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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Make Your Own Worship Bag

We had a one hour workshop for children and parents to come and complete a lap book, choose and fill a bag and talk about using it to prepare for worship during the week and as a tool to help them participate in worship on Sunday morning.


We had a selection tote bags for the children to choose from; red, navy, pink and black canvas, medium blue denim and some sturdy vinyl bags with outside pockets.  There was something for everyone!



This is the outside of a lap book designed to help children participate more fully in worship.


Inside the book are laminated copies of the Lord's Prayer, Doxology, and Gloria Patri.  The cute index cards are children to write down people and things for which they want to pray in the coming week. There are 4 bookmarks, 1 for the scripture reading and 3 for the hymnal.  At the top of the center page is a list of things to do when they first get into the sanctuary, for example mark the scripture reading, look at the prayer list etc.


This is a dry erase sleeve that I put a blank "worship notes" sheet into.  Children can use it to take notes on Sunday morning and then erase it and use it over and over.  I plan to make several different inserts so that they may vary what they are looking for in the service.  I just finished a sheet for pre-readers as well!



Above is a sample of what the children put in their worship bags.  Bible storybooks, Bible puzzle books, Bible flashcards, greeting cards to write to those who led in worship and those we prayed for, and chenille stems for busy hands.  Not shown: Each child got a clip board so that they would always have a hard writing surface.


Each child got a pencil case with crayons, a pencil, a dry erase marker, a small eraser for their dry erase board, offering envelopes, Kleenex, and hand wipes. 

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