Family Planner

The family planner is a gift from the Uniting Church to families in South Australia.
It has been designed to give space for families to keep track of their busy schedule. It includes some useful phone numbers and websites to help you find them quickly and it also has the South Australian school term information. The planner also has 2 activities for children and carers to do together if time, energy and inclination permits!

For Churches

This family Planner is a great gift for families who are connected with your church. Simply print off the Family Planner just before the end of each school term and distribute it at the same time as Faith Family and any program or event information for the coming term. The family planner looks best and is most useful printed on white paper.

Download Family Planner

Term 1 2010: Family Planner Summer holidays and Term 1 2010 (2.93 MB)

Term 2 2010:  Term 2 2010 (2.49 MB)

Term 3 2010:  Family Planner Term 3 2010 (2.36 MB)

Activities

We have provided some activities as we have heard from many parents and carers that they want to talk about faith and spirituality with their children, but don’t know how to. We hope that these activities will help you to do that.

One activity is designed to be done at home and the other is designed for when you are travelling, be that walking, riding or driving! Please don’t feel pressured to do all of these activities, life is busy! Simply bring them in when you have time and the activity is something that you and your child(ren) will enjoy and get something out of. The activities have the age listed that they are suitable for.

Sometimes the activity will simply be for them to have draw, colour, scribble on the activity that you are mostly doing with them, or it might be that you have a discussion with your baby that they won’t be able to fully understand, but give it a go anyway as it will help you begin the process of open dialogue with your child. For each activity work out what they can do and enable them to do it, and you can enjoy doing the aspects that they can’t with them. All activities are simple and can be done with things you would find around the home or easily get in the supermarket or discount store. Feel free to create your own unique version.