Bulletin board letters and other visual shortcuts are must-haves for children’s ministry. Try these 12 creative resources.
This unique hand lettered Scripture verse print highlights Proverbs 31. II was inspired to create this artwork after doing similar artwork for sermon notes on Sundays. I wanted to create art that communicates God's Word in an engaging way, making it a clear visual reminder of His goodness and love for us. The perfect gift for your mom, sister, aunty or friend... any special lady in your like. This digital file can be printed on 8.5 x 11" paper and then trimmed to 8 x 10" to fit in a frame. It looks great in black and white but you could add colour with coloured pencils before framing to make it extra special and personal. This print could be in a simple frame in an entrepreneurs home office or on the wall of church in the ladies ministry area. This print is for personal use only. You can print a few copies but if you would like to use it for more people please contact me about copyright.
A cardboard cut-out model template for the Ark of the Covenant (from Exodus 25:10-22). PDF version (142 KB)
This list of 13 awesome resources for teaching the Armor of God for kids includes craft kits, posters, & other great ideas for Christian teachers and moms!
Download the printable PDF teaching scripture for this object lesson for the story of Zacchaues from Luke 19:1-10. Then watch our video teaching example to get ready to share the children's message in your church next Sunday.
This week Joseph is put in charge while he is in prison and we look at Pharaoh's Dreams. This is lesson 12 in the first quarter of a year...
Use this FREE Wise and Foolish Builders Coloring Page in your Children's Ministry! This Wise and Foolish Builders Coloring Page is great way to help kids visualize the parable of the wise and foolish builders. Jesus told a lot of parables, and often, it is hard for us to understand what they mean. This coloring page is awesome! It gives kids an activity to help see what Jesus was talking about when he told this parable in Matthew chapter seven. It is an absolutely great resource to have in your kids church, Children's Ministry, or Sunday School. We know it will work awesome anytime of the year. Looking for more? Check out our entire collection of 200+ FREE Bible Coloring Pages. Make sure you take a look at our collection of Bible Characters Coloring Pages. Here are some other Wise and Foolish Builders Coloring Pages: www.dltk-bible.com/jesus/two_builders-index.htm https://ministry-to-children.com/build-your-house-upon-the-rock-matthew-724-coloring-page/ https://www.sermons4kids.com/wise_or_foolish_colorpg.htm http://49gwb73j4zuj2z3clp19vafg.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/K2-021515-Wise-and-Foolish-Builders-final.pdf https://www.pinterest.com/pin/285626801339701072/
Need help explaining salvation to your kids? This simple visual activity will help your child see and understand who Jesus is in their lives.
The heroes of faith listed in Hebrews 11-12, from Abel through to Rahab, and to Jesus, “the pioneer and perfecter of our faith”. PDF version (315 KB)
Ruth continues with lesson 11 in the second quarter of our Bible study with preschoolers. There is so much to learn from Ruth!
Here's a resource to help you teach your children about the people in the Bible. This Bible People printable will help you do just that.
Continuing in our study of the book of Acts, we covered the story of the stoning of Stephen. If you’ve been following When One Teaches, Two Learn, you’ll see two additions to the typic…
I attended a Bible teacher's workshop and wanted to share some of the photos. The photos are mine, please excuse the roughness, I miss my good camera, but you can get the general idea. And, that is what I want to do, is share ideas for teaching Jesus! I do have permission from the women that held the workshop to share the photos. Some of the ideas you see are found in old Ideashop magazines, if you still have them! If you have specific questions on how to do something, the questions for the chart, etc, let me know and I will find out. Please allow a short time for me to return the answer. Please, keep in mind, that examples for the ideas were put all over the walls, so you will not see finished bulletin boards, etc. It is ideas for you to make! And, I did not crop the photos. Here they are, in random order: Some of the walls first Jonah & the Great Fish wall visual These creation background boards are felt and/or fabric attached to a board, and then you add pictures, etc for each day of creation. I forgot about these, until I looked at the photos... and I REALLY need to make them! The base (center) of the flower has "blessed are the..." , then students add the center over that with the answer. This is the finished flower pot. Balaam The 3 kings: Saul, David, and Solomon. You can see what I did with the 3 kings here. Solomon's Temple Info Wall Jonah tossed from the boat into the water, then... Jonah in the Great Fish (I think that might be attached with Velcro and added after Jonah is swallowed), then, next is a couple of Jonah table visuals. Joseph (above) next is Prophets. Prophets Love is the Key Number 1 Judges Facts from Acts The Cross
Aims *To learn that David could defeat Goliath because God was with him *To learn that small people can do big things with the help of God Materials * The Beginner’s Bible 1 Samuel: ch. 15-17 * Visual aids – pictures from the story *David & Goliath game – 5 small and I big stones or mar
Teach the 7 days of Creation in a fun, visual way with our free Creation coloring pages. With a simple PDF download and print design, they are perfect for anyone in any learning environment!
