Misc Resources and Activity Ideas

A couple of resources:

If you want to increase your vocabulary and send small quantities of rice to the hungry check out Freerice.com.

If you look back through these posts far enough you'll find various ways to engage young children during a worship service. Scroll down here and you'll find a small purse made out of zippers. If you are clever with a sewing machine you could probably find a way to do this so each zipper opens into a separate pocket. Then, put a quiet, challenging, interesting small motor activity into each pocket ie. a mirror, a thin mitten, a finger puppet, a tiny folded paper book with a story told with magazine pictures or a Bible story or colors glued on the pages, a felt or foam puzzel, gold fish crackers or cheerios . . . you get the idea, or maybe a different felt animal or plastic person in each pocket.

Found an interesting I Spy game at the art museum when I was looking for something else. That gave me an idea, if it hasn't already been done . . . I'd guess that this might be especially fun for kids who have the delightful ability to see creatures outdoors before anyone else does...

Take a large color Bible story picture or any picture for that matter. Make two color copies. Keep one copy of the picture intact (don't cut it up!) Take the other copy and cut out all the items to spy in the picture. You can leave them as cutouts from the picture or glue them on 3x5 cards. Laminate. You can use it as a constructive child-sitting-through-adult- worship distraction or use it to create any number of games for different age groups in Sunday school.

You can also take a Bible Story picture (or any colorful magazine picture) and cut it into as many pieces as you find age appropriate and make it into a puzzle. Again, you probably want to laminate it. 3 pieces for 3 year olds, 4 pieces for 4 year olds...whatever your child can handle...

Just some ideas!