quote:Many of the Godly Play Bible Stories can be found on the web. We make characters with a scroll saw and then a woman in our church paints them. You can use Fisher Price characters. We use old Sunday school papers for patterns and often use maps for our base and tell the story as we have the children move the characters on our enlarged map. We do not use all the formal proceedures for taking out the pieces. We use it in rotation in one workshop just as another way to tell the Bible story. Many stories ready for Godly Play can be found on the web site below. We find the story here but do a lot of adapting.
Originally posted by Pam C:
Cindy, we have used Children and Worship (if that is the same thing)with our 5yr olds through 2nd graders for many years as a Sunday school class. It is very different from the old classes. We made our materials so they were not expensive at all. We gave up children's church in frustration and decided to try this as a SS instead. It really made a positive difference in behavior during worship. I also think the little kids look forward to something different when they reach 3rd grade and can be in the rotation classes.
http://www.edupatterns.com/toppage11.htm
I got the book "Young Children and Worship" by Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome W. Berryman to get started and it has some patterns and stories, but costs $25. I see that another book about Godly Play is advertised at Wal Mart for $15.95. I have not looked at it.
