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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Easter Printable: He Is Alive


It's that time of year again! We have created a printable activity sheet you can use in your ministry. You could use this for an activity for children who arrive early to service, during the service, or as a take home to give to all your children.

Take it, use it, and have fun! Join us next week when we'll show you 5 Easter games you can do for $5 or less!

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Can You Believe It? Bible Facts Gameshow



In this game show, your kids will have a chance to test their knowledge of Bible facts. Split the kids into teams of 2-4. Give each team an answer stick.

We made ours by taping a red and green piece of paper together, and attaching them to a ruler. You can also use paint sticks (you can get them for free at a hardware store).




As you read each statement, the groups will decide whether they believe it or not. If they believe it (think its true), the team holds up the answer stick with the green side facing you. If they don't believe it (think it's false), they hold up the red side. Keep track of each team's answers for each question. The team with the most correct answers wins.

We have created a Power Point presentation with the questions that you can download at the website below.


If you'd prefer to print out the questions, you can also find a PDF version to print.


Have fun!

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

3 Ways Summer Day Camp Can Help Your Ministry

We created a video to show 3 ways that Summer Day Camp can help your ministry. Check it out below!


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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

3 Day Camp Strategies You Can Use on Sunday

At summer day camp, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to make every minute of the day effective and fun for our campers. Here are three strategies we use for camp that you can apply to a Sunday service to make it even better. 



1) Keep It Moving!

Change up your activities and segments every few minutes during the service. There's nothing worse than a segment that goes too long. Your lesson planning and programming for Sunday services should be responsive to the ages and attention spans of your students. Keep your segments short. Transition between different levels of activity by having active and inactive segments. An active segment could be a game, hands-on activity, or a praise song with motions. An inactive segment is a skit, object lesson, offering teaching, or anything where students aren't directly involved. Mix the order of these segments so students don't sit as spectators for too long.

2) Don't Confuse Structure with Sameness

Having a basic structure for your services is a good way to help students understand what's expected of them. However, having a structure doesn't mean you have to do each segment in the same order every week. Try mixing up the schedule so your students don't get into a stale rhythm with your services. Try doing praise and worship last one week. Shake things up by having a large group game to start the service. Change it up to keep it fresh.

3) Find Every Way To Add Fun

Make every part of your service, from check-in to pick-up, more fun. No child has ever left a service saying "I don't want to go back there because it was TOO MUCH fun!" Constantly analyze what parts of your service could be more fun. Inject it into everything you do, and you'll find that students are more engaged and remember more of what is being taught.