Are you trying to include more creative prayers in your children’s ministry? Then look no further! Here are five unique ideas to get started.
Use these creative prayers to help kids connect with Jesus. Let children know they can talk to God anytime and about anything.
5 Creative Prayers for Kids
1. Prayer Walk
First, walk around your church grounds or neighborhood with students. Stop every 50 steps or so. Then invite the children to look around for:
- something to praise God for creating,
- someone who has a need, and
- something that reminds them of a blessing God has given them.
Allow 30 seconds for children to look around. Then take 30 seconds to pray silently before resuming your walk. When you return to the meeting area, discuss the most surprising thing each child found to pray about as they walked.
2. Bearing Burdens
Give each child a sheet of paper and a pencil. Have them write in the center of their paper a prayer concern they’d like to tell others. Then gather the children in a circle (or several circles, if you have a large group). Have children hold their sheets of paper. Have the first child share the concern they wrote, then pass the paper to the person to the left. That person will say a short intercession for the child and rip off a piece of the paper.
Continue around the circle until each child has asked God for help with that need and torn off a piece of the paper. Then have the second child share their need, and so on until all the children are prayed for.
Afterward ask, “What happened to the papers?” Explain that just as our papers became smaller, so our burdens seem smaller when others pray for us.
3. FaithWorks
Write the word “faith” on a large piece of butcher paper. Have each child write on a strip of masking tape a prayer that God has answered. The prayer can be their own, someone else’s, or a situation from the Bible. Use the children’s tape strips to attach the butcher paper to the wall.
Discuss with children that it’s important to share answered prayers. Why? Because they encourage people’s faith! Seeing how God has answered in the past gives us faith for the future.
For kids who have prayer requests, have them write those on the faith poster as an expression of their belief that God will hear and answer. Each week highlight prayer requests that God has answered.