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Bulletin Insert: 10 Reasons To Bring Your Child To Sunday School

Tony Kummer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:57:07 +0000

What follows is a bulletin insert I created for my church. I wanted to write out some benefits of Sunday School attendance as an encouragement for families. I kept the list simple so it would print on a half sheet of paper.

Directions: Simply click on the preview image to download this file as a printer friendly PDF. I’ve also upload it as a Word document if you would like to tweak it for your own church. Here is are alternate Black & White versions (PDF – Word).

Here is the full text of the flyer. I’ve love to hear your feedback, just leave a comment below.

While sleeping late can be nice, have you considered the benefits of Sunday School attendance for your child. Here are 10 reasons to make it a priority in your family.

1. Age Targeted Teaching: Where else can your kids get Biblical instruction that’s focused toward their developmental abilities?

2. Friends: In Sunday School, your child will build positive friendships with their peers by discovering God’s Word together.

3. It’s Fun: Sunday School is not Disney Land, but our teachers do work hard to teach the Bible in ways that are relevant and fun for kids.

4. Spiritual Mentors: A dedicated teacher can be a Christian role model who supports you and helps inspire the faith of your child.

5. Systematic Bible Learning: Our curriculum is designed to give a broad foundation, so children will understand how all the parts of Scripture point to Christ.

6. Praying Teachers: Our teachers consistently pray for your child’s faith to grow. Coming to Sunday School gives another occasion for God to answer those requests.

7. Big Reward For a Small Investment: If you’re already coming to church, just come a little earlier. That one change will equal over 800 hours of additional Christian teaching before your child graduates.

8. Send the Right Message: Making Sunday School a priority shows your kids that God’s Word really does matter more than pillow-time.

9. Adult Bible Fellowship: While the children enjoy their class, you can fellowship with other adults in your own Bible study group.

10. You’ll Be On Time: Families who come to Sunday School always get to worship on time. It’s the easiest way to avoid being late.

Free Sunday School Materials

Tony Kummer — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:19:48 +0000

Are you looking for materials for your children’s Sunday School? Then you’ll love all the free stuff we have posting and linked on our website. Here is a collection of our most popular resources to get you started.

Need something else? Then use the search feature in the right sidebar or browse our table of content. Just leave a comment if you need more help.

Teaching Materials for Sunday School

One of the most popular sections of this website is our free Sunday School lessons for children. On this page you’ll find hundreds of free lesson plans perfect for teaching in your church. A similar resource is our Bible lessons for kids. These are usually a little shorter and work well in kids church. Of course, you can use them in any ministry context. If you’re teaching younger children be sure to browse our preschool materials.

Learning Activities for Sunday School

Most teachers like to have activities to go along with their lessons. So, we’re building a free resource bank of Sunday School activities. This includes crafts, games, and coloring pages. One super popular resource is object lessons. Don’t miss our suggestions for Bible trivia questions.

Printable Guides for Teachers

Teaching a great lesson takes more than printable materials. You need to develop the skills and attitudes to share God’s Word with children. Over time we’ve written several guides to make teaching Sunday School easier. These include tips for Bible storytelling, help for motivating kids, and strategies to get kids excited about the Bible.

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Creative Bible Teaching: 5 Bible Storytelling Ideas

Amy Brown — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:50:13 +0000

Avoid the Read-Aloud Rut!

Are you stuck in a read-aloud rut? Most of us have experienced it at one time or another. The read-aloud rut is when we get stuck presenting a Bible story to our class of children in the same way week after week.

We find it is easier to prepare and present a lesson if we simply open the Bible and read the story aloud to the kids. Reading aloud stories from the Bible is wonderful, but if we use the same approach week in and week out our children can become bored and tune out. Even we can become bored as teachers and begin to coast through our Sunday morning lessons. We never want the Word of God to grow boring or stale because it is quite the opposite. “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12). By adding some creativity and variety to our storytelling will can keep the Bible engaging for both our children and for us as teachers.

The following five ideas are ways to take your traditional Bible story lesson and present the story in a fresh way.

1. Pick a Passage Card

This idea will work with children who are old enough to read.

Before the teaching time on Sunday take your Bible story passage for the week and break it down into small parts. Write the scripture passage for each part on a separate slip of paper or “passage card”. On Sunday morning ask for volunteers who would like to read aloud. Each volunteer receives a “passage card” and the students share the load of reading through the Bible story passage out loud.

