I was thinking of Tangled when we did this activity. Usually I see something and visualize how we could use it in our lesson, but I was ...

Our neighbors gave us this pop-up tent years ago for the girls and I to sleep out in the back yard. We used it once for that. But in child...

After spending one year in the New Testament, I find myself back in the old with a whole set of new children. I have visuals from some of...

The laundry room, in a children's blog, really? Well, this musing is for everyone, children's workers included. And it is free, ...

National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA OK, be honest, how many of you have a letter of resignation hidden away in a drawer somewhere? I...

Hamlet's famous line, "To be, or not to be:" rings through the ages. As a children's director in a small church, one ...

This was a fun, simple craft for the kids to make for Pentecost Sunday and yet it had a big impact. After a lesson about Pentecost, we ...

Keeping God Central from Joan Eppehimer on Vimeo . Years ago we had homemade tables in our church. Someone had screwed threaded steel pi...

I admit it, I am a perfectionist. And I don't always take no for an answer. Sometimes that turns out to be a good thing. Like when ...

Recently I was searching the web for some ideas and help for music in our children's ministry. In the process, I came across this g...

This post includes a drama for acting out the events of Acts 9 and an activity for helping children to understand how God's word acts...