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KAIROS Sunday 2007
Ideas for Children’s Time
Consider any one of these ideas, concluding each with the suggested
prayer.
- Highlight the Transfiguration theme: Ask the children to tell
you about the very best day in their life. Tell them about your
best day or ask (in advance) to have 1 or 2 adults tell the children
about the best day in their life. Talk about how those blessings
gave you or others the energy or inspiration to do the difficult
things in life that needed to be done.
- Highlight water justice: “Koluscap and the Water Monster”
from the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Nations (Atlantic Provinces),
a story about a great drought and how Koluscap saved the village.
Available in the KAIROS 2005-2006 Education and Action Guide,
Water: A Sacred Gift.
- Highlight any one of many justice issues: Invite someone who
has lived or worked in areas where justice concerns are prevalent
to share a bit about that life experience with pictures or mementoes.
For example, have a refugee tell about their home country and
how difficult, but necessary, it was to leave. Or have someone
who has lived or traveled in Palestine talk about children’s
lives there. Or someone who has experienced life on Aboriginal
reserves talk about what it is like to live there.
- Pique kids’ interest in doing good in the world by demonstrating
the connection between plant and seed: Show them a photo of the
mature plant that they are planting and a fruit or seed head from
the plant. For example, if you are starting tomatoes, show kids
a tomato cut open so they understand where seeds come from. Activity:
Give each child a seed to plant in the planter and prepare signs
for each plant with sayings (ie. “Rooted in Love,”
“Planting seeds of hope,” “Hope in Action.”)
Plant them with the seeds. Keep the planter in a prominent place
where the children can check on the flowers’ progress each
week.
Conclude your story or sharing with the children with a simple
participatory prayer, such as having them repeat each line after
the leader:
Thank you God for ______ (clean water, a safe place to live,
food to eat, hope for the future)
Help us do what’s fair to others.
Bless us as we work for justice.
Amen.
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