10 Creative Ways to Pray with Your Kids
1.    Alphabet prayer
- Practice thankfulness using the letters of the alphabet! Go in order as a family and each say something you’re thankful for using the A, B, Cs. 
- Example: I’m thankful that I got to see my friend Abby at school today, B…. I’m thankful mom put Blueberries in my lunch today, and so on! 
2. Prayer walk outside
- Take a walk outside, thanking God for the beauty of creation as you go. Pick up mementos on the way and turn it into a craft when you get home! 
- Collect leaves, sticks, flowers, rocks, woodchips, etc and make a collage of your prayer walk. 
3. Pray through Art!
- Whether painting or coloring, designate different colors for different topics and pray as you craft. 
- Example: Blue = family, Red = friends, Green = creation 
4. Prayer Journal
- Have your kids write simple prayer sentences or drawings to God and keep the journal designated for praying. 
5. Pray through movement
- Yoga, breathing, dancing! 
- Click here to read one mom’s story of how breathing prayer worked for her kids. 
6. Prayer walk your neighborhood
- Stop at doors to pray for the person who lives there. 
7. Adopt a missionary kid your kids can pray for!
- Get a picture of the child so they can see who they are praying for! 
- Write prayer letters together to the missionary kid and they could even become pen pals. 
8. Pray using M&M’s
- Designate each M&M color for a different topic of prayer. 
9.    Pray with friends
- Encourage your kids to pray for their friends by recording a video of them praying, writing them a letter or drawing them a picture of what they want to pray for! 
10.  Create a prayer jar  - there are tons of ideas on google!
- Spend some time having fun decorating your jar and making it look fun and exciting! 
- Get some jumbo popsicle sticks and write different prayer request/ways to pray on them 
- Use and enjoy. 
Whether you decide to do all 1 or all 10 of these ideas, be creative and have fun!
Portions of this blog originally appeared: https://www.illustratedministry.com/2017/ways-to-pray-with-kids/
https://www.ssww.com/blog/how-to-make-prayer-jars-religious-craft-activity-lesson/
