Godly play materials

Free YouTube video lesson to help teach Godly Play "Listening for God" ideas with an emphasis on listening and gratitude for gifts of creation using the senses

Suggestions for sharing Godly Play "Big" with the whole congregation from Vacation Bible School to liturgy and seasonal events!

On July 29-31, I attended the Godly Play Core Training at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland. Those of us participating all learned a great deal about helping children with their religious formation. At the same time, the training was a spiritual retreat and an opportunity for everyone involved to grow in faith and personal insight.

Godly Play Around the World — Godly Play

Hands-on Bible activities create a pathway to engage the curious absorbent minds and busy hands of preschool and kindergarten children in fun and meaningful play. Even toddler children will enjoy open…

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We have been on a Godly Play journey for about a year and I am loving it. I knew that even though I had read extensively on the Godly Play approach that I needed to go to a training to fill in the…

Godly Play

This Sunday one of the four year olds in my Godly Play group wanted to choose the “Sea of Galilee” for her work. We have been telling the stories from Sonja Stewart’s Following Je…

Parable of the Good Shepherd Godly play video

Godly Play room

Helping very young children to wonder younger requires some adaptations to the traditional mode of Godly Play storytelling.

Resources for Godly Play and Young Children and Worship

The first time I ever saw Godly Play - the story of the Good Shepherd, at an IME 4-7 (curate training) event in Newcastle diocese - I was hooked. Godly Play is a Montessori-inspired way of telling Bible stories, the idea being that they are translated not into another language, but into 3D. Little wooden figures, sand boxes for the desert, green felt to represent the world or a meadow. The Godly Play creation story is done using 7 cards showing the 7 days of creation in stylised form, with…

This prayer activity is suitable for groups of children or even a whole congregation as long as you have enough bricks! Have an adult or ch...

The Holy Family - full set of figures. (Photo: Estrella Cardona)

Here's a resource to help you teach your children about the people in the Bible. This Bible People printable will help you do just that.