Tapestry of Faith, Wonderful Welcome, Session 16 JPEG illustration for A Barn-raising in the City

Coloring Sheets for K-1 Stories!

Two Tapestry of Faith programs, Creating Home and Wonderful Welcome, now provide a black-and-white, original illustration to use as a coloring sheet for each core story. Invite kindergarten/1st grade children to color while they hear a story. Or, have them color afterward to revisit the characters and what happened.

Online, each illustration is presented alongside its story so that you can download and copy the single sheet. Also, a multi-page packet of drawings is available for all the stories in Creating Home (PDF, 18 pages) and another for all the stories in Wonderful Welcome (PDF, 17 pages).

Above: Illustration (coloring sheet) by Paul Gray for "A Barn-raising in the City," the Session 16 story in Wonderful Welcome.

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  • One Hundred Wisdom Stories from Around the World, Margaret Silf, p.29. “How Much Does a Snowflake Weigh?” Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press. Copyright (C) 2003. Used by Permission for this one time use. No reprints or use permitted. All Rights Reserved. It was deep winter and the snow was falling...
    Story | November 7, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Amazing Grace
    Tagged as: Responsibility
  • Retold by Sarah Conover and Freda Crane. From Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (Boston: Skinner House, 2010). Kan ya ma kan: there was and there was not a time when Joha and his son set out for the market with their donkey walking along behind...
    Story | By Sarah Conover, Freda Crane | November 7, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Amazing Grace
    Tagged as: Ethics
  • Once there was and twice there wasn't two old brothers who were inseparable travelers: one was named Life, the other Death. One time, after journeying across a desert, they came to a refreshing green oasis where they were greeted by the spring-keeper. "Would you like some cool water to drink?" he...
    Story | November 7, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Amazing Grace
    Tagged as: Death, Ethics
  • Retold by Sarah Conover and Freda Crane. From Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents (Boston: Skinner House, 2010). Kan ya ma kan: there was and there was not a man known far and wide for his generosity....
    Story | November 7, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Amazing Grace
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Conscience
  • If Pandora were alive today, she would probably sneak a peek at every gift under her Christmas tree. However, Pandora lived in very ancient times, according to a Greek myth. She herself was a gift, a special gift that Zeus sent to Earth....
    Story | November 7, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Amazing Grace
    Tagged as: Ethics, Faith, Wonder
  • Based on a 2011 interview with Reverend Howard Dana, who has been the Unitarian Church of Harrisburg's minister since August, 2000. When you were a child, did you have a favorite toy? Maybe it was a stuffed animal, doll, or toy truck. Did it go everywhere with you: to the market, in the tub, to bed?
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Brokenness, Commitment, Community, Discernment, Growth, Justice, Service
  • This is the story of Azim Khamisa. His decision to forgive deeds many would consider unforgiveable has inspired and transformed people all over the world. Azim, an international investment banker, lived in San Diego, with his two children, a son, Tariq, and a daughter, Tasreen. One night in 1995,...
    Story | By Shelley Jackson Denham | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Compassion, Fathers, Forgiveness, Islam, Pain, Relationships
  • A century ago, when Lotta Hitschmanova was young, she lived with her sister Lilly and their mother and father in a spacious home in the ancient city of Prague....
    Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: History, Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Service, Unitarianism
  • What is the value of a gift given? Is it just the dollar amount on the price tag or are some gifts worth much more? Let me tell you about a gift that was not worth much monetarily, but which made a wealthy woman richer than she could have imagined....
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: Class, Generosity, Humility, Poverty, Wealth
  • From Christian scripture, Luke 15:11-32 (New Revised Standard Version). Then Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them. A few days later the...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: Christianity, Compassion, Fathers, Forgiveness, Love, Reconciliation
  • The ban started in 2006, on Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago. The Zanzibar islands on the Indian Ocean are famous for their pristine beaches and their history of trade in spices and slaves. Today, Zanzibar depends on tourism for most of its income. One month after this island paradise was named as...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Balance, Earth Day, Responsibility, Stewardship
  • A retelling of a Buddhist Jataka Tale. Once there was a village that was prosperous. The wealthiest of the villagers was afraid that the town’s reputation would attract thieves, so they buried a huge lump of gold in a field for safe keeping. Many years passed and the village lost much of its...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Virtue Ethics
    Tagged as: Balance, Greed
  • The following account is one young person's encounter with a fundamentalist extremist group. In June of 1998, I lost an uncle to an AIDS related illness. He was brilliant, he was Christian, and he was gay. I was only five years old when he died and I didn't know anything about AIDS. I just knew I...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Love
  • Born in 1793, Lucretia Mott was raised a Quaker in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The faith had made inroads on that island almost a century before when Mary Starbuck, a prominent woman merchant and civic leader, discovered that Quakers espoused the equality of the sexes. Still, even the Quakers had...
    Story | By Greta Anderson | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Equity
  • How did an American religion that began with a boy praying in the woods become, in less than 200 years, a major world religion? How did a story as surprising as his—of Jesus visiting the Americas and modern-day Native Americans descending from the Hebrews—gain acceptance by 13 million people...
    Story | By Greta Anderson | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Christianity
  • Remarkable women have done remarkable things in every part of the world in every time in history. Most of their accomplishments were not recorded in history books....
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
  • Arabia in the sixth century was dangerous and chaotic. [Leader: On a map or globe, indicate Arabian Peninsula, sweeping over Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Libya.] There were shortages of food and other goods, which led many to steal. A few people were rich, but most were very poor. The...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Islam
  • The Reverend James Jones was a charismatic young man of 24 when he founded the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1955. He preached racial equality, and, amazingly, more than half the Peoples Temple members were of racial minorities—a level of diversity almost unheard of in the 1950s. The church...
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
  • From Hebrew scripture, the Book of Exodus....
    Story | October 29, 2014 | For High School | From Building Bridges
    Tagged as: Authority
  • Sometimes, freedom is a long time coming. It may take generations upon generations for justice to be won. Our Unitarian ancestor Reverend Theodore Parker said, "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe: the arc is a long one...
    Story | By Jessica York | October 28, 2014 | For High School | From Heeding the Call
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Diversity, Equity, Freedom, Hope, Human Rights, Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Solidarity