Children seem to love playing with these origami ‘fortune tellers’ or ‘chatterboxes’ and I started to think about how we could use them for prayer…
We experimented at church and at our school lunctime club and they went down very well!
This activity needs to be done in groups of 2 or 3 and you can print off versions of the prayer chatterbox by clicking below. If you’re not sure how to make them get a child to show you how! When children have chosen their colour and number, their partner lifts the flap to see what they have to pray for: Please, thanks, sorry, friends, family. Sorry prayers can be said silently and finished with a spoken Amen so that we know it’s time to swap turns!
A printable version can be found here. When they’ve tested them out, challenge children to make their own version.