass the teddy around, making sure each person receives it at least once. As each person gives it to the next, say to them, “[name], Jesus loves you.” 2 Depending on the age of your family, you could spend a few minutes chatting about other things which Jesus might say to… [Continue Reading]
WITH icing or marzipan (letter shaped cutters optional) 1 Use your hands or the cutters to make letters out of the icing or marzipan to spell words to describe God. 2 When you are finished, say some prayers out loud to God using the words you have made. 3 You can eat the icing or… [Continue Reading]
WITH different shaped uncooked pasta, plain paper 1 Take it in turns to talk about something which makes you afraid. They may be simple things like spiders or more personal things like getting lost or loosing someone. Use the pasta to make a little picture of the thing which makes you afraid. 2 When you… [Continue Reading]
Quite a sober title for a post, but such an important issue, as most adults will come into contact with children affected by sickness and death to some degree at some point. Last year, I was … [tell me more...]
I don't know about you, but I love all the new colours which arrive in Spring. I love tulips, partly because you can get such bold colours, and there's such a contrast between their green leaves and … [tell me more...]
I live on a farm and love using the seasons to inspire my prayer. In the last few weeks, all the different types of daffodils have been coming up. I love their blooms, but somehow this year I've … [tell me more...]
Instead of giving something up this year for Lent, I thought I'd take up a challenge: a Lent Creative Prayer Challenge! I've enjoyed various creative forms of prayer for a while, but I'm going to … [tell me more...]
The opportunity for this type of prayer is very seasonal and geographically limited, but maybe more special for it. When having some fun in the snow, why not add in some prayer? Get everyone to to … [tell me more...]
Four pinata donkeys were bashed to pieces at the Hand in Hand conference last weekend, as an excited crowd of children's workers prayed creatively for children in Chennai, India. If you took part … [tell me more...]
Looking for creative prayer ideas? Here's a pack of playing cards with 52 different ideas for ways that families can pray together at home. Get yours here The cards are designed so that you … [tell me more...]