100 Ideas to teach the New Testament to Kids

As you no doubt know by now, I’m a big fan of teaching the Bible to kids and love my Bible lessons.  And because of that, I’ve collected a lot of resources for the different Bible stories, and I have a lot of ideas to teach the New Testament to kids.  On my Bible Pinterest boards I have over 1000 ideas, but here are 100 ideas for you to teach the New Testament to kids.

I am loosely organizing these along the lines of my Bible Pinterest boards, and then sub-dividing it by individual stories or elements in those different areas.

Most of the section headers will be linked to my post on the topic if I have one.

Before we get started there are a few crafts and posts that can be easily used in several different areas.

General New Testament posts and crafts

There are several repeated themes and elements throughout the Bible and the New Testament, these crafts can be used in more than one story, so I didn’t limit them to that story:

Boat Crafts

1.  Giant boat to play in
2. Sea shell boat
3. Sponge boat
4. Paper boat craft

Sheep crafts

1.  Sheep cotton ball badge
2. 3d Construction paper lamb
3. 3 Sheeps crafts

Fish crafts

1.  3D paper fish
2. Cupcake wrapper fish

Coin crafts

1. Roman coin craft
2. Coins of the gospels

10 ideas to teach the New Testament right there (and yes I will be doing this at the end of each section)

 Advent Ideas

1.  Christmas Story Ideas from my own blog (this has about 10 different ideas there)
2. Illustrating the Christmas story
3. Christ centered nature study
4. Advent Wreath printable
5. Truth in the Tinsel (affiliate link)

There’s 5 more Ideas to teach the New Testament

Gospels

I love the visual aspect of so many of the Gospel stories.  I had a hard time limiting it to one or two ideas for each story, so there are a few I snuck in 3 or 4 ideas.  

 John the Baptist ideas

1. John the Baptist unit study
2. Grasshopper craft for John the Baptist

 The Baptism of Jesus (my lesson is included in John the Baptist)

1. Dove craft and baptism craft
2. Baptism of Jesus story cards
3. Baptism demonstration

Temptation of Christ ideas

1.  Temptation of Christ story order cards
2. Temptation of Christ craft

 Calling of the Disciples ideas

1.  Breakdown of who the 12 apostles are
2. Illustrated Guide to the 12 apostles
3. Jesus picks his disciples craft

 Water to Wine ideas

1.  Water to wine paper plate idea
2.  Water to wine learning stations and sensory bin

Jesus Feeds the 5000 ideas

1. Jesus Feeds the 5000 story telling technique
2. Feeding the 5000 play dough mat

Nicodemus ideas

1. John 3:16 copywork
2. Nicodemus printables
3. Nicodemus craft

Jesus Walks on Water (included in Jesus feeds the 5000)

1.  Jesus walks on water snack
2. Jesus walks on water craft

Jesus heals the paralytic

1.  Jesus heals the paralytic diorama
2. Jesus heals the paralytic craft

Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead

1. Lazarus mask
2. Lazarus relay race
3. Mary and Martha story cube (Lazarus’ sisters)

Jesus calms the storm

1. Jesus calms the storm snack
2. Jesus calms the storm craft
3. Jesus calms the storm bath tub toy

Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter from the dead

1.  Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter paper craft
2. Jesus heals the crippled woman (the miracle on the way to Jairus’ daughter)

The Samaritan woman at the well

1.  Very encouraging lesson on what Jesus did there
2. Samaritan woman at the well craft

 The man at the Pool

1.  Jesus heals the man at the pool object lesson

10 Lepers healed

1. Only 1 said thank you craft
2. 10 lepers storytelling gloves
3. Jesus heals 10 lepers craft

Zacchaeus and the rich young ruler

1.  Zacchaeus paper plate craft (my friend took the picture and uploaded it)
2. Zacchaeus construction paper craft
3. Zacchaeus in a tree craft

Doubting Thomas, Road to Emmaeus, and Restoration of Peter

1. Jesus eats breakfast on the shore
2. Doubting Thomas

40 ideas to teach the New Testament just in the Gospel section (I’m having to keep a running tally to make sure I get at least 100)

That adds up to 55 ideas to teach the New Testament so far!

Parables of Jesus activities

Jesus taught most often through parables, and there’s such a great wealth of materials you can teach about this area.  If you click on the picture up above you’ll be taken to my parables pinterest board with over 50 ideas to teach parables to kids.