Are you studying the Old Testament and the Tabernacle in your homeschooling? Make it come to life with this free, printable Tabernacle model.
Visuals & Instructional Materials Although these materials were designed with children with disabilities in mind, many children can benefit from visual supports and accommodations. All of the following resources are available as free downloads in my TeachersPayTeachers store. Church Visual Cue Cards Children’s Ministry Visual Schedule Bible Alphabet Cards Resources & Articles Vanderbilt Kennedy Center […]
Aims *To learn what happened to Jonah when he didn’t listen to God *To learn that good things happen when we listen to God Materials * The Beginner’s Bible Jonah ch.1:1 – ch. 3:10 * Visual aids – picture cards of the story * Jonah puppet game – puppet pattern of Jonah, card, glue, scissors * Jo
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Jacob & Esau is lesson 8 in the first quarter of a year of Preschool Bible Study that I assist with on Wednesday evening.
The Tower of Babel is lesson 4 in the first quarter of a year of Preschool Bible Study that I assist with on Wednesday evening.
This is the display I used for this lesson. It is the same set for the Resurrection of Jesus. I wrapped up one of the guys with gauze to be Lazarus, used Jesus and the two women. You can see it here. This lesson is about Lazarus and is found in John 11:1-45 and John 12:17-18. He had two sisters named Mary and Martha. They lived in Bethany. Mary and Martha sent for Jesus because Lazarus was sick. The message stated, “the one you love is sick.” Jesus loved Mary, Martha and Lazarus. But when Jesus heard about Lazarus being sick, He stayed two more days where He was. Lazarus died during that time, and he was buried before Jesus could visit him. Jesus told His Disciples that they were going to Judea. They asked Him “Are you sure? The Jews have been wanting to stone you.” Jesus told them it would be all right, He needed to go see their friend Lazarus. Lazarus is sleeping, and I will wake him up. They told Jesus that if Lazarus is sleeping, then he would get better. But Jesus told them that Lazarus was dead. Jesus told them that He was glad they weren’t there so they would believe what they see. And then He told the Disciples "Now, let’s go to him." When Jesus arrived at Bethany, Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Bethany was two miles away from Jerusalem. And many of those people had come to be with Martha and Mary to comfort them. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. Mary stayed at the house. Martha told Jesus that if He would have been there, Lazarus wouldn’t have died. But she said, I know that whatever you ask God, He will give You. Jesus told her that her brother would live again. Jesus asked her if she believed that whoever believed in Him would live even though they died. Martha replied that she believed in Him. “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who came into the world.” After she answered Jesus, Martha secretly went to find her sister Mary and told her that Jesus had come and was looking for her. Immediately, Mary went to Jesus. Jesus wasn’t in town yet; He was waiting for her where He had met Martha. The people who were with her, comforting her, thought she was going to the grave to cry about Lazarus. When Mary came to Jesus, she fell at His feet and told Him that Lazarus wouldn’t have died if He’d been there. When Jesus saw her crying, he felt sorry for her, and He was upset that she was so sad. Jesus asked her where Lazarus was laid at and the people said “Lord, come and see.” vs. Jesus wept. (The shortest verse of the Bible, but very important.) Jesus was upset, even though He knew He would raise him from the dead. It still upset Him. The people said, “See how much He loved Lazarus!” Some of them said if Jesus healed the blind, couldn’t He have kept Lazarus from dying? When they came to the tomb, it was a cave cut into the rock with a stone in front of it. This tells us that Mary, Martha and Lazarus had more money than the average family. This is the family burial place and only the rich could pay to have it cut out of the rock. Jesus was so upset when He came to the tomb. He said, “Take away the stone.” Martha said there is going to be a bad smell since Lazarus has been dead for four days! Jesus told her that she would believe after this. They took the stone away from the tomb and Jesus lifted up His eyes and said “I am thankful that You have heard Me. I know that You always hear Me. Because of these people standing here, I am saying this so that they may believe that You sent Me.” After that, Jesus said really loud “Lazarus, come forth.” Lazarus, who had been dead, came out with the wrappings around his hands and feet and face. Jesus said to unwrap him and the people that were there with Mary and Martha saw what Jesus had done and they believed in Him. The project is a cut and glue of Lazarus coming out of the tomb. I cut the rock, used my craft knife to make the slit for the rock tab and glued the rock cover before class. The students can lift the rock flap and will cut & glue Lazarus. It is available in color and black & white. You can download it here. For this lesson, I purchased gauze and let them wrap it around cheap plastic people I have found. Or, I have used pretzels and string cheese and let them wrap the string cheese around the pretzel. Click here to print the worksheet. We continue the Miracles lapbook today. The students will leave them in class until we finish the miracles lessons, then they take them home. Click on the lapbook to see it. I decided to limit this lapbook to the miracles that Jesus did to prove Himself. We will study Malchus, Resurrection of Jesus and Jesus Returns to Heaven, etc., but I did not include these. If you'd like to add other miracles, you can see more Jesus lapbook printables here. Bible Verse: John 11:43 Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Click here to download the lesson. Click here to download the visuals. Not all visuals are shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.)
