Children's Church

What's the purpose of Children's Church?
The objective of children's church  is more than just an hour of fun and games. It is more than just keeping the kids out of the adults way during church service. It's purpose is to help kids learn to praise and worship God. It won't help to mimic the children's service after the adult service mainly because they worship differently. Kids need to have fun praising God.

Some Ways To Involve The Kids?
A few ways to involve the children:

1. Let them put up the felt pictures during Bible lesson time. This is where you tell a Bible story with felt.
2. Let them gather up the offering and turn it in.
3. Allow a child to lead in prayer time.
4. Let them help hand out papers, pencils, coloring pages, or other materials.
5. Pick out a couple of kids to act a part when your reading a Bible lesson.
6. Each Sunday have two different helpers that hands out the snacks. Call the one that hands out the food- "Snack Disciple" and the one that hands out the drinks is called -"Drink Disciple"
7. Allow the kids to partake in very short skits and perform them in front of the church congregation.
8. Allow the kids to sing some songs in front of the church.
9. You can let certain ones do a small study on a Bible story, and let them teach it.
10. Allow some to partake in leading the testimonial service. 
11. Let them be a part of playing musical instruments before the congregation during choir singing time.

 What Are Some Teaching Methods You Can Use?

1. Felt Bible Story-Telling bible stories with felt.
2. Make your own Children's Church lessons or use some online.
3. Teach using recipes and food during class time to get a biblical lesson across to the children.
4. Use crafts to give a better understanding of what the lesson was about.
5. Use a projector to project clipart pictures on the wall to tell a Bible story.

Fly Cupcakes & Fly Drinks

Fly Cupcakes
(The 10 plagues of Egypt-flies)

(Exodus 8:21)  Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

• Fly Cupcakes
• Box of Cake mix-any kind
• Frosting- Any Kind
• Plastic Flies
• Cupcake liners

Make your cupcakes and put a little plastic fly on top.The kids loved this. I had to be careful with the little kids because I didn't want them to eat the fly or choke on it. I just had them take the fly off before they ate it. I think this was the most fun of the lessons that we did so far. Kids got a kick out the bugs..

 Fly Drinks

(The 10 Plagues of Egypt-Flies)

• Orange Juice, Kool-aid, or any drink you want
• Ice Cube Tray
• Plastic Flies
• Cups

Fill the ice tray up and drop 1 plastic fly into the water.
Freeze the water.
Pour your drink into cups.
Now add your plague fly ice cubes to your drink.
Now you have The 10 Plagues Fly Drink.

Fly Writing Scripture Fun

The 10 Plagues of Egypt-Flies

Writing Scripture Fun

Print this Fly sheet out and let your kids copy down the scripture to help them with the lesson. This helps the kids to familiarize themselves with the bible scriptures.

The 10 Plagues of Egypt Fly Word In A Word

Fly Word In A Word 

Print this Fly Sheet out and see how many words your kids can make out of : Plague of Flies.
This goes with the Fly Lesson we offer.

Fly Maze

Here is a great Fly Maze to give to your kids for an activity in class. This goes along with the Fly Lesson that we offer. 

Fly Lesson

Here is a printable Fly Sunday School Lesson for your kids to read in class. This will teach them about the first plague that God sent. We have stuff that goes along with this lesson such as a recipe, craft, maze, coloring page and more.

Mr. Fly Lunch Bag

Mr. Fly Lunch Bag-

For the 10 Plagues of Egypt Fly Crafts 

(Exodus 8:21)  Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

• Fly Template (printable version)
• Brown Lunch Bag
• Tape
• Stapler
• Thread (we used tan)
• Paper Stuffing (to stuff bag-we used sheets of paper)
• 2 Black Pipe Cleaners

Print the fly template and cut it out. Take your brown lunch bag and stuff with paper. Fold the top down one time and fold side corners in. Staple.  Tape your fly head arms and feet on. Take 1 pipe cleaner and make the two ends touch together and then twist. Do the other pipe cleaner the same way. Tape these wings on to the inside of the fold at top. Take some thread and wrap around both wings. Tie a knot in thread. I put a black thing behind the fly wings so you could see the thread. It didn't show up every good in the first picture.

Use this fly craft to go along with the The 10 Plagues of Egypt Fly Lesson we have.

The 10 Plagues Gnat Craft

The 10 Plagues of Egypt Gnat Craft
Take a paper plate and cut out the shape of a gnat. It don't have to be perfect. Just pencil it on the paper plate then cut around it. Then color your gnat gray. Hole punch a hole in its right side. This is for wings. Add 1 black pipe cleaner in hole. Twist in back. Add another one. Tape this down in the back so the wings will hold still. Then draw your black eye on or add an eye sticker. You can leave your gnat pain or draw some lines for decoration. 

• Paper Plate
• 2 Black Pipe Cleaners
• Black Crayon
• Tape
• Hole Punch
• Scissors
• Sticker Eye (optional, you can always just draw a black dot)

Gnat Snacks

 Gnat snack anyone? Okay all you need is this:

The 10 Plagues of Egypt Gnat Snacks 

(Exodus 8:16)  And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

This will make a great snack for Chidlren's Church or Sunday school class. This is so easy to throw together. Use this snack when you are teaching about the The Plagues of Egypt Lice (Gnat) Lesson.

The kids can associate the round circle cereal with the little annoying gnats that God sent as a plague on the land of Egypt.

• Small Plastic Cup
• Cereal That Is Round (we used cocoa drops)
• Toothpick
• Gnat Template (printable version)
• Tape

Pour some cereal into a cup. Print the Gnat Template and cut it out.
Tape the gnat to a toothpick, then tape the toothpick to the back of cup.

Gnat Maze

Print this cute little Gnat Maze out for church kids. Help Mr. Gnat get to where the rest of the gnats are. The kids are sure to love this. Add this to some gnat coloring pages, lesson, and some other things we offer to make this little lesson complete.