Tag: visual aid
-
Touring Mission Bible Class
Here’s a quick video tour of the features of the Mission Bible Class website. Please feel free to pass the link on to someone who teaches or wants to teach children about God. .
-
The Puzzling Attraction of Puzzles
Disorder and exposed edges cause us to be tense and unsettled. We fervently scan for those straight edges to establish a boundary and begin to sort things out. We aren’t satisfied until everything is in its proper place and the picture is complete. It is no wonder we say we “work” puzzles. The process doesn’t…
-
Keep it Simple: Stick Figures
There is something unassuming about a simple stick figure. It is not a great work of art. It does not have moving parts nor is it usually animated. Yet, at a camp last week some student teachers used stick figures to illustrate a Bible story for kids. The kids were enthralled. Why was that? Kids…
-
Telling a Story with Pictures
Pictures communicate emotions, context, and meaning. Despite what you say as you tell the story, the pictures you choose will tell children a lot about God and people. For this reason, be careful to thoughtfully choose the illustrations you’ll use to tell the story: The illustration should be biblically correct. If the Bible describes people,…
-
Say it With a Scroll
Scrolls can be adapted to almost any lesson using a message or the Scripture you are studying and children love making them. One teacher used them in this way: The children in our Bible classes recently learned about how our modern-day Bibles came about. First they talked about original languages of Hebrew and Greek. Then they talked about how…