Creative Ideas Zone

Review the memory verse with a game of Concentration.

Easy way for a hands on activity about creation.

The children will have a snack and be given a question to answer at the same time.

Great summer community outreach idea!

This highly interactive skit uses familiar characters from Dora the Explorer to teach about forgiveness and the plan of salvation.  

A fun way to spend the evening with children.

Use these Easter jokes, thoughts and activites to help your kids focus on Easter.

For the past two years, we have added two new ideas which work really well for our Easter Egg Hunt.

Fun Rap to go with an Eli and Samuel lesson. We put this on an overhead and played a rap beat

Creative idea to illustrate "escaping" from sin

This is a rap song that goes along with the Evangecube or can stand alone.

"Extra Extra Read All About It" is a musical that takes place in a high energy Advice Column (The I Witness News Team) office.  

Rap to go with a lesson on Fear

This activity can be used for the 4th of July or any celebration.

A humorous rendition of the story from II Kings 6 teaching that even when we can't see him, God's power is greater than anything that threatens us.

Chronological overview of Scripture, needs-based approach of basic doctrines. Four-sessions of morning chapel lessons given at camp suitable for kids' church lessons.

I offer prizes to all of the kids who bring guests and to their guests using a giant foam nose. Both the guest and the child who brings the guest get to pick from prizes that I've inserted in the giant foam nose.

This activity will give children a visual memory of keeping Jesus first in their lives. "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." Matthew 6:33

Create a room for your kids ministry volunteers to get a few refreshments before or after their scheduled time to serve. This not only gives them a place to get to know other volunteers in the kids ministry, gives them natural things like food and drinks, but it shows them that you're thinking about them. I guarantee it'll be the talk of the church.

To illustrate the Armor of God, we needed a mannequin. Here's how to build one for $25 (sorta)!

This is a prop that I spent too much time on...

Find the words for verse Romans 5:8 in the seek and find.

Teach children that worship can help them through hard times. 2 Chronicles 20:22

Kids earn rewards for reading their Bible every day by filling in Quiet Time Cards!

This is a scripted "game show" which interviews three very different people - a devote Jew, a blind man and a dynamic Christian. At the end of the game show, the kids find out that all three are the same man - Saul/Paul of Tarsus. The skit concludes by telling the story of Saul's conversion and presenting the gospel.  

Musical for our Kids Church outreach

This is a special event that is done around Easter. This is like a festival with low-key fair-type game booths, bounce houses and egg hunt plus a special creative method to tell the Easter story.

Nehemiah building the walls of Jericho and the great celebration that followed.

The Sandwich Shop & Stuck on Christmas are two skits designed to introduce Awana T&T clubbers to all of the verses in T&T's Start Zone. Stuck on Christmas is is a wacky Christmas special, which is designed to be performed at any time of the year.  

Too many times we think of Old Testament as characters we can live by, when we should see them in a different light. This is the real story of Gideon. It is really about how God delivered Israel and Gideon took the glory.

Too many times we think of Old Testament as characters we can live by, when we should see them in a different light. This is the real story of Samson. It is really about how God delivered Israel not Samson. Samson may have super power, but it was only when the Spirit of God rushed on him.

Use the letters from the word TITHE as an acrostic to teach the children what it means.

A skit introducing the idea of praying for God's will to be done in our lives, instead of just asking God to give us what we want.

Sandwich Shop was designed to introduce Awana T&T clubbers to all of the verses in T&T's Start Zone. The Sandwich Shop is an evangelical skit which takes place in a sandwich shop.  

We use a time machine to call up Bible characters and tell their story live.

Anxious to get your kids moving as they sing and praise? Try this simple form of expression.

A partially functional virtual pet for PowerPoint.

Just a way to show our volunteers that we love them!

A high-interest activity that emphasizes how we exercise our faith.

An incentive campaign to encourage our children to be kind.

This is Karl's 'Super Hero' song that is referenced in several Kids Church lessons.

Here's an idea to help kids keep all their "stuff" together after Sunday School.

A skit in which the kids participate to tell the story of Naaman

A skit/game show in which kids participate to tell the story of Shadrack, Meshach & Abednego

A skit/game show in which kids participate to tell the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den

Music and Pantomime to tell the story of Jesus Calming The Storm.  

Drama to tell the story of Paul, Silas and the Philippian Jailer

Finding Nemo features several points of application that make for great discussion in your children’s ministry. Take advantage of this film to teach important lessons your kids will never forget. Here are a few I left the movie tonight thinking about:

Well, HULK FEVER is BACK! Once again, it is cool to be GREEN! The HULK is everywhere from Mountain Dew cans to coloring books and toys and video games due to the Hulk Movie that came out in June 2003.

Here is a trivia game for your children's ministry on Mother's Day!