Sunday School

[KristinCB]

Today our sunday school teacher came to visit to try and get insight on what to do/change to get our kids more excited and give them the best that she can out of sunday school. Because I am relatively new to church/faith (well i guess not so new anymore) but I didn't grow up with it in my home I didn't have exerience with sunday school really. Anyways.. long winded I'm sorry. Does anyone here belong to a church where they offer a cool program or something different? Our teacher is wanting to look outside of the box.. I told her I'm kinda a boxy person myself. haha. Anyways just throwing this out there if anyone has any resources online they know of or just ideas on how to make a sunday school program fun and interesting. I belong to a really small church and there is just a handful of kids ranging in ages from 2-10 or so. Thanks in advance!

ps. I have a feeling this entire thread made no sense so I apologize in advance

pps. I go to a non-denominational christian church

[jessica31876]

I went to sunday school at a large lutheran church in Orlando as a kid. I remember it being alot of fun mostly reading and art type projects and my teacher always had fun stories (bible related) to read and then an activity afterwards that related to the story. We do not go to church now but I think that most kids like to be involved in the story and for it to be reinforced with activities. Games like trivia were fun as well. We would have teams and get points for answering questions related to stories we had studied. Not sure if this would help you but basically I think the more involved she allows the children to be with the lessons/activities the more fun they will have.

[krystalhartley]

Anything to do with Veggie Tales (https://bigidea.com/index.aspx) rocks my world!!

Seriously...I LOVE explaining Bible stories to the kids with the videos. And the soundtrack is brilliant, as well, to keep reinforcing the lessons.

[gracelikerain]

Our church does "regular" Sunday school on Sundays, but on Wednesday nights we have what we call "Wednesday Night Live!". Each grade rotates through different stations each week for 5 weeks which tells the same story (Easter, Christmas, Moses, Paul...whatever it is) in a different way. One station will be music, one will be a story, one will be a movie, etc.

The kids love it!

[Libby Pritchett]

At our church, the kids earn pretend dollars for things like bringing their bibles, memorizing their verses, answering questions, bringing a friend, etc. At the end of each class, they have a few minutes where they can shop at the "Kid's Life store". It's basically full of junk, but they love it. LOL Candy, little mini cans of play doh, etc. Nothing terribly expensive, but they eat it up.

[lauren grier]

I was going to say the same as jessica.. we did a TON of art type projects in our sunday school.. I don't remember any of the stories that went along with them anymore, but I thought they were cool back then:p

[lovely1m]

I grew up Catholic and I can tell you that nothing we did is what you are looking for. I don't remember ever having fun in CCD. I do want to get my son involved in something now, but I just don't even know where to begin in finding a church. Plus being a single mom, I don't want him to be in some kids thing the whole time I am just sitting there by myself.

[jocelinsmommy]

Anything to do with Veggie Tales (https://bigidea.com/index.aspx) rocks my world!!

Seriously...I LOVE explaining Bible stories to the kids with the videos. And the soundtrack is brilliant, as well, to keep reinforcing the lessons.

I could not agree with this anymore than the way she wrote it...we used Veggie tales all the time...plus my kids worked for rewards when I taught sunday school.

[Julie Billingsley]

My church uses the KidMo program (http://www.kidmo.com/) for Sundays during the summer because it requires less adults to run it (with summer vacations and stuff we lose some Sunday school teachers). The kids love it! During the rest of the year we have a program that the Kid's pastor creates.