Find an interesting person to present to the children and connect an activity to that life. Example: Buckminster Fuller, a Unitarian who created the geodesic dome To create sacred space, gather photos of various natural or human-made sacred spaces. and a photo of a geodesic dome. Ask the children...

Purchase or make a blank puzzle from cardboard. Begin the session with a guided meditation to encourage the children to think about their personal gifts. Give each child a piece of the puzzle to decorate to represent themselves as individuals....

There are many ways to set up lessons to encourage connections between children's inner experience and arts activities. These are some general guidelines. Always begin with a practice which helps the children to center and get ready for the experience they are about to have. If you begin your...

Adult leaders need to serve as guides into the process and as witnesses to the children's unfolding. We have moved in educational theory from thinking of the child as an empty vessel that needs to be filled with knowledge to seeing children as unique human beings with differing intelligences and...

Spirituality and Creativity Briggs, John and F. David Peat. Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom From the Science of Change. San Francisco: HarperPerennial, 1999. Dissanayake, Ellen. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. Fox, Matthew.

Master calligrapher Margaret Shepherd transforms ‘the words the church is made of’ into dazzling modern art.