24 Easy-To-Do Family Ministry Holiday Events with Follow Up Home Devotional

Build stronger families by bringing them together monthly — at church and at home — with RoseKidz's 24 Easy-To-Do Family Ministry Holiday Events!

With 120 hands-on activities and object lessons plus 24 take-home family devotions, your Sunday school kids and their families will learn to apply God's Word to your weekly lives, while creating connections & Christian traditions for each holiday season! Each event offers insight for the Children and Family Ministry team to encourage and support, while giving practical hands-on devotions and resources for families to carry on past the event. Includes take-home materials to offer families an easy to use way of doing family devotions on their own, while reinforcing learning. This is a great resource to help children's ministry leaders create opportunities for families to embrace their God given mission to be the spiritual teachers of their children.

Church Holiday Event Planning Book Features:

Ready-to-Use: Reproducible Pages

Simple: Step-by-Step Instructions

Affordable: calls for materials found around the home

All-Inclusive: Includes Stations Ideas, Script, Reproducible Templates, Follow-Up Materials

Perfect for kids ministry, family ministry, large and small congregations, family church camp, and homeschooling communities. Volunteer-friendly and includes flexible options for different church sizes. Great for families with children ages 5 & up. Paperback, 256 pages, 8.375" x 11", fully reproducible.

Packed With Everything You Need for Your Church Holiday Family Event

24 Easy-To-Do Family Ministry Holiday Events makes planning easy for leaders and volunteers alike! Simply choose the activities you'd like to do for your event, make copies of the handouts, gather the affordable & easy-to-find supplies, and let the fun begin! Each family ministry holiday event includes—

Step-by-step instructions: greeting/intro, ice-breaker, time required, Bible message, prayer

5 Station Ideas: packed with hands-on activities, object lessons, crafts (with materials lists), and more

Reproducible handouts, worksheets, and aids

Take-Home Devotion cards (reproducible)

24 Easy-to-Do Family Ministry Book Includes Over 100 Hands-On Activity Options

From Christmas and Easter to Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, this reproducible book shows you how to jumpstart faith conversations with 24 family holiday events and then equip parents with follow up devotions to reinforce Bible truths at home. Each holiday includes up to 5 stations. At each station, families will participate in interactive, fun activities, including crafts, games, object lessons, and more! Includes everything you need (including take-home devotions) for:

Thanksgiving

God Provides Balloon Game

Thankful in Tough Times Puzzle Activity

Thankful for the Bible Glow-Stick Maze

And more!

Christmas

Shepherd's Candy Cane Challenge

Gift-Wrapping Contest

Gingerbread Manger Craft

And more!

Easter

Jesus Cleans Our Sins Object Lesson

Hidden Messages & Scrambled Letters Game

Basket and Balloon Salvation Station

And more!

Mother's Day

Shopper Helper Grocery Game

Chef's Cracker Toss Activity

Guess the Picture Drawing Challenge

And more!

And 20 more holidays!

How to use 24 Easy-To-Do Family Ministry Holiday Events

From start to finish, this reproducible book takes you step-by-step through 24 holiday events, covering everything you need!

Choose from a selection of fun, hands-on activities. The flexible structure and curriculum allows you to adapt each event and station to fit your budget and church size!

Easily make photocopies of the activity pages for your volunteers and participants. Hand each volunteer at the stations a reproducible station card to use. Each card comes

with step-by-step instructions and easy to follow script.

Use first page as a master supply list for prep. You'll often find you have the needed materials lying around at home or at church or for an affordable price at the supply store! Each event includes: a Material List, an Opening script, Easy-to-Use volunteer friendly reproducible station cards, Step-by-step instructions, and a Closing script.

Do a practice run on object lessons, experiments, or crafts beforehand so you and your volunteers can confidently approach each station & activity. If your group is small enough, have them go through each station together in the order they appear.

Plan your physical space to make sure you have chosen an area that works with the activity listed in each station.

Get excited! Promote your event and send reminders out several times before the big day of the event! Make sure announcements get into the church bulletin if you have one!