Easter Club Week 3

Diese Woche hörten wir eine liturgische Geschichte über den Vater Unser. Wir haben spielerisch über jeden Teil des Gebets nachgedacht und auch über die unterschiedliche Arte und Weisen von Gebet geredet.  This week we heard a liturgical story about The Lord's Prayer, and considered each part of the prayer. We also talked about the different ways that people can and do pray. 

Danach haben einige Kinder ein Heft mit ihren Lieblingsteil des Gebets gemacht.  

During Response Time, some of the children made a booklet of their favorite part of The Lord's Prayer.

Andere gestalteten Sculpturen aus Ton und Naturmaterial.

Others made sculpted creations out of clay and nature materials. 

Manche Kinder machten Kollagen mit gefärbten Eierschalen. 

And others chose to make collages using colored eggshells.

Und einige von uns bauten Jerusalem auf und spielten die letzte Woche Jesu und seine Auferstehung. 

Some children made a model of Jerusalem and re-enacted Jesus' last week and resurrection. 

Alle freuten sich über die Brownies und Gurken fürs Fest!

Everyone was excited over our feast of cucumbers and brownies!

Creative Response to The Lord's Prayer

I wanted to highlight an idea for helping children go deeper with The Lord's Prayer that we used in the Easter Club this year.

After sharing a "Godly Play-style" story about The Lord's Prayer, we invited the children to a table where they could explore the prayer a little more.

We printed out copies of each verse of the prayer on strips of paper, and set them out on a table along with oil pastels, colored pencils, construction paper, glue and scissors.

We then invited the children to pick the verse that they liked best or that was most important to them. They could glue it onto a piece of construction paper, and then draw or write something about it.

This allows children to process individually and hopefully make the prayer their own.