Sensory Bible Stories

Thinking about the new creation with a tuff tray of balloons and blocks  We started a Bible overview series of sensory stories in early 2020. I grieved the many Sundays in 2020 where we had to put it on hold and rejoiced in 2021 when we finally completed it.  We based this series on 'The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross' . I'd come across the paperback version previously and thought that it looked like a good resource but was especially excited to see that it had also been published as a board book. As lots of us know finding resources to bring the gospel story to life for children and young people with additional needs isn't often easy. While 'The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross' hasn't been written (as far as I'm aware) with children and young people with additional needs in mind and hasn't been marketed for this group specifically, there's a number of reasons why I really enjoyed using it in this ministry It doesn't feel 'baby-ish...

  Welcome to Sensory Bible Stories! My  name is Helen and I live in North London. I’ve  been working with children, teenagers and young adults with autism and learning disabilities for 10+ years, I’ve been listening to and learning about the story of the gospel for 30+ years! I’ve been challenged in the last few years to find ways  to share the wonderful good news of the gospel with children and young people with additional needs. I run a small group at my church in ( St James Muswell Hill )  for children and young people with additional needs who have taught me so much about how to experience the gospel in a tangible way. Anecdotally it seems that children with additional needs, particularly those with a diagnosis of a learning disability and/or autism, are under-represented in the Church in the UK. It's difficult to find statistics to back this up (if anyone has any please let me know) but to give some context there are approximately 351,000 children livi...