The Lord’s Prayer for Children with Actions
Things you need:
An active body
Matthew 6:9-13 - The Lord’s Prayer
Use the actions described below as you say the words of the Lord’s Prayer.
- Our (point both hands to the chest)
- Father (hug own body)
- Who art in heaven (raise both hands upwards)
- Hallowed be thy name (place hands together in prayer)
- Thy kingdom come (‘pull’ heaven down out of the sky to your chest with both hands)
- Thy will be done (with elbows into your side touch your shoulders with both hands at the same time – left hand to left shoulder, right to right – then lower both hands down, as if offering them, stopping when your hands at a 90 degree angle out in front of the body)
- On earth (spread hands down towards ground and around, indicating the earth)
- As it is in heaven (spread hands up and around to indicate heaven)
- Give us this day (start with hands out in a receiving position, then draw them inwards and close the fists at the same time)
- Our daily bread (using left hand as a piece of bread, use right index and middle fingers together to perform the action of spreading butter back and forth across the left hand)
- And forgive us our trespasses (use both hands in a motion of flinging something away)
- As we (point to self with both hands)
- Forgive those (repeat forgiving action above)
- Who trespass against us (clench both fists, and bang the right one down on top of the left one, as if hammering it once)
- And lead us not into temptation (Keeping fists closed, cross wrists as if they are tied together)
- But deliver us from evil (pull wrists apart as if being suddenly freed)
- For Thine is the Kingdom (use both hands, with fingers pointing upwards, to make a crown for your head)
- The Power (use both hands to show biceps in a power action)
- And the Glory (lift arms together over head, and bring them down and out to each side to form a glorious circle)
- Forever and ever (arms move in two steps out to each side, simultaneously, as if drawing a rounded sort of M-shape)
- Amen (hands come together in prayer)
Source:
Karen Holford
www.secadventist.org
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