Creative Ideas Zone

Have you ever tried to witness at Starbucks? Here are some ways to minister to kids and their parents at your local Starbucks!

Engage your kids in a simple cooking competition coupled with becoming a "Sweet Genius" God's way

Develop a contest between girls and boys and by grades through the summer for the most minutes they spend time reading the Bible or Bible story books every day.  

Want to tell the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 in an exciting new way?

Empower kids to pray for each other by teaching them how to pray. The prayer of a child can make a huge impact.

Teach your kids how they can listen for the voice of God when choosing friends.

It's the same old BIble story, but it can also be a fresh one, when told through the eyes of someone new. 

Some of the best advocates for our ministry are the parents who are directly impacted by the ministry. Parents have a natural desire to involve their children in a ministry that is first rate.  Our goal should be to take their interest and turn it into involvement. Today I would like to share 10 of my favorite ways to engage parents in ministry.

Want to teach the children in your ministry about thankfulness? This lesson on Jehoshaphat from 2 Chronicles 20 will help them learn the importance of being thankful, no matter what!

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.

What do you do when you're caught between organization and creativity?

Fun and delicious way to make a Sunday more eventful.

Learn how to think like a kidmin so you can come up with great ideas for your ministry

Since the holidays are such a busy time, we all get behind in something. For this Christmas season, I wanted to provide you with three last minute Christmas lesson ideas to help you, if you are in need of a quick children’s ministry lesson!

Learn the benefits of and instructions for starting a Children's Church Store.

Don't have time for volunteer training? Think again. Use these tips to fit it into any schedule...and get a great turn out too!

Here are the many ways that I use technology in children's ministry.

Valentine's activity for children to show appreciation for kid-min workers

A Super Bible Memory Verse Activity for Elementary Kids

A Sunday School Empahsis to get kids excited about attending and bringing their friends.

Does the Bible really say that? We should never assume we know what the Bible says. We need to read it, study it, and teach it properly!

A quick look at the current need for Family Nights

Why does your church need a children's check-in solution? Here are the main reasons.

Use these worship station ideas to allow kids to express themselves in ways that they are most comfortable. 

Here is a great idea for bringing the story of Jonah and the whale to life! Kids get inside the whale and see Jonah praying to God.

Just a punny pizza-themed note for saying thanks.

Download these funny postcards to encourage your volunteers this season!

A night of video game fun with a purpose.

Download this invitation for parents to volunteer in their kids' ministry!

A very fun object lesson using the Ring on a Spring illustion!

Ideas for group names

Teaching children how to overcome "Giants" in their lives through the story of David and Goliath.

An Easter presentation that uses the letters of EASTER to tell the real meaning of the holiday.

A fantastic idea using tin foil to get kids engaged in thinking about what is an idol in their life.

Some new words to a classic song.

February is a great month to build excitement in your children's ministry! This year we are doing Fruitful February in our children's ministry.

A rope is hung from the center of a cutout wooden heart. By a couple of simple moves the rope is wound around the heart sides. When the heart is suspended by the rope and draped with a red scarf, it is easily released. The scarf is removed to show the heart freely hanging on the suspended rope.

A magic trick that illustrates the value a human life.

Here are some ways to make your lessons fun and exciting. In so doing , you will overcome most discipline problems.

25 ways to build up a child verbally. Don't always say it the same way. Be creative and vary the ways you build kids up!

A visual object lesson - the audience misses the obvious. Do we miss out on the most important thing in life?

An elimination quiz about Christmas.

Fisherman craft from pop can.

Do the kids "enter in" or "zone out" during your Praise and Worship segments? Here's a fun way to get the kids to put their heart into praise.

Sometimes life is like a jumbled mess of pieces, but God places all the parts there to make something cool out of it if we will follow His instructions. Trying to live our lives without following God's Word is like trying to build a model car without the instructions.

This is a fun and creative way to help kids understand the importance of the armor of God and how it can protect us, even today.

Everyone is different!

Provide kids with a list of Bible verses beginning with the letters of the alphabet. As the kids memorize verses they receive a dime to put in the candy machine. After they have memorized all verses they earn a trophy.

Someone may have suggested this already but I thought it was a great way to teach the books of the Bible and my kids love it!

This game show is designed to teach children different techniques to memorize scripture.