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Are you looking for a craft idea for your Sunday school lesson? Do you need just the right idea to supplement your Bible lesson? Check out these popular websites that provide Sunday school craft projects. Some are free, and some require a membership. Do you know of another website that features Sunday school crafts? If so, let me know in the comment section.

Guildcraft Arts & Crafts: This online retailer offers a large selection of packaged craft products and supplies.

Sunday School Crafts

MSS Crafts and Resources for Bible Lessons: “A directory of children’s Sabbath School and Sunday School resources and crafts. Here you will find free crafts and ideas for over one hundred Bible stories as well as other activities for devotions and Bible classes.” Crafts and resources for bible stories. Especially good for school age children. Has crafts, craft ideas, recipes, games, travel activities, sticker activities, lessons, etc., for beginner, kindergarten, primary, & junior grades.

DLTK’s Bible Activities: A site full of Sunday school crafts, activities, printable projects, free coloring pages and more.

Danielle’s Place: “This site is dedicated to teaching children through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities for children. Most of the crafts and activities on this site are Bible-based and are great to use in Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, preschool, and home school. You will find complete Sunday school lessons and lessons for Christian homes schools.”

Bible Kids Fun Zone: “Bible Crafts for Kids, Interactive Preschool Sunday School Online Curriculum. Of course you want the best crafts your Sunday school or preschool can afford; kids learn best by doing! You need Bible-based crafts that teach important bible concepts, keep kids engaged in active learning, age-appropriate and teacher friendly. Bible Kids Fun Zone’s membership site offers fun, easy, inexpensive, theme-based bible crafts for your Sunday school or Christian homeschool or preschool.” This site has a membership only area, plus many free samples.

Sunday School Crafts

About.com Family Bible Crafts: A selection of crafts built around Bible stories that would be a good supplement to your Sunday school lesson.

MakingFriends.com: “Crafts for Bible Stories, everything you need to teach bible stories from both the old and new testament. more Bible Crafts, Here are some projects to use with your Sunday School class, WWJD Crafts, Spiritual Themes for Making Friends Paper Dolls, Bible Stories Coloring Pages, free coloring pages for your favorite bible stories.”

Children’s Sunday School Teacher’s Online Resources: A good collection of Sunday school crafts collected over the years by a Sunday school teacher to supplement her lessons. “A couple years back, that’s where I was at, so I started collecting links to useful crafts, pictures and so on in an html document so that I could find them later when that particular Bible story or topic came up in my class. And then it occurred to me that, since other Sunday School teachers would be in the same boat, I ought to put the page up for their use as well.”

EBible Teacher: “Sunday School Sources.com provides free Bible study lessons, review activities and games, songs, trading card files, and teaching tips for primary and junior level church classes. If you’re making your own curriculum, you can find lots of ideas, worksheets, graphics and other materials for your students!”

Christian Preschool Printable: A website that offers free downloads and printable resources for Sunday school crafts and projects.

Sunday School Crafts

Faith Kids Sunday School Bible Bytes: “Brighten your Sunday School Curriculum by adding our Bible based craft and activity resources. Freely shared in Faith* with children’s Sunday School teachers and parents. Faith Kids Sunday School Bible Bytes - Sunday School teaching resources to add to your Children’s Ministry: Here are creative graded printable Bible crafts and activity pages, coloring pages, posters, on-line kid’s programs and resources for children age 3 to 13 to enrich your time together. We’re making it fun to learn!”

Kids Sunday School Place: “helping Sunday school workers create high impact, fun filled lesson plans. The site provides complete Sunday school lessons for children from four years old up to the 6th grade. We also provide ideas for crafts, object lessons, games, activities, skits, stories, songs, and teaching tips. We also have a unique feature called the Topical Index, which allows you to find what you’re looking for by topic.”

DLTK’s Crafts for Kids: “DLTK’s Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children’s crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children’s favorite cartoon characters. The site is a terrific hobby — run by (me) Leanne, a mom with two girls as my official craft testers and my husband as my technical support. My girls are ages 10 and 13 - gosh they grow up fast — we’ve been doing the site since my youngest was a newborn!”

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Are you looking for a great craft idea for your children’s Sunday school class? Then check out these websites. They list many great kid’s Christmas crafts, ideas and projects. Arts and crafts are not my strong point. So I’m thankful for all the easy and free Christmas craft ideas for kids. Try these for your Sunday school lesson, children’s church, or at home with your children. Continue reading →

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I wanted to link to a few lessons from my New Testament children’s church lessons that might be helpful for your Christmas preparation. I taught these lessons in my kids worship service, but they could be easily adapted for Sunday school. Click on the links below to go directly to the Word Documents.

• Luke 1:5-25 God promises the birth of John the Baptist
• Luke 1:26-45 God promises the birth of Jesus to Mary
• Matthew 1:18-25 God prepare Joseph for the birth of Jesus
• Matthew 2 A Tale of Two Kings

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The average children’s Bible has about 100 stories. The real Bible has many more. Every story matters. But what are the basic stories kids need to understand to have a full grasp on the Bible? What stories are so basic to the Gospel that omitting them would leave a big whole in their worldview? Here’s what I came up with.

13 Bible Stories You Must Teach Every Child

1. God created the world and everything in contains (including people) for his glory. (Genesis 1-2)
2. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, rejected God’s rule and fell into a state of sin and misery. (Genesis 3-4) Continue reading →

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Johnny walks into your Sunday school class 25 minutes late. He’s a challenging kid, but you pride yourself on keeping an ordered classroom. You’ve planned your lesson very carefully. You’ve even prayed for you class this week.

You smile at Johnny, but inside your saying, “Why didn’t they just wait until church.” It’s too late to backtrack the lesson, so you just keep teaching.

Johnny is fidgeting. He is rustling through his Bible and making little noises with his mouth. He gets up to find a pencil. He gets up again to sharpen it. The whole class is losing focus.

Hand up. It’s Johnny. “Did we have snack yet?” You kindly redirect. Then he puts his head down and whimpers a little. Inside you wish he had stayed home today.

After church you corner his mom. “Mrs. Smith, I need to talk with you about Johnny’s behavior in Sunday school. He was very disruptive this morning.”

She begins to apologize. “We had a bad morning. His grandpa passed away last Thursday. Johnny has been having nightmares. I should have kept him at home. I thought it might help to keep our routine. I’m really sorry he was trouble.”

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV)

Effective teaching begins with love. Ministry is not about the lesson. It’s not about the classroom schedule. It’s about loving kids and pointing them to Jesus.

How many times have you missed your chance to love?

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