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David Bell's profile picture
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11 April 2023, 19:13

Kidzone Packs

Dorothy and Earnest Willis have kindly made available again their resource kits for Sunday School age children.

We used to curate these in kiwiconnexion until the last Mahara software update. Then we lost a lot of pages, but slowly we are recovering. 

I've attached the one chosen for this Easter school holidays so the four young folk at Waiake have some church activities.

I changed the graphics set for making a zine - gave it a local appearance.

Note that the PDF is set up for A3 double sided colour printing. It looks a little jumbled onscreen but it's designed for hard copy.

Journal for all ages

Along with the resource pack, I also made a journal for all ages. It's printed on high quality Fabriano pastel paper. This makes it ideal for drawing with coloured pencils, chalk pastels, charcoal sticks, and also for collaging. You can paste in other art or written material. That's mostly how I did the A2 works for The Glass Bead Game.

This journal - which also prints as above - is to help both children and adults along the path of making art to help anchor their experience of important bible stories.

There's not only some of my work but also the splendid graphics of Anne Gray and Melissa Martyn. They did the graphics for a number of books and zines we made at Trinity-at-Waiake back in 2003-5,  published with AIM and the Methodist Church of New Zealand. I remember Touchstone newspaper won the best page of the year throughout Australasia with one of Melissa's graphics. I've included it in the journal. Please remember all the graphics are ©AIM so if you print and photocopy an acknowledgment would be very helpful.

I can print you a copy of the Journal if you want - $10 to cover costs - and we may perhaps make a small study of how to develop both your artwork and also the theological implications of Adam and Eve, and Jonah and the Whale. Fairy stories for children? No, as I see it, reality played out in every individual psyche.

  • journeying together - reflections on important stories.pdf
  • kidzone resources book 1.pdf
David Bell's profile picture
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18 April 2023, 14:03

Auckland and Lower North island are emailing Dorothy and Earnest Willis' kidzone packs 01-05 in the next few days, with the hope that congregations may pick these up for resourcing children on their pastoral roles. I've attached the Lower North Island Synod pack as a zip file.

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