This approach adds variety by changing up whose voice the children are hearing. Some children love to read aloud which will engage them in the story; while others will enjoy the refreshment of hearing other voices beside the teacher read the story aloud.

2. Reader’s Theater

This teaching strategy must be prepared ahead of time. The Bible story will need to be adapted into a type of play which will be read aloud. There can be a narrator or two and how ever many characters would speak in the story. Make enough copies of the script, so each reader receives a copy. At the beginning of class volunteers will be assigned a part and can then use a highlighter or yellow marker to mark their lines in the script. The volunteers then stand across the front of the room with their backs to the audience. Whenever it comes to their part, the child turns around to face the audience, speaks their line and then turns their back again.

Add some fun by giving each reader a prop, such as a hat, to help identify who they are in the story. A simple hat or headband could be made out of paper to display the reader’s character name. Sentence strips from a teacher supply store work great for this!

3. Kids Dramatize

A fun way to get the kids involved is to have them act out the story. The teacher can bring a variety of props to class to bolster creativity. Depending upon the number of children present, divide the children into small groups where they will read the Bible story together. The children will then plan a short play using props of their choice to act out the story. After a pre-designated rehearsal time has been given, the small groups will perform their plays for one another. Paper headband character names would be a helpful addition to this activity, too.

4. Listen-n-Draw

For this activity each child will need a white sheet of paper and a pencil. Have each child fold their paper into fourths. Before coming to class the teacher will have sectioned the Bible story into four parts which make for good stopping points. When ready, the children will put their pencils down and listen to the teacher read aloud the first section of the story. When the teacher has finished reading the first section they will pause and say, “Draw!” The children will then draw what just happened in the first part of the story inside one fourth of their paper. Emphasize to the children this is a quick draw activity meant to portray the story and not intended to be a work of art. As most children finish their drawing the teacher will begin reading the second section of the story. This sequence continues for the remaining three sections until the entire Bible story has been read and each child has completed four drawings.

In Listen-n-Draw the teacher is still doing a simple read-aloud, but with the addition of pauses and drawing, the children will remain engaged and thinking about the story as they hear it. The drawings can also be used by the children to retell the story to their peers or to their parents after church.

5. Monologue

This idea requires the most preparation time and perhaps a teacher with an inkling for acting. To present a familiar Bible story in a fresh light, the teacher can create a monologue version from the main character’s point of view. The teacher can dress up in a costume resembling that of the main character and then perform the monologue for the children. This approach would be great to use if the same Bible story is being used over a period of several weeks. Performing a monologue will give the children a new way to hear and think about the story.

Some of these ideas require extra effort on the part of the teacher and some require extra effort for the children, but all of the ideas may be just what is needed to pull yourself out of a read aloud rut. Just like it would not be effective to read aloud a Bible story in the same way every week, it would also not be effective to get stuck on one of these ideas every week. The purpose of this article is to give you ideas to spice up your lessons and add variety to keep your children interested to hear what the Bible has to say each week when they come to church. We don’t want our children to develop an early habit of tuning out due to the monotony of our presentation, but instead to remain excited to listen to what God has to teach them through His Word.

10 Way to Get Kids Excited About the Bible

Wayne Stocks — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:23:08 +0000

If you asked the people who know me best to describe me, I am not certain that “Passionate” would be at the top of the list. Heck, I’m not even sure it would make the list, but there are some things that I am passionate about. I am passionate about God. It took 30 years before he called me into his family, and I sometimes feel like I am working double time to make up for that, but I am passionate about my Lord and Savior. I am passionate about my wife. God has blessed me with a woman I don’t deserve who gets a whole lot less than she deserves in me. I am passionate about my kids. They are one of the most important things in my life, and would do almost anything for them. And, I am passionate about serving the kids in my local church. I am passionate about leading kids to Christ and helping them to follow him through developing a biblical worldview.

