I am involved in reworking my parish’s Sunday School curriculum in terms of a CM style while maintaining most of the content areas.
We are thinking of giving the children books where they can paste in what they do each week or write narrations, rather than sending something home every week. A lot of the time, those things soon get lost, and often they aren’t really worth much all alone. It’s when you see what has been done over the whole year that it becomes more helpful, and then we can also refer back to things in subsequent lessons.
So we may include copies of whatever text we use, be it a Bible story or something else, narrations they have done which we or they have copied or drawn, copies of artworks we discussed or poetry. We will also learn a few new hymns each year that correspond to the liturgical season, and some simple versions of sung prayers or the liturgy, including in Latin since we often use those during our service.
I am not so sure about handwork – our lesson time is not long, and often the “crafts” and such aren’t that valuble, but I know there are at least some exceptions. Things like making palm crosses or learning about making icons, or perhaps even learning some skills involved with things like caring for the altar linens and so on.
