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Psalms Coloring Posters for Lent

Adam Walker Cleaveland 8 Comments

Psalms Coloring Posters
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Our Psalms Coloring Posters include nine unique coloring posters. The Psalms are from the Revised Common Lectionary (Year B) readings for Lent. Each of the illustrations highlights specific themes and emotions from the Psalm. The texts from the Psalms are also incorporated into the drawing.

So whether you’re looking for an intergenerational program, a communal art activity or something different to do for Lent this year, our Psalms Coloring Posters provide a creative, engaging and participatory way of engaging with faith during Lent.

Psalms Coloring PostersIn addition to the large physical coloring posters that we ship, we also offer the following products for Lent:

    • A digital version of the posters
    • 8.5 x 11 coloring pages of the illustrations (including a simplified 8.5 x 11 version of the coloring pages for those who prefer less detail to color)
    • Psalms Devotional Guide: This can be used, along with the 8.5 x 11 coloring pages, by individuals at home, or as an accompanying piece for churches who may wish to offer an intergenerational education opportunity focused around the Psalms Coloring Posters.

One of the great things about our Psalms Coloring Posters is that they can also be used anytime you wish, and are not uniquely tied to Lent. While the Psalms come from the RCL texts for Lent (Year B), these are also Psalms that can (and should!) be studied and read and illustrated and colored throughout the year. So it isn’t a problem if you don’t finish all the posters. You can now also use them another time for youth group, a Bible study on the Psalms or….who knows?! Get creative!

We hope you’ll take a few minutes to check out some additional details about our Psalms Coloring Posters below. You can also get a preview of the nine poster illustrations below.

DOWNLOAD PDF INFOGUIDE: If you don’t have time to read through this entire post right now, or if you’d like a PDF handout that you can print out and share with others, we’ve put together a detailed Infoguide about our Psalms Coloring Posters. You can download it here.

Why the Psalms?

When I was a kid, whenever I’d ask someone where in the Bible I should start reading, inevitably someone would say, “Alright. Close your Bible. Now open it up to about the halfway point. Start reading.”

If you do that, you’ll almost always end up in the Psalms.

Reading the Psalms as a kid was a way into scripture that allowed me to figure out that emotions were a good thing, and that we shouldn’t try to hide them from God. Reading the Psalms as a kid gave me words to express the feelings I had, and helped me to see that the authors of the Psalms struggled with many of the same things I struggled with.

The Psalms are a great source of theological creativity, depth, and wonder, and we’re excited to be able to offer children and people of all ages a way into the Psalms this year for Lent.

Psalms Used for our Psalms Coloring Posters

Below I’ve listed each of the posters with the accompanying scripture, as well as which days in Lent we would suggest using each of the posters. Again, we made these posters for use anytime during the year, but I’ve listed the proposed dates for Lent 2018.

  • Psalms Coloring PostersPoster 1: Psalm 25:1-10 (1st Sunday in Lent)
  • Poster 2: Psalm 22:23-31 (2nd Sunday in Lent)
  • Poster 3: Psalm 19 (3rd Sunday in Lent)
  • Poster 4: Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 (4th Sunday in Lent)
  • Poster 5: Psalm 51:1-12 (5th Sunday in Lent)
  • Poster 6: Psalm 31:9-16 (Palm Sunday/Liturgy of the Passion)
  • Poster 7: Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 (Maundy Thursday)
  • Poster 8: Psalm 22:1-22 (Good Friday)
  • Poster 9: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 (Easter)

Quality Poster Prints on Thick Paper

If you’re new to Illustrated Ministry, chances are you found out about us through our large coloring posters. Maybe you saw them at another church or community or saw photos on Facebook. We’ve had thousands of churches all around the world using our large coloring posters since 2015.

Part of the reason our posters are loved by so many is the quality of the posters themselves. We’ve gone through a few different types of paper with our coloring posters, and we are thrilled with the paper we’re currently using. In the past, we used a thick paper that had some coating on it, which happened to make the posters a little challenging to color with markers. However, the 32-pound paper we currently use works great with colored pencils, crayons, and markers. Since we made the switch, we have received zero complaints about coloring the posters.

