Family Prayer Ideas for March

Prayer Flash Cards:
The idea: create flash cards as visual reminders of who you are praying for as a family. Your small children can use those cards as a reference on who to pray for.
Before you start: Gather together pictures of family members, friends, and church leaders (especially your child's Sunday school teacher) and create a set of flash cards using the pictures. If you glue the pictures onto construction paper or large index cards you can have room to write requests beneath the picture.
How it works: Use your deck of cards to guide your time of prayer. There are several ways that you can do this. The basic way to pray would be to turn over each card and then pray as a family for the person who is on the card. You can also pass out the cards face down to each person in your family and then take turns turning a card over and praying for the person on the card.

Puzzle Prayers:
The idea: God has given us each a special gift to use in the church. This prayer uses a puzzle to pray for the people who are in our church.
Before you start: Find a wooden puzzle or other toy that requires the matching of shapes. (Like a toy with square, triangle, and star shaped holes)
How it works: Put the puzzle together with your child. As you do point out that God made everyone different and special. Tell your child that the church has many different people with different talents all coming together to glorify God. As you put in the pieces of the puzzle pray for our church and its leaders. Be sure to include your child's Sunday school teacher in your prayers.
After you have prayed undo the puzzle and start putting them back in again. This time encourage your child to pray a prayer similar to the one that you prayed.

Art Prayers:
The idea: Draw your praise instead of saying or singing it.
Before you start: Gather a bunch of age appropriate art supplies
How it works: For younger children ask them to draw some of the things that God has done or God has made. For middle to older children and for adults draw a picture that provides some sort of ending to the phrase "God is...". As a family let this art time be a fun time. After everyone has finished share your pictures with each other and voice a short prayer of thanks using the pictures as a guide.

EGG CARTON PRAYER:
-In the 12 sections of an empty egg carton , write your prayers of praise, thanksgiving, concerns, petitions for others or anything else that you want to talk to the Lord about. Remember the 91st Psalm ...He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you shall find shelter. Since it takes 21 days for “eggs” to hatch; we give these prayer eggs to the Lord. This will help up to truly trust him with our cares and concerns. At the end of three weeks reread your prayers and see how God has said yes, no or wait!