Two generic parables activities

1. Prayer parables
2. Parables notebooking pages

Parable of the Sower

1. Parable of the Sower small world
2. Parable of the Sower crafts

Wise and Foolish Builder

1. Wise and Foolish builder sensory play (and several crafts)
2. Build your house on the rock video

Prodigal Son

1. Lego prodigal son
2. Prodigal son printables and crafts

Parable of the Great Pearl

1. Parable of the Great pearl Godly play lesson
2. Parable of the Pearl printables

Parable of the Talents

1. Parable of the Talents lesson

Parable of the Good Samaritan

1. Good Samaritan lesson and crafts
2. Good Samaritan printables

Parable of the Lost Sheep

1. Parable of the Lost Sheep book and activity
2. Parable of the Lost Sheep game

Parable of the Lost Coins

1. Lost coins flashlight book
2. Lost coins seek and find bottle (only a picture)

Parable of the Rich Pearl

1. Parable of the Rich fool crafts and activities
2. Parable of the Rich Fool activities

Parable of the Mustard Seed

1. Parable of the Mustard seed Godly play

And there’s another 20 ideas to teach the New Testament, bringing the total up to 75 ideas.

Easter activities for kids

1. Easter family devotional
2. Crown of Thorns craft
3. Easter Nature Study
4. Easter activities and drawings by Susan Evans
5. Easter printables
6. Holy Week Devotional

6 ideas to teach the New Testament in this section, and this section ruined my nice multiples of 5 stretch.  Sigh, poor Ticia, now my math gets harder.  I’m just going to say another 5, because that lets me be lazy.  That gets me to 80 ideas, only 20 left to go.

Acts of the Apostles

Acts is an interesting book because it shows a couple of things to me: 1.  That even the early church fathers weren’t perfect, and 2.  They were very brave.  Okay, I could actually write a whole paper on that topic (and probably did in college, but I’ll just get on to my Acts New Testament ideas)

Pentecost

1.  Pentecost ideas from Susan Evans
2. The Holy Spirit lights us on fire (super cool visual, you literally light something on fire!)

Peter and John in jail

1.  Relating Thanksgiving and Suffering (this blog is doing a series on Acts right now, if you want to check into it)

The Martyrdom of Stephen

1. Acts 5-6 informational printable
2. Martyrdom of Stephen lesson for kids

Philip, the first missionary

1.  Philip and the Ethiopian lesson
2. Philip and the Ethiopian printable (this site does some amazing printables, and thoroughly covers a story)

Paul saved on the road to Damascus

1.  Saul’s conversion lesson
2. Saul’s conversion printable mask
3. Saul lowered in a basket (because after he’s converted he has to escape his friends, and I know I was trying to stick to two ideas per lesson, but this is so cool, I mean he’s lowered in a BASKET!)

Paul’s call to the Gentiles and Peter’s Dream

1.  Peter’s dream visuals (great use of toys)

Paul’s first missionary trip, sent from Antioch

1. Paul preaches in Antioch printables

Paul’s First missionary Trip, the Philippian Jailer

1.  Paul and Silas in jail printable

Paul’s Second Missionary Trip, Athens

1.  Lesson to the “Unknown God” (this is one of my favorite sermons by Paul)
2. Unknown God memory work

Paul’s Second Missionary Trip, Aquila and Priscilla

1.  Priscilla and Aquilla tent craft (they were tent makers after all)

Paul in Ephesus

1.  Pictures of an actual trip to Ephesus

Paul’s Third Missionary Trip

1.   Paul’s missionary trips map (love the way this map looks)
2. edible map of Paul’s journeys (no matter how I make journey plural it looks wrong)

Paul’s Arrest and Sent to Rome

1. Paul in jail

Paul’s Shipwreck

1.  Paul pop-up book (it’s his whole life, but I shared it here, for lack of somewhere else)
2. Paul’s shipwreck boat craft

22 More ideas her in Acts, so from here on out the rest are bonus ideas.

 New Testament Letters

The Armor of God

1. Armor of God object lesson
2.  Sword of the Spirit

Fruit of the Spirit

1. Fruit of the Spirit tree
2. Fruit of the Spirit file folder game
3. Fruit of the Spirit snack and object lesson (would you believe I’ve been trying to remember the phrase “object lesson” for most of the writing of this post?)

Other New Testament Letters

1. lesson on grace from James 1
2. 1 John craft
3. 1 Thessalonians 5 prayer book
4. Revelation Tree of Life Craft
5. Hebrews 11 Hall of Faith lesson

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And if I’ve added up all of these correctly that is 112 ideas to teach kids the New Testament.  If you head to my Pinterest feed you’ll see over 1000 ideas to teach kids about the New Testament in my 5 Pinterest boards.  If you include the rest of my Bible boards there is over 3500 ideas to teach your kids about the Bible and I’m finding more every week.