Money-Saving Ideas: 6 Ways to Make Craft Supplies From Scratch
Are you looking for more money-saving ideas for your ministry? (Who isn’t?) We asked readers to send in their homemade concoctions to share with you penny pinchers. You can save…
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
The Power of Music in Your Preschool Classroom
Music is a powerful teaching tool for preschool leaders. Have you ever thought about why? Music activates unique brain networks, supports long-term memory of lyrics (like Bible verses), and encourages…
Television and Faith: Tuned In to Faith Lessons
Do the kids in your ministry worship at the altar of Nickelodeon or Netflix? Or would you say that the kids in your ministry are appropriately entertained by television? If…
10 Ministry Must-Haves to Impact All Learning Styles
Here are 10 ministry must-haves in your classroom to help students of all learning styles to be impacted by God’s Word. All people learn differently — regardless of age. Whether…
4 Creative Ways to Encourage Kids in Your Ministry to Pray More
4 creative ways to encourage kids in your class to pray even more. Prayer is an incredible privilege because it’s communication with the living God! Yet we often struggle with…
7 Disciple Strategies to Stop Behavior Problems Before They Start
Use these discipline strategies to stop behavior problems before they start. Let’s be real: Ministry to kids isn’t all high-fives and butterflies and faith commitments, is it? Sometimes it’s dealing…
Using Differentiated Instruction to Reach All Learning Styles
Use Differentiated Instruction in your children’s ministry to meet kids’ individual needs to help them maximize their learning potential. How would you feel if you broke your arm and the…
10 Practical Ways to Train Kids to Be the Church Today
Here are 10 practical ways to train kids in your ministry to be the church now. A few weeks ago, I experienced a rite of passage with my oldest son.…
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 Handle When Kids Complain that You’re Favoring Boys of Girls
Here’s some advice from the experts about what to do at every age when kids complain that you’re favoring the boys or the girls. What do I do when kids…
