Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Index cards and pens Newsprint or a dry erase board and markers Preparation for Activity Optional: Prepare a few index cards with love lyrics as an example for participants. Description of Activity Participants use the lyrics of popular songs to...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, A Rumi Poem Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, A Rumi Poem, one for each participant. Description of Activity Participants read a poem and explore their own views about a common theme in love poems: merging with another versus...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Art supplies, including drawing paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils, and other materials Newsprint or a dry erase board and markers Journals and pens or pencils Optional: CD player and music Preparation for Activity If youth will be free to wo...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Singing the Living Tradition Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by your group or the one provided below....

Materials for Activity Books of children's poetry Arts and crafts materials Blankets, pillows, sleeping bags, and/or bean bag chairs Congregational calendar Newsprint or dry erase board and markers Optional: Hand puppets or materials for making simple puppets Optional: Snacks Preparation for...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Use the Opening designed by your group or the one provided below. Gather around the chalice. As a volunteer lights the chalice, ask the group to focus on the word "love" in silence. After about fifteen...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Copies of Singing the Living Tradition and Singing the Journey Description of Activity Participants search for hymns with poetry they find inspiring or beautiful. Pass out hymnals. Ask participants if they have favorite hymns. As they do so, ask...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Jazz poems created in Activity 2, Jazz Poems Various art supplies, including poster board, glue, scissors, and markers Old magazines Preparation for Activity Have arts and crafts supplies available....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity One set of three different colored sheets of paper for each participant; or three sheets of white paper and three different colored markers for each participant Journals and pens or pencils Optional: Jazz CDs and CD player Optional: Scissors, glue,...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, "Perhaps," by Shu Ting Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, "Perhaps," one for each participant. Description of Activity Give everyone a copy of the poem. Ask two or more volunteers to read it aloud, pausing for thirty seconds...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Singing the Living Tradition Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by your group or the one provided below....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Paper and pens or pencils Resources for interfaith prayers, including Singing the Living Tradition and books of meditation Description of Activity One mission that some Unitarian Universalists take on is to help make our world a place that is more...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Use the Opening designed by your group or the one provided below. Gather around the chalice. As a volunteer lights the chalice, ask the group to focus on the words "life's mission" in silence. After about...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Soft, flexible wire, hemp, leather, or cotton cord cut into two-foot lengths Lettered beads Question mark beads Optional: A WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) or WWUUD? (What Would UU Do?) bracelet Preparation for Activity Make sure you have plenty of...

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Pens or pencils and journals Art supplies such as drawing paper, pastels, markers, and crayons Optional: CD player and background music for meditation Leader Resource 1: Spiritual Guides Meditation Preparation for Activity If you plan to lead the...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Pens or pencils and journals Optional: CD player and CD of instrumental music Preparation for Activity If participants are allowed to leave the immediate area to write, decide how you will call everyone back (with a bell/chime, verbally, or by...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, "A Story," by Jane Hirshfield Handout 2, "Love in the Classroom," by Al Zolynas Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handouts 1, "A Story" and 2, "Love in the Classroom," one for each participant....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint or dry erase board and markers Pens or pencils and journal Preparation for Activity Write each of the following prompts on newsprint (two per sheet) or on the dry erase board, leaving room around each for participant's comments: Argument...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Singing the Living Tradition hymnal Preparation for Activity If hymnals are not always available, consider printing the words below on newsprint and posting the sheet in the workshop space. Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by...

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Blank note cards Pens or pencils Optional: Art materials such as pastels, markers, charcoal, or crayons Optional: CD player and music Description of Activity Each participant writes a thank-you note to a teacher in his/her past. Have participants...