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5 Meaningful and Affordable Graduation Gifts

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Getting ready to celebrate your grads but not sure where to start? Check out some of our favorite go-to graduation gifts!

1. Graduation Digital Art Gift

If you need a creative gift for the graduates in your life, our Graduation Digital Art Gift may be just what you’re looking for. With a unique blessing on each image, these prints are a thoughtful and heartfelt way to celebrate the next chapter in their lives.

High-quality digital file: The Graduation Digital Art Gift comes as both a PNG and PDF file, ensuring a vibrant and high-resolution print. Five designs available in 5″x7″ or 4″x6″.

2. Graduation Bookmark

Our Graduation Bookmark is a simple and meaningful addition to any gift. Slip the bookmark into a devotional, Bible, or any book you might give the graduate, or add it to a graduation gift box. Bonus: it’s easy to print! Print it on cardstock or photo paper, and laminate it for extra durability.

High-quality digital file: This Graduation Bookmark is provided as a high-resolution PDF, ensuring a crisp and vibrant print. The bookmark is 2″ x 8″.

3. Illustrated Greeting Cards

I mean, who doesn’t love getting a card in the mail? Our Illustrated Greeting Cards feature beautiful and fun designs for any occasion. Gift a set of Thank You Cards or Carte Blanche Cards along with some stamps to empower your graduates to slow down and share meaningful, hand-written messages with their loved ones.

4. Vinyl Stickers

Our premium vinyl stickers make a colorful addition to any gift. Slap one on a notebook or jar of candy, or give a stack to your graduates to decorate a water bottle or laptop. These simple messages are sure to spread love and encouragement wherever your graduates go. Check out some of our favorites:

5. Illustrated Buttons

Gift your graduates the chance to express themselves with our Illustrated Buttons. Choose from five colorful designs, or get a mixed bag of everything. Your graduates will love pinning these small, meaningful reminders on their lanyards, jackets, backpacks, and more!

Free Epiphany Lesson from our Lectionary Curriculum

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FREE EPIPHANY LESSON: Click here to download your free Mini Revolutions lesson for Epiphany.

Illustrated Ministry’s Mini Revolutions is a weekly lectionary-based curriculum. Hundreds of churches around the world use this curriculum resource, and we’ve received positive feedback from folx who are using it with their communities.

Epiphany Lesson

You can use Mini Revolutions as your traditional Sunday School curriculum, in a one-room Sunday School model with mixed ages, or in an intergenerational setting. You could also take the content and adapt it for youth ministry and other ministry programs and settings.

Mini Revolutions can be implemented as a completely virtual, hybrid, or in-person experience—endless options are available to suit your needs. Lead as much or as little of the content as you like. Each section of Mini Revolutions is simple and requires just a little prep to have a meaningful experience with your group.

Free Epiphany Lesson

Included in this downloadable PDF lesson is:

  • Scripture: Matthew 2:1–12
  • Questions: Imagining and wondering questions that are open-ended and connect more deeply with the scripture.
  • Look It Up: We highlight a moment in history, an interesting fact, or a person who made an impact that connects with the scripture’s theme.
  • Two activities: We provide a fun mix of activities that help participants think creatively about the scripture through building and design, earth care, social justice, self-care and compassion, social/emotional learning, science, technology, and art.
  • Micropractice: A simple practice/ritual anchored in daily activities to help form healthy, spiritual, and mindful habits, with access to a graphic you can share with your community through social media.
  • Coloring page: The coloring page includes an illustration of a short phrase from the selected scripture that invites reflection on the scripture.
  • Bible Story Booklet: A child-friendly paraphrase of the scripture, accessible for all ages, with colorable illustrations that help tell the story.

This free lesson for Epiphany will help give you an idea of what our Mini Revolutions curriculum is like, and perhaps you’ll want to consider signing up for our monthly subscription to Mini Revolutions.

To download the free Epiphany lesson, click here.

For more information, and to purchase a monthly subscription to Mini Revolutions, click here.

Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy

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We’re excited to share with you a FREE Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy!

Our worship liturgy includes a Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Blessing of the Backpacks Liturgy, Prayers of the People, Closing Prayer, and a Benediction.

To download our FREE Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy, click here. If you want to share this resource with others, click the share button below. Thanks!

For years, Illustrated Ministry has created illustrated tags for the Blessing of the Backpacks. Many churches participate in something like this as part of their back-to-school traditions. This year, for our sixth backpack tag design, we are excited to share our “You Got This” Backpack Tags.

These backpack tags have been extremely popular, and we’ve seen customers use them in incredibly creative ways.

  • Some churches printed out the tags in color and laminated them to make luggage tags for backpacks, suitcases, briefcases, purses, and more!
  • Others used the design to make shrinky-dinks that they turned into keychains for folx in their congregations.
  • Some even used the illustration and made buttons for their community.

Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy

Each year, we also receive many requests from folx for a written liturgy for their blessing of the backpacks. This year, we’ve created one! But with all that you are planning for the academic year, we wanted to gift you with more than just a blessing of the backpacks liturgy; we included additional liturgical elements that you may wish to include in a back-to-school worship service.

As you plan your Blessing of the Backpacks this year, we hope these additional components from this free resource will ease your planning. Whether it’s in the Call to Worship, the Prayers of the People, or the Benediction, this free resource provides you with options that are ready to be used in your service.

If you’re ready to download our Blessing of the Backpacks and Back-to-School Worship Liturgy, click here!

BACKPACK TAG DESIGNS:

If you’d like to see the various backpack tags we have (in English and Spanish), you can check them out below.

Back-to-School Worship Liturgy