La gran comisión. Jesús les dio a sus seguidores, muchas instrucciones durante su tiempo en la tierra. Una de las instrucciones más famosas se encuentra en Mateo 28:16-20.
Jesus Picks His Disciples includes the printables for the dozen Disciples egg carton! An oldie but goodie post! poster This week Jesus is going to pick out His helpers. They are called Disciples, which means follower. (Apostle means one who is sent.) Scripture reference: Mark 1:1:14-20; John 1:35-51, Matthew 10:1-8; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 6:13-16 The Disciples included three sets of brothers: Simon (whom He had named Peter) and Andrew. James and John, Zebedee's sons. James and Thaddeus, sons of Alpheus First is (2) Andrew and (4) John. At about 4 in the afternoon, Jesus talked to Andrew and John. They asked Jesus where He was staying, and He told them to come and see. They spent the rest of the day with Jesus. Andrew went to find his brother Simon and told him that they (Andrew and John) had found Jesus. Then Simon went to Jesus and Jesus told Simon that he would be called (1) Peter which means rock. At the same time, John went to get his brother (3) James. John 1:43-51 Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found (6) Philip and told him to “Follow me.” Philip found (7) Bartholomew. He was also called Nathanael. He asked Philip if anything good could come out of Nazareth and Philip told him to come and see Jesus! They went to Jesus and Jesus greeted them and told Bartholomew “Before Philip called you, I saw you sitting under the fig tree". Bartholomew was amazed and Jesus told him that he would see greater things. Because Jesus had known that Bartholomew was sitting under a fig tree, he knew that Jesus was special! So, we have Simon, now called (1) Peter by Jesus and (2) Andrew his brother. The two brothers (3) James & (4) John. And we have (6) Philip. All of these five Disciples were from Bethsaida, which was a fishing town. People think that (11) Simon was also brought in as a Disciple around the same time. (5) Matthew was a tax collector. He collected taxes outside the city of Capernaum. People who came by him had to pay taxes for average items they traded. The fishermen also paid taxes on their catches. People didn’t like the tax collectors because they overcharged to make extra money for themselves. It was usually a 5% fee, but some things were charged up to 12%. People thought the tax collector's money was so unclean, they didn’t ask for their change! Matthew 9:9 says that Jesus saw Mathew sitting at the tax office and walked up to him and said, “Follow Me.” Matthew did. (9) James, son of Alphaeus & (10) Thaddeus. There isn’t much told to us about them. (8) Thomas is known as Doubting Thomas because he didn’t believe that Jesus, after He died was raised from the dead. (12) Last, we have Judas Iscariot. He is the one that betrayed Jesus. He was the treasurer for the Disciples. (John 12:6) He betrays Jesus for money. We’ll learn more about him later. Jesus told them that they were to preach, preach, preach! Jesus told them to heal the sick including the lepers. Click here to download the above visuals. The Disciple's Anchor Charts have a picture and an 'About Me' on each page. There are several extra posters for Disciples and the Apostles are included also. Click here to download the updated posters. Click here to download the worksheet. Fishing boat visual for Disciples Matthew Tax Collector Visual There are two different versions of the Disciples for you to choose from: (But the outside top cover, song, Jesus and initials are the same) The original idea for this project was found on Pinterest (☺). Sunday School Kids created the original project (as far as I know). I wanted to print mine in color, so I made these. Their original black and white printables can be found here. I printed the outside and added Jesus on the stick for the inside. Jesus can be printed here. A color version for the outside top can be printed here. Click here to download for the Disciples in color. Clipart used with permission. Find more here: Get more Bible freebies here. Get Bible clip art here. Click here to download the disciples in color. Click here to print the Disciples song. For the inside, I wanted this in color, so I printed the 12 Disciples song for the top and printed the first letter of each name and used a small circle punch to cut out. I use Aleene's Tacky Glue for my craft projects. I tried to make 'egg' shape Disciples, but they are really ovals. Here are the initials for the Disciples. This was the workbook page for this lesson. One side is lapbook style, read the question and lift the flap to write the answer. Today, instead of gluing pictures, I put a wheel with the Disciples names. Print the Disciples wheel here. Here are the printables for the Disciples page of the lapbook: How many Jesus said You can find all the download links for the Life of Jesus lapbooks and the lapbook worksheets here. Robin Sampson sent another Disciples song to use (Thanks): (sing to Jesus Loves Me) Peter, James, John, Andrew, Phillip, and Bartholomew Thaddeus, Thomas, another James Mathew, Simon, Judas too. These 12 disciples, all followed Jesus But one betrayed Him, Lord help me be true. Here is a very good article about the Disciples. Bible Verse: Mark 1:17 Discípulos Printables também estão disponíveis em Português: A cobertura exterior para a parte superior pode ser impresso aqui: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpbVBBcDRtb0R6MXc/edit?usp=sharing Os Discípulos pode ser impresso aqui: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpaE9KYVZBdmd6LTQ/edit?usp=sharing As primeiras iniciais para os discípulos podem ser impressos aqui: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpWEx3eE1wR2pRamM/edit?usp=sharing Jesus que colada a uma grande palito para o interior pode ser impresso aqui: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpdzB2QTg2LVh4WlE/edit?usp=sharing Os discípulos da música pode ser impressa aqui: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpVk91NjdLWExKRFU/edit?usp=sharing Aqui está o cartaz fo os 12 discípulos de Jesus também: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpeTctN1U3ZnVmb0E/edit?usp=sharing Favor informar-me se existe uma tradução incorreta. Thanks! 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I am going to have a post once a week this month for The Beatitudes. This week will begin the series with the lesson, visuals and more!...
