Welcome to Danielle's Place! We believe learning should be fun. This site is dedicated to teaching children
through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities for children.
Most of
the crafts and activities on this site are Bible-based and are great to use in Sunday School, Vacation Bible School,
preschool, and home school. You will find complete Sunday school lessons and lessons for Christian homes schools.

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Christian Craft Sites

Children's Sermons

Kids Crafts and Activity Sites

Teaching Sunday School

Children's Ministries

Craft and Idea Bulletin Boards

Christian Search Directories

New Great Family Sites

Home School Sites and Educational Sites

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 Christian Craft Sites

MSSS Crafts -You will find lots of original craft ideas here. This site also has hundreds of links to crafts and activity ideas for hundreds of Bible stories.

ChristianCrafts.net - Free Craft ideas for Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and Homeschoolers including printable patterns.


Children's Sermons

Children's Sermons.com - Choose from over 126 free children's sermons in English (23 in Spanish) that take less than five minutes to give.  Over 8300 visitors a week from 162 countries

Sermons4Kids - There are over 100 free children's sermons available on this site.  Some sermons are available in Spanish.


Kid's Craft and Activity Sites

 

* * *Amazingmmoms.com - Bright Ideas for Busy Families A site for family fun! With Games, Activities, Art, Crafts, Recipes, Birthday Party Ideas and SO much more!

Crayola - has a crafts central page with new crafts each week, a coloring book, story time, online art and a game room.

* * * *Disney Family.com - has lots of great craft ideas for all ages. They have a craft finder on the right-hand side of the page in which you can search for a craft using the type of craft, age, and time, but I would like to see a page with pictures of all the crafts in each catagory.

* * * * *DLTK's  printable crafts for kids - fun craft ideas you and your children can make with some common household items and a printer.

* * * * *Enchanted Learning.com -  This is an extensive site with lots of information on subjects of interest to children with crafts, puzzles, coloring and information pages, jokes and activities. 

* * * *Etcetera  - Bimonthly craft magazine brought to you by a beading company.  You will find lots of bead  projects, but there are also projects for young children. Over 100 projects in their index. Also many links to other craft sites.

* * * * *Free PaperToys.com - You will find hundreds of links to free paper crafts on this site. Many of the links go to Japanese sites or other foreign language sites that would be hard to find on an Internet search. They also have some great paper crafts of their own.

* * * * *Hands on Crafts for kids - A web site and public television show,  craft book, and craft club. This site has a lot of crafts from different countries that would be great to use if you are studing different countries around the world.

* * * * *Highlights Kids Craft Page - There are lots of great crafts, games, and gift ideas on this web site! They include pictures for all their crafts and games.

* * *Kaboose.com - This page has a lot of advertisements and not a lot of orginal crafts.

* * * Kids Craft Recipe Factory - is a site that includes hundreds of kid friendly craft recipes. Fun stuff including doughs, clays, things to draw with (learn to make your own chalk) ink, dyes, collage art, glues and pastes (did you know you can make your own stickers?), bubbles, things to eat (pop), gross and slimy stuff (slime, silly putty), special effects (make your own movie effects like the pros, Halloween face makeup and more) gifts to give and toys to keep and much, much more! A terrific resource for kids, teachers, daycare providers, mom, dads, baby-sitters, aunts and uncles, sisters, brothers, or anyone interested in having fun!

* * * * * Kindercrafts - Crafts for children, preschool through elementary school, using materials found around the house.

* * * * *Making Friends - A great resource for craft projects designed for kids, their parents, or anyone who works with kids.  Featuring patterns, projects, and craft recipes you can print for dozens of activities.  Highlights include making "friends"  (their version of paper dolls), projects designed for boys and extensive preschool crafts. Unique visitor rating system allows direct feedback for more projects of your choosing.

Pitter  Patter Craft Library - Craft page brought to you by the Home school Zone Web Page. Crafts broken up into categories from under 4, 4 - 10 and over 10 years old. Crafts discussion group and holiday crafts.

www.funroom.com - Has games for kids. . . great craft ideas for kids and families  . . . and more.

Craftbits Kid's Page - This web site has mainly adult crafts, but they do a have kid's page.

Craft Expert - General how-to craft informtion for all ages on a wide range of subjects with a section for kid's.


Teaching Sunday School

Animation Trial at Cherbear's Den - Bible Studies and Devotions dealing with real life issues facing our children everyday. Gramma Cherbear and the Kid Cave Critters teach the awesome power Jesus has to change our attitudes and help us control our feelings.

Bible Gateway - This is an online Bible Concordance.  No more flipping back and forth through pages and pages.  Just type in the subject you are looking for and you get a list of bible references and the verse.  Great time saver for all teachers.

