Darren Wright's Digital Orthodoxy blog has an enormous quantity of great ideas, mostly simple and easily achievable for ministry with younger and not-so-young people.

Here's one for the last week of Advent, with bits you could easily haul together and the end result is thoughtful , wonderful and something with many uses. Have a look here...

And here are some of Darren's thoughts in the matter...

I really like the idea of story stones, so when I was thinking about Christmas crafts last year the idea came to me that I could create my own nativity stones. Nativity stones would allow people to carry the nativity story with them, they’d be a great story telling device and kids could have a lot of fun creating them and using them to retell the story.

Questions like “Who is your favourite character in the Christmas story?” “Is there anyone that we could remove from the story and still have all that we need?” “What’s your favourite part of the Christmas story?” can be asked as you play with the stones and tell each other the story.