Faith@Home Kit
Celebrate Pentecost

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Faith@Home:  Celebrate Pentecost
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Leader’s Guide
Creating the Faith@Home Kits: Celebrate Pentecost
We hope that you enjoy the experience of creating a kit for children and youth who will most certainly appreciate your creative touches and care!
A comment about printing:  We like colour printing and these files will be great if they are printed in colour, and they also work to be printed in black and white (save your budget for something else!)  We wanted to make it as simple as possible for you.  The PDF files are ready to print and we tell you a couple of things with each file. 

• Orientation – the files are either LANDSCAPE or PORTRAIT, make sure you specify which orientation when you go to print.
• Some of the files are a full 8.5 x 11 size (letter size paper).  We have suggested where we think you might be able to print two files, one on each side.
• Some files are 2 up or 4 up which means when you go to print it on letter size paper, there are two (2up) or four (4 up) copies of the file on each page.  You will need to cut them in half (down to 8.5 x 5.5 inches) or into four (down to 4.25 x 5.5 inches).
• We suggest using regular paper for everything except for some particular items (which we have noted below)

A comment about supplies:  The supplies that we are suggesting might be found in CE cupboards everywhere or are easily located.  We are assuming that families have basic art supplies (scissors, felt pens or pencil crayons, crayons, tape…)  You may want to include some of the basic art supplies if you feel it is necessary.

WE SUGGEST THAT YOU INCLUDE THE ​FOLLOWING IN EACH KIT

• Print: Celebrate Pentecost Family Ritual – a suggested outline for a celebration of Pentecost in the household (Portrait)  Click HERE for the file. 
• Print: Celebrate Pentecost Tell the Story – this sheet has the story, Acts 2:1-15, and some video suggestions for those families with access to the internet (Portrait)  Click HERE for the file. 

           Printing Suggestions:  These files could be printed on a letter size piece of paper with the ritual on
           one side and the story on the other. 

• Print: Celebrate Pentecost Cake Recipes – simple recipes that do not use expensive ingredients to celebrate the birthday of the church. Alternatively, perhaps you want to include a simple cake mix with your kit.  Don’t forget to put a few birthday candles in the kit! (Landscape, 2 up)  Click HERE for the file. 
• Print: Mad-Lib Pentecost – another way to share the story and have some fun being creative!  (Landscape, 2 up)​ Click HERE for the file

ACTIVITIES AND RITUALS
​And the fun continues – out of the list below, choose the activities and rituals that best suit the children and youth in your community.  We feel confident that the activities will be appropriate for all ages and that children and youth and even adults will add their own creative spin to them!  Add your own ideas as you want to! 

Create Stained Glass Window Art – an opportunity to make a stained-glass windows with symbols of Pentecost. 
​You will need to include in the kit for each household:

• Print the instructions Create Stained Glass Window Art (Two-page letter size file that can be printed two sided) Click HERE for the file. 

In the kit, each child/youth will need: 

• Printed copy of the Template, Create Fish and Flame Template Stained Glass Art (Legal size paper, one sided) Click HERE for the file. 
• Tissue paper – red, orange, yellow (four colours, 4 x 6 inches of each)
• Clear Contact paper (MacTac), 2 sheets of legal size

Holy Spirit Fly! Instructions
Paper Spirit Plane fun!

You will need to include in the kit for each household:

• Print the instructions Holy Spirit Fly! Instructions (Two-page letter size file that can be printed two sided) Click HERE for the file, 

Share a Note – An opportunity to share a message of care and love with someone else in the church family.
​You will need to include in the kit for each household:

• Print the instructions Share a Note Instructions (Landscape, 4 up) Click HERE for the file. 

In the kit, each children/youth will need: 

• A postcard for each child/youth – print Share a Note Cards (Landscape, 4 up, 3 pages, Cardstock) and cut into the cards (finished size is 4.25 x 5.5 inches) Click HERE for the file. 
• Address and pre-stamp one card for each child/youth in the household.  Address them with individuals from your congregation who would appreciate a card.

Prayer Practices for All Ages – prayer rituals for children and youth
You will need to include in the kit for each household:

• Print the instructions Prayer Practices for All Ages (Landscape, 2 up). Click HERE for the file

In the kit, each child/youth will need: 

• Printed copy of the Template, Dove and Flame Prayer Template (Landscape, 2 up) Click HERE for the file. 
• Printed copy of the Pentecost Prayer Mat, (HERE) and Creation Prayer Mat (HERE)  (Landscape, Letter Size, best in colour and printed one mat on each side on coated stock or laminated)
• Playdough or modelling clay

The Creative Prayer Mats are created by Mina Munns at http://flamecreativekids.blogspot.com/

​Pentecost Banner – An opportunity to decorate the home for Pentecost and give thanks for the church family at the same time!
​You will need to include in the kit for each household:

• Print the instructions Pentecost Banner (Landscape, 4 up) Click HERE for the file. 

In the kit, each household will need: 

• A set of the Letter Cards – print Pentecost Banner Letters to Decorate (Landscape, 4 up, 3 pages, Cardstock) and cut into sets (finished size is 5.5 x 4.25 inches) Click HERE for the file. 
• String or ribbon to put the cards up

Other Ideas - There are a couple of sheets you might want to print and include, one for each person:

• Pentecost Prayer Journal – a page to journal or take the prompts and write and draw in their own journals (Portrait, Letter Size) Click HERE for the file. 
• Pentecost Word Search (Portrait, Letter Size) Click HERE for the file. 
• Pentecost Word Scramble (Portrait, Letter Size) Click HERE for the file. 
• There is a label called Tag for Kit Using Avery Label 5392 that you might wish to print for the front of your kit (Portrait, Letter Size, 6 up) Click HERE for the file.