Blessing

Blessing Welcome to the page with all the links, downloads and activities for the Blessing Faith at Home Mini-Mag! I hope you’ll find all you need here, but if not, drop me a line here. Links Blessing Extra – 6 family devotional sessions GodVenture Blessing YouTube Playlist including lots of versions of The Blessing song, … Read more

8 Ways to Use Mini-Books in Your Faith at Home

I love mini-books! They are so cute and so quick and very satisfying to make. I recently made this rainbow set for a group of 12 children. It only took me about an hour and only used paper, card and staples. I have a lot of mini-books, both ones I’ve bought and ones I’ve made. … Read more

Easter activities

Easter is a fab time to do faith at home, but sometimes it’s tricky to work out what to do, and what will work best for our family. Here’s a list of things I love to do, not all of them every year, but as we have space and time.

Review: The Big Bible Activity Book

Title: The Big Bible Activity Book Written by: Maggie Barfield Published by: Scripture Union Price: £11.99 Buy from: Scripture Union Useful for: parents of children age 1-6 years old Best bit: My daughter (age 4) said it was the stickers. Of course. We love stickers. For me, the best bit was the fresh new contemporary … Read more

Creative ways of exploring who the Bible says I Am

I did this as a personal activity last month, and have been exploring ways we can explore it together as a family, as it’s a great activity to explore identity. I’ve shared it with a group of children’s workers, as I really felt that the more we know and are confident about who we are, … Read more

Review: Mother God

Title: Mother God Author: Teresa Kim Pecinovsky Illustrator: Khoa Le Published by: Beaming Books Price: Available from Blackwells from £8.26 (March 2023) Good for: The pages are majority illustrations with small sections of text, so great for children aged 3 to 7, but I will be reading this with my children who are 9 and … Read more

The uniqueness of family

I was recently struck by the weird, wonderful uniqueness of families. We all know that we are unique. I like to think that God made us each in His image yet all different so that in each individual I meet, I meet a different part of His image. When I think about His attributes, patience, … Read more

The cheats way to grow faith at home this summer: read-alouds

Would you love to be able to grow faith in your family this summer, but are feeling low on energy and ideas? What if I could give you one simple idea which would help? Read a book together. Yes, just one good book. How does this work? 1 Connection Research into passing on faith has … Read more

Psalm Bingo download

Have fun playing Psalm Bingo with Psalm 121! Simply spin the spinner and read the verse shown on it from the psalm print out (you will need to use this version of the Psalm for the game to work). Each player chooses one word from that verse to cover on their board. The first one … Read more

Joyful People Top Trumps download

You can get a copy of this printed on a study postcard inside the JOY edition of Faith at home This download gives you a chance to create your own Joyful People Top Trumps game. All you need to do is print the sheets. There are 8 cards already made for you, and a set … Read more

Faith at Home – Passing on a Life of Prayer

I’ve often heard that prayer is something lots of people do, whether they go to church or not. Recent research by Scripture Union showed this is particularly true for children. However, many Christians feel inadequate in their own prayer life which makes passing this on to others quite daunting. I think prayer is both the … Read more