That, of course, means that I am also passionate about the Bible. Here’s an article I wrote a year-and-a-half ago on the importance of God’s Word. I love to read it. I get fired up about my Bible because it teaches me about my Lord. I love to tell people about it, and I love to teach kids from it. It hasn’t always been that way though. I remember a couple of times as a kid when I picked up the Bible and resolved to read it cover to cover. I got about half way through the “begats” of Matthew, and I was toast. I would ask myself how anyone could actually sit and read this stuff. It would be more exciting to watch grass grow! Now, I can’t get enough. For the last several years, I have read through my Bible multiple times each year, not because I have to – but because I get to.

Now that I am a parent and a worker in children’s ministry I am faced with a daunting task, how do I convey my excitement for and about the Bible, and all that it contains, to the children who I influence – both my own and those in our ministry. In this article I will look at 10 things you can do to help kids catch a sense of excitement and intrigue about their Bibles.

10 Way to Get Kids Excited About the Bible

1. Let them see your excitement.
Let’s face it, excitement is contagious. How else would explain the “Stadium Wave” phenomenon that still rears its ugly head at sporting events. People get caught up in the moment. They get caught up in the excitement. Children are no different. Let them see you reading your Bible and enjoying it. Make certain that they hear you talking about the exciting things you’ve found in the Bible. Let them sense your excitement at the things the Bible has taught you. When they ask questions, refer to the Bible for answers. Let them see your excitement about the Word of God, and they are likely to feed off of that.

2. Hold your Bible.
When you are teaching kids, make sure that you physically hold your Bible. Whether or not you refer to it during your teaching, the mere fact that you are holding it implies to the kids that the story you are telling them in from that book. If they are interested in the story you are telling (say, David & Goliath), they are more likely to seek out the Bible to see what other exciting stories might be in there.

3. Teach them how to use it.
Some kids avoid the Bible because it is just so daunting. Take the mystery out of it. Show them how it is organized. Teach them where it came from and how it is arranged. Show them how to look up a verse. Teach them how to use a concordance. Help them to memorize the names of the books of the Bible. Show them the maps at the back. All of this will turn the Bible from a frighteningly thick book into a useful tool in the hands of a child.

4. Explain where it comes from and what is.
The Bible is not just any ordinary book. It was given to us by God. Children need to understand that what they have in the Bible is a recounting of the history of the Creator’s interaction with his creation. Furthermore, they need to understand how they fit into that story.

5. Give them a place to start.
Some people, including children, never get started into their Bibles because they just don’t know where to start. Challenge them to start reading somewhere. Figure out what interests them and suggest they start there, or pick a specific book and have them start reading it in small segments. The book of John is a great place to start.

6. Show them how it can be useful to them.
It is more than just a bunch of cool stories. It is the very words of the God who created everything they can see. When kids are playing video games (at least my teenager is this way), they love books full of cheat codes that show them the hidden levels and how to win the game. The Bible is just that kind of cheat book for life. Apply the Bible to real life circumstances and trials in a child’s life, and show them how to apply biblical precepts to the situation.

7. Encourage them to memorize it.
The Bible tells us that we should write the Word of God on our hearts. Kids should start memorizing scripture as soon as possible. Start with some core fundamental verses like John 3:16 and work on those over and over until they start to know God’s Word. Kids are capable of memorizing scripture before they are even capable of reading it. Playing music based on scriptural passages is another great way to help them memorize Biblical passages.

8. Find out what excites them and show it to them in the Bible.
The Bible is a cool book, and we should let kids know that. What other children’s book has God raining fire and brimstone from the sky, action and adventure like the flood and soap operas like the story of Esther or Ruth? There is something in there for everyone. Find out what interests an individual child and encourage them to read that story.

9. Use it in your class regularly.
Jesus should be at the center of everything we do in children’s ministry, and the Bible is what tells us about him. Therefore, make sure that the Bible is central to what you are teaching. Don’t just tell kids that the story you are telling them is from the Bible, put it in the context of the larger biblical story and tell the story from the Bible. When you use a verse as part of your lesson, read it directly from your Bible, not just your notes. Let the kids see and hear that the Bible should be central, and a guiding force, in everything we do.

10. Pray
We should do everything we can to get kids excited about God’s Word, but our efforts pale in comparison to what God Almighty is capable of. Accordingly, prayer is critical is your efforts to teach kids about the Bible. Pray that God would grow a sense of excitement and wonder about his Word in the hearts of your children. Pray that he would give them a burning desire to study his Word, and pray that he would help them to write his Word on their hearts.

