In 2009, we held an educational art workshop on stories from the Old Testament at the Otsuka Museum of Art in Naruto City. This workshop is one of the activities of N＊CAP（Naruto Children’s Art Park）. The purpose is for local children to become more familiar with and appreciate the art. During this activity, children showed interest towards the paintings related to biblical stories and showed no reluctance towards them, which was our initial concern. However there is some room for improvement such as increasing the motivation of the university students and allocating time properly for children to be focused throughout the workshop. These are the main points that can be improved. Using the improvement points from the 2010 workshop, we held another activity using the theme of the New Testament. This time, our coordinator only gave the university students the theme and let them delegate the activities. They let two students who were in charge of organizing the event handle all matters. These students improved the plan with their classmates taking into consideration previous workshops and carried out the plan on their own. They held a craft workshop making pseudo stained glass using vinyl sheets which is safer and easier for children to use. In this workshop, children showed no sign of fatigue, and enjoyed doing the crafts very much while completing work of their own. The high motivation of the students led to the success of this workshop. One of the benefits of this workshop is that the students were able to appreciate the paintings with a deeper perception. They are now able to seek out small details of biblical paintings of the Medieval Gothic Period and cherish the meanings of them.