Bible Kids Banner

Bible Kids' Fun Zone
-"Theme-based interactive Sunday school lessons, crafts and activities forpreschool children and toddlers.

Bible Quizzes - Need some Bible questions for a game? Would you like to test your knowledge of the bible?  Check out this site, take a test, and get your score. They will send you the questions and answers to 38 different quizzes.

Bible Games for Children - Fun card games you can make yourself to use in your Sunday School class.

Bible Story Patterns and Lessons - This site offers patterns of Bible characters you can sew and free Bible lessons in which you can use your bible characters.

Bible Info.com -Teachers are you looking for Bible references on specific topics?  This Web Site has hundreds of topics in alphabetical order to help you plan your lessons.

Children's Bible Lessons - A series of Bible lessons written for lower elementary age children.  You will also find lots of links to other sites.

Children's Page - On this page you can find many interesting and helpful things: crafts, pictures, puzzles, and stories.

Christian Answers.Net - Bible Coloring Pages

Children's Bible Ministry  Do you need ideas for a Sunday School lesson or short sermon?  Check out Children's Bible Ministry where you will find short sermons relating to animals, nature, your body, and bible stories

Christian Crafters - Great Sunday school and VBS craft projects.  Also has a showcase of beautiful wood pieces for sale and a wonderful book for sale on how to make snowflakes with Christian symbols in them.

Creation Kids - Each lesson in the Creation Kids curriculum features some aspect of God's creation. The currently featured curriculum unit, God's Animals, is a 26-lesson unit following the alphabet. Each lesson plan features an animal that has something special to teach us about ourselves (character development), and uses crafts, stories or skits, and imaginative play activities to teach the concepts. Recommended age: preschool - grade 2.

E-Bible Teacher.com - You will find activities, songs, lesson plans, and resources for teaching Sunday school.

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The Felt Source - Offers a complete interactive flannelboard teaching system. Children will learn better when they help you set up the scene for the story and place the Bible characters on the felt board as you tell the story. Click on the yellow botton above to go to this web site.

* * * * * Good News Bible Stories for Kids - Great Bible stories for children told in a fun and upbeat way with great graphics.

KIDOLOGYweb - This is a great site.  You will find hundred of ideas to keep your teaching interesting and fun. There is a page for object lessons, and a page with lots of ideas for teaching kids, and outreach, etc.

Keys for Kids - This web site has hundreds of short devotionals for children.  Each devotional has a key concept with a short story and scripture reference.  These are great to use in your class to supplement your lessons.

Kids Sunday School Place - You'll find skits, object lessons, activities, games, stories, lessons, teaching aids, etc.

KIDOLOGYweb - This is a great site.  You will find hundreds of ideas to keep your teaching interesting and fun. There is a page for object lessons, and a page with lots of ideas for teaching kids, and outreach, etc.

Home-Word - Free scripture coloring sheets and much more. Home-word's goal is to put kids to work coloring scripture pages and putting the verses on display all across the nation, mostly on refrigerators but also office bulletin boards etc. If you are working with kids or know someone who is I think this is something they would enjoy.

 

Sunday School Banner

Sunday School Fun Zone -"Printable interactive Sunday school lessons, crafts and activities for toddlers and preschool children.

Teach Us To Pray - Includes printable coloring pages on the Lord's Prayer and other activities to teach children the Lord's Prayer.

Workshop Rotation Sunday School - This is a great web site if you are looking for ways to breath new life into your Sunday school. Using this method teachers teach major Bible stories and concepts through kid-friendly multimedia workshops: an Art workshop, Drama, Music, Games, A-V, Puppets, Storytelling, Computers, and any other educational media you can get your hands on. They teach the same Bible story in all of the workshops for four or five weeks rotating the kids to a different workshop each week. And here comes the extremely teacher friendly part: Have the same teacher in each workshop for all five weeks teaching the same lesson week after week to the different classes coming in. Teachers don't have to prepare a new lesson every week.


Children's Ministries

Applesauce Kids - activities, neat links, stories, Bible study, Sunday school, and counseling materials, direct links to all of those resources, groups, activities, clubs and ministries.

Childrens Ministry.com - You will find tons of ideas and resources for every area of children's ministry including ideas for lessons, volunteer management, ministry strategies, family ministry, seasonal ideas, working with kids, and children's programming.

 for HIS kidz - is a resource for Children's Ministry Pastors, Family Ministry Pastors and all those who work with children and families. It is our goal to put you in touch with top notch ministries who all share the same desire: To reach children and families for Christ.

CBH MINISTRIES (www.CBHMinistries.org)
CBH Ministries is a media ministry targeting kids ages 8 to 14 with Bible-based materials and programs including: a weekly radio drama called Down Gilead Lane, a daily devotional and radio program called Keys For Kids, and Parent Minute, a radio program giving help and advice to parents.

