Beginner to Primary Lessons| Music | Stories | Felts | Other Resources
Scripture Songs
Singing Bible verses is arguably the best way to commit them to memory. Years later, at crucial times, these texts will surface in the memory. Help your kids to hide God’s Word in their hearts. The best recordings will have easily understood words combined with a memorable tune.
- Sing a Bible Verse by Wayne Hooper are now available for purchase at Feeding His Lambs Ministries. You can purchase both the DVD’s and songbooks.
- Memory Verse Songs by Janet Sage are also found on the same site.
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Scripture Songs from MyBibleFirst Illustrated Scripture books include an audio CD of children saying and singing the passages.
Singable songs for the very youngest!
Books, Albums and Individual MP3’s for Sale:
Janet Sage songs classic songs for Cradle Roll. These are simple, singable songs, and you may have heard some of them in one Cradle Roll class or another.
For Stories for all ages, see our Stories Page
Felt Illustrations
While computer animations and PowerPoint presentations are popular, there’s still much to be said for old-fashioned “felt sets.” The advantage of felt sets is that they engage young learners without the hyper stimulation of TV. Both teacher and children can be directly engaged in the stories, thus providing a clear focus for the class and holding the children’s attention. Additionally, the felt experience is different from what they usually experience and thus has a special attraction, if the teacher uses the felts correctly. (Be sure to read the instructions in the accompanying book!)
- The Classic Betty Lukens Felt sets (the ones you’re used to seeing many years ago, but improved) include backgrounds and overlays, figures for Bible stories, as well as science stories and other stories.
- Little Folks Visuals offers a variety of felt sets and backgrounds, including a tabernacle set.
Storytime Felts offers a wide variety of felt sets, including Bible stories. These felt figures are in a very different style from the Betty Lukens series. You might not want to mix them for the same purpose. But they can be used on bulletin boards and other areas, as well as stories.
NOTE: Since different publishers use varying artists and styles, it is best to choose Bible sets from a single publisher to ensure that the figures are appropriately sized and visually cohesive. Examine the styles and select one that appeals to you.
Beginner to Primary Sabbath School Lessons
Gracelinks Curriculum
This is the current standard curriculum for Seventh-day Adventist churches.
- Beginner Lesson Resources in English, French and Spanish.
- Kindergarten Lesson Resources in English, French and Spanish.
- Our Little Friend Magazine (Ages 1-5) Lessons, Games & Activities, Stories.
- Primary Treasure Magazine (Ages 6-9)
- Combined website for Primary Treasure and Our Little Friend includes lessons for Beginner, Kindergarten and Primary.
- Primary Lesson Resources in English, French and Spanish.
My Bible First Curriculum
This curriculum is designed for leaders and teachers who prefer more structured lessons than the Gracelinks curriculum offers. Materials and stories contain true-to-life graphics instead of cartoon graphics. Resources include theme materials, visualized songs, teaching aids, and memory verse aids. My Bible First was started to help parents establish daily family worship. Children can understand the plan of salvation and the theme of the great controversy. All Bible lessons tell the Bible stories in the order they happened. Each week’s lesson builds upon what was learned the previous week to help children understand how God has been at work in history and the consequences of their choices.
- Cradle Roll Lessons: My Bible Stories is a 1-year cycle designed for children aged 4 and under. The first two quarters cover the Old Testament, and the last two cover the New Testament. There are 52 lessons in 4 bound quarterlies.
- Cradle Roll Teaching Helps
- Cradle Roll Theme Programs – included in Teaching Helps. Includes detailed instructions, as well as easy-to-copy 3×5-inch program cards with the script.
- Picture Books & Cards
- Memory Verse Flip Charts
- Visualized Songs, printed on cardstock, with included MIDI files.
- Kindergarten Bible Lessons and Resources
Image © Darrel Tank from GoodSalt.com
My Bible Lessons is a 3-year cycle designed for children aged 4 to 6. It presents the plan of salvation in chronological order, from Genesis to Revelation, within the context of biblical stories. - Kindergarten Teaching Helps
- Picture Books & Cards
- Memory Verse Flip Charts
- Visualized Songs, printed on cardstock, with included MIDI files.
- Music, including Scripture Songs
- Primary Lesson Resources 3-year cycle for ages 7-9. My Bible First is designed to help the early reader start a personal devotion time. The three-year cycle enlarges and expands the great controversy and plan of salvation theme introduced in the kindergarten lessons. Both one-time orders and standing orders are accepted.
- Primary Teaching Helps: Detailed program outline and instructions for the entire Sabbath school class time (75+ minutes) with a complete materials list. Includes text of weekly lesson, reproducible activity sheets, and a large Nature Corner booklet coordinated with My Bible Pictures.
- Primary Activity Sheets: Individually printed activity sheets (not needed if you have Teaching Helps and a way to photocopy the activity sheets).
