Faith Curriculum Library: Tapestry of Faith: Spirituality and the Arts in Children's Programming: A Resource for Religious Educators

A general schedule

  • Opening song or regular ritual (such as joys and concerns) that brings the children into a circle of their own community and gets them ready to be together.
  • Introduction of arts activity moving from a simple process to a more complex one with as much choice as possible
  • Sharing the work with supportive feedback modeled by adults
  • Bringing the work together into a group process for community building
  • Deepening the process by sharing in words or other ways how the process made you feel
  • Adding information about the idea that the leader is trying to reinforce
  • Closing circle or ritual.