Continuing our study with Joseph, Joseph is Sold and Put in Prison when he is in Egypt is lesson 11 in the first quarter of a year of Preschool Bible Study that I assist with on Wednesday evening. These are the visuals I set up to use with this lesson. Joseph is found in the book of Genesis (39-40). Genesis is the first book in the Old Testament. Jacob has 12 sons and Joseph is one of them. Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors. Joseph’s brothers were so angry! Joseph went to the fields to check on his brothers, and they decided to take Joseph’s coat from him and throw him in a pit. When Joseph’s brothers sat down to eat, Midianite traders came by, and they sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver. The traders took Joseph into Egypt. Joseph did very well as a servant in Egypt. He lived with Potiphar and God was with him. Joseph was a good person, and everyone liked him. When Potiphar’s wife told a lie about Joseph, Joseph was taken to prison. God was with Joseph. The prison guard even trusted Joseph to guard the prison! While Joseph was in prison, the chief butler and chief baker made Pharaoh angry, and he put them in prison with Joseph. They both had a dream and told Joseph. The butler said there was a branch with three vines and the blossoms popped open and became ripe grapes. The butler told Joseph that he had Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, and he took the grapes and pressed them into the cup and gave it to Pharaoh. Joseph told him that the 3 vines meant 3 days and the butler would be serving Pharaoh in 3 days just like he used to. The chief baker saw that Joseph understood the butler's dream; he decided to tell Joseph about his dream. He said “I had three white baskets on my head. In the top basket were all kinds of food for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them off of my head.” Joseph told the baker that the three baskets meant he would die in three days. In three days, it was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he had a party for Pharaoh gave the chief butler his job back, and the baker died. But the chief butler forgot to tell Pharaoh about Joseph even though everything happened just like Joseph said. God helped Joseph explain the dreams and was with Joseph. Joseph stayed faithful to God. This foldable includes the color and black & white (of Joseph). Just print Joseph on one side, the bars on the other and fold so Joseph is inside prison. Click here to print. I purchased these Joseph sticker sets and divided them according to each lesson for the four weeks. Each pack makes enough for 3 students. We used this Flip Chart Song that goes over the Life of Joseph. I divided Joseph into 4 lessons, and we sang it each week. Click here to download it. We used these Magnetic Board Visuals to teach the Joseph lessons. Joseph is divided into 4 lessons and some of these will be used for more than one lesson. These are combined into this one download and includes all the visuals for all the Joseph lessons. Click here to download the set of Joseph MBV. Also, I combined the four lessons into one download to be used with the MBV. These are the same lessons but have the corresponding numbers to use each visual. Click here for the MBV lessons. Click here to download the lesson. Click here to download the 30 updated visuals. This is a variety pack for Genesis 39-46 since it covers so much! There is a visual(s) for each event that is in these chapters. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Click here to print the original visuals for this lesson only. Click here to print the Pictures to Color. Click here to see the lesson & printables for early elementary ages. And, for home Bible study of Joseph, you can print this file folder game.
Here is another “I spy…” freebie. Children simply love them. This time it is about “I spy … superheroes”. Print them out, color, count and simply enjoy all the fun. At the same time, children train attention, visual perception and fine motor skills. Grab this freebie here: I spy … superheroes More freebies
This is week 23 in the Life of David series. It is found in 2 Samuel 11-12. The application worksheet will discuss the 10 commandments an...
Rich Young Ruler Matthew 19:16-30; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-30 These Frixion pens are like magic! The eraser on the end causes h...
Bible lesson on Peter and Cornelius. Includes pre-session activity and visuals.