Praying in Color Kid's Edition Paperback – February 1, 2009

I often find myself reading books to our girls, playing with Play-Doh, and coloring pictures. Of course I’m not able to sit down and do these things with them all of the time, but I always enjoy when I have an opportunity to spend good quality time with them.I recently read this little book to our daughter, and it made me realize I could turn all of this time over to God. “Praying in Color: Kids Edition” by Sybil MacBeth is a great resource for parents, CCD class instructors, vacation bible school leaders, and homeschool families. It’s full of bright, colorful pages, and it meets your child on his or her level, introducing an alternative method of prayer.As parents, it’s helpful to realize that we can give all of our playtime with our children over to God. But this book takes that a step farther, and helps kids learn to color out their prayers to God.Children are first encouraged to come up with their own personal way of addressing their Creator. Then, MacBeth walks them – or rather, draws them – through a fun way to talk to God: praying in color! This book is a colorful toolkit. It introduces a variety of brush stroke and squiggle options, a variety of names kids can use to address God, a variety of Bible verses, and a variety of types of prayer!You can read it with your kids, and refer back to it as you go about your coloring adventures together!If you do have a lot of teaching experience, I’m sure you’ll have no trouble creating a lesson plan from this well-laid out book. But if you are unsure of how to do this, or if your parish would like to educate its educators on how to conduct little Praying in Color workshops, “The Teaching DVD” would also be a valuable resource.

I found this book to be most helpful for me even though it is written for children. It helped me focus my thoughts, quiet my mind and be still in the presence of God. The colors on the page brought joy to my heart. What a great way to teach children to pray!

Children are capable of serious prayer. Too often they are only taught rote prayers and given no instruction in any other way to pray. This book, based on the author's wonderful book for adults "Praying in Color," remedies that. It teaches children to use simple coloring materials to focus their attention as they pray for others. I have used the technique with older elementary children and can confirm they take to it immediately and continue to practice it at home. In fact, their parents often express surprise at how interested their children become in prayer after learning this technique.I recommend it very highly. There is also a DVD that is not aimed at children, but is rather an instructional video for adults who want to learn how to teach this method of prayer to children. The DVD includes excerpts of an actual children's class.I recommend both this book and the companion adult book for anyone who wants to learn a way of prayer that helps focus mind, eyes, heart, and hands on God.

This is a slight little book and it doesn't require much time to read it cover to cover. It really doesn't live up to my hopes, but it might lead somebody into a more satisfying prayer life. I had in mind using it with grand daughters who are just beginning to learn to read but who like to draw and color. It will be a Christmas present, so is still untested. It works with an idea that had never occurred to me before. I doubt that I'll use it myself, but for somebody else, who knows?

I bought this book for myself and my kids. We all love to draw and I thought it would a great way to incorporate that into our prayer life. After I started reading through the pages I realized that I've done this before when I was too full of emotion for words. My 8 y.o. daughter was happy to jump right in and liked the option to draw a prayer instead of thinking of words to say. She took her time with it, focusing the whole time on what she was praying about. Funny thing is, she starting explaining it to me, and somehow that was a less scary way to say the words. The author gives lot of helpful suggestions and makes it easy to get started praying. In color.

This book is amazing! I bought the adult version to help me pray as I am easily distracted and have ADD. This was so helpful for me that I shared with my church family and they asked me to teach the kids and so I bought this book. You WON'T be disappointed. You will love this beautiful, Gina be easy way to focus on the people and things you are praying for.

Prayer can be in many forms, but praying in color is a wonderfully creative concept. I bought the original book for myself and used it. As the children's director for my church, I adapted it for my children last summer and they loved it. You can imagine my delight when the author actually published a version for children (which could be just as easily used with adults.) I highly recommend this book for anyone who struggles with wandering thoughts during prayer, doesn't know how to pray for others,has a hard time praying or just wants to enlarge their prayer life. In my book - this book is a "must!"

Purchased as a gift. We have the adult version of Sybil Macbeth and enjoy it. My kids did not like this version at all. I think that at ten they are too old for this version.

lovely idea, the children have yet to appreciate it as much as I did!

I was interested in this book as soon as I found out about it and was really impressed when I got it. I haven't read the adult version of this but I found it incredibly helpful for myself and am now passing this way of praying on to the preteen Sunday school class I teach. It is such a helpful way to pray and one that kids really understand and are excited about. I believe this book would be best for the ages 8-12.

Practical and applicable for children and adults (like me, who need it written for a child :) )This allows a child to incorporate creative ways of talking to God--using color, imagination and things that are relivant to your child. I have used the book to start my own Praying in Color journal.Worth the purchase, entirely!

lovely book for a child being brought up in Christian Faith, different arty way to help children pray

Gave me needed ideas, yet to implement them!