Creating Access and Inclusion in Worship

INVOLVING CHILDREN IN INCLUSION AWARENESS DAY I AM ?THUMB? BODY ACTIVITY

Materials:
Large table
Large pieces of banner paper
Stamp pads in various colors
(create your own using small
sponges and food colors)
Black Thin Tipped Felt Markers
Disposable wipes to clean thumbs

Spread the large sheets of banner paper on the table. Write ?I Am Thumb Body? in the center of each banner in large letters. Invite children and adults to coat their thumbs/fingers lightly on the stamp pads and press their prints onto the large banner paper to make a head and a body. Use the markers to draw eyes, nose, mouth, hair, arms, legs, clothes etc. on your thumbprint portrait. Sign your name below your portrait. Clean off thumbs with wipes. When each paper is covered with thumbprint people, display the banner for all to see.

PAPER DOLL ACTIVITY
Materials:
Roll of banner art paper
Paper dolls pre-cut and punched
by Youth Group
Yarn pieces pre-cut by Youth
Group
Crayons

Set up tables with supplies. Invite children to decorate a pre-cut paper doll of themselves with crayons. String dolls together by inserting yarn into holes in hands of dolls and tying together. Write ?We are All Different Yet All Alike in the Eyes of the Lord? in large letters on the banner paper. Attach the yarn joined dolls to the banner and display for all to see.

SUNDAY SCHOOL ACTIVITY
Distribute the Different Gifts, But the Same Spirit Lesson Plans from www.inclusioninworship.org to all catechists. Ask them to use the lessons during religious education classes on or closest to Inclusion Awareness Day.