Need More Ideas? Then learn how to read the Bible aloud to children or try this fun way to make Bible stories come to life.

Teaching Sunday School Students How To Pray

Kelly Henderson — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:13:59 +0000

I teach with a co-teacher and we have been teaching 8-10 year olds (3rd/4th Grade U.S.A) in Sunday School for the past five years. I wanted to share with others something that the Lord has used in our class and has been a blessing to be a part of each week.

In our class we have a prayer time each week before we begin our Bible lesson. Our heart’s desire in doing this each week is to enable the students to not be afraid to pray publicly. As adults it can be intimidating to be called on to pray publicly. Our prayer is that our students will take what they learn in class and be children who pray privately and publicly. To help students become more accustomed to praying in public and also to aid them to pray privately we teach them to praise God, thank God and make our requests to God. As they learn the discipline and joy of prayer early in life, it’s our prayer that as they serve the Most High God they continue to be faithful prayer warriors.

How we implement prayer in our class is to have a prayer time each week before our lesson begins. To prepare for this time we have prepared cards for the students to select. There are 3 categories that we prepare. Praise, Thanks and Request cards. On the praise cards there are examples of how to praise God. “I praise you because You are our comforter. You comfort me when I am discouraged.” On the thank you cards we have examples of things we can thank God for. “Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.” On the request cards we have examples for requests. “Please help our pastor to preach Your Word or Please help our leaders to make wise decisions.” (We keep it to simple sentence prayers so that we have time for all the students to participate.) We have several cards to choose from. Each week as the students get the idea of praise, thanks, and requests they become more comfortable to use their own prayers of praise, thanks and requests. When they first arrive we remind them to choose their cards if they need cards and if they already know what they want to praise, thank and pray for they don’t need to take the prepared cards. The cards provide something to help the students who are scared to pray out loud. In the beginning they are participating by reading off their card when it’s their turn. It’s our prayer that as they continue each week it becomes natural for them to pray out loud and not be focused on the others around them. (In past classes we provided a piece of paper that had the three components with a blank for the student to fill in to help them pray their own individual prayers. The sheet said: I praise you because…..Thank You for…..Please help……) An index card or a blank piece of paper can work well too. As our students grew and became more accustomed to doing this each week they did not need the cards. We provide the cards each week for possible first time visitors and for the students who still want to use the cards.

As we pray each week the Lord will gives insights how to encourage and help the students to grow in their prayers. For instance, in our class we noticed a trend that most of the students when praying without cards would say, “I praise you because you are holy.” That is an awesome characteristic to praise God for! What we wanted the students to realize is that as they pray that it’s important to remember what that are saying means. God is perfect and without sin. We don’t want to pray the same things every time we pray. Prayer is talking with God and having a relationship with Him. We don’t say the same things over and over when we talk to our friends. It’s important to encourage them to praise God in new ways. To help them do that we encouraged them to think about how God helped them that week. If they were sick and God healed them, they can praise God as the one who healed.

When it is time to pray as a class we get on our knees. We explain that we get on our knees to show respect to God. Jesus knelt as He prayed Luke 22:41 We explain to them that there will be a time of silence so we can quiet our hearts before God. As we quiet our hearts before Him if He shows us anything that we have done that is sin against Him we need to ask Him to forgive us. (A time of confession so we can be clean before God as we come to Him in prayer.) After that moment of quiet the lead teacher begins the prayer time and the students take their turn and the c0-teacher closes out the prayer time. This time has been such a blessing for us as teachers. We have seen even the shyest students pray something very simple in our time of public praying.

When we implemented this in our class we did not allow it to be an option if students wanted to pray or not. This sounds very rigid but if you allow them the option some won’t ever try. (If the child is a visitor we tell them this is what we do in our class and show them the cards and if they want to participate they are welcome.) We encourage the students that this is a safe place to pray. We all came to Sunday School to learn more about God. This time of prayer is helping us to learn how we can pray together. When we are at home we pray privately but there will be times that we need to pray together. We encourage them to speak so that we all can hear. Example: When a person says, “Thank you God for healing my Grandmother”, we all can say thank you to God in our hearts for what He has done.

