Put your family in the mood with this lovely song by David and Dale Macgregor, don’t forget the actions
I so love this especially in this week of Reconciliation, especially the verse “Where the spirit is Healing”. And I love that the colours of Pentecost match those of the Aboriginal Flag https://www.aboriginalart.com.au/culture/aboriginal_flag.html
READ The Day the Crayons quit by Drew Daywalt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489micE6eHU I love this book for showing the different gifts that the colours bring and how they work best together. Like the gifts God gives us, all different but all from God.
DRAW: a wonderful picture of some of the gifts of the spirit that God has left with people you know to help each other.
In this reading the Holy Spirit has been described as gushing water. Take a blue A4 sheet of paper or cardboard. Then 3 or4 blue streamers, cut about a third longer than the sheet of paper. glue one end to the top of a short side of the paper, twist the streamer two ormolu times and attach the other end the far side of the paper. Repeat until the sheet is covered.
OR You could also cut a large love heart out of some read paper and attach blue streamers to the edges of the love heart. I used paper strips as i was out of blue streamers, attached them flat then rolled them around a pencil to curl.
OR
Perhaps you can feel what gushing water is like by turning on the tap and letting the water fall on your hands.
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
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 herehttp://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.
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)
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)
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 herehttp://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.
You could also cut a large love heart out of some read paper and attach blue streamers to the edges of the love heart. I used paper strips as i was out of blue streamers, attached them flat then rolled them around a pencil to curl.
The Cross in My Backyard 