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God is Great Collage - Children's Art Week 2019
To celebrate Children's Art Week 2019, we're sharing this great activity from The Prayer Experiment Notebook on creating a 'God is Great' collage. Tweet your child's finished collage to us at @SPCKPublishing for your chance to win a stack of our children's books!
God is amazing! For thousands of years, people have been praising God and writing poetry about how great God is. Some people enjoy using pictures and colour to show how brilliant they think God is.
Fantastic colours and amazing pictures can help us to thank God for all the things he has made and given us. Just looking at something really beautiful and awe-inspiring can help us to contemplate God and just how amazing he is. This is something that is really hard to put into words, so sometimes it can be good to try thinking about God using colour and pictures rather than words.
This experiment involves making a collage to represent how you might describe God and creation. You might like to think about these questions to get you started.
What is God like?
How does God make you feel?
What words would you use to describe God? What would you most like to say to God? How has God helped you?
What has God made that you really want to say thank you for?
What colours and patterns remind you of God?
THE EXPERIMENT: Using colour and pictures can help us to think about God in a way that is beyond words. Create a ‘God is great’ collage to help you thank God for how amazing he is and for all the things he has made.
YOU WILL NEED: A big piece of paper and lots of collage materials.
1. Lay your big piece of paper on a flat surface. Use your collection of art materials - these could include coloured and patterned paper, glitter, stickers, buttons, foil, sequins, tissue paper, wool, felt-tip pens, pictures from magazines or printed out from the computer, together with glue and scissors - to make a collage about how great God is. Cover the whole piece of paper if you can. Stick things on or draw straight on to the paper.
2. Here are some ideas to help you think of what you might want to do:
Draw pictures of what you think God might look like.
Write and colour words to describe God.
Cut out pictures of things from creation that you love, such as trees, animals or birds.
Use colours and patterns that make you think of God.
3. When you have finished, find somewhere to hang your collage that will mean you can see it every day.
4. As an alternative way of doing this, you could try making a digital slideshow or collage on the computer, then print it out or show it to friends and family.
Don't forget to share your collage with @SPCKPublishing on Twitter for your chance to win a stack of our children's books!
Draw pictures of what
you think God might look like.
