Teaching Tips Zone

Kids have questions, naturally. One of the best ways to interact and lead them closer to God is by engaging with their questions.

Steps for teaching your kids how to use the Bible--by Book, Chapter and Verse.

… paint a power-packed picture for all those visual learners out there. ~ Aaron Reynolds "Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light." ~ Jesus (Matthew 6:22)

4 steps to simply sharing the Gospel with the kids in your mnisttry

If you work with kids, you know how challenging it can be to keep their attention.

When it comes to worship with children the choices of songs might be overwhelming, but rather than going back to the few songs you repeat each week, consider these questions to help you find the best worship songs for kids.

I think one of the greatest skills you can teach your class is to study the Bible themselves.

Want your kids to pay attention better in class? Teach them to S.L.A.N.T.

Teaching kids about the love of God is a privilege and a joy, but what happens when your group includes a negative child?

Let’s encourage our kids to be comfortable and familiar with their Bibles. 

Doctrine can be taught to children! Here are eight basics that every Christian church can agree on and should teach to all of their members, beginning with the children.

Empower kids to pray for each other by teaching them how to pray. The prayer of a child can make a huge impact.

 Kids must be taught their faith in order to gain confidence in it!

Teach your kids how they can listen for the voice of God when choosing friends.

Teaching kids to talk to God and hear from him is one of the most transformative parts of the small group experience, so be intentional about making it a priority in your time together.

It's the same old BIble story, but it can also be a fresh one, when told through the eyes of someone new. 

Learn to teach, not just tell. 

Children are active and have a lot of energy. But some kids are hyper all the time, it seems. Here's what you can do.

This valuable story could prevent you from great heartache and a ruined ministry career! A MUST-READ!

Every teacher or Children’s Ministry leader needs a few “quick quiet” tricks to help tame an unruly class. Here are a few methods that you should keep readily at hand.

The tongue can be a powerful weapon. 

Do you ever wonder why your message fell flat? Maybe you need to work less on the content and more on the delivery. 

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.