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…
Helping Kids Memorize Scripture
Kids should be encouraged to memorize Scripture from an early age. The younger children are when they begin memorizing the Bible, the easier it will be for them to develop the basic skills and not perceive the task as “school work” or something they don’t want to do. While Scripture memory may seem like a…
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Fun Ways to Teach How the Bible is Organized
As with most memory work, there is an element of repetitive rote learning when it comes to learning how the Bible is organized (the divisions of the Bible books). However, just as there are fun ways to teach kids the books of the Bible, there are fun ways to teach how the Bible is organized…
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What do we want kids to do while they’re at church? Obviously, we want them to follow the messages, to listen to the messages, and to learn the messages. Seems pretty simple. But listening is easier when you are following along in your Bible, and learning is easier when you are listening. And all of it is…
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Fun Ways to Memorize the Books of the Bible
Teaching the books of the Bible to children can feel like a daunting task. After all, there are 66 of them! Most Christian parents and teachers, however, understand the value of memorizing the books of the Bible. It’s a skill that will be appreciated more as a person ages, no matter how long they live.…
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Teaching Basic Bible Skills
So, you want your kids to know the Bible, but you also want your kids to KNOW the BIBLE, as in know the features of the actual book. Teaching Bible skills is a bit different than teaching Bible truths, but both are important in the lives of children. What, then, is the difference between Bible…
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The Power of Bible Illustrations
Virtually all publishers of Bible curriculum for children utilize Bible illustrations to help convey what’s happening in the story or passage to be studied. This is done for good reason. We’ve all heard the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” and this is especially true when teaching the Bible to kids. Obviously,…
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Bible Crafts for Kids
Kids enjoy learning by doing. In fact, all of us learn better and more permanently by doing as opposed to just listening. That’s why Sunday School Zone provides a healthy library of crafts for kids for use at home, church, or school. And, we will continue to add more crafts as we add more Bible stories. …
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Thinking About Your Kids and The New Year?
Whether you’re into making New Year’s resolutions or not, the arrival of a new year is certainly a time of reflection for most of us. For parents and teachers of children, it’s also a time of anticipation and hope regarding the development of our kids, spiritually and otherwise. We want to be good parents. We want…
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Hey! It’s Not Your Birthday!
Ah, the blessed holidays, when a child’s attention span is no bigger than a sugar plum fairy, and Bible teaching classrooms are flooded with lots of cool new gadgets and toys being sneaked in by their happy recipients. This time of year can be challenging at best for the conscientious teacher. The week before and after…
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