We have two offerings for you here:

Download your Churchyard Butterfly HERE. 

First up are butterflies for decorating your churchyard and giving those vital signs of life to your local community that this is a place of life and joy.. 

This simple butterfly can be printed back to back. Then challenge the children – or indeed any age – in your congregation, or the school connected to your Church to decorate their butterfly with beautiful patterns and colours.

Gather all the butterflies, cut them out and laminate them, then hang them from the trees in your church yard or from your railings and invite families to come and find their Butterflies. You could even tie it in with the Small but Mighty trail which is free to download on the Sunhats and Wellieboots page HERE.

You could either have this as a come any day activity to encourage people to explore the church grounds, or you could make it a Spring day event and have the church open to welcome families to stay and chat over tea and snacks, have congregation members available to link in with new faces.

Download your Paper Plate Butterfly HERE

The second butterfly is a more delicious sort altogether! This printable can be coloured in and stuck to a paper plate where your group can place their edible butterflies. Little hands can develop their fine motor skills by cutting out the circle.

To make the butterflies we used chocolate fingers, chocolate covered pretzels and mini smarties – all held in place with melted chocolate which hardens when dry. You can of course let you culinary imaginations run wild and use a multitude of foods to make your butterflies, even vegetables (much to my daughter’s disgust!!) It’s fun way to get a wonderful Bible verse back into the homes of your Children.

Download by clicking the image above

Valentines can be a great opportunity to spread God’s love to everyone – not just the loved-up couples.

Use this simple love-heart sheet, print them off, attach them to a small bag or box of chocolates and give them out to your Church family or encourage your congregation to take one each and give them to someone who doesn’t come to church….yet! Or you could use it as a Valentines outreach to give to people in the street, or your Toddler group. 

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Download the full pack by clicking any image above. 

If you are based in a rural parish, chances are you have some fantastic farming families in your congregation. Whilst we celebrate their hard work in our Harvest Festivals we wanted to find a way to engage all our children and help them see God in the farm’s everyday life no matter the time of year.

Whether it’s tractors, sheep, beef or tillage each session brings God’s word to life through games, discussions, crafts and food.

These sessions can be used in Sunday Clubs, Intergenerational Church Services, School lessons or Holiday Clubs – however you wish!

There’s Stock Judging, Machine Making and even Bull Building!