Resources for Telling and Teaching
Bible Storying & Children’s Ministry Handbook: This is a comprehensive manual on the Bible storying approach for teaching children, a complete handbook of children’s ministry topics for leaders and all 60 stories in bullet outline for telling. The Handbook also includes chapters on how to teach the basics of chronological Bible storying, understanding how children learn, faith formation, worldview issues and a full chapter dedicated to storytelling techniques and principles.
Bible Storying Fabric Panels: Storying aids that have 60 story symbols in black print on white cloth. The panel comes in two sizes, a 4’X6’ size (black on white cloth) suitable as a classroom wall hanging or can be finished off into a child’s quilt and a smaller 22”X22” panel in several solid color backgrounds that can be used as is or as a wall hanging
The fabric panels are durable, washable and can be used “as is” for telling and retelling, or it can be finished off with fabric markers or other hand crafting techniques.
60 Story Symbol Packet: This resource includes sixty 8X11 pages of symbols from the storying quilt panel. These symbol pages can be copied onto stock card for telling and teaching, used as coloring pages for younger children who may not have the motor skills for finishing the quilt fabric panel, or for other uses as a learning game for the storying method or as part of telling programs.
The Beginning Story of God: (Available in English, Spanish and Chinese translations) This 12 Bible story beginning booklet, 5X8 handy size, is excellent for distribution within churches and also to provide to homes in communities as an outreach to get individuals started in discovering and learning the 12 beginning or keystone stories. This booklet can be purchase in soft cover for $10 each or is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for copying and distribution. Email CBS4Kids.org for the free download or order copies as indicated.
The Story of God 60 stories: A compact 5X8 booklet the Story of God with all 60 stories in narrative format with questions and discussion starters for each story. Very suitable for elementary kids, parents and children’s workers to use as a family devotional. Parents learn as their children learn.
Bible Storying Game Card Pack: A pack of 60 cards each with one symbol and a variety of games and activities that can be used to teach children the chronological sequence of the stories as well as an approach to help children memorize and tell the stories in sequence.
Bible Storying Symbol Bingo Game: A set of 20 bingo cards with Bingo call cards for the leader and set of Bible questions. $5
FREE RESOURCES:
CBS4Kids offers The Beginning Story of God
12 keystone stories, available in English,
Spanish and Chinese, as
free downloads
ready to print out in a 5X8 handy size. Click here or the free resources link above for free downloads.