Early Childhood Age Level Children's Ministry & Teacher Training Resources
These resources provide some broad help in reaching and teaching the early childhood age level in your children's ministry. We need an understanding of the developmental characteristics of these young, preschool aged kids to help guide our teaching strategies. --More to read about early childhood and teacher training: Looking for Foundation Builders?
Click below to find teacher training and children's ministry resources for the following early childhood age divisions:
Order the Age Level Characteristics:
Early Childhood Module Download to think through how the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual age level developmental characteristics of infants, toddlers, and pre-primary children affect how to teach an early childhood Bible class.
Early Childhood Module Download to think through how the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual age level developmental characteristics of infants, toddlers, and pre-primary children affect how to teach an early childhood Bible class.
General Early Childhood Teaching Resources
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Articles, Hardcopy:
- Preschool Smart Pages--Book and CD-ROM - Book with Reproducible Articles & Forms by Gospel Light (See the Table of Contents on that page for a variety of articles.)
- Teacher Training Smart Pages--Book and CD-ROM - Book with Reproducible Articles & Forms by Gospel Light (See the Table of Contents on that page for articles included on early childhood age level.)
Articles, Online:
- 3 Tips for Teaching Preschoolers
- 5 Tricks to Ease Separation Anxiety
- 10 Tips to Improve Your Preschool Ministry
- 10 Ways to Bond with a Preschooler
- A Place Preschoolers Want to Be
- A Place Preschoolers Don't Want to Be
- Eight ways preschoolers learn
- FAQ about Early Childhood Teaching
- More FAQ about Early Childhood Teaching
- First Impressions for Preschoolers
- How to Set up Learning Centers in Your Preschool Classroom
- Let the Little Children Come
- Methods for Preschoolers
- Motivating Preschoolers to Learn
- Nursery and Preschool Essentials
- Preschool Bible Learning Activity
- Preschoolers & Scripture Memory
- Teach an Adult Book to Children? Why?
- Teach an Adult Book to Children? How?
- Teach Infants and Toddlers?
- Teaching Nursery Age Children?
- The Secret to Teaching Abstract Concepts to Kids
- Tips for Teaching Bible Stories to Preschoolers
Books:
- Focus on Early Childhood: A Handbook for Teachers by Sharon Ellard
- How to Do Bible Learning Activities: Ages 2-5 by Karen Klein
- Tips for Teachers: Early Childhood by Standard Publishing
Computer/Online:
- Teaching Preschoolers to Know and Love God - This is a low cost online seminar by Child Evangelism Fellowship
PowerPoint Presentation:
- Teaching the Bible to Children - by Ministry Tools Resource Center
This PowerPoint presentation looks at how their developmental characteristics affect the way you teach the Bible to them.
If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft's site. You can encourage teachers to download it as well if you wish to have teachers view it individually rather than in a group.
(Note: This is the same resource listed in the general section of the Grade School page. It is broad enough to be used with early childhood and grade school teachers.)
If you do not have PowerPoint installed on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft's site. You can encourage teachers to download it as well if you wish to have teachers view it individually rather than in a group.
(Note: This is the same resource listed in the general section of the Grade School page. It is broad enough to be used with early childhood and grade school teachers.)
Resources:
- 101 Great Games for Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers by Jolene L. Roehlkepartain
- Big Book of Bible Activities, Songs, and Rhymes for Early Childhood by Standard Publishing
- Big Book of Bible Story Coloring Activities for Early Childhood by Standard Publishing
- Big Book of Bible Story Coloring Pages for Early Childhood by Standard Publishing
- The Giant Book of Bible Fingerplays for Preschoolers by Amy Houts
Videos:
- Understanding Preschoolers - online video from DiscipleLand
Early Childhood Age Divisions: Infants - Toddlers - Pre-Primary
Other Age Divisions: Grade School - Youth (Teens) - Adults
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