We started lesson 14, Isaac, the Son of Promise, by talking about the promises God had made to Abraham. (You can read about Lesson 13 here.) We then had a brief discussion about how sometimes we have to wait to receive the things promised to us. Perhaps we are promised a holiday or a special […]
This moon craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or older kids. It's a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.
If you are doing a Sunday session about the Prodigal son, or if you are putting together a Prodigal Son Messy Church, here are some craft ideas for you! Party hats: Paper. staples, glue, glitter, r…
Papier Mache Planets: Here are my DIY tips for creating the papier mache planets. This is a great craft to do with your kids. Keep in mind that this is a labor-intensive DIY project but so much fun!
The life of Jesus is captured in verse and complemented with wonderful artwork in Do You Know Who Jesus Is? This pocket-sized volume is ideal for kids to read and enjoy. Here they will learn about God’s Son, His remarkable mission, and the gift He has given us all in His life, death and resurrection.
Here are 20 easy and fun sun crafts for kids - perfect to celebrate Solar Appreciation Day on 10th March, or for the Summer Solstice in June!
This post is for Day 2 of our Parables of Jesus VBS and The Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. We are making everything ourselves. I...
Pentecost is coming up and we love to celebrate with various versions of "fruits of the Spirit" fruit salads. This year I thought given the popularity of these charcuterie boards popping up everywhere that we
This moon craft is great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or older kids. It's a great art extension during a space theme in the classroom.
Use this FREE Joseph and his Coat of Many Colors Coloring Page in your Children's Ministry this year! This Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors Coloring Page is a great way to teach kids about the story and life of Joseph. Joseph was the favorite son of his father Jacob. Because he favored Joseph more than all of his other sons, Jacob gave Joseph a brand new coat that contained many colors. Kids will have a blast coloring his coat all sorts of fun colors. Looking for more? Check out our entire collection of 200+ FREE Bible Coloring Pages. We think this is great to use anytime of the year. Make sure to click HERE to check out our entire collection of Bible Character Coloring Pages. Absolutely perfect for any kids church, Sunday School, or Children's Ministry. We looked all over and found these other Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors Coloring Pages: www.dltk-bible.com/genesis/chapter37-index.htm https://www.pinterest.com/pin/296182112967338761/ www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/joseph-many-colored-coat http://printables.atozteacherstuff.com/3441/josephs-coat-of-many-colors-printable/ http://www.sunday-school-center.com/support-files/lg6-lesson-11-joseph-coat-of-many-colors.pdf
Catholic ABC's Week 3 Number of the week: 3 Theme: Trinity Memory Verse- The Glory Be: Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the
This post is for Day 2 of our Parables of Jesus VBS and The Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. We are making everything ourselves. I will try to post as many of the ideas as I can. This post just has my classroom. I will start with the decorations I did for my classroom. We will have grades 1-4 in our room, and with so many kids, we take out all the tables and sit on the floor. And it also makes room for our review activity. This is most of a wall, and I needed it to the floor so I can add the wood pigs in front of it and add dimension. The brown barn is just a rectangle with Sharpie marker lines, a black door and the window. The small pigs were printed onto cardstock, and everything else was drawn with an overhead projector. The sun was also printed and has the daily lesson theme on it. We purchased a piece of 2' x 4' x 3/8" wood and I used the overhead projector to draw the pigs. My husband cut them out, sanded them and I painted them. I used several different graphics to paint them, since I wanted pink pigs and couldn't get them to look like I wanted them to. You can see I cut the tail off, and my husband drilled a super small hole and I wound a pink pipe cleaner into a coil and used Gorilla Glue to glue the tail into the drilled hole. This shows the wood pigs sitting in front of the Prodigal Son wall. It adds a cute pop! This is close-ups of the bulletin board. You can see the son sitting on a tree stump. He was drawn out onto poster board with the overhead projector, then painted. I outlined everything with a Sharpie once the paint was dry. The tree stump and the water trough are brown bulletin board paper. The fence is White Picket Fence by Teachers Friend (TF-3300). I already had it, so it was easy to add it! I printed the pigs onto pink cardstock, cut them out and painted the feet. Then, I let my grandkids paint the mud on