When you buy the physical posters from us, you will receive the illustrations on an amazingly high-quality paper.

We currently ship to the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Since we have a large community of international customers, we also provide our poster illustrations as downloadable digital files. We know that for some folks, getting the digital files can be more convenient (and for some, it’s the only option). We are happy to provide that resource.

Ways to Use Our Psalms Coloring Posters

The creativity of our customers is amazing! We love seeing all of the creative ways that people use our posters in their ministries and communities. Below are just a few examples of some fun ways that our posters have been used by folks:

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Crossroads Church of Kansas City, Missouri
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Derbyshire Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia
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First Baptist Church of Mooresville, North Carolina
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Fruitland Evangelical Covenant Church of Whitehall, Michigan

Churches find our posters to be a slam dunk when it comes to intergenerational ministry. If you’re looking for ways to use these posters intergenerationally, here are a few ideas:

  • Host an all-ages education hour during Lent. Use our Psalms Devotional Guide as your curriculum for the class.
  • Host a weekly Lenten Soup & Salad Supper and incorporate coloring the posters into your time together.
  • Have your children’s ministry or youth ministry take a poster to a nursing home and color with the residents.
  • Leave the coloring posters out on tables during Fellowship/Coffee Hour after church for people to sit, color, and talk with one another.
  • Send posters (or cut-up portions of posters – see Crossroads Church of Kansas City’s photo above) home with families to work on at home. Then watch your poster come back together at church as people bring their finished pieces to church with them.

More Ways to Use Our Coloring Posters

There are so many beautiful ways to gather intergenerationally and color these posters. Here are some other ways that we know churches have used our posters:

  • Children’s Ministry: Find ways to incorporate the posters into your Sunday morning programs for children (whether that’s during Sunday School or during another time)
  • During Worship: Dedicate a portion of your worship space to allow young people (and those who are young at heart) to color during worship. We’ve heard this is a great way to enable children to engage with worship in a fun and creative way, and Lent is a great time to encourage people to try something new in worship.
  • Youth Ministry: Children aren’t the only ones who like to color. We’ve had hundreds of youth programs around the world use our coloring posters. Give your youth a ‘study break’ or just a chance to take a break from their regular crazy schedules and hang out and color.
  • College/campus ministries: We’ve also had many campus ministries use our coloring posters. And we’ve seen photos of our posters in some faculty lounges at colleges where professors have worked on a poster together!
  • Private/Parochial Schools: Some private Christian schools have purchased our posters and found ways to engage multiple classrooms in creating a collaborative art project. Use Lent this year as a chance to go through the Psalms as a school, and create art at the same time!

Let us know: How do YOU plan on using your Psalms Coloring Posters this year?


Psalms Coloring Posters

Psalms Coloring Posters

All of the details about available options, costs, and shipping can be found on our store here.

How Can I Find Out More Information About the Posters?

We hope you’re as excited about our Psalms Coloring Posters as we are. And we’d love to make sure you know precisely when we release them. Here are some ways that you can stay updated on the launch of our posters:

  • The best way to make sure you don’t miss any announcements from us is to download this free Infoguide. You’ll get the free PDF as a gift, and we’ll make sure you don’t miss out on anything.
  • Following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is another way to make sure you see our poster announcement. And besides, we have a lot of fun on social media, and we’d love for you to join us!
  • Finally – if you haven’t joined our Facebook GROUP yet (and yes, this IS different than our Facebook Page – which you should probably LIKE as well), I’d highly recommend it. Our Illustrated Ministry Community Facebook Group is a fantastic online community. People share ideas and examples of how they’re using our materials. We get a lot of great feedback and product ideas. Plus, there are exclusive discounts/promos given to our Facebook Group from time to time. You can request to join the group here.

