by Sita Diehl | March 31, 2020 | Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Small Meetings
“It all starts with stopping,” says author Beth Collea, as she describes how the practice of coloring mandalas helps young children settle. Links are provided to websites with free, printable mandalas from the simple to the intricate. This tool is useful...
by Sita Diehl | November 16, 2019 | Centering Children's RE, Children's Religious Education
We use this settling routine from Ann Arbor (MI) Friends Meeting with all our kids, sometimes omitting a line or two. It’s important to have chairs an appropriate height for all children so their toes can touch the floor. Sitting on the floor with knees bent and...
by Sita Diehl | October 7, 2019 | Projects Children's RE
Join us in an exciting pop-up partnership between Friends Peace Teams and the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative! We are starting a pilot project organizing Friendly Holiday Gift Fairs as a way to learn about, celebrate, and support peacemaking through...
by Sita Diehl | November 30, 2018 | Adult Religious Education, Celebrations Children's RE, Children's Religious Education, Youth Education
We are grateful to Nancy Pickering of Middletown Friends Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) for three plays celebrating the Christmas season This is the Stable, A simple telling of the Nativity with readings from the book by Cynthia Cotten, illustrated by Delana...
