There are some advantages to a
small children’s ministry. One is that you can do fun things like make your own
scratch-off cards for the kids. These are really easy to make (if you mix your
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Joseph Rules in Egypt
Drama is one of the finest ways for children to experience Bible stories. Many passages in the history books of the Bible lend themselves to drama. Here we did Joseph supervising the collection of grain during the 7 good years of crops in Egypt.
You will probably have most of
the props on hand for this story. You need:
Thursday, May 21, 2015
How God Brought Our Walls Down (Sort Of)
Four years ago I began working my way into leadership of the children’s ministry in our church. There were a lot of changes to be made, and one of the first was updating our facility.
I started by asking a few people for some ideas. One idea that surfaced was to remove
Saturday, May 16, 2015
A "Popping" Good Gift for Your Pop on Father's Day
Recently my husband was in charge
of getting offering buckets for a community service planned by a group of pastors.
They told him to get Kentucky Fried Chicken or popcorn buckets or anything like
that. They wanted 40 of them.
Well, I found a great deal online
for 50. That gave me 10 extra buckets to keep for myself. Turns out they had
another 5 left after the event, which we conveniently took off their
hands for them!
Now for the best part. I was on Pinterest
and I saw this great
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
How To Get a Green Screen for Free...Sort of
I heard a sermon recently on God’s
creative provision. The speaker used Elijah as an example. How did God provide
for Elijah? Here’s a hint, it was for the birds. The point was, and is, that we
should never think God can’t provide just because we cannot see how it would be
possible. So this is a post about how
God provided a green screen for our church when it looked impossible.
Friday, April 17, 2015
Communicating with Flare
Anne of Avonlea used to say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Some might call it stealing, but the whole idea of blogs and Pinterest is to give us ideas. So when I saw this great idea for creative ways to communicate on SamLuce’s blog, I stole it, err, I mean imitated it.
In this blog, Sam did a "self-interview" which is when you write a script and play both parts. You video tape one part and then interview yourself live. I took
his idea and used it to make an announcement. Only I shanghaied my daughter
into being the interviewee. Since we had just purchased a green screen, we went
one step further than Sam and actually put the South Pole behind her.
This was a lot of fun to write and make. Sam also
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Sword Practice with the Word of God
This was a Bible-learning activity that we did in VBS when we did Knights of God by Next Gen 4 Christ. I combined several of their ideas to create this activity.
Goal: To help children learn how to apply the Bible to real
life situations. This activity allowed them
Monday, March 30, 2015
Fruit Tray Pineapple Cross
Below are the instructions for a jack-o-lantern fruit tray I made for a fall event using cantaloupe,
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Eggcellent Eggcouragement for Helpers at Easter
Easter is almost upon us. How are you going to appreciate your workers?
I have an “eggcellent” idea to share with you. Even though this is
really corny, my staff flipped
Monday, March 9, 2015
Bible Times Sunday School Room
This room came about when we were doing a VBS a few years back. The program had scenery you could project onto the wall of a room to make it look like the inside of a Bible time’s home. I thought we had some rolls of white paper we had made look like stone, and so I planned on doing the whole room instead of just one wall.
Two things changed that.
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