Children Resources
Salt & Light Ministries is proud to offer resources designed exclusively for
children!
"Worship is Elementary", our
first worship CD, offers 3 familiar worship songs as well as 8 original worships songs that encourage your kids to have fun while they sing and worship.
The accompanying training DVD
"Movement is Elementary" provides simple, propless choreography to eight of the eleven worship songs. You can use this resource for Kid’s Church, Vacation Bible School, Creative Arts Camp, Children’s Choir and so much more!
Our second children's worship project,
"Undignified", features "The
Armor of God" to the Macarena, "Undignified", "Trading My Sorrows" and eights
others! The companion training resource
"Undignified" DVD, teaches
you propless movement techniques to nine of the eleven songs. Choreography
includes line-dancing, the Can-Can, the Electric Slide, the Macarena and more!
Click to get the lyrics!
Jeff Smith's new children's musical, Pirates of the "I Don't Care"-ibbean, is sure to be a big hit with kids! Creator Jeff Smith wants kids to learn that, "You are not created to be on a deserted island, guarding someone else's treasure. Your real treasure is in heaven, not on earth. Avarice is a tool of the enemy to keep you from becoming all God created you to be on earth. In the story, Andy exposes the lies of the evil captain and helps the pirates assume their rightful place on the sea."
In conjunction with our new children’s musical, Pirates of the “I Don’t Care”-ibbean, we have some materials that you may want to use as part of an expanded program like a VBS. Jeff first produced “Pirates” as a VBS for his home church last summer. Lillenas then picked up the idea for a musical, which required a rewrite for the market and the addition of eight songs. In the process, the theme was changed from “faith” to “storing up treasures in heaven”. Now, the bridge between the two is easily made by saying it takes faith to store up your treasures in heaven. The four stories in the VBS are about men who saw beyond the temporal to the eternal. Coincidently, their stories all take place on the water: Noah, Moses, Jonah, and Peter (walking on the water). For a more detailed outline of what is available click on Pirates VBS!
"The Missing Body of Christ" is the newest addition to our VII Ministry Series! This "Spy-Kids"-themed creative arts camp teaches children the importance of using their gifts according to God's plan for the church and culminates in a creative arts pageant for the community. Kids rotate through classes in creative arts, curriculum, and a choral element.
“Imagine That: Creative and Interactive Ideas for Teaching Kids the Bible” is a resource you shouldn’t be without! This teaching tool offers interactive storytelling, games, silly songs, object lessons, visualizing activities and other creative ways to teach Bible stories. Over twenty ideas in all!
"Generation to Generation: A Storyteller's Guide to Passing on Your Faith" is a follow up to our highly successful book, "Imagine That!" and is aimed at teachers for elementary age students. The book also takes a look at the power of story and role of the storyteller to affect culture. The book includes 20 different Bible stories, each with a creative approach to storytelling.
"Points for Praise: Putting Kids on the Path of Praise" - Praise is our devotion in motion and is an outward and visible sign of an inward expression. This excellent new resource, from Jeff Smith, that will help teach children's leaders concepts of praise and worship than can be integrated into your kids worship. Order your copy today!
‘Movement For Non-Movers’ training series offers several new videos just for the younger “mover”! Our newest training DVD is called TWIGS: Sticking With Kids! These four pieces are choreographed for kids through six (although older groups will appreciate the simple but stunning choreography too!) and covers selected days in the church calendar year for special programming. "One King" by Point of Grace (Christmas); "Do I Do" by Carman (VBS); "Longer" performed by Jeff Smith (Father's Day/Mother's Day); "The Tale of the Three Trees" recorded by Jeff Smith (Easter). The "Knight Moves" training resource includes sign language/hand gestures, dowel rods, and tableaus. Our summer training resource “Beach Weak” uses beach props such as foam noodles, hula hoops, beach balls, beach towels and more to interpret such contemporary Christian song as “I Can Only Imagine”, “The End of the Beginning” and “When You Give”.
"Knights of the Lord's Table" VBS Curriculum is a complete five-day, medieval-themed curriculum on CD-ROM that can be developed and marketed as a Vacation Bible School, Kid's Summer Fellowship, Kid's Crusade, Creative Arts Camp or broken up and fed into other children's programming at the church. The focus of the material is to learn about the armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-17 and four virtues: forgiveness, loyalty, courage, and honesty. The curriculum includes interactive storytelling ideas, object lessons, activity sheets, crafts, renaissance activities and an incredible dramatic play (presented in episodes throughout the week) that culminates in a wonderful opportunity to share the plan of God's salvation! The fifth day combines all the elements of the week into a fabulous and fun Renaissance Faire event for the entire family!
"Curses! Foiled Again!" is an original melodrama that will take you back to 1936 with 'Spunky' and his gang of odd ball characters as they try to win back the local playground from the town bully. Come cheer for our would-be heroes in a raucous romp through slapstick and sight gags as they fight to foil the foe!
Take a journey for the holidays! "The Joyful Journey" is an interactive presentation of the Christmas story for children! Join Mary and Joseph as they retell their story through traditional Christmas carols, drama and an interactive nativity scene using the entire audience!