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Saturday 15 October 2016

Printable worship styles survey and ideas for children


One of the things I really loved about teaching was helping children to explore their learning styles.   According to educational research, children learn in all sorts of different ways and will prefer some styles over others.  I really believe that the same philosophy applies to worship styles.   Organisations such as Scripture Union are really getting behind this idea, as you can see in their brilliant Explore Together material, which uses 6 different zones based on learning styles. 


There are so many ways of worshipping yet, in church, we tend to greatly restrict ourselves to linguistic and musical approaches. 


Based on ideas about learning styles, I've put together a survey you could do with children, to help find out their preferred styles and on the second sheet of the PDF you will find suggestions for approaching each style in worship. 

I like to…
always
sometimes
never
linguistic
Talk and tell stories
listen to stories
logical/ mathematical
solve puzzles
ask questions
intrapersonal
have time alone
Think about things
musical
sing or make music
listen to music
interpersonal
work with others
be in a group
spatial/visual
draw
look at pictures and videos
kinaesthetic
make or build things
move around
naturalist
be outdoors
work with plants or animals
think about the environment


Click here to print off the survey and suggestions.

For ease, I'm detailing the suggestions below, with links to ideas from this blog.  I need to add that these ideas are only touching the surface- there are so many other possibilities for worshipping God out there!

Have a go and let me know what happens!


Style
linguistic
read Bibles
logical/ mathematical
intrapersonal
time alone
musical
listen to music
sing
interpersonal
group sharing/ eating
spatial/visual
kinaesthetic
prayer beads
naturalist

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