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 day in Alabama, in 1968, as farmers worked in their fields, a small airplane swooped into view. The farmers looked up wonderingly as papers fluttered out of the plane, into the sky and came swirling down to earth all around them. The papers were flyers about the upcoming elections—flyers with...
    Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 6th Principle (World Community), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Conscience, Democracy, History, Identity, Justice, Politics, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism
  • You never know what the wind will blow in or which way the wind blows. The wind can change directions and maybe change your life. It happened to John Murray. As a young man, John Murray had excellent fortune blow his way. He had a fine education, a steady job, a loving wife, and a young son. Life...
    Story | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Creating Home
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Brokenness, Faith, Hospitality, Immigration, Leadership, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Religion, Universalism, Immigration
  • Charles Chauncy was the leading opponent of the Great Awakening, the Protestant evangelical movement that swept through the British North American colonies between 1739 and 1745. Chauncy was born into the elite Puritan merchant class that ruled Boston....
    Story | February 7, 2013 | For Adults | From What Moves Us
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Class, Conflict, Culture, Discernment, Dissent, Equity, History, Leadership, Privilege, Unitarianism
  • This is the story of Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister who was determined to do whatever he could to end slavery in the United States. His powerful sermons were legendary. This is also the story of Millard Fillmore, whose actions earned him the contempt of Theodore Parker and abolitionists...
    Story | By Polly Peterson | December 9, 2011 | For Adults | From The New UU
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, America, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Change, Choice, Compromise, Conflict, Conscience, Courage, Unitarianism
  • Hundreds of years ago, when America was still a very new country, Unitarianism and Universalism were also very new. They were actually two separate religions. By itself, Universalism was a loving and accepting religion. Universalists believed that God loved everyone and did not punish people. In...
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Love Surrounds Us
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Brokenness, Growth, Hope, Love, Purpose, Religion, Sacrifice, Universalism