How Young Children Learn

Sunday school teachers from as far back as anyone can remember have used bible story crafts to engage the hearts and minds of their little pupils and teach them about the bible. Everything from hand puppets to paper chains possess the ability to assist teachers in their mission to make the bible fun and relevant. Crafts are an effective way to teach young children for three reasons. First, many children learn better if they can be active participants in the lesson they are learning. Second, young children have notoriously short attention spans and crafts can help them to stay focused for longer periods of time. Third and last, crafts allow teachers to decorate their Sunday school space and allow them to send something home with children that can possibly teach and edify their parents.

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Some children learn through primarily auditory means, while others learn visually and still others learn in a more tactile manner. Bible story crafts help children of all learning slants to be able to fully absorb and grasp the accounts their teachers share from the bible. The many colors and textures they are working with help them to associate words with something tangible and often they will form more pleasant associations with bible stories if they have a craft to engage in while it is being told.

Keep Them Zeroed In

A class of five two year olds can often equal a class running in five different directions. This can drain Sunday school teachers and make it difficult to teach. Bible story crafts allow teachers to counter young children’s tendency to wander by giving them a project that allows them to perform various actions within one central zone. If little Becky gets bored coloring, she can reach for the paste or the scissors instead. In addition, crafts often have several steps involved in their completion. This means that every minute or so provides young students with a brand new objective to focus on. This greatly increases the amount of time a young Sunday school pupil is able to sit in one spot while his or her teacher shares the bible story.

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Bible story crafts often have a scripture verse written on them or a very self-explanatory theme. In addition, projects made by children are often very colorful and creative. Therefore, teachers either can put their student’s work on display in the classroom as decorative accents or can send them home with children to be put on their parents refrigerators and on the walls of their homes and offices. Here they will be on display for many people that will be exposed to one of the many stories of Jesus’ life on earth.

The bible tells adults to train a child up in the way they should go, so that when they are old they will not depart from it. Crafts provide Sunday school teachers with an age appropriate tool in order to accomplish that task in a way that is fun, meaningful and memorable.

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