- Primary Memory Verse Cards
- Visualized Songs include MIDI files for each song.
- Scripture Songs include illustrated Scripture books and audio CDs of children saying and singing the passage.
Help! I’m New! What to do?
- Children’s Sabbath School Leader Ministry Description
- QuickStart Guide Children’s Ministry Kit
- Children’s Sabbath School Teacher Ministry Description
Other Resources
- Children’s Ministries of the General Conference
- Online Bible Lessons for Children
You can get The Bible in Living Sound (MP3) – dramatized Bible stories for kids of all ages – in podcast format on Amazon. But the best place to get them might be the dedicated website: The Bible in Living Sound. - Adventist Missions.org offers a wealth of mission resources, including all the stories in the “Mission Quarterly,” maps, PowerPoint presentations, and additional stories with a mission emphasis for both children and adults.
- Adventist Kids Ministry Ideas – ideas for crafts and activities. Some videos & posters.
- Missionaries for Jesus – videos & coloring book for kids
- Children’s Mission Magazine: Stories for kids about missionary kids.
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12-pack Kids’ craft aprons on Amazon
12-pack Kids Aprons – great for messy crafts in VBS and maybe even Sabbath School. Mothers will thank you for providing these! -
Sunday School Materials and Teaching Resources – helpful aids for teaching Beginners, Kindergarten and Primary classes,
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Coloring Pages for Children on another Christian site.
- Project Creation Kid Zone – Stories, coloring pages and more on another Christian site.
- Also check out Christian Coloring Books on Amazon. A huge selection!
- Discovery Mountain Resources at the Voice of Prophecy store.
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What kind of activities can we do with my kids in their class except reading stories and drawings
It depends on the age of the kids, but in the days when I was involved with kids in the 10-12 age bracket, we often enlisted the help of the kids in making activities for other children. Some of the ones that I remember most clearly were quizzes, and miming. Seeing I was a science teacher back in those days I used to run a science segment which would either provide an interesting lesson, or help the kids to understand something really important. That used to be very popular - particularly when I produced explosions! Then once a year the kids would take all the preliminaries for the church service. That would take quite a bit of preparation getting them ready to lead out in the songs and practising special items, but it had an element of service about it so it was an important part of their training.
I think that with children, we need to think outside the box a bit. They are typically in school for 5 days a week and giving them another hour of school is really just more of the same. I like to think that Sabbath is really special and something to look forward to.
Please make these resources downloadable. I've been asked to download beginner lessons but I can't and the next option is buying which I cannot afford.
Sabbath School Net is not responsible for these resources. We provide links to them only as a service. If you have issues with the websites referenced here, the best approach is to contact the owners of the appropriate website. Most of them provide their own contact details.
Please assist me get children ministry lesson in this first quarter 2019. Send it through my email address
Sabbath School Net provides links to the children's ministries resources; We do not email materials. If you look at the top of this page you will see the Gracelink links. Click on the appropriate link and follow the instructions to download the materials. If you have issues with downloading these materials you should contact Gracelink on their Website:
https://www.gracelink.net/
Hello there,
I want to help teachers from my local church get their lessons, therefore if I can be emailed the beginners lesson,
Cheers
Dorish
Hi Dorish;
Sabbath School Net is an independent ministry run by volunteers. Our focus is on the adult lesson and we only provide links to resources for the other age groups. We suggest that you follow the links on this page and contact the producers of the other lessons directly to see what they provide.
I would like to be emailed primary lessons🙏
If you would like the primary lessons and other resources I suggest you follow some of the links listed above and download the materials as needed. Sabbath School Net only provides these links as a resource and are not involved their publication or distribution.
how do i get a pdf kindergarten for 2020 3rd qter?
The links are all listed above. Just follow the link to Kindergarten Resources and follow the instructions. Here is the direct link to save you a bit of time:
https://www.gracelink.net/kindergarten
Please can you help me & send for me the children lessons Grace Link all quarterly i have failed to download
Thanks from
Daniel Okello from Northern Uganda Feild
Happy Sabbath
Hi DanieL Sabbath School Net only provides links to Grace Link as a service. We do not have their materials to pass on to you. You should be able to contact them directly through their website.
https://www.gracelink.net/beginner
The Eric B Hare stories on CD are available for MUCH less at the adventistbookcenter.com than the Amazon price of 39.99$.
That's great! Thanks for letting us know. Here's the link to the Eric B. Hare stories at the Adventist Book Center.
Sometimes prices are lower on Amazon and sometimes they are lower at the ABC store. Prices also change, and we don't have time to keep track of the differences. So we appreciate your pointing this out.
I'm just delighted that these wonderfully told stories are still available. They are a great model of story telling to little kids.
I would like some felt illustrations.
Sabbath School Net does not have these resources, but if anyone knows where they can be found we are happy to pass that information on to Ency.