Children's Ministry Website Links

Devotions/Activities/Resources

• Nice, free worksheets with pictures on New and Old Testament lessons
• Coloring pages and activities for the entire Bible. Great resource! You can even order a CD or the entire curriculum for FREE!
• Book reviews for the books your child wants to read (or is reading). Mainly for tweens and teens.
• Topical "real-world" lessons from the Children's Bible Hour radio show. This site contains radio programs, print materials, and web-based media resources.
• Visual family tree of the genealogies in the Old Testament. The reference section of this site has a dictionary with descriptions and often images of the places, people, animals and plants mentioned in Scripture.
• Provides multiple Bible translations, concordance, Nave's Topical Bible, Hebrew and Greek Lexicons, and many other well-known resources.
• www.childrensministry.com
• Commercial sites from Group Publishing, which want you to subscribe to their magazines and order their material. However, they do provide quite a few ideas, activities and crafts for free. Requires free registration.
• All about Boz, the Green Bear. Preschoolers will love the DVD’s, books, and other resources available.
• The site for everything VeggieTale. There are parent pages and lots of games for the kids.
• "For Kids Only" - contains lots of good books to buy on a variety of topics for parents and teachers.
• Dynamations: Bible stories are animated in Flash. This site also contains daily devotionals for kids.

Homeschool Family Resources

• Make custom worksheets online. The site takes your information and creates crosswords, word finds, mazes and more. The clip art has religious pictures as well. It also has a lesson plan library, brain boosters, contests, etc…
• This website is all about Math! It's a fun interactive site for pre-K thru 6th grade skills. It tracks your child's progress and gives you proficiency scores and state standard scores. A wonderful site that will hold your child's interest. There is a membership fee but it looks worth it to me!
• A great site for teaching pre-reading and reading skills (best for pre-K thru grade 2). Kids can interact with the pages and stories.
• Lots of Bible craft ideas and printables. Print and cut out the Bible Friends paper dolls. Provides alternate hair, clothes and accessories to make many characters.
• Lots of activities and crafts as well as great links for parents and teachers.
• A secular site containing lots of toys and educational materials to purchase. Can search by the child’s age.
• Contains lots of activities and crafts for the preschool age.

Kid's Sites

• Focus on the Family kid’s site. Stories, movie reviews, and tons of other resources available.
• Lists a host of different radio programs your kids can listen to online. Some stand alone, and others are serial in nature.
• Created by an “internet missionary” who wants to encourage kids in their faith walk. Contains free computer games, jokes, stories, and more.
• An educational site with the emphasis on prayer. Kids will learn about our government as they pray for a different official each week. They will also get a US history lesson and learn some interesting facts about America.
• The site for everything VeggieTale. There are parent pages and lots of games for the kids.
• A great site for teaching pre-reading and reading skills (best for pre-K thru grade 2). Kids can interact with the pages and stories.

Multi-Media / Software

• A YouTube for Christian video.
• Gateway films for sale. Lots of DVD’s for kids and adults.
• A cool use of Google earth's mapping interface. Biblical text links to geographic references, which then zoom in on Google earth. Also explore Google's satellite imagery to get a visual relationship between locations. Provides overlays to compare ancient borders with modern ones. Can search by Bible book and chapter.
• Dynamations: Bible stories animated in Flash. Also contains daily devotionals for kids.
• Movies using action figures and Muppets to tell Bible tales. Very funny and well made but cost to download now.
• Offers narration of scripture for free in lots of translations. Can be downloaded book by book. Also has worship songs to download to MP3.
• A host of scripture memory games, CD’s, and lots of Christian software for kids.

Music

• Music and lyrics to many spiritual songs, including songs for kids. The web page will play the tune, or you can download special software to read the music. Provides histories when available and lyrics in alternate languages sometimes.
• Provides free audio clips and lyrics to many Christian songs. Search by group or song.
• Catchy Bible tunes for kids, with sheet music, lyrics and sound files.
• Lyrics and files to download to some classic kid’s songs.

Religious Rights in School

• Religious Expression in Public Schools: A Statement of Principles By the U.S. Department of Education - June 1998
• Constitutionally Protected Prayer in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools By Secretary Paige - February 7, 2003