Kidologists Zone
This is the place to find things written or submitted by the creator of Kidology.org, Karl Bastian.
Use Karl's creativity to your advantage! Browse his ideas, plans, games, and more, and use them as is or adapt them for your ministry!
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Balance the Plate
Engage your small group with this activity that teaches them to stay focused on Jesus. |
Concentration, | |
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Looking for Jesus
Encourage Families to Look for Jesus this Christmas. |
Christmas, Jesus | |
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The Romans Road to Heaven!
Simple way to present the gospel message using 8 verses from Romans. |
Gospel, Evangelism, |
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Hidden Golden Coins
Teach your kids how to be missionaries and start your service off with this exciting activity. |
Missionaries, Evangelism | |
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Lost Sheep
Fun game to open your lesson with where kids go and search for the lost sheep. |
Game, Shepherd | |
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Attitude Check
Small group activity that helps your kids check thier attitude |
Attitude, Small Group | |
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World War Rock, Paper, Scissors!
Have your kids play this fun game as you take Rock-Paper-Scissors to the next level! |
Games, Extras | |
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Kid-Written / God-Breathed
A fun interactive way to explain how God wrote the Bible when it had human authors. |
Divine Inspirtation, Bible | |
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Thermostat Vs. Thermometer
Teach your kids to remain strong in God through this exciting object lesson |
Trusting God, Promises | |
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Which one is the Bible?
Teach kids about the different translations in the Bible in a way that they will remember, by acting it out. |
Bible Translations | |
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God Keeps Us Safe
Help kids get a better understand of why God sets boundaries for us and how he tries to keep us safe in this exciting object lesson. |
Safety, Boundaries, Freedom | |
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Just Let it Happen
Short object lesson and talk using an egg to show God's purpose and ability to complete us. |
Being Good, Purpose, Victory | |
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Stacking Up a Good Attitude!
Exciting game that teaches kids about watching their attitude. They have fun Speed Stacking and have their attitude tested. |
Game, Attitude, Speed Stacking, | |
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Being a HELPful Volunteer!
How can a volunteer truly H.E.L.P. their leader? |
Training Volunteers | |
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The Fixed Magazine
A leader has an altered magazine to illustrate how God made us each unique. |
Self Image | |
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Take Your Life Back from the Church
Don't let the church suck you dry - that isn't God's Will for those in ministry. When the church is killing your joy, you are doing more than God is asking of you and it is time for drastic action. Now. Stop making excuses. |
Leadership & Life & Priorities | |
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On the Passing of Steve Jobs
Karl Bastian, founder of Kidology.org, reflects on the passing of Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, October 2011. |
Leadership Tribute | |
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The Kidologist Top Influencers
Karl Bastian was selected by Group’s CM Magazine as one of kids ministry Top 20 Influencer’s – but who were his “Top Influencers?” |
Leaders, Influence | |
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Pocket Puzzle Evangelism?
Learn how to naturally and safley invite kids to church. |
Evangelism, Invites | |
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10 Standards for Excellence
Written by Karl Bastian for his children's ministry, here are ten scripturally based standards you can ask your volunteers to live up to in order to serve in the kids ministry. |
Volunteer Standards |
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Memo From CP: No More Child Care
How to Release the CM from providing Child Care to other ministries. |
Child Care Policy | |
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Draw the Bible - Turn Off the DVD Player
Karl presents a creative teaching style and encourages us to stop using the DVD player while teaching. |
Teaching Methods, DVD, Drawing | |
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Da Bible Feet - Joshua
A Kids Church Video featuring “Da Feet.” An introduction for a lesson on Joshua. |
Joshua | |
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Da Bible Feet - Caleb
A Kids Church Video featuring “Da Feet.” An introduction for a lesson on Caleb. |
Caleb, | |
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Da Bible Feet - Moses
A Kids Church Video featuring “Da Feet.” An introduction for a lesson on Moses. |
Moses | |
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Da Bible Feet - Paul
A Kids Church Video featuring “Da Feet.” An introduction on “Running the Race” for a lesson on Paul. |
Race of Life, Paul | |
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The Power of Choices
Devotional About the Power of Choices, both Large and Small |
Choices, Wisdom | |
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Backyard Bible Splash!
This is a fun event your church can host in the summer. |
Water Sports, Summer |
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Bless Those Who Curse You
Two true stories to help kids see how to bless those who curse you. |
Loving Your Enemies | |
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Frozen Pancake Toss
Kids Toss Frozen Pancakes on the head of friend into a tin! |
Bread of Life | |
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Getting Started in Kidmin
A look at great resources to help you get started in kidmin |
Kidology, training | |
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Dealing with Parent Conflict
Karl Bastian provides tips on how to keep your cool and deal with parents when they get upset with you! |
Parent Conflict | |
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Dr. Seuss' Bible
Using a Dr. Seuss' "Book of Books" to Explain how the Bible was put together. |
Bible Structure | |
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Encouragement via Lego!
A Lesson on Encouragement from Legos! (Features a point by point PowerPoint) |
Encouragement | |
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Grumpy Greeters
A fun way to open a lesson on attidudes or friendliness by having some greeters really put on the grumpiness. |
Witnessing, Attitudes | |
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The Crazy Campers
A Four Part Funny Skit Series for kids church or camp that illustrates why following God’s Plan for your life is best! |
Following Instructions | |
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How May I Serve You?
To introduce the topic of service, treat the kids like royalty as the enter kids church! |
Service | |
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One Now or Two When You Leave
A lesson on waiting the involves one of kids favorite things, CANDY! |
Waiting, Patience | |
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How To Do a Bible Sword Drill
Are you interested in learning how to do a Bible Sword Drill? Here are some clear instructions for how to effectively do a Bible Sword Drill in your children's ministry! |
Bible Sword Drills |
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Host a Fruit Fair!
A fun fair you can have to help the kids learn about the fruits of the Spirit. |
Fruit of the Spirit, Fair, Games | |
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The Friend Factor Game Show!
Really Fun Game for Children's Church! A "game show" style game, that would go along great with a teaching on friendship. |
Friendship, Games, Fun | |
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Remote Control Kid
This is an entertaining object lesson where a leader "controls" a kid with a remote and concludes by teaching about about allowing God to take our remote control. |
Asking, Conduct, Holy Spirit | |
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Training Kids to Pray in Group
3 practical ideas to help your kids pray from the H.E.A.R.T |
Prayer, Praise, Guiding | |
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The Future of Children's Ministry
This is Karl's contribution to the Greg Baird / Kidmin360.com series. Download the COMPLETE book below. |
Leadership & Discipleship | |
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The Value of Worship
Andy the Appraiser visits and talks about the worth of a valuable object as a lead in to the fact that Worship is how we show God how much HE is worth to us! |
Worship | |
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Globe Race!
A simple, fun, and exciting game that will help children realize that our country is just a small part of much larger world! |
Missions |
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Walking in the Light
Puppet learns the hard way what it really means to "Walk in the Light" (Also can be a skit) |
Obedience | |
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The ONE Leader!
Puppet thinks if only he ruled the world everything world be O.K. - learns that Jesus was the perfect leader, and He was killed! |
Jesus, the Rejected Leader | |
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Country Name Tags
This is a fun way to get kids thinking about different countries around the world throughout an entire missions program! Rename them the name of a country for a service! |
Missions | |
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Puppet Appreciation Sunday
Puppet illustrates the need for Praise in a very entertaining manner! |
Prayerful Praise |