Creative Prayers

  • Bubble prayers

    Think of a prayer, blow it into a bubble (using bubble mixture), when it pops, know it is heard!

  • Healing Prayer

    Draw around a small person on wallpaper or chalk their outline on the ground. On plasters or plaster shapes, write the names of people to be prayed for and then stick them on the outline.

  • Thank you prayers

    Write a thank you on a paper chain link and then make a paper chain. See how many thank yous you can think of. See how much God blesses us!

  • Sorry Prayers

    Write or draw your 'sorry' in sand. Say sorry to God and then rub it out

  • Sorry Prayers

    Give everyone a blob of shaving foam, smooth it out and write or draw your 'sorry' in it. Say sorry to God and rub it out

  • Thank you prayers

    Write thank yous on paper leaves and stick then on a tree

  • Paper plane prayers

    Write a prayer on a paper and make it into a paper plane. Throw the plane and then collect a plane and pray the prayer on it

  • Listening prayer

    Sit quietly for a minute and see what pictures, words or words from the Bible come into your head. After a minute, draw or write what you saw/heard on large sheets of lining paper

  • Sorry prayer

    Write your sorry on a piece of paper. Say sorry to God and use a shredder to shred the paper

  • Help Prayers

    Make paper boats. Write prayers on small pieces of paper. put the prayers on the boats and float the boats across a water-filled paddling pool.

  • Loud Thank You Prayers

    Ask everyone to think of a ‘thank you’ the leader says ‘Thank you God for 1,2,3,’ then everyone shouts their ‘thank yous’ together