Update December 18, 2011: Congratulations Tina Smith! 

On the twelfth day of Christmas, we’re giving away a free subscription to our all-new LIVE Children’s Curriculum!

You’ll get three years of digital curriculum that you can customize and calendarize to make it your own. It’s great lessons that get kids into the Bible in fun and creative ways! You also get a great online system for communicating with your teachers and other volunteers.

Not only that, but we’ll send you 12 music CDs and 3 sing-along DVDs you need in one fell swoop with your subscription.

Your teachers can even download a free app to their smartphone or tablet to review lessons and/or teach from their device.

This really is an amazing curriculum delivered in the way our friends in ministry have been asking for—all digital. And you won’t believe the bells and whistles that come with this. Check it out here.

To enter: Tell us why you’d want the new LIVE Children’s Curriculum. Comment on this blog, our Facebook page, or send a tweet (using hashtag #LIVEcc) with your reason and you'll be entered to win! The winner will be announced Sunday, December 17, 2011.

Update December 17, 2011: Congratulations Anette Shanks! 

On the eleventh day of Christmas, we’re giving away our three favorite puppets for children’s ministry: Pockets, Whiskers, and Cuddles! All three are used in our popular curriculum, and kids love them!

You’ll find these characters in Hands-On Bible Curriculum. Cuddles greets toddlers and 2s. Whiskers is the friend of preschoolers. And Pockets brings God’s Word to life for preschoolers and kindergartners.

You can learn more about Hands-On Bible Curriculum at http://group.com/sunday-school/hands-on-bible-curriculum.

And to enter, all you need to do is tell us how you’d use these three puppets in your children’s ministry. Comment on this blog, our Facebook page, or send a tweet (using hashtag #hobcpuppets) with your answer and you'll be entered to win! The winner will be announced Saturday, December 17, 2011.

 Update December 16, 2011: Congratulations Kimberly HolyGhost Carroll-McLean!   

On the tenth day of Christmas, we’re giving away an entire case of My First Hands-On Bible. That’s 18 preschool Bibles!
   And these Bibles are so unique! For one thing, these aren’t Bible “stories,” but they’re the abridged version of the actual Scripture. (That means we took out the hard words and topics for preschoolers.)
   The art rocks! Preschoolers will love looking at the pictures.
   And there are activities and talk-starters for parents and/or teachers to do with preschoolers.
   So here’s another gift that keeps on giving! We’ll send you 18 of these wonderful preschool Bibles…and you can bless 17 other people with God’s Word!

Check out the recent review Kenny Conley wrote about My First Hands-On Bible. Kenny is the Next Generation Pastor at Gateway Community Church in Austin, Texas.

To be entered for this giveaway, tell us your favorite Bible story to share with kids! Comment on this blog, our Facebook page, or send a tweet (using hashtag #myfirstbible) with your answer and you'll be entered to win! The winner will be announced Friday, December 16, 2011.

Update December 15, 2011: Congratulations Vanessa Jones!

On the ninth day of Christmas, we're paying homage to the sweet baby Jesus by giving away Play-n-Worship: Play-Along Bible Stories for Babies. It's Sunday school for babies!

We're banishing from churches the idea that all the nursery does is babysit! Oh contrare! We know you're establishing a lifelong foundation of faith for the "least of these" when you cuddle a baby, sing "Jesus Loves Me," read a Bible story, and love in the name of Jesus.

And Play-n-Worship for Babies helps you do all that—and more! You can check it out online, but let me tell you what I love! You repeat the story Sunday to Sunday—and that's good educational theory that's called interval reinforcement. And then you give the babies Softees that they can hold as you show them the colorful visuals.

Enough of me trying to describe it. Let Brian explain it to you in this fun video:

To be entered for this giveaway, tell us why you know for a fact that children's ministry is WAY more than babysitting! Comment on this blog, our Facebook page, or send a tweet (using hashtag #playworship) with your answer and you'll be entered to win! The winner will be announced Thursday, December 15, 2011.

Update December 14, 2011: Congratulations Laura Aranda! 

On the eighth day of Christmas, we're giving away enough Flair to share with your entire team! I like the ring of that: Flair to Share!! You'll get 25 of the Flair button shown here.

What's Flair, you wonder?

It's just a clever way someone on our team came up with for you to declare who you are, what you value, and why you're in children's ministry! Cute buttons with fun sayings will let your entire team declare that they serve Jesus by serving kids!

And because Flair is a big part of our national KidMin Conference (hang onto your hats!), we're also giving away a free registration for a preconference training session at KidMin 2012 (September 28—October 1, 2012 in Chicago).

You won't want to miss out on all the fun and training and connections and conversations and worship…and, whew! You won't want to miss out on the unconventional conference for children's ministers!

Check out these photos to see what Cynthia Crane's preconference "Idea Lab" was like! So fun! So real! So Cynthia!

To be entered for this giveaway, just tell us why you'd like to win this gift! Comment on this blog, our Facebook page, or send a tweet (using hashtag #kidmin2012) with your answer and you'll be entered to win! The winner will be announced Wednesday, December 14, 2011.