Resource Hub

Need activities and ideas for primary RE, collective worship, church home groups, children’s and families work or for faith in the home?

The BRF Resource Hub is your one-stop shop for free tried and tested ideas from over 20 years of working in primary RE (through Barnabas in Schools) and in resourcing churches.

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A church year line

26.05.2021

This is a teaching activity to help people understand more the pattern of the church…

Advent Ascension Christmas Easter Epiphany Harvest Holy Week Lent Worship

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Celebrate Holy Week

02.06.2021

The last parable that Jesus used about ‘the rejected stone’ perhaps sums up Holy Week…

Holy Week Parables Teaching of Jesus

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Celebrate the last supper

02.06.2021

This simple outline offers a lively way to tell one incident from the last supper…

Holy Week Storytelling Teaching of Jesus

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Decision time

03.06.2021

The weeks of Lent are traditionally a time for personal reflection and recommitment to following…

Easter Holy Week Lent Prayer Reflective Temptation

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Easter - A Good Friday service for all

03.06.2021

An outline for a Good Friday service, which is for the whole church family.

Craft Easter Good Friday Holy Week Storytelling The Cross

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Easter - the footwashing story

03.06.2021

Activities to explore this Holy Week story with children or in an all-age service.

Holy Week

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Easter – Good Friday

04.06.2021

An outline of a Good Friday service that young people led at Salisbury Cathedral.

Drama Easter Good Friday Holy Week

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Easter – Good Friday presentation

04.06.2021

Here are three possible sections for an all-age presentation for Good Friday morning. In between…

Easter Good Friday Holy Week

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Easter – palms for Holy Week

04.06.2021

A simple idea to introduce the events of Holy Week using the palms of your…

Craft Easter Holy Week Palm Sunday

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Easter – the sounds of Holy Week

04.06.2021

An activity to provide the soundtrack for the events leading up to Easter.

Holy Week Music and mime

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Holy Week cube

07.06.2021

Here’s a simple craft idea for retelling the story of Holy Week with your children’s…

Craft Holy Week

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Holy Week visual aid

07.06.2021

This is an adaptation of a well-tried paper-folding and paper-tearing exercise that tells the story…

Easter Holy Week Lent

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Walk through Holy Week

28.05.2021

The following idea focuses on one event for each day, starting with Palm Sunday, and…

Drama Easter Holy Week John Lent

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Worship sculpture - a dramatic activity

27.05.2021

Story Sculpture – Basically, you’re turning phrases from a Bible story into a meditative piece…

Drama Easter Holy Week Lent

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