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The links provided here all lead to other web sites.
They are provided in the hope that they will be useful in your
research. They are from various religious groups and I take no
responsibility for the accuracy or doctrine of the content.
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MSSS Crafts &
Resources
http://www.mssscrafts.com
This site indexes the material
available on the web by the lesson's topic. A terrific resource.
Doesn't always have lessons per se, but categorizes the
resources for you.
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NAD
Adventists
http://nadadventist.org/cm/SS/Achives_story.htm
Great craft
and game resource for preschoolers indexed through this site. Simple
text but provides lots of ideas. Indexed by MSSS crafts.
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Calvary Chapel
http://www.calvarychapel.org/children/site/curriculum_n.htm
This
curriculum covers EVERY story you could imagine. Very thorough. Lesson
worksheets always include: coloring page, a crossword (with bible verses as the
questions) and a maze (2 different pages with different levels of difficulty),
and a walk-through the lesson with multiple choice, fill-in the blank, etc
always based on the scripture. These are great reinforcements because they only
rely on scripture, and they cover every lesson you can teach. Lesson packets are
in pdf and you can order a CD of the entire curriculum for FREE. Indexed by MSSS
crafts.
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Bible Activity Worksheets
http://sewhttkr.home.comcast.net/bibleWS
Nice,
free worksheets with pictures on New and Old
Testament lessons. Indexed by MSSS crafts.
GraceLink
http://gracelink.net/weekly.html
Colorful, free PDF lessons with nice illustrations for many ages in
multiple languages. No index, but worth digging through.
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Children's Church and Sunday School Place
http://www.kidssundayschool.com/
Lessons, games, songs, object talks, activities crafts. Some
information only available to paid members. Has a section for
teachers with ideas on how to prepare.
Has a Spanish edition.
American Bible Society: Bible Resource Center
http://www.bibleresourcecenter.org/
vsItemDisplay.dsp&objectID=17045289-3FB0-4540
-BC925F7257E148CD&method=display
Provides two long, complete
sets of lessons with activities, review questions, and teacher's
guides. Track one covers Jesus' life. This site takes a while to
respond, but there is a wealth of resources here. Go to the
e-learning section for worksheets and the multimedia section for
flash maps.
Keys
for Kids
http://cbh.gospelcom.net/keys
Topical
"real-world" lessons from the Children's Bible Hour radio show,
indexed by Bible reference, topic and date aired.
Has a Spanish site.
Old Testament Genealogy
http://bible.ort.org/books/gened2.asp
Incredible,
interactive, visual family tree of the people in the Old Testament.
You've got to look at this. It will help you and your students
understand who was related to whom. The
Reference
Section
of this site has a dictionary with descriptions and often images of
the places, people, animals and plants mentioned in Scripture.
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Bible
Crosswalk
http://bible.crosswalk.com
Provides multiple Bible translations, concordance, Nave's
Topical Bible, Hebrew and Greek Lexicons, and many other
well-known resources.
 StudyLight.com
http://www.studylight.org
Part of the HeartLight web site,
Study Light provides translations, search, dictionaries and other
study tools.
Bible Walks
http://www.biblewalks.com
A resident of Israel provides photos, reviews and histories of
Biblical locations. Very thorough and the photos are very large and
clear.
Max7.org
http://www.max7.org
A portal for downloading curriculum, worksheets, videos, songs and
more. The format allows for user ratings and reviews, which is neat.
I only wish I could see the content before downloading it. Nice
presentation.
GodTube.com
http://www.godtube.com
A YouTube for Christian video
Bible
Geocoding
http://www.openbible.info/
This is 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.
Kids
4 Truth
http://www.kids4truth.org/hometwo.html
Dynamations: Bible
stories animated in Flash. Totally cool. Will keep the most
distracted pre-teen boys engrossed.
ToyBoxTales
http://www.toyboxtales.com/
Movies using action figures and
Muppets to tell Bible tales. Very funny and well made.
Bible Resource Center
http://www.bibleresourcecenter.org/index/multimedia.dsp
Interactive timelines, audio, video and wonderful interactive maps.
He Lives
http://www.helives.com
A promising flash section summarizes books of the Bible with
narration, graphics and sometimes video. Short enough to use without
becoming too tiring. Not many books as of Jan 2007 but hopefully
they will add more. Also available, online classrooms done in the
same snazzy fashion. There is a section for teens with forums that
are integrated into the site.
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Oriental Trading Co.
http://www.oriental.com
Sells foam craft sets of many
Bible scenes. They come in sets of 12 usually, and are very
inexpensive. Oriental also has lots of stickers, pencils, and other
cheap rewards that kids love, especially useful for Vacation Bible
School.
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Puzzlemaker.com
http://www.puzzlemaker.com
Make custom worksheets online. The
site takes your information and creates crosswords, word finds,
mazes and more. You can even create and account and save your info
online. The clip art has religious pictures as well.
$ Bible Activity Lessons Online
http://www.christianedwarehouse.com/cep/webpage.cfm
?&DID=6&User_ID=1364536&st=3101&st2=-
49785854&st3=57129663&WebPage_ID=605
These are printable
worksheets of excellent quality. You have to pay, but the
subscription is reasonable and unlimited.
Making Friends
http://www.makingfriends.com/bible_crafts.htm
Print and cut
out the Bible Friends paper dolls. Provides alternate hair, clothes
and accessories to make many characters.
Danielle's Place
http://www.daniellesplace.com
Activities and crafts for preschool kids and readers.
Lots of links.
Christian Crafters.com
http://www.christiancrafters.com/
Games, crafts and activities.
