The Complete Guide to Godly Play

From the Godly Play Foundation: “Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play approach helps them to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language and to enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play method serves children through early, middle and late childhood and beyond.” Friends will find the lessons on Bible stories to be a rich resource. Those about church structure, tradition and liturgy are less applicable.*

• Volume 1: Introduces the Godly Play approach with detailed information on creating a special space for children and techniques for presenting each lesson.
• Volume 2: Lessons on the Bible, the Holy Family and Old Testament stories
• Volume 3: Lessons on Advent, Christmas and the parables
• Volume 4: Lessons on Easter and Pentacost
• Volume 5: Practical information for religious educators
• Volume 6: Lessons on key people in the Old Testament
• Volume 7: Lessons on saints
• Volume 8: Lessons on Jesus, Mary, the church and the liturgy.

* See Faith and Play for a comparable curriculum on Quaker faith and practice and the work of early Friends.

Godly Play Training is available around the US and Canada, usually an intensive weekend training. The prerequisite text is: Teaching Godly Play: How to mentor the spiritual development of children by Jerome W. Berryman

All manuals can be purchased in English or Spanish from the Godly Play Foundation