Holiday Ideas Zone

A FUN Easter Prayer using Jelly Beans to tell the Easter Story!

A story of easter

Those mean jokes hurt! Some kids think they are funny; some fathers think they motivate. Here's a lesson for both of them.

Once you have put your trust in Jesus and He has taken away your sin, you stay clean on the inside. This is the Good News we remember at Easter.

Here is a very simple, yet POWERFUL play for children to do for Easter.

I have a craft night near Christmas. We make little Christmas trees out of Reader's Digest magazines.

This is a monologue from Mary telling her story of the birth of the Savior of the world...from her common, ordinary view

The angel of death passed over every house that was marked with blood. They were saved by the blood of the lamb.

Here is "Merry Christmas" in 80+ Languages!

Today is a special day to tell your mom how much you love her. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.

Here is an easy to do craft that could easily be adapted as something special the children can make for Mother’s Day.  

Using either plastic or real eggs decorate eggs with the childrens names on them and some type of information from the bible, Example: The name of a Book, a person or place.

Here aare a couple resources that have been great to use for Easter when I have not had actors or super talented story tellers to help out.

Great lesson for childrens ministry

A wonderful family and outreach opportunity to see, touch, hear, and even smell and taste the truths of the Resurrecetion. Not difficult to implement and so worthwhile! It's the "Resurrection Eggs" come to life...

Spreading the light of Jesus using flashlights.

We are from three separate catholic churches in the same town- none of us has a special needs program - we got together and for the first time for the sake of the kids we worked together to plan a program making use of people from all three parishes-

Dad's Rootbeer encourages our dads!

Each letter of the word 'CHRISTMAS' is used to tell the Christmas story.

This is a cute song that you can have a lot of fun with!! To the tune of The 12 days of Christmas.

A decorated Christmas tree is used to teach some important truths about Christmas.

A puppet wants the Big Studio to make a movie about the King of Kings. Wanna hear his pitch?

Here is a close up object lesson on the resurrection that is certain to amaze your class.

Fun with eggs for older kids .

Food for Thought on Valentine's Day

Great Easter craft

We are the light of the world.

What is in your basket that you can share?

Want a great idea to use in kids church or at a Christmas outreach for kids?

A simple (cheap!) object lesson illustrating the resurrection.

A Fun Family Easter Kit to send home.  

LEGO people, one and all, come to worship the newborne babe...

These are four monologues that can been done separately or in succession. Judas, Mary (once at the cross and another at the empty tomb), and Thomas.

Christmas Through The Years is a skit about the emptiness of chasing our own dreams. Molly Richards becomes the Queen of Rock and Roll, only to find that inside she's the Queen of Emptiness. After running from God for years, when she reaches rock bottom she final gets saved.  

Play looking at the evidence of Jesus' resurrection

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

A Patriotic lesson on Freedom

We wrote and performed this rap because we wanted to do something special yet different for all our moms. It was a huge success and the kids LOVED it!

Using a format similar to PBS' Antiques Roadshow, this script will look at the Easter Story in a unique, creative way. It could be preformed as a drama, puppet show, or prerecorded videotape presentation.

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

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.  

Proposition: Because our heart is wicked, Jesus changes our hearts Big Idea: Our Hearts are yucky and empty without Jesus

Karl's Classic Toybox Tales Christmas videos have been converted to Crazy Countdowns! In this first episode Zechariah learns his wife will have a son who will be named John who will announce the arrival of the Savior of the World!

Karl's Classic Toybox Tales Christmas videos have been converted to Crazy Countdowns! In this second episode, Joseph proposes to Mary with his Donkey 4000, just before both learn that God has a very special plan for their first baby!

Karl's Classic Toybox Tales Christmas videos have been converted to Crazy Countdowns! In this third episode, the shepherds learn that a very special baby has been born!

Karl's Classic Toybox Tales Christmas videos have been converted to Crazy Countdowns! In this fourth episode, Mary and Joseph arrive in Bethlehem, and after struggling to find a place to stay, Baby Jesus is finally born!

Karl's Classic Toybox Tales Christmas videos have been converted to Crazy Countdowns! In this fifth and final episode, the Wisemen see a sign in the sky and begin their journey to meet a little boy named Jesus!

The Polar Express promises to be a true family movie and a Christmastime classic.