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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  • Based on a Santerian story. Special thanks to Lesley Murdoch for her insights to Afro-Caribbean religions. The Orisha are gods that came originally from Nigeria, in West Africa, as part of the Yoruba religion....
    Story | July 9, 2013 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Signs of Our Faith
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Brokenness, Challenge, Commitment, Community, Courage, Diversity, Indigenous American, Justice, Limitations, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism
  • "Honey, those girls were being chased for at least half a mile once school got out," Ms. Myra recalled. I shook my head knowingly. We had just walked out of the subway station across the street from Boys and Girls High School and were listening to the owner of Cafe 258, one of our original safe...
    Story | By India McKnight | July 20, 2012 | For Adults | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Blame, Caring, Commitment, Community, Direct Experience, Justice, Leadership, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism
  • By Ellen Zemlin, a White Unitarian Universalist.For me, there's never really been a question about whether my Unitarian Universalism and my commitment to antiracism, anti-oppression, and multiculturalism are related. My introduction to justice work came sitting in a circle on the floor at youth...
    Story | July 20, 2012 | For Adults | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Commitment, Equity, Faith, Growth, Hope, Justice, Multiculturalism, Politics, Unitarian Universalism, Multiculturalism
  • Russell was an amateur geologist, paleontologist, and professional teacher. He took his young charges on an overnight field trip. While sitting around the campfire, he brought out a bag, took out five rocks, and held up a round, grapefruit-size rock....
    Story | By Jose Ballester | July 20, 2012 | For Adults | From Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Awe, Beauty, Character, Diversity, Earth, Earth-Centered, Growth, Kindness, Multiculturalism, Mystery, Nature, Multiculturalism
  • Every religion has factions that disagree about "doctrine"—that is, the official beliefs of that religion. Even ours. Even though Unitarian Universalism is a free religion without a set doctrine or creed, there are plenty of ways to disagree about what it means to be a UU. One such disagreement...
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From A Chorus of Faiths
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Belief, Brokenness, Caring, Community, History, Inclusion, Multiculturalism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Religion, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Religious Pluralism, Multiculturalism
  • By Daniel Quinn, in Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (New York: Bantam/Turner Books, 1992). Used by permission.This story (Ishmael said) takes place half a billion years ago—an inconceivably long time ago, when this planet would be all but unrecognizable to you. Nothing at all stirred...
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From A Chorus of Faiths
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Belief, Multiculturalism, Mystery, Reason, Religion, Religious Pluralism, Multiculturalism
  • I am an American Muslim. I believe in pluralism. In the Holy Quran, God tells us, ''I created you into diverse nations and tribes that you may come to know one another.'' I believe America is humanity's best opportunity to make God's wish that we come to know one another a reality. In my office...
    Story | By Eboo Patel | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From A Chorus of Faiths
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Conscience, Empathy, Islam, Multiculturalism, Religion, Respect, Responsibility, Anti-Racism, Religious Pluralism, Multiculturalism
  • The quotes in this story come from the website Oasis of Peace. Imagine a village that is home to 55 families with a waiting list of more than 300 families hoping to become part of the community....
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Heeding the Call
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Community, Conflict, Courage, Family, Humanism, Interdependence, Justice, Multiculturalism, Nonviolence, Peace, Relationships, Multiculturalism
  • When Ruby Bridges was six years old and in the first grade, just like many other children, she went to a new school. Ruby's school was called William Frantz Elementary School. It was in the City of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana.
    Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Love Surrounds Us
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Anger, Anti-Oppression, Children, Conscience, Courage, Inclusion, Justice, Multiculturalism, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Multiculturalism
  • Adapted from "Many Paths to God" in Hide and Seek with God (Skinner House Books, 1994). Used with permission. Narrator: Once upon a time, four travelers from different lands met near a mountain. The travelers had been told that if they climbed the mountain, they would find God at the top....
    Story | By Mary Ann Moore | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Love Surrounds Us
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Belief, Challenge, Connections, Credo, Diversity, Individualism, Multiculturalism, Unitarian Universalism, Multiculturalism
  • By Judith C. Campbell. Used with permission. From UU & Me!: Collected Stories, edited by Betsy Hill Williams (Boston: Skinner House, 2003). Originally published in uu&me, Volume 3, Number 3, December 1999. UU&Me! is published by the Church of the Largeer Fellowship. Hello....
    Story | By Judith Campbell | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful Journeys
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Acceptance, Community, Diversity, Globalism, Hospitality, Multiculturalism, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Multiculturalism
  • By Ellen Gold. Based on information in the book, Maglipay Universalist, by Fred Muir (Annapolis, Maryland: Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, 2001) and a 2002 review of Muir's book by Rosemary Bray McNatt in UU World magazine. I bet some of you love to read. Maybe you have a favorite book.
    Story | By Ellen Gold | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful Journeys
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Brokenness, Challenge, Change, Christianity, Commitment, Courage, Faith, History, Multiculturalism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Universalism, Multiculturalism