ABSTRACT
Creative religious education (RE) provides many opportunities for children's spiritual development because it involves children in exploring their own inner ideas, beliefs and feelings in response to learning about religious beliefs and concepts. Creative RE allows for individual reflection and expression through art, music, drama, poetry and other forms of creative writing. This chapter explores spirituality and spiritual development, Awe and wonder through encounters with religion, 'Ows', spiritual development through encounters with the difficult aspects of life and RE and the arts, spiritual development through personal expression. Elton-Chalcraft found that teachers struggled to find appropriate activities to develop children's spirituality because they struggled to agree on a consensus definition for spirituality. Every human being is unique, and as teachers, one must have responsibility to aid children's spiritual development by giving opportunities for them to pursue a quest for meaning, values by which to live and to develop a sense of truth and mystery.
