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Monday, 21 March 2016

Sweet Easter

"Sweet Easter" is a short talk about Easter for children which may told at a school assembly, a church service or shared as a family devotion.
Link : Sweet Easter Talk

Also check out the Easter 'pass the parcel' game on the same page above
https://www.eliab.com/sweet-easter.html

AWESOME EASTER IDEAS

Check out these awesome Easter resources for worship or children's programs-

http://sa.uca.org.au/uyp/church-resources/all-age-worship/easter-services

http://request.org.uk/restart/2016/02/03/the-easter-story-pairs-game/

http://lapbooklessons.com/ResurrectionLapbook

http://www.biblestorycartoons.com/easter-story-resources/

http://eliab.com/Puppets/The-shape-of-Easter.html

http://eliab.com/Chants/Easter-chant.html

http://eliab.com/Chants/Easter-march.html

http://eliab.com/Poems/Jellybean-prayer.html

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

The Lost Coin Poem

LOST COIN POEM- (Luke 15:8-10) (c) Eliab.com

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Free Christmas Resources and ideas

Check out my free Christmas resources including the story "My Christmas Pillow" at my website
Eliab.com
Christmas page

Christmas Plus

Please check out my Christmas website ChristmasPlus for many Christmas stories, reflections, Assembly ideas, Christmas jokes plus much more!
Christmasplus.blogspot.com

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Free Bible Cartoon Pictures

Free Christian Cartoon Pictures by Richard Gunther.
Check them out at MightyMag.org

Free games and quiz generators

Check out this teachers website where you can create free games, quizzes and diagrams for teaching.
http://ClassTools.net

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Easter picture series

I found a wonderful series of pictures which tell the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. They are free to download and use.
Easter Pictures
Biblestorycards.co.uk

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Extraordinary Jesus

Extraordinary Jesus ( A chant for children)

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Tell the world. Let’s hear you shout it.

Phenomenal, remarkable, wonderfully unique.

The must read good news story of the week.

Extraordinary Jesus, amazing but true

Wants to be very best friends with you.

Front page, headline. Good news for all to see.

Extraordinary Jesus calls ‘come follow me’.

(Mark 9:2-13)

Worship resources for school assemblies

cowo.culham.ac.uk/ Collective Worship Resource – from the Culham Institute, in association with the National Society
www.culham.ac.uk/storykeepers/ These resources are based on the Storykeepers television / video series.
www.assemblies.org.uk Assemblies Website (SPCK)
www.blackburn.anglican.org/cw/ Diocese of Blackburn Board of Education – Collective School Worship
www.ely.anglican.org/education/schools/collective_worship/ Diocese of Ely Education and Training: Schools – RE and Collective Worship Resources
www.saled.org/worship Diocese of Salisbury Board of Education – Collective Worship
www.hibbert-assembly.org.uk The Hibbert Assembly – Material provided by the Hibbert Trust.
www.retoday.org.uk/sfr/ RE Today: Space for Reflection – Assemblies and guidance for collective worship (password required – available to RE today subscribers).
www.assemblingcitizens.co.uk Assembling Citizens – Secondary school assembly materials on citizenship issues from The Stapleford Centre (subscription required).
www.angelfire.com/trek/annegordon/ Anne’s Page – Exploring Christian Faith with Children – Includes general advice and some starting points and suggestions for Collective Worship, along with ‘Times and Seasons’, a brief guide to the church’s year, again with suggestions for Collective Worship.
www.cist.org.uk/ay/ Christians in Schools in the Stockport Area: Collective Acts of Worship – Outlines for Collective Worship suitable for Key Stage 1 children.
www.schoolassemblies.btinternet.co.uk – School Assemblies for Busy Teachers – Assembly ideas, scripts and other resources contributed by teachers.
www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/assemblies/ – Teachernet – Assemblies – A bank of over 100 resources written by teachers for teachers.

EASTER TALK - The Good News

Easter Talk- The Good News

I’d like to share a short talk I did as a part of an Easter presentation this week for a primary (elementary) school. Here is the summary.

I began the talk by holding up a newspaper and talking about some news items. In the paper we find both good news and some bad news. Which kind of news do you like to hear about most?

Hold up just one sheet of newspaper. I’d like to share with you one news story which is good news for everybody. Fold the sheet as per photo. God sent his son Jesus from heaven (hold top corner and run fingers or other hand down the side to the bottom corner) to earth to show us just how much he loves us. This is the good news of Christmas when we remember about Jesus being born.

