Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids that we don’t need to be afraid of death. Needed: Drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils Intro Activity: Acting It Out Divide students into groups of two or three. Give them a few minutes to think of their skit. Then, have each group act out what they think happens when someone dies. Lesson Ask students, Are any of you afraid to die? Why do you think some people
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to show students the importance of personally studying the Bible. Needed: Bibles, candy Intro Game: Telephone Whisper a simple message in one student’s ear and have them whisper the message to the next person. Students pass the message along as best they can until it reaches the last person. The last person says the message out loud to see if it matches the original message. Start with a simple message and
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about when and how to tell others about Christ. Needed: Bibles, blindfold Intro Game: Disciple Tag Choose one student to be It. When they tag someone, that person links hands with them and joins their team. They continue adding people to their team, linking hands with each one until all but one student is part of their chain. That remaining student becomes It for the next round. Play
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about how to handle differences they have with someone. Needed: Bibles, To Forgive or Not to Forgive cards Intro Game: If You… This game is similar to Upset the Fruits Basket. Students sit in a circle with one less chair than players. The person without a chair stands in the middle of the circle and names something that some of the players might have in common. They might
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the unity we have in Christ. Needed: vegetable oil, vinegar, tablespoon, liquid dishwashing soap, jars with lids, balls or paper wads, “basketball hoops” Intro Game: If You… This game is similar to Upset the Fruits Basket. Students sit in a circle with one less chair than players. The person without a chair stands in the middle of the circle and names something that some of the players
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids that there is only one God. Needed: Bibles, empty bags or boxes with pictures of various gods taped on them, one blank bag or box with cookies or another prize inside Intro Game: What’s in Box #? Before class, print out pictures of various gods and paste one picture onto each box or paper bag. Leave one box or bag blank but put a snack or other prize
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about listening for and listening to God’s voice. Needed: Bibles, blindfolds, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils Intro Activity: Listening for God Have students find a partner. Blindfold one partner, spin them around, and walk them to somewhere else in the room. When you say “Go!” their partners call their names. The blindfolded partner tries to make it back to the caller. When all the blindfolded students make
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach students about forgiving others. Needed: Bibles, To Forgive or Not to Forgive cards, writing or drawing paper, pencils, crayons or colored pencils Intro Game: Saul the Persecutor Divide students into two teams. One team is the Christians, and the other team is the Persecutors. Choose one member of the Persecutors to be Saul. Saul directs the Persecutors to chase a certain Christian. When they tag a Christian, the Christian
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids how to treat and witness to their enemies. Needed: Bibles, soft balls or paper wads, a picture of Peter on a cross Intro Game: Despite All Obstacles Set up an obstacle course with two mirror paths. Divide the students into two teams. One student from each team runs the obstacle course at a time while the other team members line up along the length of the obstacle course.
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to tell students how special they are in Christ. Needed: Bibles Intro Game: Taking Our Place Divide students into two teams for a game of Freeze Tag. Choose one team to be It, chasing the other team. Then, choose one student from the team being chased. They are “Jesus.” They cannot be tagged. They can go stand in the place of a frozen team member, allowing them to run again. When
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the importance of praying for other people. Needed: Bibles, soft balls or paper wads, two dice Intro Game: Despite All Obstacles Set up an obstacle course with two mirror paths. Divide the students into two teams. One student from each team runs the obstacle course at a time while the other team members line up along the length of the obstacle course. When they’re not running,
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach students that God loves everyone, and so should we. Needed: Bibles Intro Game: Disciple Tag Choose one student to be It. When they tag someone, that person links hands with them and joins their team. They continue adding people to their team, linking hands with each one until all but one student is part of their chain. That remaining student becomes It for the next round. Play two or
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach about God’s sovereignty in giving His gifts . Needed: Bibles, cookies or other small prizes in paper bags Intro Game #1: Promises, Promises Set a cookie or small prize in individual paper bags or under individual boxes. In this game show type activity, call one student contestant forward. They are the Prize Giver for the round. That student (the Prize Giver) can then choose two more student contestants to
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids the importance of obeying the Lord above all others. Needed: Bibles, soft balls, paper wads Intro Game: Despite All Obstacles Set up an obstacle course with two mirror paths. Divide the students into two teams. One student from each team runs the obstacle course at a time while the other team members line up along the length of the obstacle course. When they’re not running, the members of
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the need to be honest with God. Needed: Bibles, a potato or other item for each student, coins, offering plate or basket Intro Game #1: Lie Detector This game is similar to Two Truths and a Lie. Tell students that you’re going to tell them a story about what happened to you. Most of it will be true, but someone of it won’t be. It’s their job
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about being brave in Christ. Needed: Bibles Intro Game: Resurrection Tag Pick one student to be It. That student is Death. Pick another student to be Jesus. When Death tags someone, they fall down and lie on the ground like they’re dead. Jesus can then come to tag them, and they can get back up. If Death tags Jesus, Jesus must count to three (because Jesus was dead
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach about Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. Needed: a volunteer to play Peter (You can do this if you want.), flame relay cards Intro Game: The Spreading Flame Divide students into two or more teams. Print out or draw pictures of flames and place them at the opposite end of your play in front of each team. When you say, “Go!” the first player from each team
COVID-19 has been closing churches since March 15th. Congregations are starting to come back. 20% of churches will open for in-person events this Sunday (5/17). That’s up from a low of 3.6% on 4/19. We’ve been polling our website readers every week: What is your church doing this Sunday? Full results at the link below. We went live on Facebook with Tom Bump from the Kids Ministry Collective to talk through all these issues (and more). Transcript
This Sunday School lesson was designed for parents to use with their children at home on the week of May 17, 2020. It’s based on John 14:15-21 where Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to comfort his disciples. Everything is included in the PDF download below (teaching notes, coloring pages, craft directions, game ideas, and worksheets). Use what is most helpful for your kids and ignore the rest. Families can also watch our children’s message, suggested music,
This Bible Object Lesson will teach kids about the Holy Spirit. It’s based on John 14:15-21 where Jesus promised to send a comforter from God when he leaves the disciples. Download the teachers notes, watch our Children’s Message example, and gather your supplies. Then you’re ready to share this message in your church next Sunday! Children’s Message: The Comforter Jesus sends the Holy Spirit Main Objective: In times of difficulty and trouble, it is a blessing to
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids how important it is to love Jesus. Needed: Bibles, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils Lesson Explain that this story probably happened a couple of weeks after Jesus rose from the dead. (Read John 21:1-6.) “Afterward Jesus appeared again to His disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach students about faith and how Jesus appeared to the doubting disciple in John 20:19-31. Needed: Bibles, a list of statements for a true/false game Lesson Introduction Game: The Unbelievable Divide students into two teams. You’ll read a list of statements, and they have to vote as a team whether they believe each of your statements or not. The team with the most correct answers wins. Here are some statements
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about how Jesus fulfills prophecy from the Old Testament. Needed: Bibles, slips of paper with prophetic statements about Jesus written on them, close-up images of common objects, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils Intro Game #1: Fulfilling Prophecy Print or write out prophecy clues about Jesus, along with their Scripture reference, on strips of paper and hide them around the room. Kids rush to find them and then,
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about the resurrection of Christ and our resurrection when He comes again. Needed: Bibles, balloons, a box, three signs saying “Sorry. He’s Not Here!”, cupcakes for each student with re-lighting candles in them Intro Game: Don’t Let it Fall! Gather students in a circle. As you toss a balloon up into the air in the middle of the circle, call one of the student’s names. That student must
