Faith-Filled Kids Adventures
Explore visual stories, prayer supports, feast-day learning, quiet tools, and downloadable activities.
Open resourceThe XTERMIGATOR Case Files
Tools that turn welcome into action.
Use, print, and adapt these faith-centered resources with clergy, religious educators, volunteers, and families. Start with one tool; build a culture over time.
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Faith, family, and church resource library
No diagnosis is required for a child or family to benefit from support.
Grow a Learning Garden
Choose the Flower Meadow or Sandbox, explore a four-step discovery cycle, and celebrate learning progress.
Open resourceAnnunciation Activity Page
A colorful prayer, feelings check-in, and drawing activity for the Feast of the Annunciation.
Open resourceThe Welcoming Parish Checklist
A practical first audit covering communication, sensory environment, participation, volunteer readiness, and family trust.
Open resourceWhat to Expect at Divine Liturgy
Prepare children for bells, chanting, incense, candles, lines, touch, standing, and service transitions.
Open resourceInclusive Lesson Planner
Plan one lesson with visual, spoken, movement, quiet, and communication choices built in from the start.
Open resourceWhat Helps My Child Participate
A strengths-based welcome conversation that asks what helps without requiring a diagnosis or disclosure.
Open resourceNeeds, Not Misbehavior
A calm response guide for overload, movement, withdrawal, fatigue, communication differences, and leaving early.
Open resourceSensory-Friendly Service Plan
Make a service more predictable and flexible while preserving Orthodox worship and theology.
Open resourceVisual resources & downloadables
Start with something a child can see and use.
The visual collection will grow as new worksheets, activity pages, sensory supports, and companion guides are approved.
Downloadable now
Annunciation Activity
Story, feelings, prayer, and a creative-response space.
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In development
My Quiet Church Toolbox
Prayer, sensory, focus, and busy-hands supports for before, during, and after church.
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In development
Our Church Through the Year
A visual journey through feasts, fasts, Holy Week, Pascha, and Pentecost.
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XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Printable church resource
The Welcoming Parish Checklist
Use this as a ministry conversation—not a pass/fail inspection.
- Our website and bulletin tell families whom to contact about accessibility or participation needs.
- A family may request support without sharing a diagnosis.
- We can describe common sounds, lighting, incense, movement, lines, and service length before a visit.
- We identify at least one lower-stimulation space and explain that using it is welcome, not punishment.
- Children may use headphones, fidgets, visual schedules, seating choices, movement, or communication tools.
- Sunday School volunteers know whom to ask for help and how to respond calmly to overload.
- We check in privately with families and do not discuss a child’s needs publicly.
- We invite children to participate in more than one way and never force eye contact, touch, speaking, or stillness.
XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Prepare before worship
Divine Liturgy Sensory Map
What children may hearBells, chanting, responses, footsteps, doors, babies, the choir, and periods of quiet.
What children may seeCandles, icons, vestments, processions, people standing or moving, bright and dim spaces.
What children may smell or feelIncense, candle wax, crowded spaces, touch during greetings, temperature changes, standing.
What may helpPreview photos, headphones, a comfort item, a visual schedule, aisle seating, breaks, movement, a quiet space.
A child does not have to experience worship exactly as someone else does to belong fully in the worshipping community.
XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Family welcome conversation
What Helps My Child Participate
Child’s name or preferred name
My child’s strengths and interests
Signs my child may need a break
Sounds, sensations, or transitions to prepare for
Things that help my child feel safe and participate
How my child communicates “yes,” “no,” or “help”
What we would like church leaders to know
Preferred contact person:
XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Volunteer quick reference
Needs, Not Misbehavior
Pause
Lower your voice, reduce language, and give physical space. Avoid drawing a crowd.
Notice
Consider sound, light, waiting, uncertainty, pain, fatigue, communication, hunger, or a transition.
Offer
Give two clear choices: “Would you like to stay here or take a quiet break?” Accept nonverbal answers.
Safety comes first. Dignity remains throughout.
XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Religious education resource
Inclusive Lesson Planner
Lesson or Scripture focus:
See itWhat pictures, objects, words, demonstrations, or visual sequence will make the lesson clearer?
Hear itWhat story, plain-language explanation, music, or repeated phrase will support understanding?
Move with itWhere can children build, point, carry, act, stand, or take purposeful movement?
Show learning differentlyCan children speak, draw, choose, type, sign, match, or use AAC?
Prepare transitionsWhat is the visual schedule? How will children know an activity is almost finished?
Plan for regulationWhere is the quiet option? What sensory tools and seating choices are available?
XTERMIGATOR KidsHellenic Education
Ministry planning tool
Sensory-Friendly Service Plan
Information before arrivalPhotos, parking, entrances, service length, sensory details, contact person.
Flexible participationSeating, movement, breaks, late arrival, early departure, quiet space, Communion flow.
Available supportsHeadphones, visual guide, fidgets, communication board, lap items, water.
Prepared peopleWelcome lead, clergy, ushers, educators, volunteers, and a calm escalation plan.
One change we will implement before the next service:
Book and companion experience
XTERMIGATOR Kids: Hellenic Edition
A child-friendly sensory experience
Use the story before a first visit, during Sunday School, or at home to discuss sounds, feelings, transitions, supports, and different ways of participating.
Companion discussion prompts
- Which character gets ready for church most like you?
- What church sound or transition would you want to know about first?
- Which tool might help you feel ready, comfortable, or included?
- How can we help another child feel that they belong?