Encouraging kids to pray craft activity

How to encourage young children to pray.

This is a real favourite of mine, something very close to my heart. We believe that celebrating God should be a natural and joyful part of everyday life for your child, and integrating their relationship with familiar activities is a great way to enhance that notion.

So today we're going to follow the Arty Crafty Time slot from the show, and learn how to make the perfect paper plane, or rather prayer-o-plane! And the most satisfying thing about this is that it's a really good flyer, and very easy to make, so you'll have great fun with your child after taking the opportunity to share with them about different ways of praying to God.

Teaching kids to pray

Here's a lovely way of encouraging your kids to pray before bed!

Go down to your local flooring centre and ask them if they have any small carpet samples or off-cuts you can take away with you.  Choose something light, a pale off-white ideally.

Sit down together and sketch out a nice design before carefully transferring it to the carpet using permanent coloured markers.

Cut the carpet to a shape of your choice, and place it by your child's bed to kneel on while praying in the evening.

You just try and stop them using it.  Talk about empowering the child to take ownership of their faith!  Send in your designs, let's have a look!