Please note for all Mother’s Day activities: If a child is without a mother and is being raised by someone else, make a mental note of that before class starts. Try to be inclusive of that child’s guardian when making references to Mothers. You can say that foster moms, grand moms, or aunts take Mom’s […]
Lesson About Genesis 24: Isaac and Rebekah
Today, I’m going to share with you another great Sunday school lesson about the Bible story of Isaac and Rebekah. Before jumping in, read Genesis 24 with your students. Sunday School Lesson: “God Leads The Way” Sunday School Lesson Materials: – two different types of candy bar – one box of raisins – two metal […]
Mothers Day Mom Challenge: 7 Mini Challenges for Your Best Mom’s Day Ever
We’ve all had the thought: “My kids don’t appreciate all the things I do. They expect their lives to run smoothly, but when things go well, they think it happens by osmosis.” This is true to a large degree. It has been said by experts that kids take what they had a children and that’s […]
Peer Pressure Mile with a Smile; Ten Ways Not to Get Rattled
Statistically 97% of students sixth grade and above find themselves in social pressure cookers. Peer pressure is a situation that EVERY child finds themselves in at least once. In today’s article, we explore scenarios and responses that kids can give to avoid embarassing or “taunting” situations. In other words, how to handle the “Peer Pressure […]
Walking the Peer Pressure Mile (Without Falling on Your Face)
It’s important to prepare students for facing peer pressure, which today causes more anxiety in middle and high school students than bad grades and even family problems. In this lesson, kids will “walk the Peer Pressure Mile,” an assimilation of the pressures they may feel related to these activities. However, it may dredge up some […]
Sunday School Lesson for Tweens: Peer Pressure – Part 1
There are some very common peer pressure taunts that have withstood the test of time. They were used 50 years ago or 100 years ago, and they are just as effective today as they were then. In my next two blog posts, we are going to talk about Peer Pressure, and a Sunday school lesson, […]
April Showers Bring May Flowers
The scriptures contain surprisingly little about the changing of seasons, and even the great blooms of spring. This is because the Testaments were written in places that were dry and often barren – not the like paradises of the South Pacific! Still, spring provides a lot of fodder for teaching Sunday school lessons about God’s […]
Bible Game – What Would Jesus Do?
In this Bible game, children are given the opportunity to decide what Jesus would do at their age. Remember, Jesus never sinned. We’ll take turns picking scenarios out of a hat. We’ll read the predicament and try to decide what Jesus would do – or what we should do if it happens to us! What […]
Bible Lesson: Dare to be Different – Jesus Did
This Bible lesson will help us understand what Jesus was like as a child. Like a lot of us, he wasn’t really handsome and didn’t really stand out. But the story from Luke 2, where Jesus went to the temple as a 12-year-old, will also help students realize that they too can dare to be […]