• Bible activity sheets. A useful source of these are the "Instant Art for Bible Worksheets" books (see resource materials). The material in these books can be photocopied without copyright infringement, provided that it is used for non-commercial purposes. Activities may include scenes to colour, word searches based on themes or Bible passages, mazes, spot the difference, messages in code, join the dots, etc. There are several of these books, covering a great deal of the Bible, so if you can arrange for your child to have a sheet based around the Sunday reading(s), so much the better. Hopefully, your child will be so engrossed in their work that they'll forget to make a nuisance of themselves.
  Tips (based on personal experience): try to prepare these BEFORE Sunday morning arrives. You may wish to consider providing crayons rather than felt-tip pens, which tend to mark coats, furnishings etc. when waved about enthusiastically by a child showing you her/his work.
  PS These ideas are not guaranteed to work, it depends on how cooperative your child is feeling on the day, but they're worth a shot.
  Also see small selection of free on line activity sheets.
• Teach your child the Lord's Prayer and any other prayers that are used regularly in your church, and help them to join in at the right moment.
  Children actually like learning stuff off by heart and don't find it difficult, though they may not make much sense of the words initially. Our own children learned the Lord's Prayer when they were five (though they did think that it began, "Our Father, who aren't in Heaven..."). Be prepared to explain some of the words, especially if you use the traditional version.
   
   

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