Our Childrens Church has a childrens choir and they are learning a song called Sixty-Six Books to help them learn the books of the Bible. This song is on the CD called The Amazing Book. Its a really fun song and our kids love it. Hope you can use it! God Bless! In His Service, Melanie
In September, I will be starting my very first year of teaching Sunday School. I am teaching Kindergarten and I don't have children of my own for a frame of refrence.
I am looking for a "get to know you" game that the kids could play. Nothing too rowdy, but something this age level could do to introduce themselves in a fun way.
Thank you for your ideas! Rhiannon Thomas
--from SSTN: check out the IceBreaker Games in the Games section at: http://www.SundaySchoolNetwork.com See especially, "Musical Handshake" or "Circle Time Toss".
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3) Victory Prayer Box
I seen this Ideal on T.V., you get a pizza box and spray paint it any color, on top in bold letters (I printed it on stock card 8/10) "VICTORY BOX'. I put a pad and pen inside and wrote all of their concerns and dated them.
Everytime a prayer is answered I let them put a sticker on the outside of the box, it shows the kids (ages 4-8) that God is listening and he does answer our prayers. We get really excited when someone's prayer is answered. We laid hands on the box and prayed. Three prayers were answered in one week. God is so faithful. This site is so wonderful, it has blessed me so much. May God richly bless you. Peggy/Wagoner,Ok.
The Miracles of the Old and New Testament display God’s supernatural power over creation; they show God’s love and faithfulness to deliver his people from hunger, peril,sickness, and disease. God’s glory and love are revealed through the miracles he performed and were fully realized when he came to earth in the form of a man to save mankind.
In our Bible-4-Life series, "Amazing Miracles of the Bible", you are given the tools to help your children gain a better understanding of God’s love and faithfulness, and how he continues to be loving and faithful in miraculous ways to his people today!
The writer of "Prayer of Jesus" stated that the only prayer jesus told us to pray was "The Lords Prayer". I respectfully disagree. Jesus used "The Lords Prayer" as a model to go by. the Bible also says that our prayers should not be repetitious.
--from SSTN: Yes, you are correct, but please don't misunderstand what I said; continue reading the rest of my statement, "This MODEL of prayer is what Jesus taught his disciples."
Your webservant, Sarah Keith <>< SundaySchoolNetwork.com
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6) Boys 5th / 6th grade
I've been teaching this age for a number of years. One thing we do is to pick a theme. This fall and winter it is sports. One thing which has encouraged attending and bringing Bibles is to give them each a baseball hat to hang on the wall. They put their name on the front and then we got some pins for them to pin on them each week they came and brought their Bible.
With the tabernacle, a mystery or explorer theme might be exciting. Plan a review game which encourages the students to listen to the lesson and also get them involved as much as possible! Make learning exciting. Enthusiasm is contagious! Another great theme is Paul's journeys. I made a map out of a paper bag so it looks like a treasure map and the students can then see the various places Paul went on his missionary journeys. Each week they will learn about what Paul encountered and even experience it for themselves.
Putting some of them in shackles is great! They actually volunteer. Get pictures and put them up later. Kids love seeing themselves having a good time. My best to you and your class of boys.
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7) Promotion Sunday
This year our theme is, 'Who you are makes a difference'. All summer we did a program called "Christ's Apprentice" and now we want to build on the fact that 'Mission IS Possible' even if you are a kid. They completed tasks throughout the summer like a clothing drive, a drive for Humane Society items and sent cards to sick and shut in members. We just want them to know that they are special and that working together, they can accomplish a lot for Christ. Along with handing out certificates for advancing to another class, they will get paper ribbons that say, 'who I am makes a difference' to wear. And they will get extra ones to hand out to someone in their life that has made a difference. Also we are making big (4' high) paper dolls for the kids to make self-portraits and hang them around the auditorium. I always try to involve the kids in the church service on Rally Day, as we call it. I think it helps them with getting more comfortable in front of adults and groups. We will be doing a skit with songs, called "Press On", towards the most important goal in your life, knowing Jesus Christ.
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8) Promotion Sunday
We have held our promotion Sunday right after the worhsip service, the former teachers hand out the certificates to the children moving up. This gives them a chance to say something to those children (how they'll miss them, what a great group of kids, etc). Afterward, instead of having regular classes, the parents took their child (or children) to their new class, met the teacher if they don't already know them and refreshments were available in each room. Teachers had on hand the new currciulum for parents to look over and an info card about themselves (name, address and phone number). Cards were handed out to parents to "register" their child for the new Sunday School year. Child's name, address, parent's names, phone number, e-mail address, (what class the parents attend - in case of emergency) allergies, potty trained (for the 2 & 3 yr old class). Debbi in Ohio
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9) Promotion Sunday
Caroline; you do not indicate how large your Sunday School enrollment is. That might make this idea not feasible but here goes. At Recognition Sunday after the thanks and normal accolades call the student's names who are promoting to the next group such as Dorothy, Robert, and Shaun are promoting from Sonbeams to Warriors. The new teacher would come up to the front with a banner depicting the new class and those students would receive a pin or button decorated with the name of the new class to wear. (These pins can be made in various ways- One way is to find blank button pins and write the name of the class and affix an appropriate sticker to them, cut a circle of clear contact paper to cover over the design. Another idea is to design the pins using Microsoft Word's "Drawing" tool adding text, and clipart. These can be printed on either tag board or sticker paper to cut out and make a pin from.) In His name, Diane Plum dplum@hughes.net
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10) Promotion Sunday
Every year our church does a promotion Sunday. The way we do it is Every kid going into 3rd grade gets a personalized bible
This year for the first time kids going into jr high and sr high also got chicken soup for the teenage soul books.
They are all called in front of the congregation by name and presented their book and then a prayer is said for each age group.
It really shows the kids that they are special and loved by the whole congregation. As a parent of 2 of those kids it helps to show them that
They have more than just their parents that they can rely on. Hope this helps.
Carrie Crain Carlisle PA
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