This is a simple and fun way to use up old Pringles pots (or indeed a good excuse to eats lots of crisps!!). It can be used any time of year – for Easter, any Bible story, and we’ve used ours for Christmas angels. Follow these simple steps: Take your Pringles pot and cover it…
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Using nature as part of loose parts play has really caught on over recent years and it can be a fantastic – not to mention very cheap! – way to engage children as you talk about Bible stories. Muddy Church, GodVenture. Messy Church and many others have ways in which you can use nature to…
Taking a simple old game and making it new! This game requires little prep and can be done even with just one child. Having read the nativity story, place a variety of characters from the nativity either ornaments or printed, place them on a tray and allow the children to view them, touch them and…
Welcome to our Advent and Christmas Newsletter 2022 – packed full of resources, ideas and not a flake of glitter in sight! Click the image to download:
This is a free rhyming nativity play that is easy to use as it can be fully narrated so avoids any panicked children trying to remember lines! Alternatively if you have some budding actors in your group there is the option for a few characters to speak. A fairly simple set up that you can…
If your families are fed up with Elf on the Shelf and all that it brings, why not encourage them to take up advent reading plan as a whole family using the Bible Buddy reading plan. The aim is to encourage families to read the Bible together, or older children to read it for themselves….
An outline and additional ideas for an all age worship service at Advent.
A Crib Service is a chance to tell the story of the Nativity in a different way. Unlike a Nativity play with characters who are dressed up, it usually focusses on a more traditional Nativity Scene.
This is an all age service outline covering the Christmas story – it’s interactive and simple to use.
Based around the theme of Hope this Family service is aimed to be used at Advent but could be adapted for other times when Hope is needed by your church community. Just as Jesus is the Light of the world, bringing hope and joy and welcome to the majestic magi and the lowly shepherds, we also bring that Light to others at this time.
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