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Feeding of the 5000 prayer stations
I had the most hilarious thing happen the other day at church, our children’s ministry director came up to me and said, “Hey Ticia, funny thing,” and I said, “You found my blog.” She then went on to tell me all about how she was looking for prayer stations for Sunday School, and I nodded and said, “I have a lot of those.” Now here is yet another one, a Feeding of the 5000 prayer stations.
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Feeding of the 5000 prayer stations
Feeding of the 5000 unit, play dough, snack supplies (options: goldfish, Swedish fish, oyster crackers, etc), coloring supplies (markers, crayons, colored pencils), paper, bandaids
In the unit there is a printable instruction card with a sample layout picture for how I lay it out when I run the Feeding of the 5000 prayer stations. I like to use unusual containers, which is not as obvious in the sample pictures, because I used my condiment cups I use to prep for cooking.
How to put on the Feeding of the 5000 Prayer Stations
This is entirely going to depend on how your room is set up. I generally have four folding tables and many chairs.
I would put the stations that require coloring up on tables, so kids could sit around the table as they color the pages and talk about what is going on.
I think the bandaids probably need a leader at the table if you have the extra leaders to do this (in theory I had 3 or 4 adults each week for a class of around 30 kids). This is solely to make sure one kid doesn’t grab 20 bandaids as they are praying for healing.
What type of floor do you have? In my very early years of teaching Sunday School, the downstairs classrooms had that industrial carpet. If that is your church, you really need to have the play dough on a table. Playdough never comes out of that carpet.
I’ve spent most of my years teaching Sunday School in a YMCA with gym flooring or tile floors, so playdough easily comes off of that, and I put this station on the floor.
The snacks also can be on the floor, maybe on a serving tray? I’d probably put an adult in charge of this station to make sure one kid doesn’t come along and eat all of the snack (in the unit I’ve got several suggestions of themed snacks for this lesson).
For this second coloring station, I used a different sized paper to color on. If you have any fun stationary paper this could be a fun time to use it.
For rest, if you have car space, or if your church has some pillows and blankets you can use, I would set up a cozy station for when Jesus rested after the miracle. You would need to remind kids the pillows are not for pillow fights (or maybe that’s just a few of the boys I’ve taught over the years, and one girl, there was one girl who would totally start a pillow fight).
This will probably take around 20 minutes depending on how many kids and how long each kid takes at each prayer station. I’d just keep an eye on kids to see how antsy the more wiggly kids are getting.
All in all, I like how this reflects on different aspects of the Feeding of the 5000 story and how it’s not just about the food. There is a whole lot more going on.
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