Teaching Tips Zone

Whether you're preaching to kids or adults, @kidsconsultant Melissa MacDonald has these powerful tips to help you engage your audience. 

In our diverse modern culture, virtually all ministry is “cross-cultural” and effective connections and relationship building will depend up your cross-cultural understanding and communication skills.

How do you explain the Trinity to your kids?

Everytime someone teaches, there are questions they must answer as they prepare their lesson. To those who teach children, these questions are even more crucial, because children will readily believe what you teach them.

Ideas on how to make your kidmin space fun for kids!

Take these 4 steps to help run an effective kids ministry service. 

We all want to get the Word of God into the children we teach. Here's a simple idea to get the kids into the Word.

Is it possible to get any kid to talk to you? Yes it is, and here are a few tricks. Feel free to put them to the test, and I guarantee that you will get a positive response.

Try this creative idea using Skittles to share the good news of Jesus with your children. 

What would ministry be without conversation? ~ Katey Hage "How can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them?" ~ Paul (Romans 10:14)   p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 11.7px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.0px; font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

It can be so frustrating when you have one kid or a couple of kids that disrupt the entire group. Everything you’ve learned about classroom management has been tried and the kid is still out of control. What do you do?

Do you struggle with finding easy ways for your kids to memorize scripture? Whether at home or at church, these tips can help children of all learning styles painlessly remember their verses.

What do you think is the most important thing that happens in your KidMin on a Sunday morning?

Why and how can playtime be the most important part of your Sunday morning?

5 Easy Ways to Help Children Learn Bible Verses

One of the things I have found over the years is that it is important that we teach God’s Word, but also create a place for kids to interact with each other and make friends. I do that through Small Groups.

When the church and the home are working together, we will have more success in making disciples of our kids.

A simple, fun lesson from the barnyard on how to approach a child who is unfamiliar with you.

Use these tips to become a better team member that will benefit not only your team, but the kids in your ministry.

Parents need you to partner with them in discipling their kids. 

What keeps your middle schoolers from worshiping? How can you turn it around?

Review these tips for handling discipline problems in your classroom or kids church. Take control of your classroom and get back to the business of guiding your kids into a deeper understand of God and His Word.

Have you ever had a Sunday School or Kids Church leader call in sick last minute? If you're not prepared, you'll be left scrambling for ideas for your substitute teacher. To avoid this, have an emergency lesson ready to go.

Help children connect with the Bible on a daily basis. 

Learn the Basics of starting a puppet ministry

A simple game to help remind kids that God answers when we pray.

Reaching kids is not primarily about having the right physical tools. Remind yourself what it IS about.

When and why should children be baptized? This lesson can help explain it.

This is a great little skit that would be a good addition to your lesson about Jesus feeding the 5,000.

Are you looking for creative ways to get kids involved in serving in your ministry?

Witnessing to kids can be tricky at times. Here are a few tips to staying on track and keeping things clear for the kids.

What are the best ways to share your faith with children?

What are the Scriptures? Why is it so important for us to study? Includes an object lesson, games, and craft.  

In this throw away culture where relationships change so often, how can we help children overcome their fear of being rejected for the next best thing?

Involve the parents with your next Easter egg hunt!

Scripture is inspired, contains authority over our lives, is a guide in spiritual matters, is significant in knowing God and His will, and is useful for explaining and defending our beliefs. But having kids memorize scripture is crazy hard. Read how the use of a mnemonic tool really works in helping get God's word memorized.  

Great ideas for fun summer family activities.

Almost every teacher in a church's children's ministry is looking for help to manage the classroom. Pastor Trisha Peach shares her best and time-tested discipline ideas. Part 2 of Pastor Trisha's articles on Discipline.

When is the last time you taught your church children how to write a money plan/budget?

Should you expect respect from all kids? What about kids who have been through trauma? 

Don't let your props take the place of your message.

What is an object lesson? Here are several basic instructions that you need to know for giving one!

Keep your class actively participating with these simple tips. 

Use this children’s Sunday School lesson teach students about God’s protection.

Some things are beyond our control. You have to start with what you have. You never get to start with what you wish you had.

To effectively reach children, we need to understand children and teach them in a manner that they learn best.

Using Mike and Ike candies as a way to help kids learn to pray and to connect the things around them with reminders to pray.

Here are some key principles for managing difficult behaviors.

Take care of yourself so you can help take care of others.