Children's Work

Word searches... Treasure hunts... Obstacle courses... Cooking... Crafts Family Fun for Easter will help you to share the meaning of Lent and Easter with your children in thirty 'family moments', to explore faith in the home, and to have lots of fun together in the process! The activities are structured to take the family through the season of Lent from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, including Mothering Sunday. PDF Download.

Story Box Bible Tales uses simple everyday objects and a variety of helpful prompts to encourage children to tell and share stories from the Bible, and interweave these stories with their experience of everyday life. The aim is to enable children to own Bible stories in a meaningful and lasting way, and to engage both children and adults on a journey where the story is told and shared together. PDF Download.

The Big Story contains a treasure bank of creative, visual storytelling sessions designed to unpack six big Bible themes. The approach connects up the whole story of the Bible and attempts to give an overview of God's purposes by seeing the Bible not as a collection of unrelated events but as an amazing and ordered revelation of God's love. Each of the 36 sessions contains a wealth of thought-provoking activities and reflective ideas to accompany the storytelling. PDF Download.

Creative Mission sets out to demonstrate that mission is fun, practical, easy-to-do and, above all, possible. The book contains a wealth of ideas to help churches, large and small, urban and rural, to connect with people who have occasional contact with the church, as well as suggestions for the church family to join in community events. Many of the ideas are for families, children and adults, to enjoy together or alongside one another. Some ideas can be used within worship; others are for social events, fundraising activities, campaigns for justice across the world or RE and assemblies in schools. All will appeal to children as well as adults, but many can also be used if there are few or no children in the church family.

Playchutes (parachutes designed specifically for play) are multi-coloured, multi-age and multi-fun from the moment they appear from their bags to the moment they are packed away. They are increasingly valued as a tool in Christian teaching and worship activities, including storytelling, songs, prayers, praise, reflection and games, as they naturally encourage many of the values at the heart of the Christian faith. PDF Download.

REinspired tells the story of how a group of churches in Earley and East Reading developed a way of working with primary schools to support the teaching of RE. PDF Download.

10 two-hour workshop programmes, plus an alternative programmes for Halloween and a holiday club. Ideal for church-based children's leaders working with 3-11s.

Tells the stories behind 40 crosses from different parts of the world, with extension material for use in both schools and churches

Our Easter Play is an easy-to-perform play for early learners, ideal for an assembly presentation, as the basis for a classroom project linking RE and PSHE or Drama at Foundation and KS1, or performed to an invited audience.

The twelve themes in this book contain a wealth of creative worship ideas, all designed to encourage the church family to listen to each other's stories. Through listening and worshipping together in a less formal setting, the material promotes creative thinking and enables people of all ages to learn together in worship and grow in faith as part of God's family. PDF Download.

Local Church, Local School examines the potential for church to be able to help meet the spiritual needs of their local primary schools with full understanding of legal and educational requirements.

PDF Download of Three complete nativity plays for 3-7s with photocopy permission

A further fifteen units of fun, food, crafts and mess, with a year's worth of material that your Messy Church will love.

Addresses the issues of conservation and citizenship in a gentle and non-threatening way.

A resource for busy teachers and church leaders to help them bring the gospels to life and get to the heart of the biblical text.

A family resource containing stories and activities covering the Advent and Christmas season.

This book is an ideal way to approach the season of Lent in daily life and in worship. It uses simple yet effective visuals to bring biblical themes to life.

A 'visual pilgrimage' for the Christmas season.

A visual approach to the Easter story using colour, sound and light.

14 visual prayer ideas for quiet moments with children.

Twelve practical and innovative services outlines for worship with under-fives in church.

A practical and creative course to provide training for children's workers through six foundational modules.

Building on the foundational teaching in Core Skills for Children's Work, this complementary resources offers six key modules of extended training for children's workers and their teams of adult helpers and young leaders.