Teaching Tips Zone
It's no mystery that teaching kids can be challenging. There are lots of ways to teach - but the more creative you are the better!
This zone is not lessons, but tons of help, ideas and guidance on how to teach more effectively.
It is loaded with ideas you just need to try, like Drawing the Bible or Using Shoes to Teach or even Beach Balls!
If you have a fun, creative or effective teaching method, be sure to share it!
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Kids and Conversion
Witnessing to kids can be tricky at times. Here are a few tips to staying on track and keeping things clear for the kids. |
Conversion, Salvation, Counseling | |
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Leading Children to Know and Follow Jesus
What are the best ways to share your faith with children? |
Discipleship | |
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Lesson: Why Do We Study the Bible?
What are the Scriptures? Why is it so important for us to study? Includes an object lesson, games, and craft. |
Bible Study | |
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Loving Kids in a Pumpkin Pie Culture
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? |
Love, Affirmation, Friendship | |
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Make Your Easter Egg Hunt a Family Event
Involve the parents with your next Easter egg hunt! |
Easter, Family | |
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Making Summer Meaningful with Simple Family Activities
Great ideas for fun summer family activities. |
Summer, Family, Fun Activities | |
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More Positive Classroom Ideas (2 of 2)
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. |
Discipline | |
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My Money Plan
When is the last time you taught your church children how to write a money plan/budget? |
A worksheet teaching kids how to budget | |
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No R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for anyone or anything. What do you do?
Should you expect respect from all kids? What about kids who have been through trauma? |
Respect, Divorce Care | |
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Object Lessons and Props Are Biblical
Don't let your props take the place of your message. |
Props in Ministry | |
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Object Lessons Can Make an Impact!
What is an object lesson? Here are several basic instructions that you need to know for giving one! |
Object Lesson Instructions | |
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One Way Sunday School Teachers Can Encourage Active Participation in Class
Keep your class actively participating with these simple tips. |
Participation | |
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Paul's Shipwreck - Kids Church Lesson
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson teach students about God’s protection. |
Kids Church Lesson | |
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Play The Ball Where The Monkey Drops It
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. |
Ministry Upsets | |
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Play Through the Bible
To effectively reach children, we need to understand children and teach them in a manner that they learn best. |
Fun teaching ideas | |
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Praying with Mike and Ike
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. |
Prayer | |
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Principles for Managing Difficult Behavior
Here are some key principles for managing difficult behaviors. |
Discipline | |
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Put On Your Oxygen Mask First
Take care of yourself so you can help take care of others. |
Self-Care | |
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Questions Kids Ask About God
Kids have questions, naturally. One of the best ways to interact and lead them closer to God is by engaging with their questions. |
Worship Stations, Questions | |
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See: Using Visuals for Greater Impact
… 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) |
Teaching Tips, Using Visuals | |
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Sharing the Gospel with Children with Disabilities
How can we share the gospel effectively with children with disabilities? |
Disabilities and the Gospel | |
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Sharing the Gospel with Kids
4 steps to simply sharing the Gospel with the kids in your mnisttry |
Evangelism | |
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Shorter Attention Span: Kids or Goldfish?
If you work with kids, you know how challenging it can be to keep their attention. |
Attention Span |
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Teach Kids to be Bible Detectives!
I think one of the greatest skills you can teach your class is to study the Bible themselves. |
Studying the Bible | |
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Teach your children to S.L.A.N.T.
Want your kids to pay attention better in class? Teach them to S.L.A.N.T. |
Discipline, Listening | |
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Teaching a Negative Child
Teaching kids about the love of God is a privilege and a joy, but what happens when your group includes a negative child? |
Difficult Behavior | |
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Teaching Bible Skills
Let’s encourage our kids to be comfortable and familiar with their Bibles. |
Bible Study | |
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Teaching Kids Doctrine
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. |
Doctrine, Teaching | |
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Teaching Kids How to Pray for Others
Empower kids to pray for each other by teaching them how to pray. The prayer of a child can make a huge impact. |
Prayer, Caring | |
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Teaching Kids To Be Confident In Their Faith
Kids must be taught their faith in order to gain confidence in it! |
Faith | |
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Teaching Kids To Hear The Voice Of God
Teach your kids how they can listen for the voice of God when choosing friends. |
Wise Choices, Hearing the Holy Spirit, Discernment | |
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Teaching Kids to Pray
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. |
Prayer | |
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Teaching Tip: Using Perspective to Creatively Share Bible Stories for Kids
It's the same old BIble story, but it can also be a fresh one, when told through the eyes of someone new. |
Sunday School, Effective Teaching | |
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The #1 Way to Bore Kids in Your KidMin
Learn to teach, not just tell. |
Teaching Skills | |
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The Infiltration of Whirlwind Kids -- What Do You Do?
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. |
Divorce, ADHD, Grace, Discipline | |
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The ONE Rule that Saved My Ministry... and the Night that Almost Ended It
This valuable story could prevent you from great heartache and a ruined ministry career! A MUST-READ! |
Safety, Leadership, Integrity | |
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The Quick Quiet: Get Them Listening!
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. |
Classroom Control, Management | |
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The Tongue
The tongue can be a powerful weapon. |
The Tongue | |
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Three Things You Probably Didn't Know About Speaking
Do you ever wonder why your message fell flat? Maybe you need to work less on the content and more on the delivery. |
Message Delivery, Public Speaking | |
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Through the Eyes of a Child
12 short but meaningful tips on how to be a thoughtful teacher of children. |
Relating to Children | |
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Tips for Student Participation in Large Group
Give yourself a break and use these tips for active participation during large group time. |
Management, Large Group | |
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Tips for Teaching Kids to Read the Bible
Whether in Sunday school or at home, use these 6 steps to help encourage your kids in studying the Bible. |
Bible Study | |
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Tips for Using Bible Games with Kids
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. |
Games | |
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Top 5 Reasons to have VBS
Is it worth the stress to run a VBS each year? |
VBS | |
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Top Traits of High-Functioning Teams
What do you do to plan as a team? |
Teamwork | |
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Training Kids to be Truthful and Kind
Are your kids meat-eaters and bone-spitters? We need to train them in clarity and charity. |
Truth and Kindness | |
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Using Technology in Children's Ministry
Here are the many ways that I use technology in children's ministry. |
Technology, Children's Ministry | |
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We're Not All That Different
Here are some common “themes” of ministry that are literally worldwide. |
Leadership | |
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What Toy Will Be the Next Fidget Spinner?
What's the next big "thing" in Kidmin? |
Games, Toys, Fun for Kids | |
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Who is Responsible to Disciple my Kids?
Who is Responsible to Disciple my Kids - the church or me? |
Discipleship |