Praying in Color Kids' Edition: Kid's Edition [Paperback]

Sybil MacBeth (Author)

Book Description

Release date: February 1, 2009 | Age Range: 5 - 11 years

Now kids can pray in color, too!

This first-of-its-kind resource will forever change the way kids prayer - and how adults try to teach them to do it.

This is prayer that makes sense to kids. One minute a day will do. Any time of the day will work. Drawing with markers or crayons is h alf the prayer; the other half is carrying the visual memories throughout the day. Ages 5-11.

Praise for Praying in Color:
"Just as Julia Cameron, in the Artist's Way, showed the hardened Harvard businessman he had a creative artist lurking within, MacBeth makes it astonishingly clear that anyone with a box of colors and some paper can have a conversation with God."

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Sybil MacBeth is a math teacher and a dancer, and she is active in her local church in Memphis, Tennessee. Her first book, Praying in Color, has changed the prayer lives of many thousands of Christian adults, and now she has created the ideal version for kids. Sybil has been leading Praying in Color workshops across the U.S. for the last three years. You can visit her at www.Prayingincolor.com.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sybil Macbeth is a math teacher and a dancer, and she is active in her local churchin Memphis, Tennessee. Her first book, Praying in Color, has changed the lives of many thousands of Christian adults, and now she has created the ideal version for kids. Sybil has been leading Praying in Color workshops across the U.S. for the last three years. You can visit her at www.PrayinginColor.com.

Product Details

• Age Range: 5 - 11 years
  
• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Paraclete Press; Kid's ed edition (February 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557255954
• ISBN-13: 978-1557255952
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #15 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Inspirational
  • #48 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Prayer
  • #49 in Books > Children's Books > Religions > Christianity > Devotional

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing technicolor prayers! April 17, 2009

By Jerie E. Artz

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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!"

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful introduction to serious prayer for children August 14, 2010

By M. Fairchild

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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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as the original February 4, 2009

By shadette atchison

Format:Paperback

I have loved and benefited from the original book, Praying in Color. I have seen a galley of the kids' edition and it is super - kids will love it - and I am doing some of the things suggested for kids to do. My grandsons, ages 7 and 10 are going to like what they read here - they already pray in color and I know this book will deepen their prayer life!