Teach us to pray activity to go with the Bible story from  Acts 12:1-19  – Peter in prison. The church met to pray for Peter and their prayers were answered. This take home craft is a reminder to pray. It would be  great  to use as a family too. Each person could pick a card from the bag and use it to say a short prayer.

Teach us to pray activity instructions

To make you will need – paper bags or envelopes, pens/pencils, scissors, print out of the four prayer prompts – praise, sorry, thank, please – and sticky label with ‘remember to pray’ printed on.

Talk about what the four prayer prompts mean – why we can praise God. How we can praise him for what he is like and the things he has done. Why do we need to say sorry to him? We have thought, said or done things against God’s law. What can we thank God for? food, clothes, friends. What can we ask for his help with – the please prayers. These can be for ourselves and for others. The children can write some of these ideas on the reverse of the cards. Encourage them to make the cards their own by adding ideas. 

Download the prayer prompt cards – childrens-prayer-card