Last week I wrote a quick review of the All-in-One Bible Fun Curriculum from Abingdon Press. We liked the preschool edition and have used it twice in a preschool class at our church. It is definitely a useful resource to have on hand, especially if you need to hand something off to a last minute substitute.
These books are only $10 each – a great price for 13 weeks of lessons for Sunday School or Children’s Church. You can read a sample on the Abingdon Press or Cokesbury websites.
This contest is now closed, thanks to everyone who entered. Look for more giveaways soon.
The Giveaway: All-in-One Bible Fun
Abingdom press wants me to select three winners. Two will choose either elementary or preschool editions of the “Stories of Jesus.” One grand prize winner will win all four books in the curriculum series.
How To Win
To enter this contest, leave a comment below and share your favorite Bible Story to teach kids. On September 30, I will randomly draw 3 winners from the comments left on this post. If this is your first time to leave a comment, it will take a few minutes to appear. Make sure you use a real email or I won’t be able to contact you. The prizes can only ship to US addresses.
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I didn’t actually teach this story myself, but it’s still one of my favorites…
One of my Sunday School teachers (a young, enthusiastic high-schooler) was teaching the story of Jonah and the whale. She taped paper triangle “teeth” to an umbrella along with some paper eyes to make the upper portion of a whale face and then made a lower “jaw” to go with it. She then made the whale’s mouth open and close and had the kids jump in and out to re-enact Jonah’s experience. The class performed it for the whole church and, may I add – everyone had… a whale of a time!
Random.org selected winners are comment #28 and #49
Grand prize winner is comment #36
Thanks to every one who entered, and sorry I’m a day late closing it! Life happens to me too.
I hope I’m not too late for the drawing. I did not get the e-mail until today! I would love to have a chance to win. :)
Story of Samuel–even children can hear God’s voice!
The Story of Joseph and his trials an being raised up by God to help save His people! SO many applications to draw upon!
Hi,
I’m from Sri Lanka and I’m preparing myself to start a small Children’s group in my neighborhood (for Christian and non Christian children) and share the love of Jesus with them so that they may come to know Jesus as their Savior. Winning a book such as All-in-one would help me a lot to bring the best to these kids.
Thanks and may God bless you!!
Wow. Pick only one bible story that I like? Well I think it is Joshua and the walls of Jericho. I love this story and when I teach this lesson to my chuch kids they love it. They enjoy playing the parts of walking around Jericho and then blowing horns. I have varying ages in my Wednesday club and it is challenging to find ways to keep it interesting.
My favorite Bible lesson is David and Goliath. I love this because you can get the whole class involve in the lesson. I actually taught this lesson about 4 weeks ago and the kids loved it. This story has a lot of lessons within itself. I hope I win….Thanks!!!!
Daniel in the Lion’s Den is a favorite…
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One of my favorite Bible stories to teach most recently was the story of Jesus as a young boy staying behind at the temple. We talked about if they were ever lost in a store, how it felt to their parent’s and I shared a personal experience when our daughter was lost. They got into the story and understood better how it felt for Mary and Joseph but also why Jesus stayed behind. We tied it together with them taking away that God calls each one to a mission and that we should be passionate about that mission.
I love teaching the Bible story of when “Jesus Calms the Storm”. The children and I act out the storyand they become very animated, making sounds of the water swishing around , rocking in our chairs like we are on the boat, and then best of all calling on Jesus to wake up and calm the storm.
My favorite bible story for children is Noah’s Ark. It teaches beleif and faith in God.
This sounds like something that will totaly benefit me as a soon to be pre-school teacher.
Hi. After leaving a job of 4 years so I could get involved with church, because I prayed for a ministry, God blessed me with a Toddler/Preschool class. I have a 2 year old and a 3 year old. The three year old was unchurched. I’ve been striving to help her learn, but she wants to play, not pay attention, a lot of the time. My most successful time I’ve had with her in the past few weeks was Noah’s ark. She really tries to sing ‘Who built the Ark’, by herself while she roams aound the room or colors. When I’ve asked her who was Noah, she can tell me about the ark and the animals. They have to be a girl animal and a boy animal. When she told the pastor about it, it made my heart beam. (smile) I felt blessed.
