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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  • From Christian scripture, John 6:1-19, New Revised Standard Version (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1990). A large crowd kept following [Jesus], because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples....
    Story | May 18, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Awe, Challenge, Christianity, Community, Creativity, Food, Generosity, Limitations, Mystery, Teamwork, Thanksgiving, Transformation
  • As a child, Joseph Priestley noticed something that would influence the rest of his life: If you keep a bug in a jar for too long, it will die. At the time Joseph Priestley didn’t understand why that was true—nobody did. No one really studied the air; it was something everyone took for granted.
    Story | May 18, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Earth Day, Interdependence, Mindfulness, Mystery, Nature, Reason, Revelation, Science, Transformation, Unitarianism, Wonder
  • This Korean folk tale, translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl, is similar to the European folk tale “The Frog Prince.” Used with the translator’s permission. Once there was a woman who had a son late in life, and much to her surprise, he was born as a snake. She covered him with the bamboo hat she...
    Story | May 18, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Acceptance, Commitment, Compassion, Courage, Family, Identity, International, Reconciliation, Transformation, Vulnerability, Worth
  • In 1927 a Roman Catholic priest and scientist Georges Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, based on work by Edwin Hubble who theorized and then proved that the Universe was getting bigger and bigger. Many scientists have discovered other...
    Story | May 13, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Birth, Earth, Earth Day, Growth, Humanism, Mystery, Nature, Progress, Reason, Science, Transformation
  • A retelling of a Hawaiian legend. The god Maui was the smallest but smartest of his brothers, who often made fun of him because he couldn’t fish very well. Sometimes Maui would go out on a boat with his brothers, distract them when they had a fish on the line, and steal it from them, claiming it...
    Story | May 13, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Birth, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Family, God, Goddess, Interdependence, Mystery, Nature, Transformation
  • Holding up an apple (or other fruit) as you begin telling this story provides a focus. If no one responds to your questions, or if the group is too big, you can give your own answers. If appropriate, slice the fruit and hand out pieces to students. Have you ever eaten an apple?...
    Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of Wonder
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Creativity, Earth, Food Justice, Generosity, Interdependence, Nature, Teamwork, Transformation, Unitarian Universalism
  • Noah's Wife: The Story of Naamah (C) Text 1996 Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. Permission granted by Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, www.jewishlights.com.
    Story | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of Wonder
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Creativity, Earth, Growth, Judaism, Nature, Responsibility, Transformation, Women, Wonder
  • A Lamp in Every Corner (Boston: Skinner House, 2004). On a day not so very long ago, in a place not so very far away, a grass seed lay waiting. All through the cold, dark days of winter the seed waited, covered by a blanket of earth....
    Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of Wonder
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Death, Diversity, Earth-Centered, Food, Good, Growth, Interdependence, Nature, Science, Transformation
  • Adapted from The Family Finds Out by Edith Hunter (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966).Ellen was sitting up on a branch of the apple tree, swinging her legs. Her mother was looking over the vegetable garden. "Want to see a nice fat green worm?" her mother called. Ellen jumped down from the tree and ran...
    Story | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From World of Wonder
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Birth, Caring, Direct Experience, Freedom, Growth, Interdependence, Nature, Transformation, Wonder
  • A contemporary painter named Debora Jones-Buck has what many consider an unusual approach to her work. She prepares a canvas and then paints a picture on it. Then, when the paint has dried, she paints an entirely different image on top of it. And then another, and another. Eventually she puts the...
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Adults | From Spirit in Practice
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Brokenness, Creativity, Direct Experience, Freedom, Imagination, Letting Go, Playfulness, Transformation, Vision
  • We say the young have much to learn, but I find they know and do things unfamiliar to me, so I am pleased to learn from them when I can. Example: Two young college men asked me for a ride, because they were late to work. Their summer construction job was near my office, so I was glad to oblige....
    Story | By Robert Fulghum | October 27, 2011 | For High School | From Heeding the Call
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Commitment, Creativity, Direct Experience, Food, Imagination, Justice, Limitations, Patience, Transformation, Vision, Youth/Teens
  • Based on a tale told in the 1700s by the Jewish teacher, Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, Maggid of Dubno....
    Story | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Love Will Guide Us
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Choice, Creativity, Direct Experience, Discernment, Failure, Judaism, Limitations, Love, Redemption, Transformation, Wonder
  • From Stories in Faith: Exploring Our UU Principles and Sources Through Wisdom Tales (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2007). Once upon a time, there lived a rich and vain young squire. Servants prepared his favorite foods each day. His every wish was granted. One of the young man's...
    Story | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Letting Go, Money, Nature, Power, Respect, Simplicity, Transformation