The Sunday School Zone Blog
The Sunday School Zone Blog contains insights on children’s spiritual formation as well as tips, ideas, and suggestions to help Christian parents and leaders as they work with kids of all abilities (and even adults with special needs) at home, church, and school. If you would like to contribute to the blog, please visit our Writer Inquiries page and then send us an explanatory email at [email protected] describing the kind of writing you’d like to do. We welcome those who have something of substance to say to Christian parents and teachers of children. You already know that Sunday School Zone offers tons of free, printable Bible activities for kids. If you think you’d like to contribute, please read more…
Foundational Life Questions (And Answers)
The Universal Experience of Time No matter where someone lives, or the culture within which he or she lives, each person is moving through time and, consequently, living with an awareness that the passing of time creates for us a past, present, and future. All people everywhere experience the passing of time. This is a…
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Activities Search Feature on Sunday School Zone
Sunday School Zone has over 2,000 free, printable Bible activities related to more than 100 Bible stories (and the number is growing!). We try to make it easy to find a particular activity on a particular story, but it can still be difficult to find what you’re looking for just because of the large number…
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Welcoming Students Back After Quarantine
While self-quarantining in recent weeks, there was more than once the song, “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands,” played in my mind. Sometimes that’s hard to believe when the world seems turned on end, but at the end of the day, we serve a good God, who really does have this whole big…
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Preschoolers Are Incredible People!
Indeed! Preschoolers are special people with unique and varying developmental needs. Older preschoolers may never be at a more teachable point in their lives. This fact alone gives us a wonderful opportunity to fulfill God’s timeless command to teach His story to successive generations (Deut. 4:9). As we teach, we must consider all aspects of…
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Five Keys to Life-Changing KidMin Worship
You never intended to become a worship leader. But, somewhere along the way, the role of “worship leader for children” was added to your job description at church. Now you’ve got to figure out how to do something more than just play a couple YouTube video clips while the fifth-grade boys give each other wet…
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Churches Are Getting Creative About Ministry
It’s no surprise that churches and people in ministry (especially kids ministry) are getting creative about how they connect with their people and how they seek to maintain fellowship, worship, and discipleship during the COVID-19 outbreak. We are discovering some great things churches are doing and we thought it might be good to share these…
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Fear Not… Finding Comfort in the Chaos
Confused. Anxious. Disoriented. Conflicted. Frightened. Angry. These are not usually the emotions that are front and center for me at the dawning of springtime. It is truly my favorite time of year. But this year… this year… is just something else. Can you relate? I spend a good chunk of winter emotionally trudging toward springtime.…
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How Our Family Is Celebrating Easter in the Middle of a Pandemic
“In the blink of an eye,” our world has been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have shuttered our businesses, closed our schools, and learned the meaning of the term “social distancing.” And now we learn that Easter will be celebrated at home this year. A new experience for us all. Churches have…
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Suggestions and Activities for Kids During the COVID Crisis
It looks like the Summer vacation will be coming early for many kids this year. And, it’s not just school they’re missing. It’s all of the church activities and many other extracurricular activities. Kids are home more than usual and for longer than usual. And, due to the adjustments in schedules with lots of businesses,…
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