Light Peg Prayers

January 30, 2019Leave a comment

This is a really simple but effective idea to help children to think and pray about Jesus bringing light and hope into situations.

You will need: A String of peg lights (or fairy lights with paper clips to fasten prayers to the string), paper, pens, photos of people, photos of places from magazines or the internet.

Ask children who they know who they would like to pray for, or which places they think need help and hope at the moment. They can write or draw them on paper or use photos. Turn on the light string and peg the photos and pieces of paper to the string. Pray that these people and places will have the light of Jesus in their lives and will know that he loves them.

Ten Ideas for Advent and Christmas

November 29, 2018Leave a comment

Next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent and it’s time to get ready for Christmas plans!

Here are some ideas to get you started…

Outdoor Christmas Scavenger Hunt (and other seasonal ideas!)

Christingle Messy Church

December 23, 2015December 23, 2015Leave a comment

Here are some ideas that we used at our Christingle based Messy Church. There was a mixture of Nativity and general Christmas crafts and we finished with a short Christingle service, lighting the candles and singing ‘Away in a Manger.’

Making Christingles: Get parents and children to help make the Christingles by putting in the candles, putting red tape round the orange and putting sweets on sticks. It might get a bit messy but that is the point of Messy Church!

Christingle Play dough mats: Click here to print off (laminate for continued use)