Thank You God for Colours

 I made this book some time ago but have actually never even used it. It was supposed to be used within church services as part of a busy bag for colour. With other items relating to colour included. Maybe I'll sort that some time.

Esther The Superhero

Today's session at Junior Church we looked at Esther, here are some of the activities...

Royal play dough faces

 Cardboard tube Kings, queens and castles

a blurry picture but hopefully you can get the idea

 

Plastic bottle crown pots (again not great pic- sorry)

 Super hero/ Royal capes

Decorating the castle walls (the walls were covered with brown paper outside the entrance with a turret and a fake draw bridge. To enter children could only get in by crawling into the door and entering in though the castle which was made from card into the room (big enough to comfortably fit about 8 children and adult in) then of course a door into the main room and the other activities.

Mmmm... what are these? They are gingerbread men decorated in their royal finery :)

Other activities include:

Making lego castle

Taking turns to put wooden block castle without it falling

Wooden castle and people

Happy land castle

Dressing up - including royal clothing (not very popular)

To introduce the story we used this short video which was really well received

 Esther Video on Youtube by Tailrace Kids

I then began to tell the story and ended up handing over to two wonderful 9 and 10 year olds to competently tell the story and all the children listened brilliantly. We had some giggly crazy moments but I've been told even the youngest children could tell the story back to parents!

We then thought about Esther's super hero powers which we decided were bravery and courage, which she used to help people. How could we be brave and help people this week?....

Duplo Nativity

During church today we had duplo to play with for little ones (not ideal a little noisy but it was my idea...opps) was supposed to be to make swords to respond the talk on armour of God. After a few swords they moved on  and thought this was so adorable a nativity scene from duplo!