Teaching Tips Zone

12 short but meaningful tips on how to be a thoughtful teacher of children.

Give yourself a break and use these tips for active participation during large group time. 

Whether in Sunday school or at home, use these 6 steps to help encourage your kids in studying the Bible.

Since Bible games are a teaching tool, you want to do your very best using them in your program. The following tips will help you.

Is it worth the stress to run a VBS each year?

What do you do to plan as a team?

Are your kids meat-eaters and bone-spitters? We need to train them in clarity and charity. 

Here are the many ways that I use technology in children's ministry.

Here are some common “themes” of ministry that are literally worldwide.  

What's the next big "thing" in Kidmin?

Who is Responsible to Disciple my Kids - the church or me?

Every children’s ministry should maximize Bible review games. They are essential to an exciting program.

Read the causes of unruly kids during and after divorce. 

Use these worship station ideas to allow kids to express themselves in ways that they are most comfortable. 

Have you ever just played a game, gotten the kids all hyped up and then wanted their attention back? Don't raise your voice is this technique.

Eight tips are shared on how to make your storytelling more effective.

This is a short overview of how to lead a child to faith in Christ. It is the outline used by the Kidologist in his workshop by the same name. Includes the classic 'star fish story.'

I find the story of Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10, Luke 18) ideal for teaching children about how we should pray.

Showing how we can teach children to make their own right choices.

I have found that it is relatively easy to get the younger children to pray out loud in class, but those aged about 8 and above are more self-conscious, and so less inclined to do so. The following is a technique that I have found to be very effective in encouraging older children to pray in public.

Fifteen fun ways of teaching scripture memory verses are shared.

A variety of ideas for teaching kids the books of the Bible.

This is a multiple choice review game based on the Fruit of the Spirit but that can be used with any theme.

Some of my readers will consider the topic of creativity in children’s ministry and say, “Duh.” In fact many of you are far better suited to write such an article, amazingly creative innovators that you are. Yet here I am and you along with me as we consider for a moment the role of creativity in becoming an excellent children’s ministry teacher.

Bible stories are easier for kids to understand and apply if you break them down and serve them in small parts.

Jesus used objects lessons all the time!

Learn how to integrate a simple game involving every child in your group and their shoes. Guaranteed to capture the attention of even those most energetic child.

There is much confusion today about what it means to be a Christian. It is very important that what we teach children about their relationship with God is accurate.

It is interesting the many ways we can illustrate the Trinity to children. Here are several creative ways that present this doctrine in simplicity.

A dramatic metaphor of classroom discipline based on the Original Star Trek Series. I wrote this in partial fulfillment of a teaching component in my seminary internship. It is based on real events.

One of the pressures that kids pastors face from parents, leaders, or themselves, and sometimes it’s all three, is to be like Disney.