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| Please click below to see and download resources on the following themes: | ||
| Advent | Mothering Sunday | Lent & Easter |
| Godly Play | ||
| Advent Ideas: | ||
| "The Great O Antiphons" - an outline for an activity day themed around these ancient Advent "names of Jesus" | ||
| Advent Displays - visual and interactive ideas for use in church, junior church or schools over the Advent season. | ||
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25 Advent Items - a tiny gift with significance - ideal for use if you have an advent calendar with a pocket for each day. |
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| 25 Advent Readings - the Nativity story split down into 25 small chunks - again, great for use with secular calendars - or why not hide 25 numbered envelopes around the house and open one each day? | ||
| Advent Angels - based on the "Kristkindl" tradition - a way of encouraging children and adults to prepare spiritually for the coming Christ child. | ||
| Advent Prayers & Blessings - a mini booklet, ready to personalise and photocopy for use at home during Advent and Christmas. (This needs to be cut in half along the middle, glued back to back and | ||
| Advent Star - a colouring craft activity to build up during the build-up! | ||
| Matchbox Advent Calendar - a fun craft activity for older children. Contact me if you want matchboxes for this, as I have loads left over! | ||
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St Nicholas' Day - observing this on the 6th December takes some of the emphasis on pressies off our celebration of the Nativity - a radical but creative alternative!! |
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| Paper Chain Advent Calendar - a very simple craft activity, accompanied by a list of generous and thoughtful tasks for each day of Advent. | ||
| Prayers, Graces and Blessings - a selection. | ||
| Mothering Sunday Ideas: | ||
| Mothering Sunday Themes - some thoughts and themes that might help you to "unpack" the various bible passages which are recommended for Mothering Sunday in the Church of England, and Lent 4 (Yr C) in the Revised Common Lectionary. | ||
| Mothering Sunday Traditions - a bit of the history of the day. | ||
| A Recipe for Simnel Cake | ||
| Simnel Buns - an idea for making "no need to bake" individual mini Simnel cakes. | ||
| Stories & Sketches for Mothering Sunday | ||
| Games - on the theme of Mothering, and drawing parallels with God's love for us. | ||
| Prayers and Ways to Pray - some topical ideas and suggestions | ||
| Prayer Card - a template which you could print and distribute. | ||
| A Reflection on Mothering Sunday - which might be suitable to adapt as an all-age address or assembly. | ||
| A Mothering Sunday Carol - the words of an old carol for the day, written by George Hare Leonard. | ||
| Lent & Easter Ideas: | ||
| Cross-Fertilisation - some ideas for reflecting on the theme of the Cross. | ||
| Images of the Cross - some clip art you might find useful. (There is masses more on the internet) | ||
| Simple Stations of the Cross - for use with children | ||
| Resources - some suggestions for where else to look for resources on the theme of the Cross. | ||
| A Godly Play Lent course - suggestions for which stories you might use. | ||
| "Leaves of Life" - a brief introduction to this new Children's Society resource for Eastertide. | ||
| Godly Play: | ||
| Godly Play - an introductory flier | ||
| How you might use Godly Play with Adults - an introductory flier | ||