How to Handle When Preschoolers Tells a Lie
Everyone lies. But the way preschoolers lie is different from the way adults lie. Here’s what you need to understand about handling this situation. Three- and 4-year-olds “live by a…
Teaching Tips
It’s critical to recruit volunteers to your children’s ministry who love God, love serving, and love kids. But what’s even more important for a healthy ministry is equipping those volunteers with resources and information to help them grow into their roles as teachers. This is the section for that!
What You’ll Find
In our teaching tips area, you’ll find articles like “How to Infuse Life-Long Faith in Preschoolers,” “3 Hard God-Questions Kids Ask (and How to Answer!),” and “4 Mistakes to Avoid When Teaching Kids the Bible.”
You can also search our teaching tips by age range, including nursery, preschool, elementary, and preteen, or you can search by topic, such as discipline. So whether you need help crafting better questions, tips on making Scripture stick, or ways to calm high-energy kids, we’ve got you covered.
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About Teaching Tips
Creative Ways to Teach Babies in the Church Nursery
A church nursery isn’t just about babysitting — it’s about teaching! Use these creative ways to teach babies and help them learn about God. Point That Finger While pointing may…
Are Rewards a Token for Classroom Success?
To give (prizes, points, rewards, candy, and treats) or not to give? That is the question. Some experts say that giving kids tokens, rewards, candy, and the like destroys their…
4 Helpful Tips for Preparing Preschoolers for Christmas
A preschooler’s senses heighten as he experiences the sacred and secular activities of Christmas. Church leaders and parents often struggle to balance the magic of commercialism with the birth of…
Teacher Tip: Working with Negative Children in Your Ministry
First, minimize the impact of negative children and then create a positive atmosphere with these tips. A negative child often seeks love and craves attention. A negative attitude, though, can…
How to Make Faith Contagious to the Preteens in Your Ministry
Something’s catching — and these preteens are hooked! Here’s how to make faith contagious to these kids in your ministry. Warning: Christianity May Be Catching on With Preteens Recently I…
Why Teaching with Grace is so Important
Here’s why grace is the key component in your teaching toolbox. He was a boy with a knack for trouble. Maybe it was his love of creativity, hunger for freedom,…
The Top 3 Secrets of Happy Children’s Ministry Teachers
For these teachers, the road to teaching is a true adventure. And they have a few secrets to share with all of us. Teachers come in all personality types, from…
Thanksgiving Service Idea: Love Challenge
With this Thanksgiving service idea: Love Challenge, kids discover how they can give love to others in different ways. Scripture “Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely…
3 Powerful Tools to Measure Kids’ Spiritual Growth
Use these three tools to assess and understand to measure kid’s spiritual growth. Growing up as an avid soccer player, I was blessed with a high school coach who poured…
