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…
Teacher of the Word
Teaching the Bible to children is a gift from God. He has called us to teach and lead the little ones to know Him, to love Him, and to follow Him. With this calling comes great responsibility and one that we shouldn’t take lightly. In order to teach the Word, we must continually be in…
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God’s Unfolding StoryBOOKS – Old and New Testaments
Hey Trish, I hope you can help. I’m looking for Bible lessons. I don’t need a full Children’s Church curriculum with video and worship elements, but I would like something that has an easy format, lots of activities, could last for a whole year (or two!) and takes us through the Bible, Old and New…
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Christmas Backdrop – 2024
Merry Christmas from your friends at Sunday School Zone. We’ve created a Christmas Backdrop Video as a gift from Artos Learning (the parent company of Sunday School University). It’s just under 32 minutes long and includes Christmas trivia, music, and even some fun jokes. You can stream it directly here or from YouTube. You can…
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Solo Parent – A Ministry for Single Parent Families
We are grateful that we get to partner with a variety of ministries that serve the Kingdom of God in unique and significant ways. Many of these often are laboring in relative obscurity simply because they feel called by God to do what they’re doing. It’s not easy. Just recently we’ve gotten acquainted with a…
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God’s Unfolding StoryBOOK for Kids – New Testament Edition
God’s Unfolding StoryBOOK for Kids: New Testament Edition is now available for purchase on Amazon. Just like the Old Testament edition, our New Testament edition is much more than just another collection of Bible stories. God’s Unfolding StoryBOOK for Kids: New Testament Edition is an invaluable tool to help you teach the single biblical story…
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Making Christmas About Jesus: Simple Shifts for a Meaningful Holiday
Is Christmas All About Presents? My name is Amy Kavanaugh and I’m Director of Operations for GoodKind. We’re about helping families and individuals develop the “good kind” of habits and holiday celebrations. All of our work at GoodKind began with a simple statement from our founder’s 6-year-old daughter, Cara. “Mommy, Daddy… you say that Christmas…
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Relational Leadership
A decade ago I had 2 rules in children’s ministry…don’t make me talk to puppets and don’t make me talk to grown-ups! I loved being in a comfortable, safe place, in my lane, teaching kids. Kids are fun, spontaneous, full of energy, and I could connect with and relate to them. We had a good…
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Teaching Kids to PRAY
Acronyms are an easy way for kids to remember things. There are many examples of teaching kids to pray using the acronym PRAY. Here is my version that I’ve used many times. P – Teach them to Praise Teaching kids who God is and that only He is worthy of our praise is fundamental for…
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Make it Memorable
In a previous article, Manageable Morsels, I provided examples of breaking down children’s Bible lessons into bite-sized pieces for kids to understand Biblical truths so they are spiritually healthy. Another important tidbit to remember in teaching kids is to make it engaging and relevant to them. If kids love anything more than knowing something, it…
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