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Prayer

Fidget Spinner Prayer
A fun prayer wheel to get kids praying, using the latest toy craze to sweep the world!  Download the Fidget Spinner prayer and a **NEW** kids worksheet worksheet to go alongside it, to draw or write your prayers
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Thy Kingdom Come
A 2017 prayer initiative for May/June. With lots of great ideas for praying as a church and community. Includes Bright Prayer Ideas for Families at home

The Lord's Prayer Unplugged
The Lord's Prayer Unplugged provides a unique opportunity to explore the biblical breadth and depth encapsulated in Jesus' famous prayer. The material can be used as a complete teaching programme over the course of ten weeks.

Multi-Sensory Prayer
Multisensory worship is usually corporate worship that is designed to engage the senses. Scripture Union have published a bunch of books and resources. Sample Pages for Multi-Sensory Prayer
Outdoor Worship Stations
These great outdoor worship/prayer stations are great for the warm summer days. Set them up around your church grounds, or in a park - followed by a family picnic and games!

Prayer Spaces in Schools
Prayer Spaces in Schools enable children and young people, of all faiths and none, to explore these life questions, spirituality and faith in a safe, creative and interactive way.

Here are a few prayer stations that have been used in an Anglican School in Wellington
  • A letter to God
  • Candle prayers
  • Labyrinth (use a finger labyrinth like this one)
  • Rock prayer
  • ​Prayers for the Refugee Crisis 
  • Saying Sorry Prayers

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Praying in Colour
'Praying in Color' = prayer + doodling. A beautiful, creative way to intercede when:
​1) You want to pray but words escape you. 
2) Sitting still and staying focused in prayer are a challenge. 
3) Your body wants to be part of your prayer. 
4) You want to just hang out with God but don’t know how.
 
5) Listening to God feels like an impossible task. 
6) Your mind wanders and your body complains. 
7) You want a visual, concrete way to pray. 
8) You need a new way to pray.

prayingincolor.com

The Lord's Prayer in te reo Māori, sung by the New Zealand Youth Choir at the ANZAC service in Wellington, 2017

Flame: Creative Prayer
Flame website has an amazing selection of creative prayers to choose from. A great website to spend hours trawling through! ​

Conversations
Silvia Purdie, from Milson Combined Church, has launched a new website containing resources for prayer and worship. Much of it is oriented to All-Age Worship, using forms of speaking that 'ring true' for 21st century people. Check it the Conversations website

Prayer ideas
  • Prayer Origami - download our prayer foldable resource to get kids playing and praying
  • Prayer Stations - Flame Creative
  • Prayer Stations - Interactive stations for different topics and celebrations throughout the year.
  • Paper Chain Prayers (Flame Creative)
  • Road Sign prayers (instructions and signs)
  • Make a Calm Jar
  • How to run a leavers service for school children
  • Foil Prayers
  • Alarm Clock Prayers (Psalm 5:3)
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Pray for Paris
A resource put together to help families explore praying for Paris, using colours and flags. Pray for Paris (pdf)
Includes a prayer adapted from A New Zealand Prayer Book / He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, used here with permission. 

Prayer Placemats
Put together by St Stephen's Tamahere, these prayer placemats to colour in have a simple karakia in different languages - english, te reo, afrikaans and german. They can then be used as a table prayer at home. 
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Just Prayers
Prayer of St Francis
by Mark Pierson

Labyrinths
  • Labyrinth activities for kids
  • Working with the Labyrinth 
    This book offers ideas and examples of labyrinths in use in various situations: arts, community and social settings; schools, colleges and universities; a hospice, and a secure hospital; counselling, psychotherapy and well-being; churches, retreats and interfaith contexts. (Di Williams is one of the leading UK Labyrinth trainers)
  • Finger Labyrinths 
  • All Age Labyrinths - a reflection from Krish Kandiah 

​Labyrinth ideas include:
  • beach labyrinth marked in the sand
  • prayer stations dotted around the labyrinth
  • labyrinth craft on round paper plates
  • mowing one onto a grass field
  • rope of lights marking out a labyrinth in the dark
  • mark one out of chalk in the playground or park
  • masking tape on your hall floor (don't use gaffa/duck tape, it stains floors!)
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The labyrinth at children's church at Johnsonville Anglican, Wellington. 
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