Even if it might seem as though some students are going through the motions by taking their turn and reading their cards, seeds are being planted in their hearts. As the student reads : “I praise You because You are the Bread of Life; Your Word feeds my spirit, or I praise You as the Prince of Peace, You give peace to me when I am upset” these Biblical truths are being planted in their hearts.

This was shared for the purpose of encouraging and helping anyone with a need for ideas how to teach your students to pray. As with all circumstances in the classroom the teacher needs to be in tune with the Lord’s leadership. What works well in our class may not work the same in another. God is faithful to help you teach your class the important discipline of prayer and He will enable you to do it in the way that’s best for your students.

A Brief History of Sunday School

Jeri Tanner — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:29:15 +0000

For many of us, Sunday school is a deeply rooted tradition, although it is actually a rather modern institution. Have you ever wondered about the origins and history of Sunday school? If so, here are a few facts you may find interesting.

The idea of a “Sabbath school” for poor and uneducated children began in England in the late 18^th century. Visionary evangelicals like Robert Raikes devised a plan to gather poor, uneducated working children into education classes on Sundays, the children’s only day off. Clean clothes and learning materials were provided, and instruction given in reading, writing, hygiene and good citizenship. The churches hoped that this effort would serve the dual purpose of bettering the future of society and curbing the rampant delinquency. Though neither evangelism nor religious training were the expressed goals of the new schools, there was the hope that the morality taught, being based on the truths of Scripture, might bring about a transformation in the hearts of the children. And so the Sabbath or Sunday school was born.

By the early 1800’s, the goals of the Sunday schools were changing. Young, newly converted Presbyterians saw the Sunday School as an opportunity to teach the gospel and doctrine to children; in fact, many Sunday School leaders began to lobby for free public schools for the needy, so that they could concentrate on religious instruction. The regeneration and conversion of children now became the goal. As this focus grew, Sunday school students were often encouraged to memorize large portions of the Bible, earning prizes and incentives for doing so. This idea was dropped when it was realized that the students were more interested in the prizes than in God’s word!

In America, the first national Sunday School effort began in 1824; its stated purpose was to organize, evangelize and civilize. The focus was intentionally evangelical, and so within the next 100 years the Sunday School had become the primary outreach arm of the church. The Sunday School organization now expanded to include all ages. Sunday School became a way for unbelievers to be introduced to, and then assimilated into, the life of the church. By the late 1800’s, Sunday School was looked to as the main hope for church growth, a view that continued until the mid-twentieth century.

Sunday School attendance has seen a slow decline in the last 50 or so years. One factor generally agreed to be a reason for this is the shift away from evangelism and toward discipleship and fellowship over the last half century or so. Studies do indicate that where Sunday Schools are thriving and growing, church membership increases.

The idea of Sunday School as a primary opportunity for evangelism may be new to some of us. Is it possible that a return to that model could help revitalize our churches? Has Sunday School attendance declined in your church, or is it thriving? One thing is certain, much has changed since the idea of a Sunday school for the reform of unruly street children was first envisioned!

What About Promotion Sunday?

Charlie Wallace — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:23:22 +0000

At the church where I serve, Promotion Sunday, that day when kids move up to the next grade/class in Sunday School and other activities, for years occurred the first Sunday of September. However, by the time I arrived the date had been pushed back to the first Sunday in June. This was done primarily for one reason: by the time the summer had arrived our 5th graders were ready to promote into our middle school ministry (for those that don’t have a middle school ministry, you can probabcly relate to this with your 6th graders as they approach youth ministry).

One problem, however, that I encountered was that many in our preschool division were not quite ready to promote in June. For instance, our Kindergarten teachers had us order 3-4s curriculum because their kids were not quite ready for the K5 material. What to do?

I compromised. I went ahead and promoted my 5th graders into the middle school ministry at the end of May (which made both parties happy – including our 5th grade teachers who enjoyed taking the summer off from teaching) and we pushed promotion back to the first Sunday in August – not September. Because school starts in mid-August, we figured why not have the kids promote a little early before all of the back-to-school hype started off. September just seemed too late.

When does your Children’s Ministry or Sunday School do promotion Sunday?

What about you? When do you promote? What lessons have you learned about promotion?

