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.
POINT OUT THE CHANGE IN COLOUR IN THE CHURCH THIS WEEK.
DRESS IN RED.
You might need to find some of these books in advance
The Lion Story Bible https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-lion-story-bible-sophie-piper-ruth-rivers/9780745964003.jhtml
The Lion Picture Bible https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-lion-picture-bible-sarah-dodd/9780745963037.jhtml
The Beginners Bible for Toddlers https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-beginners-bible-for-toddlers-kelly-pulley-illus/9781859857410.jhtml
The Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s stories THE BEGINNERS BIBLE TIMELESS CHILDREN’S STORIES https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-beginners-bible-timeless-childrens-stories-beginners-bible/9780310750130.jhtml
My First Read aloud Bible https://www.koorong.com/search/product/my-first-read-aloud-bible-mary-batchelor/9781860247712.jhtml
The Jesus Story Book Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-jesus-storybook-bible-sally-lloyd-jones-jago/0310708257.jhtml
The Rhyme Bible by L.J. Sattgast https://www.word.com.au/The-Rhyme-Bible-Storybook-Bible/Linda-Sattgast/9780310726029
Snuggle Time Psalms by Gleyns Nellist https://www.word.com.au/Snuggle-Time-Psalms/Glenys-Nellist/9780310749257 If you can buy this book do so as i will refer to it in the coming weeks.
GOD Made by Stephanie Carmichael https://www.koorong.com/search/product/god-made-books-for-little-ones-series-stephanie/9781922206862.jhtml
Baby Wren and the Great Gift by Sally Lloyd -Jones Illustrated by Jen Coracle https://www.koorong.com/search/product/the-baby-wren-and-the-great-gift-sally/9780310733898.jhtml
Hello Pooh, Hello You a Winnie the Pooh Board Book ( i found mine in Big W)
You might need
paper plates
drinking straws
orange, red, yellow or blue coloured paper
sticky tape
texta’s
unbeatable mirror
plain paper or Journal
You might need to print
http://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/pentecost-spinner.html
http://www.momjunction.com/print-coloring-image/?pageid=383187&print=2015/12/Standing-Skeleton
FIRST READING: ACTS 2:1-21 this is such an important reading that almost every children’s Story Book Bible covers it
READ/WATCH: The Day When God Made Church by Rebekah McLeod Hutto https://www.paracletepress.com/Products/5646/the-day-when-god-made-church.aspx?bCategory=CHILDB!CHIPIC
or The Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s stories The Holy Spirit Comes pp.473-479
or The Rhyme Bible by L.J. Sattgast p.344
or The Jesus Story Book Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones God send Help
or My First Read aloud Bible pp.234-235
or The Lion Story Bible The Day of Pentecost p.228
or The Lion Picture Bible pp.348-349
suggested by http://connectible.nz
MAKE/PLAY
This is for the parents to make and the child to play with at this age, though if you have older children they might enjoy making them.
A pin wheel https://www.practicallyfunctional.com/how-to-make-a-pinwheel-template/
For A pin wheel that can be made with just paper, a drinking straw, and sticky tape plus a hole punch.
Cut out a square mine was 20 cm x20cm, though you can make it larger or smaller.
I used 2 pieces of paper one yellow one red, for a two tone effect. 
Draw straight lines from corner to corner, and mark 2 cm from the centre on each diagonal.
Cut from the outside of the square up to the 2cm marks.
Punch a hole in the centre and one corner of each triangle.
Thread the straw through the centre hole, then thread each hole on the straw in a clockwise direction. 
Stickytape over the straw and paper when the last hole is threaded on.
You can spin this by rotating the straw between your hands
( I think I learnt to make them like this when I was Sunday School teaching using Seasons of the Spirit a few years ago now)
COLOUR-IN
For those at the top of this age range, colour in this spinner. It doesn’t matter if they are not staying within the lines, for this spinner it actually looks great if they don’t. Just encourage the use of red, orange, yellow and blue colours to represent the wind and the flames experience. Print out the template here http://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/pentecost-spinner.html
Then cut out, and attach drinking straw with sticky tape as instructed.
Then twirl within your hands.
PRAY: before making the pinwheel you could ask your child to put a picture on or draw something on each of the triangles to pray about.