Fold again to form the “house shape”. Jesus grew up in a family ( Mary & Joseph…) and when he became older he healed people, helped people, and taught people about how to know and love God.

Begin to tear the paper downwards in a straight line. Talk about how some people believed in that Jesus is God’s Son but there were others who wanted to kill him. Talk briefly about Jesus capture and trial. Tear the other side slowly while talking. Jesus was nailed to a cross. Jesus friends were very sad. This seemed like bad news to them and good news to those who wanted Jesus dead. With the torn off bits of paper, crumple them in your hand and hold them up as you talk about getting rid of Jesus and how his body was placed in a tomb and sealed in the tomb.

Now open the center piece of paper to reveal the paper cross. Though Jesus suffered and died on the cross he was prepared to do that so that we could be forgiven for the wrong things we do (sins). Place your palm over the cross. Jesus wants us to be friends with God and to follow him today. On “Good Friday” we remember all that Jesus did for us. The Good News is that Jesus came back to life again and he promise those who believe in him eternal life-life forever with God. That’s good news (show the newspaper in one hand and the cross in the other) that’s certainly worth sharing with everyone.

Read all about it! Jesus is alive!

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

The Ascension – Craft idea

Check out some great resources for either Sunday School or family devotions.
ChristianityCove.com

Here is one really good idea for a Craft activity at Easter which

focuses on The Ascension.

Monday, 9 February 2015

More Easter resources for children’s ministry

A Glorious Easter
Probably one of the best list of Easter resources for children’s ministry online.

See also my other websites – http://easterplus.blogspot.com and http://eliab.com

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Trying to make a Hexaflexagon?

I first discovered hexaflexagons when I was teaching mathematics. I later used the template for making a hexflexagon and used my own art work to put Bible memory verses or Sunday School teaching points on them. Because the hexaflexagons are so interesting to older primary (elementary) aged children I found that they were a great activity to be used in teaching or for a lesson review.

You may be wondering at this point "well what is a hexaflexagon"? They are not easy to explain but the websites below give you some helpful templates and photos so that you get the idea. Once you make one yourself you will see the potential here for using them with children or even creating an evangelistic tool for use with adults or in mission situations. May the 'flex' be with you!

http://www.enarsson.nu//Flexagon/

http://www.flexagon.net/

http://home.xnet.com/~aak/hexahexa.html

Monday, 22 December 2008

Thinking about Pentecost?

Pentecost Rap by Nick Clarke

Pentecost Rap from 77 Talks for 21st Century Kids by Chris Chesterton

Breath and Spirit - children's talk

Ideas for celebrating Pentecost.

Mother's Day on Pentecost- Worship ideas

LaughingBird.net Paraphrase of Acts 2:1-21

Scripture Union "Xstream" LIGHT Sunday School downloads

New free resources for children's ministry

Scripture Union continues it's long tradition of producing high quality resources for bible reading and children's ministry. Scripture Union UK have just launched a new website which makes available thousands of resources from their "LIGHT" material archive. Fully searchable and free.

http://Lightlive.org

Are children too tech savvy?

Is there a cost in pushing our children to use an array of tech gadgets and computer software?

Read this very interesting article in The Age newspaper which examines the world of the junior geek.

Child Safe online

A new program of Child Safety training has just been launched by Scripture Union in Australia and New Zealand. This program and resources would be of interest to all those who work with children and are concerned about child safety.

ChildSafe online provides...

"Our aim is to help you create a culture of safety for children and young people. Safety Management Online (SMO) has been built to facilitate this aim within your organisation.

This sophisticated system manages people's appointment and tracks their training. It provides a framework for all of your programs to operate safely. Online training is available, along with a huge range of resources."

Generation Z children

Generation Z are possibly the most informed, technologically advanced and socially aware kids of all time. This generation is the first generation born into the digital world. There is some debate amongst the experts as to when this age group began. Some researchers claiming as early as 1995, (so the oldest are now hitting 13), while others contend that 2001 is a better starting point. It seems safe to assume that today's babys to seven-year olds are definitely gen Z, and kids aged eight to 12 are on the fuzzy line between very young gen Y and the oldest gen Zs.

McCrindle, founder of McCrindle Research says that this generation that's "fairly demanding and maybe a bit precocious" with high expectations and plenty of material comforts and toys.

How can children's ministers best engage Gen. Z children? What are the implications of working with children who are "high tech" users, highly programmed lives, and generally having parents who are older than the two previous generations?

Who are Generation Z?

The ten commandments of Generation Z

Get ready, here comes Generation Z