Dick built many of the wooden objects used in the Godly Play room – the shelves, the parable boxes made from a recycled entertainment center, and Noah’s ark twice! In a lull in Godly Play at the parish, the church women sold his original Noah’s ark at the annual bazaar. I recall her husband, whom we remember among the faithfully departed for the first time this All Souls. “This Holy Family is for you,” says the Godly Play script. Roberta died several years ago, but her presence and faith lives on in the art that she created for the children. I find myself recalling the woman who created and painted the ceramic nativity set that the children still use. Creating the Godly Play space was truly a community effort. If collective memory is correct, a cohort of lay and ordained traveled to be trained by Jerome Berryman himself as they began the enterprise to share the stories in Young Children and Worship with the children of the parish. My previous parish is a small, rural Episcopal church who brought Godly Play to their community some twenty or more years ago. You can find directions to make a simple tambourine here, and a lyre here.As we celebrate All Saints and All Souls, I find myself reflecting on the community of holy people whose handiwork brought Godly Play to the parishes of which I have belonged. Make instruments to play while singing a psalm. Work out a tune that fits a psalm that you like. Write a psalm together as a class, and then let the children illustrate it individually or together.ĥ. If you want, you could choose the psalm for the children, like #23 or 139.)Ĥ. Choose a psalm and illustrate it, like Arno did in Psalms for Young Children. Write a psalm showing how you feel today.ģ. Writing our own Psalms-Have children pick an emotion that they sometimes feel and write God a prayer or song that they might pray or sing while feeling that way.Ģ. The wondering questions are included in the story script.ġ. You might want to choose one Psalm to focus on, like #23 or 139. They might like making their own adaptations as well. Older children might enjoy comparing the Psalms as written in the Bible with Marie Helene Delval's adaptations. I'll share a photo soon- I just found out that the illustrations I thought were from creative commons weren't afterall, so I'm remaking them with licensed illustrations. To help the children follow along with the different emotions we'll be discussing I've made emotion cards for each class. (You'll take the Psalms book out and place it on the underlay in part of the story.īy the way, the Psalms in this book are shared in order (by number.) They're so short that I think you'll find it hard to stop reading them!
I put it there to remind you (and me) that you'll need the Bible Bookcase as you tell the story. I've purchased one for each class (except for 3rd grade, which already had a copy.) You'll find it in your story basket, which I left near your Bible bookcase. Delval has adapted the psalms for children in a way that is so easy to read and to relate to. Find out more About Us & visit our FAQ page. It teaches a process that aims to promote an inner working model for life-long Christian learning. It offers Christian language as a support for their ongoing spiritual formation. To share the Psalms, we're going to use a beautiful book, Psalms for Young Children, written by Marie-Helene Delval and illustrated by Arno. Godly Play begins with children’s innate sense of the presence of God. With each different emotion, we share a Psalm (or 2 or 3) that the Psalm writers experienced and shared with God. We discuss how we can pray to God when we feel afraid, happy, angry, peaceful, sad or worried, and joyful, or when we feel sorry for what we've done. In the script, we use the first part of the David story and then explore the idea that the Psalms writers went to God with all kinds of different emotions.
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