In today’s blog post, we will use red, white and blue colors to create a Labor Day Bible snack that reminds children that our country celebrates Labor Day to honor the working people. It will remind us that we all profit from the “fruit” of their labor and to remember to be grateful for what […]
Archives for August 2013
Sometimes Getting Mad is Okay: Sunday School Lesson
Jesus overturning the money changer’s tables at the temple provides an opportunity to teach some tricky but necessary concepts about anger. Obviously Jesus was correct to get angry; pose that next to the fact that kids are taught all day long at school that demonstrating anger is dangerous and in most cases intolerable. This Sunday […]
Back to School Bible Game: “Working Hard or Hardly Working?”
Proverbs 18:9 says, “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.” In this Bible game, we use a team race to show the Biblical principle of due diligence. If one person slacks”¦the whole team suffers! Back to School Bible Game: Working Hard or Hardly Working? Bible Game Materials – Four Bowls […]
Bible Snack: Back-to-School Cupcakes
Bible Snack: Back-to-School Cupcakes The way students are pressured to make great grades these days can be confusing for them. Children can come to equate good grades with Godliness, when in fact some very spiritual kids may simply not have gifts in academia. Therefore, the cupcake-with-blackboard snack can help you remind them that their foremost […]
“Jana Can’t Quite Help Herself” – Devotional on Revenge, Losing Friends & Loyalty
As the kids are getting ready to head back to school, they are going to encounter some common situations faced by everyone when growing up, and those are issues with friends, fitting in, cliques, etc. In today’s devotional, we are talking about losing friends, and the feelings of revenge and loyalty that go along with […]
Bible Object Lesson: Taking All of God with You to School
We’re sort of like a rainbow of color if we take all the fruits of the spirit to school with us. Equipped with all the fruits mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23, God’s love can shine through us. In this Bible object lesson, children will create rainbows to illustrate the fruits of the spirit! Bible Object Lesson: […]
“Over-Under Water Well” Summer Bible Game
For the past few years, August has been earmarked as Water Quality Month. It’s a great opportunity to get kids involved with a crisis that is beyond most of their comprehensions. Across the globe, places exist where the very water children need to survive can make them ill each time they drink it. In many […]
“John the Baptist Baptized- Why?” Childrens Church Activity
John the Baptist introduced us all to the concept of baptism. Kids should understand that baptism is a symbol of becoming “clean” spiritually. When parents have their children baptized, it is a way of them saying that they want their children to grow up in Christ. Today’s childrens church activity will help you teach and […]
A Light Doesn’t Change Strengths – A Bible Object Lesson
This Bible object lesson can help kids understand that while a glorious transfiguration will occur to us at death, in life we have to be like Jesus and the disciples; we have to keep going with some mundane, worldly tasks in mundane places. If we make it through, that transfiguration will happen for sure and forever! […]