6 Ways to Involve Young Children in Pro-Life Ministry

While there are always plenty of ways for adults to get involved with pro-life ministry, it can sometimes be difficult to involve young kids.

How do you raise pro-life children without injuring their innocence or overwhelming them?

We have created a list of easy ways you can involve young children (from home!) in pro-life ministry!

Here are 8 ways you can involve young children in pro-life ministry:

1. Spiritually Adopt a Baby

Fulton Sheen created a beautiful prayer to spiritually adopt an unborn baby! This is an especially great option for families who are currently expecting a baby–>find prayer cards with Venerable Fulton Sheen’s prayer here.

2. Read Books with Your Kids

Especially for families who have lost a baby to miscarriage or stillbirth, we released a very important picture book–Jellybean: A Baby’s Journey to God. If you are struggling to explain to your children why their sibling is gone, this picture book is a gentle way to help them through grief. This book is also incredibly helpful even if your family has not personally lost a baby–it is a gentle way to explain that unborn babies can have beautiful connects to their families before and after a loss. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

3. Send Cards to a Nursing Home

This is an easy and beautiful way to bring joy to the elderly community, many of whom feel isolated during this time! Contact your local nursing home and ask if you can drop off cards created by your kiddos! It’s a great way to teach children that life on earth is precious and wonderful from start to a natural end.

4. Sign up for our Spiritual Adoption Prayer Adventure

This program is a fun, and gentle way to teach children about prenatal development! With videos, activities, and discussion questions, young children can have a deep (and scientific!) understanding of how babies grow!

And a part of this program (which children love!) is the journal in which we ask them to find out how mom, dad, and grandparents prepared for them before they were born (like what food cravings they spurred in Mom and how Dad coped!).

5. Get this cute charm for your car keys, back packs, whatever!

Whenever you send someone to “Hurry–get my car keys!” this charm will remind everyone that your family is pro-life! The charm is the same size as a 10-week old baby–and it’s so cute with the little heart!

Rubber, beautiful, great little clasp–and a so-sweet Respect Life giveaway to everyone in the youth group, club, parish, classroom.

Click here to see it!

6. Donate Clothes and Toys to a Crisis Pregnancy Center

Involve your kids in gathering gently-used clothes and toys for moms who will put them to good use! Especially now during all these restrictions, support for families with babies-on-the-way is an important work of mercy.

8. Pray for the Protection of Life

Teach children that before any other action they take, prayer must be their starting point. This week is an especially important time to pray as pro-lifers around the country prepare for the National March for Life in Washington, D.C.

Find more great Catholic pro-life resources HERE!