KING'S CALL (www.KingsCall.org)
Journey to meet the king in this adventure game set in the world of Kaleo. Lots of fun and challenge in this web-based adventure as you learn about life, choices, and what is important.

THE GREATEST GIFT (www.the-greatest-gift.org)
An excellent animated presentation of who Jesus is and what He freely offers you.

KEYS FOR KIDS (www.KeysForKids.org)
An excellent daily devotional book for kids -- includes a story, scripture passage, memory verse, personal application section, and easy-to-remember key thought.


Craft and Idea Bulletin Boards

Teacher's Net Arts and Crafts Chatboard - Ideas for craft projects and other teaching related areas.

General Crafts and Decorating Bulletin Board - Exchange craft ideas off all kinds from Crafty College.

Kid's Crafts Bulletin Board - Exchange kid's craft ideas from the Crafty College

The Sunday School Page - Kidz Web Home Page has activities, games, and puzzles aimed at children (and their parents). Lots of Java applets with Bible themes.  Teaching Children is aimed at  teachers (and parents) who are interested in using computer technology in support of Sunday School teaching. It is an ongoing summary of the creator's experience in adapting computer usage in the Sunday morning session, without the benefit of a computer lab. Samples, resources, and how-to ideas are included.   The main page, The Sunday School Page, deals with administrative and organizational  issues for Sunday School directors and staff, although there is some content specifically focused on children's Sunday School. (Note that, despite the com domain, this is not a commercial site, but rather a  personal ministry)


Christian Search Directories

Christianity Online - This is a great Christian database and online magazine.  They have sections on Advice/Q&A, Humor, Reviews, Resources, and News & Trends

CrossDaily.com has Awesome Christian Sites where you can vote for this site & other great ones. Christian search engine, directory & voting index. You'll find Bible, chat, churches, jobs, music, reviews, software, theology, & more. See the best sites!

Children's  Ministry Net - Many children's  ministry links, idea swap, and a market place where you can advertise VBS programs you wrote, puppet teams, etc. (top)

Cybergrace Christian Network - One of the most comprehensive Christian Resources on the Internet


Help for Family Sites

 Focus on the Family - Web site brought to you by the popular Christian radio show. If you miss one of their speakers, you can just connect to this site and hear it again or send for the tape. This is a great resource for families. They also have Christian books and tapes for sale.

DOWN GILEAD LANE (www.GileadLane.org)
A weekly radio drama for the whole family where you can experience the lives of the Morrison family as they struggle with time and money and temptations to selfishness and loneliness and family strife. Explore and listen on-line and also hear it on 1,000+ radio stations around the world.

PARENT MINUTE (www.ParentMinute.org)
A radio commentary by Randy Hekman who shares parenting ideas that really work with parenting guidelines, taken straight from God's word; timeless insights that will enrich your family's lives as you walk together in Christ.



Home School Sites and Educational Sites

ABC Home Preschool - ABC Home Preschool is a resourceful site for parents teaching their children preschool at home. This is the site of the original use and reuse wipe-off ABC Home Preschool Workbooks. These workbooks are a 9-month curriculum for preschool age children.  

* * * *Alphabet Soup - (Preschool - Second Grade) Alphabet Soup contains thematic units, holiday units, games and activities for kids; teacher and parent resources; and crafts, humor and recipes for all! Be sure to check out the Kindergarten Kafe, recipes dictated by 5-year-olds!

Bible-based crossword puzzlesBible-based Crossword Puzzles - Free professional-type (as well as free-form type) Bible-based crossword puzzles and word search puzzles. Many samples available online as well as opportunity to subscribe to receive them free each week.

* * * * * Bible Kids' Fun Zone - (Preschool) - Kids have fun learning about God with free kids devotions, children's crafts, printable color pages, Bible crafts and activities! Come back and visit often, as new devotions and color pages are added often! Most crafts are Christian crafts for preschool kids and kindergarten children - but elementary kids can enjoy them too.

* * * * * Crayola - has a crafts central page with new crafts each week, a coloring book, story time, online art and a game room. Rich hands-on learning experiences, linked with core curriculum standards. New lessons are added each week. Colorful, creative curriculum ideas for young children. Perfect for preschools, day-care centers, and family child care providers. Try a few new techniques and see how versatile crayons, markers, and colored pencils are.

* * * * * Christian Answers.Net - (All Ages) - You get 5 sites in one. Kid's Quest, The Great Dinosaur Mistery, Archaeology and the Bible, Is Jesus Christ the answer.com, Christian Answers.Net


 

Sites Made by Children

Warriors Forest - A fan web site for a book series by Erin Hunter called Warriors. Children role play stories and conversations between cats.

 

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