OR EZEKIEL 37:1-14
READ/WATCH
The Lion Story Bible, Dry Bones p.108
OR
This was suggested by https://worshipingwithchildren.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/year-b-day-of-pentecost-may-24-2015.html for use with the Romans’ reading but I think it works well with the Ezekiel one.
COLOURING IN http://www.momjunction.com/print-coloring-image/?pageid=383187&print=2015/12/Standing-Skeleton
MAKE :
You will need a Paper Plate, colour half blue and half green, cut a slot in the middle of the plate between the two colours. Make a flower using an icy pole stick or piece of green cardboard, and a coloured patty pan ( to use as a flower), poke the flower through the hole to “make the flower grow/come to life fro the earth.
PRAY:
In you God
we find new life
Amen
PSALM 104:24-34, 35b
READ: GOD Made by Stephanie Carmichael
DRAW all the things mentioned in the Psalm
PLAY: look through your toys to see what God has made.
SECOND READING: ROMANS 8:22-27
READ/WATCH Baby Wren and the Great Gift by Sally Lloyd -Jones Illustrated by Jen Coracle Point out how sad Baby Wren is about all the gifts the others have ( like the great groanings in today’s reading until she finds her own gift (of the spirit/or from God)
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YId88oYpyMM suggested by https://worshipingwithchildren.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/year-b-day-of-pentecost-may-24-2015.html
PRAY: Before praying find out why we groan, ie pain, or a heavy burden we struggle with, the children will know about this when they try to move something heavy like a table)
GOD you groan (make a groaning sound)
for me. (point to yourself)
Your world groans (make a groaning sound)
for me (point to yourself)
So I don’t have to groan. (make a groaning sound)
Amen
OR ACTS 2:1-21
READ/WATCH: The Day When God Made Church by Rebekah McLeod Hutto https://www.paracletepress.com/Products/5646/the-day-when-god-made-church.aspx?bCategory=CHILDB!CHIPIC
or The Beginners Bible Timeless Children’s stories The Holy Spirit Comes pp.473-479
or The Rhyme Bible by L.J. Sattgast p.344
or The Jesus Story Book Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones God send Help
or My First Read aloud Bible pp.234-235
or The Lion Story Bible The Day of Pentecost p.228
or The Lion Picture Bible pp.348-349
MAKE/PLAY
This is for the parents to make and the child to play with at this age, though if you have older children they might enjoy making them.
A pin wheel https://www.practicallyfunctional.com/how-to-make-a-pinwheel-template/
For A pin wheel that can be made with just paper, a drinking straw, and sticky tape plus a hole punch.
Cut out a square mine was 20 cm x20cm, though you can make it larger or smaller.
I used 2 pieces of paper one yellow one red, for a two tone effect.
Draw straight lines from corner to corner, and mark 2 cm from the centre on each diagonal.
Cut from the outside of the square up to the 2cm marks.
Punch a hole in the centre and one corner of each triangle.
Thread the straw through the centre hole, then thread each hole on the straw in a clockwise direction.
Stickytape over the straw and paper when the last hole is threaded on.
You can spin this by rotating the straw between your hands
( I think I learnt to make them like this when I was Sunday School teaching using Seasons of the Spirit a few years ago now)
COLOUR-IN
For those at the top of this age range, colour in this spinner. It doesn’t matter if they are not staying within the lines, for this spinner it actually looks great if they don’t. Just encourage the use of red, orange, yellow and blue colours to represent the wind and the flames experience. Print out the template here http://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/pentecost-spinner.html
Then cut out, and attach drinking straw with sticky tape as instructed.
Then twirl within your hands.
PRAY: before making the pinwheel you could ask your child to put a picture on or draw something on each of the triangles to pray about.
GOSPEL READING: JOHN 15:26-27, 16:4b-15
PLAY: Have a child safe mirror, for them to look at themselves, even the youngest enjoy this. Show them their features that others in the family have, or if your child is adopted play the wonder game, I wonder whose eyes yours are like, etc? At some stage point out that as Christians it is our actions like Christs that show who we come from.
READ: Hello Pooh, Hello You Winnie the Pooh board book that has a mirror in it that I bought from BIG W, that might be suitable substitute for a this complicated reading.
PRAY: May I learn your ways Lord, AMEN
Blessings
Wendy L
The Cross in My Backyard 