I have two favorite lessons. I was teaching the teens about King Solomon wanting to split the two babies so that each Mom would get half. I was bombarded with questions. That was a very interactive lesson.
The other lesson was teaching about Giddeon. When the angel called him a mighty man of valour, it was prophetic–not a lie or a joke.
I really like this lesson series. I wanted to use it for the elementary kids. Thank you.
Favorite bible story to teach our preschoolers is about Paul and Silas. We worshiped together just like they did. My husband made me stocks out of the cardboard and we all had fun “being” Paul and Silas imprisoned. Then we had snacks just like they did at the jailors house.
Just recently my mom heard a man from China speak – he was in prison for telling about Jesus. God has miraclously led him out of the prison (and the country) by opening the door on the prison and making him invisible to the guards. And that man is alive today. That was a great illustration for my 5 year old son!
God bless you!
I love your website. I am trying to start the youth ministry at my church. I would love to recive this book as It would be alot easier. I currently use the craft book praise God with a paper plate too. I love your website and all your ideas. It has saved a lot of time.
My favorite Bible story is to Love thy neighbor. That is a very important lesson. If you do not have Jesus in your heart is hard to love. I teach preschool sunday . I know your curriculum would be a blessing to our church.
My favorite Bible Story at this time is Noah. Just think – God gave directions to Noah to do something totally new and not making any sense. Then once the ark was built – God helped them to figure out the tremendous amount of food needed to feed all these animals for so long. Noah must have really wondered what he was doing but he was still faithful – and God was faithful as well.
I can’t pick one story over another, they each have their importance. On Wednesday night, we have a Bible Club (Matt. 5:16 is the theme verse) for children grades 1-6. We teach the children about each book of he Bible, they are learning to say the books of the Bible through various games and activities. But most of all they are not just learning Bible stories, they are learning that the Bible is a guide for their life and how to let their light shine at school.
We are about to start a new program like your Bible Club. Do you have any suggestions for teacher resources/books to help with this. I’m really looking for something that I can learn from while teaching my kids how to use their Bible as a guidebook not just a “story” book. Thanks so much!!
I follow an outline I found at http://www.calvarychapelutahvalley.com. This inspired me to teach one book per week, giving them an overview of what the book is about. I have them find the book in thier Bible and a verse that we focus on for that book. Other resources/books I use are “The Smart Guide to the Bible” by Larry Richards; “Talk Thur the Old Testament” by Kenneth Boa; and a CD “Book by Book” from “Walk thur the Bible”. We also make a notebook with clipart from ://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/bible.htmd I pray this is helpful for you. God bless you and your children’s ministries.
My favorite story was when we taught about bible heroes. We had all the kids think of an action figure for each hero and what that character would do. They had to draw their characters and write a description about each one. Then they had to act it out in front of the class sort of like a commercial to advertise their action figure. Then at the end of the night the class would choose which figure they would “buy” based on it’s action and commercial presented. We had a blast and the kids really enjoyed doing this activity. They came every week prepared with actions for the new hero of the week.
My favorite so far has been Adam and Eve, and that may be because it’s the first one that my 3 year old has learned and really taken to heart. At this age we’ve been really dealing with obedience and this story has really helped me explain and him to understand the importance of obeying.
This resource would be wonderful. I’m trying to get a nursery ministry going at my church and this would be a definite blessing.
I taught my favorite lesson just last Sunday! We as a class learned about the Bible. The students basically answered questions after reading Psalm 119:105. We have decided as a group to use our Bibles as our lights this year as we treasure Hunt our way through the Bible stories following Mark into the new year.
We are short on curriculum as we are a small church with few children, but we still manage to run Sunday School through the help of some very creative teachers who try very hard each Sunday to make each and every lesson fun no matter whether we have 1 child or 10. Some days that is just how things work out.
Thanks for all the ideas you have provided from your web site, we will continue to use as many as we can incorporate, while mixing in a few of our own.
Lisa
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