them! That was fun! I asked Wendy if I could have some hay (whatever) for this wall. She gave several reasons not to use the real stuff and suggested this: Raffia! So, I found the raffia skirts at Dollar Tree. I pushed all the raffia to the center of the string, stapled the center to the board, and just haphazardly stapled the rest to look like the pigs had been in it. For the trees, I used the overhead projector to draw the top part onto a piece of poster board. I used brown bulletin board paper for the tree trunks. I painted the top of the tree, and I used a Sharpie for the outlines and borders when the paint dried. For the Prodigal Son sign, I drew it using the overhead projector, and painted the letters. I outlined the letters with a Sharpie once the paint dried. After I cut it out, I used my scrapbook stamp pads to add the edging. Click to print the overhead printables. Click to print the pigs and sun. We have 20 minutes to teach and review our lesson. The kids rotate to 4 different activities for 20 minutes each. They have the Bible lesson, Paul's Theater where they watch the lesson as a play, they have a craft time, and their food time. The Elders say there's no excuse not to come because you can even get a meal! When the kids are done eating, they see a puppet reenactment. The kids practice puppets for Lads To Leaders (L2L), so why not use those skills for our kids? Click on the picture above to print the lesson I used for grades 1 & 2. Click to print the lesson for grades 3 & 4 that Lindsey used and is letting me share with you here. This set of visuals have been updated as shown. The 'cloud' effect has been removed and background has been cleaned up. All the visuals are not shown and all available Sweet visuals for this lesson are included. Click here to download the updated visuals. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Paulette began our session with greetings, what is a parable, and things that we do that God doesn't like, but God forgives. She decided to include that God forgives bad choices, and what is bad choices. You can let them answer or talk about several yourself. And we also discussed 'What does forgive mean'? It means to excuse or pardon someone that does something wrong. That is the theme, or main point for tonight. I teach the lesson, and today Ramona handed out these money bags when I began. I use these for a LOT of lessons, and the kids LOVE them! I buy the bags on eBay from Hong Kong, so I keep them in my stash of goodies for class! The paper money is found at Dollar General, and the coins are from www.OrientalTrading.com and Party City. At the end of the lesson, Ramona handed out the plastic smiley rings from www.OrientalTrading.com Paulette decided on a relay race for the reinforcement game today. So much fun for the kids to be able to get up and run and have fun! And learn about the Bible at the same time! We divided the kids into 2 teams. There was red tape for stop by the table, and green strips on the other side of the room for go. Everyone stood by the green tape, and one person from each team would run to table, do the job, and run back to the rest of their team. The first person had to put 'pig' food into the little cups you see (cereal with a little water added), and the Fisher Price pigs pretended to eat it. The son had to feed the pigs first, then he went home, and his father gave him a robe (next person put on a robe), a ring (next person puts on the ring), sandals, (next person puts on shoes). Then there was a feast. The next person puts the food on the plate. There was a big celebration, so they all blew up balloons and, if there's time, they can bounce them around. Paulette found the general idea on Pinterest (sorry, I don't know where), but made several modifications to suit us. I purchased the Jesus Standup at Oriental Trading. I am moving Him each night to be by the Parable that we are discussing. I want the kids to remember that Jesus is the One telling the Parables. Click to find the PHOTO visuals that I used. (I am not permitted to add them here, so just use the search bar to find them. I didn't use all that they have available (I used 4).) Click on the above picture to see the main foyer and hall decorations, and the links for all four Parables of Jesus VBS classroom decorations, lessons, games & more.
The word “mercy” appears 174 times throughout the books of the Bible. The graph below shows the locations of each appearance. It begins with Genesis in the top left and concludes with Revelation in the
It's written about Enoch that he walked with God and that he had the testimony that he pleased God. Here’s how we can take his example to heart.
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Learn how to make a cardboard robot with these easy steps and tools to make it fun, creative, and look great!
For my son's 8th Birthday, I hosted a Super Science Party here at the house. We had a few cousins and a few friends, making 13 kids all tog...
A downloadable coloring page of the story of Abraham and Isaac from Genesis 22....