Introducing the 1230 Pencil Font

Adam Walker Cleaveland Leave a Comment

hand lettered font


I've played around with making fonts before. It's always fun, but I've never been too thrilled with the end result. Since I do so much hand lettering for Illustrated Ministry, I thought it was time to try and put together a nice font that I could use on projects - a unique hand lettered font.

It's a font you'll probably see appearing on some of our upcoming Worship Activity Sheets and marketing/PR materials. But instead of just keeping it for business uses, I thought some of you might want a fun hand lettered font as well.

So, here you go: the 1230 Pencil font.

What's included in this unique, hand lettered font?

1230 Pencil includes a variety of font weights and styles:

  • 1230 Pencil Light Sans-Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Regular Sans-Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Bold Sans-Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Light Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Regular Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Bold Serif
  • 1230 Pencil Fancy Caps

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This is the first real font I've made, so I'm aware that there may be some bugs, and if you purchase the font, you'll get free updates whenever I publish a new version.

Where did the name come from?

There are a few components of the name 1230 Pencil.

  • 1230: I had a couple pretty late nights when I put this font together, and 12:30 was when I was just hitting my groove.
  • 1230: 12/30 is also Caleb's birthday.
  • Pencil: I drew this font on my iPad Pro with my Apple Pencil.
  • Pencil: A "Pencil" font makes me think of a fun, more casual hand lettered font, as opposed to something like Helvetica (which I think is one of the best fonts ever).

If you're looking for a new font to play around with, I hope you'll consider checking out 1230 Pencil. You can purchase the font by clicking on the buy button under the image at the top of this post, or you can click here for more info.

Free Samples of An Illustrated Summer for Churches

Adam Walker Cleaveland Leave a Comment

We are excited to be able to share with you a sample of our newly-released Revised Common Lectionary worship resource, An Illustrated Summer for Churches. In this downloadable PDF sample, you will find both the Illustrated Children’s Moments and the Worship Activity Shee for July 10, 2016. We focused on the story of the Good Samaritan, and you can view our sample materials here.

We are very excited to get these creative children’s worship resources into your hands for the summer. The illustrations for An Illustrated Summer are vibrant, fun and help tell the biblical story. We have received some raving reviews about our Worship Activity Sheets, and we hope you’ll enjoy this series of Worship Activity Sheets to cover worship from June 5 through August 28.

Below is the illustration for the week of July 10, depicting a moment from the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Parable of the Good Samaritan

I had a really great team helping to come up with much of the content for the Children’s Moments and Worship Activity Sheets, and that freed me up to put everything together – and gave me the chance to play around with some fun, illustrated text.

Good Samaritan Worship Bulletin

Call-of-Jeremiah-Worship-Bulletin

If you are looking for something new and different from your current children’s worship bulletins, this would be a great chance to try ours out for the summer and see what you think.

Multiple Uses for Illustrations

Many churches have found multiple uses for the Illustrated Children’s Moments. While many have used them for their Children’s Moments or Children’s Sermons, many others have used the images as bulletin covers (we send you both color and black and white versions that you can use). I’ve also heard of churches who have projected the images up on their screens during worship.

So, while you think you may not get around to using them all for children’s moments, there may be other opportunities for using them. Because though you may not have as many kids around each week during the summer, you certainly still do have to print bulletins, and why not use the summer as a chance to print some creative and fun bulletin covers.

Grab Your Sample

If you haven’t grabbed your sample yet, you can do so here. We look forward to hear how you plan on using these resources – keep us informed by using the hashtag #anillustratedsummer!

Are you ready to buy?

An Illustrated Summer for Churches is available to purchase now and you can immediately download it. If you want more information and want to purchase, please go here. You can also purchase the Illustrated Children’s Moments and Worship Activity Sheets separately if you’d like.

And please share!

If you think you know friends or colleagues who might be interested in this new resource – we’d encourage you to share the Facebook status below with them. Thanks!

An Illustrated Summer for Churches begins this Sunday, June 5!

An Illustrated Summer includes Children's Worship…

Posted by Illustrated Children's Ministry on Thursday, June 2, 2016

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