Children's prayer: Activities

Naming, belonging, identity

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Children's prayer: Action

If I were a fisherman

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Children's prayer: Action

God, you created the earth.

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Prayer: Intercessions

Jesus, you were not afraid to touch the leper.

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Young people's prayer: Activity

Drop a pebble in the bowl of water and watch the ripples

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Young people's prayer: Reflective activity

Ask everyone to sit in a circle and look at his or her palms

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Children's prayer: Help Activity

Try to imagine how happy everyone would be if

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Children's prayer: Activities

Loving God, you love to listen to us.

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Young people's prayer: Activities

Lead a meditative prayer through which everyone can silently ask God to help them

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Young people's prayer: Activities

Give each person a heart-shaped sticky note

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Children's prayer: Poem

I haven't much to give you, God, I'm only very small

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Children's prayer: Acrostic

You could ask the children to write their own acrostic prayers

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Children's prayer: Activities

Each child writes, or is helped to write, their name on a card

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Children's prayer: Activities

Dear God, There may be lots of things in our way that stop us from walking with you.

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Children's prayer: Activities

Use the words of the prayer below to the tune of ‘London Bridge is falling down’

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Children's prayer: Activities

Sing the circle song again. At the end, hold hands again

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