BREAKOUT, Escape From Ordinary To Extraordinary Sometimes our ordinary life can make us feel trapped. We can feel trapped by our worries, our doubts, our fears, and our sin. Sometimes we just wish we could break out and be free from these struggles. Through this escape room-themed VBS, kids will not only solve fun puzzles throughout the week, but will also learn that only God has the power to come in and break us out of the ordinary to lead us to the extraordinary. To get the additional images, bumper video, countdown video, and games videos pictured above make sure you select the "VBS + Media Pack" option above. All of these additional videos and images sell for $35, but you can get them all for only $25 when you order them together with the Breakout VBS. (Click here to see more details on everything included in the media pack). _______ BREAKOUT VBS Overview Memory Verse: “He has saved us from the kingdom of darkness. He has brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.” Colossians 1:13 (NIrV) Lessons: Day 1. Jonah – Breakout From Disobedience Scripture: Jonah 1 & 2, Jonah Flees Lesson for Day 1: God had a plan – both for Jonah and for the city of Nineveh. But Jonah wanted no part of it, so he ran away. He then found himself trapped in the belly of a fish. His only hope to break out was to finally acknowledge and follow God's plan. Big Idea for Day 1: God Has A Plan For Me Day 2. David – Breakout from Getting Even Scripture: 1 Samuel 24:1-17, David Spares Saul's Life Lesson for Day 2: If King Saul had known that David and his men were hiding in the cave, they could have been trapped. Instead, it was David who had the upper hand. Instead of hurting or killing King Saul, David had mercy on him. If we want to break out of the ordinary, we need to love others like God loves us. Big Idea for Day 2: God Loves and Forgives Me Day 3. Daniel – Breakout from Danger Scripture: Daniel 6:10-27, Daniel and the Den of Lions Lesson for Day 3: Because of his love of God, Daniel was thrown into a pit filled with hungry lions. There is nothing Daniel could have done in his own strength to break out. But Daniel trusted in God, who is in control of every situation we face. Big Idea for Day 3: God Is In Control, Not Me Day 4. Jesus – The Greatest Breakout Scripture: John 19:38-20:18, Jesus' Burial and Resurrection Lesson for Day 4: Each of us have sinned. Sin separates us from God, and earns us death. Jesus went to the cross to die. Although he never sinned, he took the punishment for your sin, my sin, and everyone’s sin on himself because He loves us. Three days after he died, Jesus did the ultimate breakout, rising from the dead! Because Jesus is alive, we can have new life too. Big Idea for Day 4: God Sent Jesus To Set Me Free Day 5. Peter – Prison Breakout Scripture: Acts 12:1-19, Peter's Miraculous Escape From Prison Lesson for Day 5: Peter was in prison for telling people about the new life that Jesus gives us. His friends were praying that Peter would be released. In the middle of the night, an angel came, to break out Peter. Living an ordinary life can make us feel trapped, but God can set us free. Big Idea for Day 5: God Brings Me Freedom _______ About This VBS: Escape Room Themed Perfect for kids ages 6-12 5-days of lessons and activities Includes large group activities and small group discussion This VBS program is an instant download Download a free sample lesson here. Includes NIRV, NIV, NLT, and KJV Memory Verse Graphics Includes Editable Text Files Each Lesson Includes: Make It Stick! Parent Sheet - so you can let mom and dad know what kids are learning each week and look like a rockstar teacher who's thought of everything. Memory Verse - so that you can make sure kids are getting Scripture in their minds and hearts every single week and you can feel like each lesson was a success even when it seems like 90% of your lesson time is spent saying things like "calm down", "let's be quiet", "hands to yourself!" Skit or Puppet Show - so you have a way to easily connect the lesson with your hands-on and visual learners. No drama team? No problem! Just hand the script to the kids. They'll have a blast and think you're the coolest. Craft Activity - so you can give kids a physical reminder of the Bible lesson (and give yourself an activity to keep them busy until mom and dad come back!) Game - so kids don't leave and say church was BORING! Games are so important to help keep kids engaged. Our large group games always include a "What's The Point" section to help you connect the game to the lesson. Large Group Lesson - so you can present the Bible story in a clear and fun way, which means now you can enjoy Saturday nights instead of stressing over putting a lesson together! Small-Group Discussion - so you can find out who was paying attention and who was talking to their neighbor. Just kidding, this is a great way for you to build deeper relationships with your kiddos after each lesson, which means you're going to care about them so much you'll cry like a baby when they graduate and go to middle school :( More! - Yes, there is even more than all of that so that you can easily put together the perfect lesson for your ministry each weekend, which means no more agonizing over how to adjust complicated lesson plans. _______ Guaranteed to Be Awesome! 100% Money Back Guarantee. Our Children's Ministry curriculum is guaranteed to be awesome. 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Like most little boys, Camden loves playing with all kinds of construction trucks -- dump trucks, loaders, bulldozers, you name it. So when it came time to plan for his third birthday party, doing a construction theme was a no-brainer. Plus, Christine also shows in another post how to make a tool belt with three compartments to hold pretend hammers, wrenches, and pliers. Great for the birthday boyuor for party favors.View This Tutorial
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Here are 20 easy and fun sun crafts for kids - perfect to celebrate Solar Appreciation Day on 10th March, or for the Summer Solstice in June!
