Laudato Si for Kids booklet

Objective: To help young people understand the main points of Laudato Si’

Duration: 3 hours

Laudato Si’ Jenga

Objective: Understand the key ideas in the encyclical Laudato Si’ and catalyze actions to promote a healthier planet

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Leaving No Carbon Footprints Behind!

Objective: To promote the making and sharing of individual commitments that will reduce negative contributions to climate change.

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Litany – Teach Us and Show Us the Way

Objective: To remind us of our blessings and pray for those who suffer.

Duration: 15-20 minutes

Living on Less Than $1 a Day

Objective: To give mindful context to living in poverty.

Duration: 5-15 minutes

Living Simply Art Activity

Objective: To have participants depict the connection between our lifestyles and their environmental impacts.

Duration: 1-2 hours

Moving People Skit

Objective: To enable participants to reflect on the value and dignity of each person, and explore the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Oh, Great Spirit

Objective: To reflect and pray.

Duration: 5-10 minutes

On the Move: A Refugee Simulation Activity

Objective: To help participants appreciate the struggles a refugee family may experience in their journey to safety, and better empathise with the situation of refugees.

Duration: 50 minutes

Opening Liturgy

Objective: To begin your fast mindfully and create a faith context for the event.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Orange Trading Game

Objective: To understand some of the pressures facing poor farmers in the South; that many factors are completely out of their hands and that it is still possible to be poor even if you work very hard. To introduce the concept of fair trade.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Powerdown Olympics

Objective: To demonstrate our dependency on fossil fuels and their impact on our planet.

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Praised Be

Objective: To reflect and pray.

Duration: 5-15 minutes

Prayer for Planting

Objective: To reflect and pray.

Duration: 5-10 minutes

Prayer for Strength to Act

Objective: Prayer to give us courage to act for justice.

Duration: 5-15 minutes

Prayer in Response to the Climate Emergency

Objective: To reflect on the impact we have on Our Common Home and pray for change

Duration: 5 minutes

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Laudato Si for Kids booklet

Laudato Si’ Jenga

Leaving No Carbon Footprints Behind!

Litany – Teach Us and Show Us the Way

Living on Less Than $1 a Day

Living Simply Art Activity

Moving People Skit

Oh, Great Spirit

On the Move: A Refugee Simulation Activity

Opening Liturgy

Orange Trading Game

Powerdown Olympics

Praised Be

Prayer for Planting

Prayer for Strength to Act

Prayer in Response to the Climate Emergency

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