Edible Playdough Ingredients: 1 cup plain flour ½ teaspoon bicarb soda ½ teaspoon powdered ginger ½ teaspoon mixed spice 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1/3 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons golden syrup 1 tablespoon milk Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup together and pour into flour   mixture.  Add milk. Mix well to form a dough…. Continue reading

Shortcut Playdough 1 cup salt 2 cups plain flour 2 Tablespoons cooking oil 2 Tablespoons Cream of Tartar 2 cups boiling water food colouring if required Method: Combine ingredients (except water) in a bowl. Pour the boiling water in and stir. Knead lightly on a table top. Store in plastic bag – will keep for weeks. Microwave Playdough 2 cups plain flour 1 cup salt 1 tablespoon Cream… Continue reading

A Children’s Ministry Policy On The Way Together has been developed in consultation with the Uniting Church in Australia Synod’s consultants and Committees on Ministry with Children.  On The Way Together policy workbook is recommended to the congregations and Councils of the Uniting Church in Australia by Uniting Education, the Assembly (national) agency for Christian education. On The… Continue reading

Godly Play: “Godly play” is a term coined by Jerome Berryman to describe an approach to children’s spiritual formation that is based on creating a sacred space in which to present the stories of our faith, wonder about them together, and then allow the children open-ended opportunities, usually with art supplies, to engage the story on their own terms…. Continue reading