“Our children are excited by the Scrapbook”
(Review written for 'Click Unit 5: 5-7s Child's Component')
The child component for Click Unit 5: 5-7s is the Son of God 'scrapbook', an A4 magazine. There is a colourful page per session, with spaces for the 'photo' (provided) )and 'blessings shape' (a photocopiable) to be stuck, as well as spaces to write. Our children are eager to be given their Scapbooks, and are excited when it's time to do them. The various spaces on the pages create an anticipation when the children flick through their booklets.
With this child component, the contents of the Scrapbook reinforce the teaching in the session to a greater extent than some of the other child components for other Units, and we feel this one is very well worth using.
The number of children who attend our Children's Church on a Sunday morning fluctuates from two to eight (with an age range of three to ten), and only a small core attend each week. We decided to allocate our regulars their own Scrapbook, and have 'communal' ones for the children who only come occasionally - these communal ones are given to whichever child attends that day. We look after the Scrapbooks each week, and stick the 'photos' and 'blessings shapes' into the communal scrapbooks to keep them current.
My quibble would be that the paper of the Scrapbook is shiny, so using pencil and felt pen to fill things in is tricky - a non-glossy paper would work better.