New Testament Books Bingo
http://kecirohomeschool.com/NewTestamentBingo.pdf
New
Testament Bingo cards with a call sheet. Looks like it was made
with:
$ Bingomaker from
http://www.jtsoftware.com/bingomaker.html which has a free
trial, but is shareware.
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Microsoft Clip Art Gallery
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Search "Biblical Scenes" or "Jesus" for some terrific, editable clip
art!
$! Bible Clips
http://logos.com/products/details/854
Only $30, this terrific
resource offers vector art in two formats, as well as color and
black and white. The editing program that comes with it won't run on
Windows XP - but you don't need it. You can import the art from the
disc directly into MS word, Powerpoint, Illustrator or CorelDraw. Gary Glover is a very friendly, talented artist who has been
very helpful and generous to me personally and I use this clip art
constantly. Shee the trading cards for a
good look at the vast array of content on the CD.
Pictures at La Vista Church of Christ
http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/Picture.htm
A large and comprehensive collection of color and black and white
illustrations scanned from public domain Sunday School books. Covers
a great number of lessons.
Christ Art
http://www.ChristArt.com
Offers color and black and white clip art which is free to use if
you credit the site. Offers a unique, background color changer
useful for web sites.
Clipart at Christians Unite
http://clipart.christiansunite.com
This site has a great number of older, public domain images which
are well organized and cover a great deal of topics.
Bible Picture Gallery
http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/free/
screen-sized%20pictures.htm
Offers small, free images for
teaching use. Well annotated, and easy to find "more on this theme".
Tabernacle Images
http://www.templebuilders.com/Index_tabernacle.php
These are
copyrighted, but are excellent for individual study and use.
Crossmap
 http://clipart.crossmap.com/
Christian clip art in various formats. Searchable.
$ iStockPhoto.com
http://istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&text=christian&refnum=kddailey
Affordable, high quality royalty-free stock photos, videos, and
illustrations for use on the web, powerpoint, flyers and worksheets,
etc.
CyberHymnal
http://www.cyberhymnal.org
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.
New Songs Online Kids' Page
http://www.newsongonline.org/kids.htm#Kids_MIDI
Provides free midi files with the tunes to many kids bible songs.
Audio Treasure
http://www.audiotreasure.com
Offers narration of scripture for free in two translations. Can be
downloaded book by book.
Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes
http://www.maynardsgroovytunes.co.uk/index.shtml
Catchy Bible tunes for kids, with sheet music, lyrics and sound
files for free!
Songs at
Sunday School Sources.com
http://www.eBibleTeacher.com/children/songs.htm
Lyrics and tunes to some classic kids songs, as well as teacher
submissions.
Sunday
School Teachers Network
http://www.christiancrafters.com/page3.html
This is a mailing
list edited by Sarah Keith that comes out every couple days. Members
ask for and respond to requests for ideas, supplies, advice. Part of
ChristianCrafters site.
Children's Ministry Today Inspiration Vault
http://www.childrensministrytoday.com/the_vault.html
Provides
object lessons, modern parables and activities that drive a lesson
home submitted by users. Requires free registration.
Assemblies
of God USA
http://sundayschool.ag.org/Training_and_Helps/Articles/index.cfm
Breaks
students down by age, how they learn and how to teach, discipline,
etc.
Eldrbarry's
storytelling
http://www.eldrbarry.net
How to become a great storyteller,
with scripts for Bible stories.
Note: I do not read Spanish, so I don't have any idea of the
quality of the content, but for the most part these appear to be
translations of their English versions, described above.
Calvary Chapel's New
and
Old Testament Lessons & Worksheets
http://www.calvarychapel.org/children/site/curriculum_sp_nt.htm
http://www.calvarychapel.org/children/site/curriculum_sp_ot.htm
Keys For Kids
http://cbh.gospelcom.net/keys/keys_6.php
?ifpSectionID=14&ifpSubSectionID=21&ifpKeyID=69
Kids'
Sunday School Place
http://www.kidssundayschool.com/Spanish/index.php
Apostolic Faith
http://www.apostolicfaith.org/resources/Spanish/
SpanishSundaySchool.asp
GraceLink
http://gracelink.net/weekly.html
Colorful, free PDF lessons with nice illustrations for many ages in
multiple languages. No index, but worth digging through.
These sources either have less to offer, are more
costly, or are harder to access or use than the sources above.
$ Kidology
http://www.kidology.org
Requires paid subscription for almost all of their resources, but
there are some free samples.
Children's Ministry Magazine and
Youth
Ministry Magazine from Group Publishing
http://www.childrensministry.com
http://www.youthministry.com
These are commercial sites from Group Publishing, which
wants 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.
Sunday School Curriculum
http://www.apostolicfaith.org/resources/
sunday_school/default.asp
Stories, worksheets and more in
.pdf form. The problem is, no subject index.
Christian Crafters.com
http://www.christiancrafters.com/sermons.html
Sermons and object lessons.
Fisher of Kids
http://www.fisherofkids.com/
Offers a free curriculum and skits: includes puppet
ideas and uses "real-world" lessons.
One Way Only
http://www.bright.net/~1wayonly/index.html
Bible study information for adults and kids. Click on
"Kids Stuff" for youth lessons. Not many activities, etc here.
$ Biblical Strategy
http://www.biblicalstrategy.com/
Commercial source of a wide variety of games with Biblical subjects.
 $ iContact
http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/153415
Mailing list service for sending email newsletters, announcements
and more. Provides easy to use templates, blogs, statistics, online
surveys and more.
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