These suggestions are for use with the 3’s and under who are in worship with you. Or use them during the week to keep connecting with Sunday’s worship.
You may need to organise some resources before Sunday and place in a special Church Bag so you can pick it up and run and have everything with you to share worship with your little one.
AS this is Trinity Sunday a beautiful book for sharing about the multifaceted aspect of God is In God’s Name by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byeuazEzFvA or you can find it on Kindle https://www.amazon.com.au/Gods-Rabbi-Sandy-Eisenberg-Sasso-ebook/dp/B01HT6C2EE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1526988415&sr=1-1&keywords=In+God%27s+Name
YOU might need to down load
The new season of https://store.illustratedchildrensministry.com/collections/coloring-sheets-posters/products/bible-story-coloring-pages-summer-2018 Will get you 14 colouring in pages, that is 14 Sundays worth and I will refer to them over the coming weeks. To reduce the cost further, you could share with other families or ask your church to purchase them for you. Note this is a USA publication so the season for them is Summer, and the price is in US$, so it will cost a little more and possible attract international transaction charges depending on whom your credit card is with)
https://familygodtime.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/daily-devos-isaiah-is-sent/
Find pictures of the sea
Cedar forest
an Ox
Fire
desert
Oak forest
Flood waters
OR FIND
Coloured cardboard
Journal or paper for drawing
Curling Ribbon
hole Punch
An atlas OR world ball
GOD LOVES by Stephanie Carmichael https://www.koorong.com/search/product/god-loves-books-for-little-ones-series-stephanie/9781922206886.jhtml
FIRST READING: ISAIAH 6:1-8
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UFBIBPdtY
SING: https://www.seedsfamilyworship.com/product/the-character-of-god-vol-7/# number 2 God is Holy ( this might be best saved for Family Faith Formation time during the week)
DO: Knowing God changes the way we see the world, So have coloured cellophane (squares about 10cm are good), to look at the world differently through. Or if you have them or can get them the ants’s eyes lenses, or child’s magnifying glass for example https://shop.australiangeographic.com.au/navir-megalens-display.html
DRAW: Love this colouring in suggestion from https://familygodtime.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/daily-devos-isaiah-is-sent/
PSALM 29
DRAW: any of the strong images of God’s voice
MAKE: a Psalm book by sticking pictures of the images (from magazines or off the internet) of each verse into a book. ie. p.1 picture of the sea,
p.2 a Cedar forest
p.3 an Ox
p.4 Fire
p.5. desert
p. 6 Oak forest
p.7 Flood waters
PRAY:
Your Voice God
Is LOUD ( put your hands over your ears)
So I can hear You (point to your ears)
Amen
SECOND READING: Romans 8:12-17
READ/WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXULIYojHk God’s Dream by Desmond Tutu
DRAW: God’s children at worship today
MAKE: a baby bunting, using triangles cut from coloured cardboard ( I got three per A4 sheet). Write the letters I AM A CHILD OF GOD, on seperate triangles,
punch a hole in 2 corners
Then thread them together with curling ribbon.
Take them home and put them up in your child’s room OR hang them on the pew.
GOSPEL READING: JOHN 3:1-17
READ: https://lettheirlightshine.com/2018/05/23/followers-of-jesus-nicodemus/
OR GOD LOVES by Stephanie Carmichael
COLOURING IN https://store.illustratedchildrensministry.com/collections/coloring-sheets-posters/products/bible-story-coloring-pages-summer-2018
SING: https://www.seedsfamilyworship.com/product/seeds-of-faith-vol-2/# No.4
PRAY: Bring an Atlas or a ball of the world and pray for each country. Starting, God so Loved the World, that he sent his only Son, that the people of _______ might come to know Him. continue as long as the child wants to. Your young child can participate in the prayer by simply pointing to the Atlas.
The Cross in My Backyard 