Creative Ideas for Quiet Corners

Lynn Chambers

From: Magnet - Summer 2009

How do children worship? How can they be still enough? Here is a resource involving short acts of worship centred on themes such as thanksgiving, the cross and praying for others using a multi-sensory biblical approach. There are attention-grabbing ideas to focus children's energies into listening and responding appropriately. Each idea begins by creating a display using fabric, pictures and texts and the children are guided by suggested scripts, finishing with a short prayer. I could see this being used at home with families, in children's clubs or Sunday Schools or as part of Sunday worship.

Reviewed by Sheila Simpson

From The Church Times - May 2009

Lynn Chambers' Creative Ideas for Quiet Corners is subtitled '14 visual prayer ideas for quiet moments with children', but her suggestions need not be confined to under-18s. She aims to show how multi-sensory niches in churches, schools, the home, or elsewhere, can be places of discovery, and help draw people into prayer.

She gives recipes, with photographs, for 14 specific corners, although I am sure that, once tried, these will spark the imagination of those creating them, and lead to many more ideas. Her prayer areas include Bibles, poems, things to touch and hold and taste, pictures, candles, craft materials, and more.

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