Symbols of prayer

At our different First Sunday Things we've often had something to make our prayers for people visible. Lighting candles has been an obvious one. A picture of links in a paper chain appeared on this Blog not long ago. In June the craft activity was making a concertina man. The idea was people could put the names of those they will be praying for on the fold of the concertina, which is his body, and use the names as a prayer focus, linking themselves to those who care for them and who they care for.