Resources for Worshipping at Home With Children

Advent 3 - 13th December

"Are you the Messiah?".  Click Here

Advent 2 - 6th December

The fabulous Margaret Pritchard-Houston has put together another beautiful short video on today's readings.  Click HERE 

20th September

It's Not Fair!

Click here  for a way of talking about today's Gospel reading.

23rd August

Who Do You Say That I Am?

St Alban's Children's Work department has produced this lovely video for wondering about who Jesus is and what he means to us.
Click HERE

16th August

The Canaanite Woman

We often have a set idea of what a Christian looks like and who God would work through.  This resource challenges what we may think and expands our view.

19th July

The Parable of the Mustard Seed.  

Click here for a lesson plan to talk about this parable.  

Why not plant a mustard seed and watch it grow

12th July

The Parable of the Sower.  

You'll find a set of instructions for a very sweet seed mosaic  here.

Tell the story focussing ont he idea that the fertile ground is a heart that is ready to learn from God and wants to grow.

28th June

The theme of this week's Gospel reading is hospitality and welcome.  There is a lovely set of resources here along with a video of a couple of simple crafts.

14th June

Trust in God

I'm sure you know lots of trust games you can play to demonstrate trusting in God, such as trust falls and leading them blindfolded through an obstacle course, but this link has a cute little 'trick' to help explain that sometimes it can seem as if things are endangering us but God will be with us and has it all in hand.  Trust in God

7th June

So many ways to explain the Trinity with children!  None of them fully capture the mystery but that's part of it.  We can never knwo the fullness of God.  But we might as well have fun trying.  There are lots of ideas in this booklet from Chester Diocese:  Trinity Ideas

31st May

This link from the Metro in 2016 has some fab crafts for celebrating Pentecost with children, including a lovely looking red velvet cake.

Pentecost - Metro

24th May

Here's a fun little craft activity for you:  Ascending Jesus

And this is a lovely way of telling the Ascension story with a rhyme you can learn together:  Ascension Story and Rhyme

17th May

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an awful lot online for this week's readings.

One things you can do is talk about how we love each other and how we show love.  People show love in different ways, for example in words, actions, with gifts ... Could you encourage your children to think how many ways you have shown that you love them this week?

Here is a link from Sermons For Kids if you want to look at the Holy Spirit as comforter.  There are the usual colouring sheets, crosswords and some nice activities.

10th May

Jesus can show us the way to God and keep us on track - our GPS!

Sermons For Kids. I am the way

3rd May

This is a lovely reflection on how God knows our name and loves us.

There are some good activity sheets linked to it too.

Sermons4Kids

26th April

This week's Gospel reading focusses on the story of the Road to Emmaus.  You can find this reading in the 'Readings for This Week Section'.

Ministry to Children has made available a number of activities including crafts to share with your children.  It can be found here

You can also fins a number of printable colouring pages or wordsearches simply by typing the words 'road to emmaus children' into a Google Image search.

Have fun!