Multimedia Projectors: How They Can Help Your Sunday School & Children’s Church

Jeri Tanner — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:46:12 +0000

Did you ever think of using a small multimedia projectors in your Sunday School or Children’s Church? I’m not a very good geek. I’d like to be one, but alas know too little about technology and am dependent on the kindness of strangers when it comes down to it. If you’re like me (or especially if you’re not!) you’ll appreciate this information on a neat little piece of gadgetry that even a technology-challenged person like me can make use of in children’s ministry!

Portable projectors (small digital multimedia projectors) have been around for a few years, but I only discovered them a couple of years ago as I was searching around for a way to display images to help illustrate and punctuate Bible lessons. It’s a pretty neat concept and of course like all digital technology, these multimedia projectors will keep improving over time. What I was looking for was something cost-friendly that I could use with my laptop to throw a picture onto a wall or screen in any room. Enter portable projectors: smaller, more lightweight, not quite as powerful but less expensive and just as effective for small applications as the fancier ones. They are marketed as portable business projectors, but they are very hand for education too.

Ways To Use Portable LCD Projectors In Children’s Ministry

So how do you use the things? Simply plug the projector into your laptop or other device, point its lamp toward a wall and voila! there are your song lyrics, slide shows, Scripture passages and Jelly Telly videos displayed for all to see…no more need to have the kids crowd around your laptop. There’s more to it, of course, than that; these can range in price from $210-$750, depending on the size and specs you want, and there is more information about lumens, lcd versus dlp projector capabilities and such you’ll want to understand before you buy. These gadgets are a great idea for small rooms and modest needs. A portable projector can be used in virtually any room where the lighting can be dimmed or is not overly bright to begin with; they are completely portable, can be used with laptops, iPods or other devices, depending on the model, and can be gotten relatively inexpensively. Visit one of the online geek magazines like pcmag.com or geek.com to find the best portable lcd projector for your needs and budget.

Do You Really Need A Digital Projector For Your Children’s Ministry?

Such a gadget can be a good investment for a church with room and media issues. Of course we can do quite well without electronic media when we teach; I am, if anything, on the wary side when it comes to making technology a must-have tool for teaching our children about God. That said, however, there are definitely ways to use it that stop short of making it necessary, but do allow it to be helpful. For a generation of children who have grown up with electronic images and are accustomed to them, this kind of technology can be a handy resource. If you are interested in a useful and instructive way to incorporate media into your teaching, a little gadget like this could be just the thing for your church or family to consider.

Of course, I also remain a big fan of flannelgraph boards…

Share Your Tips For Sunday School Growth

Tony Kummer — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:07:32 +0000

With kids back in school, the Fall Sunday School bump has started. But this is also a great time to get new families to start attending.

This post is an open forum for you to share your best tips and advice for getting more kids in Sunday School.

Fresh Ideas For Sunday School Bulletin Boards

Tony Kummer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:44:26 +0000

[ad#kids-links]I have always struggled to find good ideas for my church’s Sunday school bulletin board. The default mode is to post the latest crafts, but a well-decorated bulletin board can be a good way to keep your children’s ministry area interesting. Here are a few web resources that offer free Sunday school bulletin board ideas.

Bulletin Board Ideas for Sunday School

Kid’s Sunday School Place offers 11 free bulletin board ideas (14 more in the members only area). Each one has an example picture and material lists. Bulletin Board Ideas for Sunday School Class that you can easily create. A great visual teaching aid for children’s church. Easy to follow instructions and picture sample.

Apostolic Faith Church has a large set of photos on their website of their bulletin board projects. There are no instruction, but you should be able to get the idea from the pictures. You can even email them a picture of your designs and they will add it to their list. This is a great place to start when you are creating a church bulletin board.

Danielle’s Place presents several Sunday school bulletin board designs on this free page. Some of these ideas are really fun, some even include frogs. My favorite is the “Fruit of the Spirit” bulletin board display. Danielle’s place has many more designs in their paid membership only area.

DLTK website lists church bulletin boards by month & season. This helps you find the right ideas all through the sunday school calender. Examples have pictures and instructions for using them in Sunday school which include relevant Bible verses. These bulletin boards could work in several different settings including homeschooling.

Teacher Help has a large collection of bulletin boards decorating ideas, many of these are in PDF format or link to other websites. Their website is a little difficult to navigate, but they have a large selection of ideas for your bulletin boards. You will need to scroll down to see the links.