Each Sunday school year means new faces, new personalities, and new opportunities to create a classroom environment that keeps kids coming back. Great activities, relevant lessons, tasty snacks, and cool…
Use these 14 playful ideas to reinforce your lessons about the Word of God.
It’s been a long week, and Saturday night has you scrambling through your lesson plan. Quickly…
Here are tons of low-cost and no-cost ideas to use in any season for any reason to help keep your children’s ministry budget on track.
If the best things in…
Discover these six elements that parents and kids say make for a great vacation Bible school!
We thought it would be interesting to talk to some end-users of vacation Bible…
Your preschool ministry offers an opportunity to infuse little ones with faith at one of the most important points in their lives.
If you work with preschoolers, it’s likely you’re…
Just because communication with babies isn’t easy doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Babies can take in way more than we give them credit for being. I read a study the other…
Not only do kids today have to worry about bullying in school, but they also have to worry about cyberbullying. Here are three ways to help kids deal.
Bullying certainly…
How important is music to your ministry? And I’m not talking exclusively about worship music, although that plays a huge role. Do you incorporate songs throughout your time with your…
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In previous issues of Children’s Ministry Magazine, we offered exclusive extra content. This includes ideas and downloadables found only at childrensministry.com as a benefit to…
Do you ever find yourself wondering if VBS truly makes a difference? If Jesus really uses VBS music, decorations, Bible discoveries, and volunteers to transform lives?
It’s natural to ponder…
Discover the keys from a video-game worldbuilder to capture kids’ attention through gaming in ways that’ll impact their minds, hearts, and faith growth.
Games are everywhere, even if they don’t…
These Bible games are just what you’re looking for when you have an event or Sunday school lesson that needs a little something else! Kids will love these games!
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Kids’ misunderstanding also provides significant insight into mistakes we’re making when we teach them about the Bible. Here are four mistakes to avoid.
“The first book of the Bible is…
Say the word “party,” and kids come running. Children love parties. So combine one of their favorite events with a biblical theme to make “Bible-Based Bashes.”
Bible-based bashes create enthusiasm,…