Stuck with ideas to engage your kids in gym class? Why not run these super fun, easy to set up stations for your class to rotate around through, challenge themselves, set personal records and recor…
The students that were in class for this lesson were all at VBS this year when I taught The Prodigal Son. We used this lesson more as a ...
My son's best friend came over during the Superbowl today and the kids made a handprint & footprint football craft. They also colored their own helmets which you can see on my Crafts-N-Things for Children blog. My daughter's hand & footprint football1 yr oldHere is how to make this craft:Paint foot brown and press on brown paper.Paint hands color of choice by squirting a drop of the paint in the palm and then rubbing the hands together. Paint any missed areas with a paintbrush.Make one handprint on each side of the paper (we chose green paper to represent the field).After
This post is for Day 2 of our Parables of Jesus VBS and The Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. We are making everything ourselves. I will try to post as many of the ideas as I can. This post just has my classroom. I will start with the decorations I did for my classroom. We will have grades 1-4 in our room, and with so many kids, we take out all the tables and sit on the floor. And it also makes room for our review activity. This is most of a wall, and I needed it to the floor so I can add the wood pigs in front of it and add dimension. The brown barn is just a rectangle with Sharpie marker lines, a black door and the window. The small pigs were printed onto cardstock, and everything else was drawn with an overhead projector. The sun was also printed and has the daily lesson theme on it. We purchased a piece of 2' x 4' x 3/8" wood and I used the overhead projector to draw the pigs. My husband cut them out, sanded them and I painted them. I used several different graphics to paint them, since I wanted pink pigs and couldn't get them to look like I wanted them to. You can see I cut the tail off, and my husband drilled a super small hole and I wound a pink pipe cleaner into a coil and used Gorilla Glue to glue the tail into the drilled hole. This shows the wood pigs sitting in front of the Prodigal Son wall. It adds a cute pop! This is close-ups of the bulletin board. You can see the son sitting on a tree stump. He was drawn out onto poster board with the overhead projector, then painted. I outlined everything with a Sharpie once the paint was dry. The tree stump and the water trough are brown bulletin board paper. The fence is White Picket Fence by Teachers Friend (TF-3300). I already had it, so it was easy to add it! I printed the pigs onto pink cardstock, cut them out and painted the feet. Then, I let my grandkids paint the mud on them! That was fun! I asked Wendy if I could have some hay (whatever) for this wall. She gave several reasons not to use the real stuff and suggested this: Raffia! So, I found the raffia skirts at Dollar Tree. I pushed all the raffia to the center of the string, stapled the center to the board, and just haphazardly stapled the rest to look like the pigs had been in it. For the trees, I used the overhead projector to draw the top part onto a piece of poster board. I used brown bulletin board paper for the tree trunks. I painted the top of the tree, and I used a Sharpie for the outlines and borders when the paint dried. For the Prodigal Son sign, I drew it using the overhead projector, and painted the letters. I outlined the letters with a Sharpie once the paint dried. After I cut it out, I used my scrapbook stamp pads to add the edging. Click to print the overhead printables. Click to print the pigs and sun. We have 20 minutes to teach and review our lesson. The kids rotate to 4 different activities for 20 minutes each. They have the Bible lesson, Paul's Theater where they watch the lesson as a play, they have a craft time, and their food time. The Elders say there's no excuse not to come because you can even get a meal! When the kids are done eating, they see a puppet reenactment. The kids practice puppets for Lads To Leaders (L2L), so why not use those skills for our kids? Click on the picture above to print the lesson I used for grades 1 & 2. Click to print the lesson for grades 3 & 4 that Lindsey used and is letting me share with you here. This set of visuals have been updated as shown. The 'cloud' effect has been removed and background has been cleaned up. All the visuals are not shown and all available Sweet visuals for this lesson are included. Click here to download the updated visuals. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Paulette began our session with greetings, what is a parable, and things that we do that God doesn't like, but God forgives. She decided to include that God forgives bad choices, and what is bad choices. You can let them answer or talk about several yourself. And we also discussed 'What does forgive mean'? It means to excuse or pardon someone that does something wrong. That is the theme, or main point for tonight. I teach the lesson, and today Ramona handed out these money bags when I began. I use these for a LOT of lessons, and the kids LOVE them! I buy the bags on eBay from Hong Kong, so I keep them in my stash of goodies for class! The paper money is found at Dollar General, and the coins are from www.OrientalTrading.com and Party City. At the end of the lesson, Ramona handed out the plastic smiley rings from www.OrientalTrading.com Paulette decided on a relay race for the reinforcement game today. So much fun for the kids to be able to get up and run and have fun! And learn about the Bible at the same time! We divided the kids into 2 teams. There was red tape for stop by the table, and green strips on the other side of the room for go. Everyone stood by the green tape, and one person from each team would run to table, do the job, and run back to the rest of their team. The first person had to put 'pig' food into the little cups you see (cereal with a little water added), and the Fisher Price pigs pretended to eat it. The son had to feed the pigs first, then he went home, and his father gave him a robe (next person put on a robe), a ring (next person puts on the ring), sandals, (next person puts on shoes). Then there was a feast. The next person puts the food on the plate. There was a big celebration, so they all blew up balloons and, if there's time, they can bounce them around. Paulette found the general idea on Pinterest (sorry, I don't know where), but made several modifications to suit us. I purchased the Jesus Standup at Oriental Trading. I am moving Him each night to be by the Parable that we are discussing. I want the kids to remember that Jesus is the One telling the Parables. Click to find the PHOTO visuals that I used. (I am not permitted to add them here, so just use the search bar to find them. I didn't use all that they have available (I used 4).) Click on the above picture to see the main foyer and hall decorations, and the links for all four Parables of Jesus VBS classroom decorations, lessons, games & more.
This post is for Day 2 of our Parables of Jesus VBS and The Prodigal Son is found in Luke 15:11-32. We are making everything ourselves. I...
I have made several different types of tents for the kids to actually use while we act out the Bible lesson. This post shows some of them! I usually used this style for Abraham and Sarah. It is a table pushed up to a wall, and the fabric is attached to the wall or bulletin board. Adding fabric for the floor and a plant and pots, baskets, etc creates the look of a Bible time tent. They really like having the lesson on the floor! This tent stays up year round in my Bible class. It is in the corner and I have used it for Isaac with Jacob and Esau, Abraham, Paul, etc. I change the felt banner for the lesson. Again, baskets, pots, blankets, plants, etc. finish off the look. This corner is where I used the Daniel in the lion's den and used the same inside fabric The original idea is found in an older Ideashop Magazine, published by Gospel Advocate (which I really miss, BTW!). But there is another tent idea in Ideashop Vol.6, No. 1, Spring 1998, page 5, if you have the old copies. Newer version of the tent (different fabric) and different banner. There was a request for the directions, and it's been over 3 years since I put up the last one, but these directions should be enough to help you. There are lots of variables, depending on the fabric you use and your type of ceiling, so keep this in mind. Sorry, if they are not clear. I don't have photos of us installing our tents. Click here for the directions. First, you need to measure from the ceiling to the floor. Multiply times 4. That is the fabric you need for the tent. (The 2 inside walls, and the 2 from pieces that you see folded back.) Also a piece of fabric about 24" times the front two corners distance. How big the inside is will depend on how wide your fabric is.) And, 4 ceiling hooks. For the drop ceiling, something like these. For a drywall ceiling, hooks something like these. Here is the prison for Bible lessons, mostly Paul. Again, the kids love it. I bought prison chains/shackles at Halloween stores to add to the scene. I used stone bulletin board paper, attached it to the wall, put a table in front of it, added my wood bars, and covered the table and one side with the paper. All reusable! And, too much fun! Another wall is Paul leaving Damascus in a basket. The stone paper was attached to the wall, and I found a very large basket. I added the rope to the basket and attached it to the top of the paper, underneath so you couldn't see the ends. The kids could sit in the basket, but REALLY wanted to be pulled up and down! Also, another felt banner was added.
What does it mean to be a servant of God? Who were the faithful servants in the Bible and what were the characteristics that set them apart from others?
It is simple to make a knight's tabard for your knight's costume, and your child can help in the design.
