Are you looking for some exciting ways to vary the different lesson segments for your Children’s Church or Sunday School class?

All of us like to be in familiar settings. It makes us feel comfortable, secure, and at ease. Kids especially need this consistency in your classroom. However, consistency doesn’t mean doing the same thing in the same way week after week after week. Kids also need some change! So let’s spice it up this week! Now, don’t get carried away and change everything at the same time. Try presenting the Bible story in a different way. Do a special opening crowd breaker activity. Then next Sunday, try doing something new with the memory verse like a rebus puzzle. The next page is a basic Children’s Church service format filled with hints and ideas for adding zest, zeal and zip to your teaching and getting your creative juices flowing.

SERVICE FORMAT

OPENING

Crowd Breaker

Comedy Prop/Skit

Scavenger Hunt

Group Activity/Game

Clowning

Puppet Song

Air Band
(kids lip-syncing a song)

WORSHIP

Songs

Worship Video

Ensemble

Enhanced Transparency
(colorful with graphics)

Offering

Team Contest

Object Lesson
(i.e. Tithe Talks in
Outlet Mall)

Activity
(Bringing Offering
as gift to Altar)

Prayer

Group

Laying on hands

Peer Leaders

Prayer Lines

Prayer Partners

Earth Squish Ball
(making impression on
world with prayer for…)

SERMON

Memory Verse

Rebus Puzzle
(more info on Rebus
in the Software section
of the Outlet Mall)

Puppet Repetition
(kids repeat after
puppet)

Electronic
Message Board

Bible Story

Ventriloquism

Roleplay

Drama

Transparency Pictures

Puppet Skit

Ballooning
(i.e. Shape-Shifting book
in Outlet Mall)

Multiple Choice

Fill in the Blank

Life Application

Object Lesson

Trick Cartooning

Ballooning

Fruit Sculpture

Origami

Illusion

Juggling

Puppet Song

Ventriloquism Skit

Clowning

Drama Character

Mop & Broom Puppetry

Music/Drama Video

Brainstorming Session

Open-Ended Situation

ALTAR

Attaching Prayers
to Cross

Hurting Heart
(kids write hurts on
paper heart)

World Maps
(mark areas to pray for)

Letter to God

REVIEW

Transparency Games

Nerf Games

Quizzing Box

Beach Ball Volley

Handouts

Sword Drill

Concentration from Brainstorming Session
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