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Free Curriculum? Are We Crazy? Doubly So!

Since 1994, Kidology.org has been the Internet's leading and continuously-growing source of supplemental ideas for kid's church teaching. Although we've always had a LOT of user-generated curriculum in our Zones, as well as commercially-available lessons in the Kidology Store, we have never had a complete and comprehensive biblical curriculum available for our members.

Until now.

Starting in January 2010, we will have not one, but TWO comprehensive 3-year curriculums on Kidology.org!

And are you ready for this? THEY ARE FREE!

Discovering God's Path Curriculum

Wonderfully-designed and visually-appealing, this 3-year completely reproducible curriculum will be released FREE on a quarterly basis as a benefit for Kidology Premium Members -- as well as being available in its entirety for purchase by anyone via our Store. Thus, for the cost of an annual Kidology membership, you are set with a curriculum for your entire elementary education needs.

Kidology Open Source Curriculum


Packed with rich content and fully-customizable, this 3-year curriculum will be hosted in the Kidology Forums, allowing anyone with a free Kidology Basic Membership to collaborate, share ideas, and improve each lesson as a community of teachers. This project will continually grow and expand the material - and will always be completely 100% free! Ideal for home schoolers as well.

Why would we give all this away for free? Because we know the need is out there. Churches are struggling. Budgets are being cut. Home school families are needing curriculum, but not another expense. Every month it seems there is another curriculum coming out for sale and we decided it is time to give back to the children's ministry community with some tools we can all use.


Because Jesus Loves Children,
Karl D. Bastian - a.k.a. "The Kidologist"
Discovering God's Path Curriculum
God's Path CurriculumStarting in January 2009, Kidology is excited to offer Deena Stirling's Discovering God's Path curriculum FREE to Kidology Premium Members

These easy-to-use, reproducible lessons are ideal for your weekend or midweek programs for kids in grades 2-5.   If your curriculum budget has shrunk and you are seeking affordable alternatives, let your Kidology Membership come to the rescue!

Each lesson features the following:

  • Lesson Plan - Showcasing opener options, prayer, and stories
  • Inventory Needs - Detailed list of the needs for the lesson
  • Activity - Overview of suggested activities for both younger and older kids
  • Snack Idea - Edible ideas to support the lesson
  • Memory Verse - Biblical text and passages for children to remember
  • Coloring Sheet - Visually reinforce the teaching
  • Parent Page - Insights to each story that parents can discuss with their kids each week
This visually-appealing curriculum series is executable with the resources you already have, thus saving you both time and money. Spend less time on curriculum planning and more time helping kids experience God in a practical and fun way!

» Learn more about God's Path Curriculum
» Discuss this FREE curriculum in the Forums
» Join Kidology with a Premium Membership!
Kidology Open Source Curriculum
Kidology Open Source CurriculumIntroducing Kidology Open Source Curriculum, the teaching tools you download, remix, and share with others!

Starting in January 2010, Kidology will be sharing a complete 3-year children's ministry curriculum for FREE

It consists of three 1-year programs: Old Testament Chronological Study, New Testament Chronological Study, and Value Keepers of the Bible.  We're big fans of the collaborative power of the Internet to take something and make it better, so we're "open sourcing" these studies written with extensive detail by Susan E. Harper, author of our popular The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe Companion Study.

We encourage you to download our Open Source Curriculum "as is" for FREE... and then modify it to make it work in your ministry.  Add some awesome visuals to tell a story?  Rewrite an illustration?  Supplement the content with an object lesson?  Go ahead, remix it all you want.  We don't mind!

At the same time, if you are a Kidology Member -- whether that be at the FREE Basic level or the all-access Premium option -- go ahead and upload your changes to the curriculum so that others can use it as well.  We'll be setting up interactive discussions for each unit.  Pull down the content, modify it, and upload your new version. 

Let's do something collaborative and benefit everyone who works with kids at church, school, and home!


» Learn more about Kidology Open Source Curriculum
» Discuss this FREE curriculum in the Forums
» Join Kidology with a Basic or Premium Membership!
DiscipleTown Unit #3: "How to Grow Spiritual Fruit"
"How to Grow Spiritual Fruit"If you are seeking a stand-alone, plug-and-play monthly teaching solution, "How to Grow Spiritual Fruit", Unit 3 of the DiscipleTown Kid's Church curriculum developed by Karl Bastian and DiscipleLand, is now available for immediate download!

The Fruit of the Spirit may be a familiar topic to children, but the concept of how to grow spiritual fruit is one that is often misunderstood by adults, not just by kids.

This stand-alone unit is NOT an overview of the 9 fruits. Rather, it is a 4-week series that will walk children through the process of how to nurture the soil of their soul so that the Spirit of God might produce genuine spiritual fruit in them.


» Download "How to Grow Spiritual Fruit" - Kidology Members save $5
» Unit 1 - "How to Worship God"
» Unit 2 - "How to Use My Bible"
» Learn more about DiscipleTown curriculum