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Permalink Reply by Judy on October 19, 2007 at 9:46pm

Hi,

I work with the preschoolers. I teach them during church on Sunday mornings and I also work with them two evenings a week while their parents attend Bible Study and Addiction Support Group meetings. The kids are aged 2-5. I would like to teach more in the area of character building, especially on weeknights when we have smaller groups. I have a few books that I could use but I haven't been able to find many worksheets, crafts etc. to go with them. Some of the areas I'd like to cover are responsibility, honesty, sharing, respect for people and the church, and kindness to one another. Does anyone have any good ideas or know where I should look for materials?

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Permalink Reply by Valerie on October 19, 2007 at 10:04pm

Judy-

That is a lot of teaching and leading you do! That does make sense that you might need some extra emphasis on Character Building in your weeknight classes. I agree that it is sure a difficult subject to teach especially in a short amount of time. I'm sure others have some better advice for you, but I thought I'd chime in my two cents....

Puppets, if you have any puppets or access to puppets these work wonderful for teaching more abstract ideas because children can watch the puppets show qualities of "good Characters" or "poor characters" If you don't have any puppets, you can make your own, I found a really cheap pattern online and made up some of my own, and my children love them.

http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/blog1/2007/06/07/bible-pupp...

You can go to www.puppetresources.com and find free christian puppet scripts that work on teaching/conveying character skills, just type in the subject you'd like to search


Another thing I would recommend is devotionals.....We use a series called "God and Me.....Devotionals for girls age 2-4" There is an entire series for boys and with different ages.

http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/blog1/2007/06/22/preschool-...

You could easily purchase one book and stretch out each of the daily lessons to an entire evenings worth of learning....each day there is a theme, verse, activity, story, reflection, and more....(even better you could use your puppets to act out the story! )


Anyway, I hope that gets you started, and I'll make note that these types of resoruces are needed, who knows, perhaps I can come up with some fun worksheets or crafts for learning good Character skills!

In Christ,

Valerie

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Permalink Reply by Judy on October 20, 2007 at 5:11pm

Thanks Valerie,

We have lots of animal puppets, maybe I can find a skit that will work with them. If not, I'm sure that I could borrow some of the bigger puppets from the junior group. I might ask the older kids to do a puppet show for us. My kids would love that. Thanks for the help.

Judy

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Permalink Reply by Christina on May 30, 2008 at 11:29am

Hi, i teach Ages 5 and 6 in sunday school. i'm having a little trouble with knowing what crafts to do with them and stuff , i'm only starting out , So far its going great and i would love some ideas, creative things and stuff to do with them . thank you so much and God bless you.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on May 31, 2008 at 2:40am

Hi Valerie! My Sunday School class ranges from age 3 - 9, (the 3y old is my baby). A child who is 7, is a little slower so she stayed in my room instead of moving up to the next class. We do have a child who is 9y. old that brings his 2 1/2 y old cousin every other week. He stays to "help".

I do my best to teach them the way the Lord has me too. We are a new class and we have been working our way through Genesis. The first thing we always do, get on our prayer rug and pray. I always ask the children if they have someone that needs our prayers. Then we pray about it! The colorful and fluffy rug is one that I picked up at Walmart. Even though we have just started this class earlier this year, I have already been called out that we didn't pray! (I was taking up offerings and counting Bibles and attendance and got in a hurry. ) So it does mean something to the children! I also purchased regular 3 ring folders w/ pockets for each child. Each week while I read the Bible story, they color a page about the story. We place the coloring sheet in the folder with some kind of an activity/work sheet. Those may be a easy maze or such for the younger children, a crossword puzzle for the older ones. When we are finished with the activities, we then work on a craft . If time permits, we then play a Bible related game or sing. We have just finished a lapbook for Noah's Ark this past week. The children love the lapbooks!

I just wanted to thank you for this wonderful blessed site!

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Permalink Reply by Lori Yaklovich on June 3, 2008 at 11:48am

I teach our children's worship center on sundays. I really enjoy watching the youngsters create and listen to the story you tell them. The age group that I work with is preschool to kindergarten. The thing that we do in our children's worship center is tell a story with the props from a bible theme. Then, the children have their time to play and create on their own. In the room there are many opportunities for the children to explore. I think my job is easy right now, because I enjoy doing it. I have been teaching in church sunday school and taking over the quiet bags for the children in church.

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Permalink Reply by Valerie on June 3, 2008 at 1:04pm

Oooh, could you let us know what is in your "Quiet Bags" sounds interesting!

Blessings,

Valerie

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Permalink Reply by Angela on June 16, 2008 at 7:37am

I currently work with ages 2-12, not all at them same time. I am involved in Wednesday Bible study for children along with Sunday school both for ages 6-12. I currently am writing programs or supplement writing programs for both Sunday School and Wednesday night. Job could be made easier if there was more programs avaiable to encompass this age range, most cover 6-9 and 10-12.

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Permalink Reply by Debbie on June 27, 2008 at 7:19pm

During the week I work with 1 and 2 year olds at my church's daycare. .I am the co-lead teacher. So I am responsible for everything from ABC's to 123's.

On Sunday's I have the preschool class which can range from 1 to 5.

Finding pictures to color isn't usually a problem, my problem is finding crafts that are age appropriate. Simple games are a challenge too.

When I look in Christian bookstores, teacher supply stores, etc. I find things for Kindergarten and higher. There is very little for the preschool age, especially one and two year olds.

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Permalink Reply by Angela on June 28, 2008 at 8:04am

Debbbie,
I usually use games through play time with this age group. If you have the space you can section off your room in to areas that inculde house, reading, art and building/science. Use these as you can for your lessons. You can then also ise simple but fun things for the art section that the children can take home. You can make paperbag puppets of your BIble story so the children can share this information with their family. You can also use paperplates and art foam for alot of crafts.

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